Atlast Out of trouble....thanks to all who helped!!!

I feel relieved now a days as cold here is not as fatal now as it was few days back. It was most severe kind of winter I have faced throughout my life. temperature went down till -10 and it was irritating to go out in it. But now I feel more confident to face any kind of weather as there is nothing from that we restricted ourselves to do even while this kind of cold. I played cricket even in the temperature low down than zero, even tried my head to foot in ice skating :) in freezing cold, And what an experience that was!! But that pleasant experience ended with an accident. One of my friend got her arm hurt during skating, although she skates very well but a naughty Korean girl had pushed her during playing and she fall down. Thankfully It was not so serious as there was no fracture but still in a foreign country living alone where you have to do everything on your own, any injury may prove really difficult to handle. Keeping that in mind most of us stepped out of skating after that.

In last few days we faced one more challenge, One of my friend got abscess in some part of his body, he was hurting and was not able to walk, we took him to nearby hospital, we was expecting checkup, some cleaning and then few antibiotic medicines to heel him. But Doctor there had some horrible things to say. I don't know it was because of language barrier or some kind of insensitivity on the part of that doctor , In front of patient he said he is very critical and if he is not get operated immediately, he will die. we were stunned. That was most horrible and confusing moment I had faced, I didn't expect from doctor to say something like that in what we were treating as a small problem. On the one hand I was thinking that doctor wasn't able to understand his problem and on the other hand I was also correct in believing that any doctor knows best in this kind of medical problem. The guy in question got out of control, he started shouting that he won't stay in the hospital any more, he got scared, actually anybody would. yeah we were in emergency ward of hospital, as we got time to visit hospital only in late evening, there were two deaths just minutes back , people were crying and doctor said to him that you are the next. But somehow we decided that we are not going to stay in hospital overnight as we were not at all feeling confident about the doctors there and their communication. We had to take help from our Korean colleagues to communicate with them, and with their kind help we were able to make doctors understand that we are not going to stay there any more, although we had to sign an paper saying that if something happens after that doctors n hospital will not be responsible for that. I do not know that we were correct or not in coming back from there but we just had to do it.

But the problem was there as it was before, we needed some advice from a doctor we can trust. and here I want to thank orkut, it’s a wonderfull channel to contact and communicate with anyone you want. I met a surgeon Dr. Ashish from Delhi few days back on orkut as he wanted some information regarding korea as he was coming to Korea for couple of months. I just scrapped him stating my phone number and thankfully he called. Although Ashish was not in Seoul but he helped to contact Dr. Vineet Tyagi in Konkuk University Hospital here and with the help of Vineet our trouble got resolved, we felt safe in the presence of Vineet, and operation went successful and he is feeling better and safe after two days stay at hospital. It is actually wonderful to meet our own people here in alien country and I feel some kind of togetherness with them even I was meeting them first. And the way they helped is enough sign of the fact that they think same. so through this blog I want to thank Dr. Ashish Thakur and Dr. Vineet Tyagi for great help they did from bottom of my heart.

Other than this incident everything is going just fine. I more or less stopped cooking even I was cooking ok as I got to know If I cook myself I will eat only once or twice a week. so I stopped relying on my cooking and started having Korean food which is vegetarian and I am really surprised to see that there is lots of options available for vegetarians too. so less worries now for me till I got bored of Korean kind of vegetarian food but so far so good :)

so friends that’s it for now.. I will be back with some more interesting and learning experiences soon..

take care....