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Unfortunately this is also the city where i got hit by a car... I was on the back of a motorbike and a car reversed straight into my left leg! Ouch! Bloody killed and was a major shock even though it was one of those scenarios when you can see it happening but just pray that it doesn't, and that the car is going to stop just in time but no, it didn't. So that was our evening spent in a Cambodian hospital which i would not reccommend to anyone!!! Thank god Cindy was with me though (cheers hun!).
Of course no-one spoke a word of English until we got to eventually see the doc who spoke just enough to tell me he was worried by the lump that had come up on my leg and that i needed to have it x-rayed in case it was broken! Yikes! Now i'm scared. This was also while we were in the 'Accident & Emergency' Unit of a Cambodian Hospital so lots(!) of blood, and people in seriously bad conditions all around us. Also, having spent the day visiting the 'Killing Fields of Choeung Ek', which is the memorial ground for the thousands of people who were executed by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1978, it was all just a bit too much and a little 'real' to be honest!
The nurse then made me hop(!!) half way across the hospital to the x-ray room where we waited for a while with all the locals sat there staring and laughing of course, Cindy (bless her!) then appeared with a wheelchair that she'd stolen, as she wasn't having me hobble all the way back again and there was no way i was going to be given anything by the docs/nurse, adn then continued to steel my x-rays as we were waiting for so long, before wheeling me back to the doc! X-rays came back all fine - no broken bones or anything just very bad bruising (and swelling) so just had to take it easy for a few days. Put a little delay on our movements but we still got to Vietnam at a not too later date....
Of course no-one spoke a word of English until we got to eventually see the doc who spoke just enough to tell me he was worried by the lump that had come up on my leg and that i needed to have it x-rayed in case it was broken! Yikes! Now i'm scared. This was also while we were in the 'Accident & Emergency' Unit of a Cambodian Hospital so lots(!) of blood, and people in seriously bad conditions all around us. Also, having spent the day visiting the 'Killing Fields of Choeung Ek', which is the memorial ground for the thousands of people who were executed by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1978, it was all just a bit too much and a little 'real' to be honest!
The nurse then made me hop(!!) half way across the hospital to the x-ray room where we waited for a while with all the locals sat there staring and laughing of course, Cindy (bless her!) then appeared with a wheelchair that she'd stolen, as she wasn't having me hobble all the way back again and there was no way i was going to be given anything by the docs/nurse, adn then continued to steel my x-rays as we were waiting for so long, before wheeling me back to the doc! X-rays came back all fine - no broken bones or anything just very bad bruising (and swelling) so just had to take it easy for a few days. Put a little delay on our movements but we still got to Vietnam at a not too later date....
