I just returned home after one awful week in St. Anne hospital. Not to share reasons why i ended up there, experience wasn't pleasant at all. Since i don't speak Czech very well (obviously), nurses plain ignored me most of the time although my level of expressing myself was perfectly understandable even for old ladies in the room who never heard English.
Thank whoever for good roommate who provided WiFi, so i didn't die of boredom and read more books (in my e-book reader obviously) than in last few years ( i counted that average was 500 pages per day). I even managed 3 Mary Poppins books (never read them before), 1001 nights and started Peter Pan.
Food was well... hospital food - bread bread more bread and some meat. I survived labopuncture and was completely unable to move for five days during whose nurses forgot me so i got food only few times. And was so bored i never was before. The only plus was my extremely good looking doctor.
Somehow i got a feeling that czech doctors don't like foreigners in general, especially if there's need to communicate with them in other language than czech. Once i was shouted at in infection hospital while sent by my doc to get approval to work or not and told 'don't go to hospital without translator'. I almost felt need to apologize for being sick. In st. Anne nurses just spoke with me in very fast czech, so i had no chance to follow and later managed to install google translate app to communicate as i was the only side trying.
Worst part - boss has zero humanity or common sense so i was forced to go to workplace directly from hospital as it was demanded to bring sick leave papers exact same day. Colleague responsible for bringing documents to correct person managed to loose them on the way so i lost part of salary.
So hospital is over but i still feel so off that i act like old lady - work, come home, watch movies, knit and rest. Somehow just didn't have energy for anything else.
