A few days in hospital.

[KWA]

I recently had the misfortune to spend a few days in Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for an operation on my eye.  Here's some photos from my stay.

View from the room on the 12th Floor looking northish towards Laem Chabang.  Patients aren't allowed on the balcony itself.

 

The kitchen area.  Fridge, microwave and kettle all came in handy.  There was also an en-suite, easy chair, bed-settee and work table and chair in the room as well as the hospital bed.  Slow but free wifi.

 

Supplies in the room on arrival.  I was really pleased by what I thought was a box of biscuits but which also turned out to hold some milk and cold tea or something similar, drastically reducing the biscuit volume.

 

Room service menu.  I only discovered it in a drawer on my last day so no comment on the offerings.  There was also a menu for one of these fancy bakery/coffee places.  Sorry for the pic quality.   Hope you can read it.

 

Some of the meals I had.  Not 5 star hotel nosh, but ample portions and more than enough to fill me up.

 

A couple of goody bags brought in by friends (why are Thai girls all so keen to visit you in hospital?).  Visitors weren't allowed on the wards without a Covid test so in both cases the bags were brought up by a nurse.

 

All in all, not a pleasant experience but hopefully on the mend now.  Any questions on the hospital experience just ask away and I'll do my best to answer.

 

[Horizondave]

1 hour ago, KWA said:

I recently had the misfortune to spend a few days in Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for an operation on my eye.  Here's some photos from my stay.

View from the room on the 12th Floor looking northish towards Laem Chabang.  Patients aren't allowed on the balcony itself.

 

The kitchen area.  Fridge, microwave and kettle all came in handy.  There was also an en-suite, easy chair, bed-settee and work table and chair in the room as well as the hospital bed.  Slow but free wifi.

 

Supplies in the room on arrival.  I was really pleased by what I thought was a box of biscuits but which also turned out to hold some milk and cold tea or something similar, drastically reducing the biscuit volume.

 

Room service menu.  I only discovered it in a drawer on my last day so no comment on the offerings.  There was also a menu for one of these fancy bakery/coffee places.  Sorry for the pic quality.   Hope you can read it.

 

Some of the meals I had.  Not 5 star hotel nosh, but ample portions and more than enough to fill me up.

 

A couple of goody bags brought in by friends (why are Thai girls all so keen to visit you in hospital?).  Visitors weren't allowed on the wards without a Covid test so in both cases the bags were brought up by a nurse.

 

All in all, not a pleasant experience but hopefully on the mend now.  Any questions on the hospital experience just ask away and I'll do my best to answer.

 

Brings back memories of spending 4 days in the same hospital after having a bladder tumour removed.

My main recollection was of the lovely nurses staring at my 'lance of love' and the girlfriend keeping a close eye on their hands.

Edited September 1, 2022 by Horizondave

[Zambo]

1 hour ago, KWA said:

I recently had the misfortune to spend a few days in Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for an operation on my eye.  Here's some photos from my stay.

View from the room on the 12th Floor looking northish towards Laem Chabang.  Patients aren't allowed on the balcony itself.

 

The kitchen area.  Fridge, microwave and kettle all came in handy.  There was also an en-suite, easy chair, bed-settee and work table and chair in the room as well as the hospital bed.  Slow but free wifi.

 

Supplies in the room on arrival.  I was really pleased by what I thought was a box of biscuits but which also turned out to hold some milk and cold tea or something similar, drastically reducing the biscuit volume.

 

Room service menu.  I only discovered it in a drawer on my last day so no comment on the offerings.  There was also a menu for one of these fancy bakery/coffee places.  Sorry for the pic quality.   Hope you can read it.

 

Some of the meals I had.  Not 5 star hotel nosh, but ample portions and more than enough to fill me up.

 

A couple of goody bags brought in by friends (why are Thai girls all so keen to visit you in hospital?).  Visitors weren't allowed on the wards without a Covid test so in both cases the bags were brought up by a nurse.

 

All in all, not a pleasant experience but hopefully on the mend now.  Any questions on the hospital experience just ask away and I'll do my best to answer.

 

I can imagine having an eye tumour removed wasn't pleasant and if i'm not wrong you remain awake and with eye open during the whole procedure (blinking is I guess a bit of a luxury between incisions)

But apart from that was the hospital experience just great? Probably better than a similar experience in Barnsley.

[Lemondropkid]

Hope you make a speedy recovery🙂

[boydeste]

3 minutes ago, Lemondropkid said:

Hope you make a speedy recovery🙂

Ditto from me too.

[Glasseye]

Agree.... I hope things turn out well for you.

 

I made several visits there as an "out-patient" during the covid months. Fortunately I was not hospitalized, but had a Dog awful case of tonselitis.... absolutely awful pain. Place was top notch though, I felt like the quality of care was excellent.

 

[forcebwithu]

2 hours ago, Horizondave said:

Brings back memories of spending 4 days in the same hospital after having a bladder tumour removed.

My main recollection was of the lovely nurses staring at my 'lance of love' and the girlfriend keeping a close eye on their hands.

So what you're saying, "size does matter".  My nurses barely gave my love tool a second glance.

@KWA, glad you're on the mend. I had two stays at BPH in 2009 and 2011. Care was very good, but as good as it was I hope to not be a repeat customer.

[Horizondave]

2 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

So what you're saying, "size does matter".  My nurses barely gave my love tool a second glance.

@KWA, glad you're on the mend. I had two stays at BPH in 2009 and 2011. Care was very good, but as good as it was I hope to not be a repeat customer.

I suppose the vision of my predicament sounded more appetizing, but reality was that I had a catheter and was bleeding, gave me a bit of a panic attack. 4 lovely young nurses were trying to mop me up and staring at it, I didn't care but Porn was keeping a wary eye on them.

It was one of those moments where you really don't care about embarrassment etc. just sort me out. Another operation, another part of my body I might have reacted favourably but the type of op I had meant I was unable to have sex for 6 weeks so nothing would have made an inch or more of change (lol).

[lazarus]

Thanks for the hospital report. Heal quickly and enjoy the view!

I had surgery & a stay in Bangkok Hospital in Bangkok ('16). Deluxe room and service. Doctors were very competent.

Turns out the parent company is also in the luxury hotel business. No surprise considering the service and the price.

[KWA]

19 hours ago, Zambo said:

I can imagine having an eye tumour removed wasn't pleasant and if i'm not wrong you remain awake and with eye open during the whole procedure (blinking is I guess a bit of a luxury between incisions)

But apart from that was the hospital experience just great? Probably better than a similar experience in Barnsley.

It wsan't a tumour but a vitrectomy and repairs to the retina.  The doc had recommended local anaesthetic so I went along with it, but in hindsight I would have preferred a general.  I was 2 hours in the theatre and winced with pain a few times.  Doc said I was sensitive, I said the anaesthetic was no good 🙂

Eye was taped and clamped open so not even the luxury of a blink.

Edited September 2, 2022 by KWA

[Derek Dangleberries]

54 minutes ago, KWA said:

It wsan't a tumour but a vitrectomy and repairs to the retina.  The doc had recommended local anaesthetic so I went along with it, but in hindsight I would have preferred a general.  I was 2 hours in the theatre and winced with pain a few times.  Doc said I was sensitive, I said the anaesthetic was no good 🙂

Eye was taped and clamped open so not even the luxury of a blink.

My Buddha, if ever I was caught and faced Orwellian re-education, this would be high on my list of things that I would betray a casual shag for..

"The world can be split into two categories. Those that say they have read 1984 and those that have actually read it." Mark Twain.

[frankholland]

I had the same operation done 3 years ago in the same hospital. I also had local anaesthetic, but  mine lasted 3 hours, because when she wanted to start lasering, the machine did not work. It took 1 hour before the laser was fixed. At the end she said that she could not fixed all points, so she needed to put liquid nitrogen locally in my eye. That hurts, and she told me that i needed a new lens, because the liquid nitrogen would destroy my lens. I had to keep my head down for 3 weeks, until my liquid in my eye was partely restored. The costs including one night at the hospital was 204000 Baht. After 10 weeks all the eye liquid was back and she put a edof lens is. That was another 100K. But this lens you can see clearly from 40 cm to the horizon. I always were glasses for nearly 50 years, but now I need none, only when driving. I was very happy with everything. She was very professional.

[KWA]

3 minutes ago, frankholland said:

I had to keep my head down for 3 weeks, until my liquid in my eye was partely restored.

I've got similar instructions although my eye has been filled with perfluoropropane as a tamponade.  Should take 5 or 6 weeks before it dissipates and meanwhile I can't fly.  I was due to go the UK in 3 weeks.

[tko]

On 9/2/2022 at 1:45 AM, KWA said:

It wsan't a tumour but a vitrectomy and repairs to the retina.  The doc had recommended local anaesthetic so I went along with it, but in hindsight I would have preferred a general.  I was 2 hours in the theatre and winced with pain a few times.  Doc said I was sensitive, I said the anaesthetic was no good 🙂

Eye was taped and clamped open so not even the luxury of a blink.

I had a refractive lens exchange done at Bangkok hospital Rayong.  The Surgeon had done some of her training in the US and was apologizing that Thailand doesn't approve the local anesthetic approved in the US for eye surgery.  I had had the other eye done in the US many years ago felt nothing.  Here I had several painful jolts.

I didn't have to stay the night.  She just gave me dark glasses and eye drops when done and sent me on my way.

[KWA]

Weekly check-ups now changed to fortnightly and all healing well, but still banned from flying.  Sight is coming back as the temporary gas dissipates and my eyeball fills with fluid again.

And the real news is the insurance company have today said they'll pay for it.  Should give the exchange rate time to recover as they'll pay me in THB which will save me sending anything over for a few months.

[Jambo]

My personal experience of BPH was mixed.

I was carried in there after my wee Honda fell on me and snapped the main tendon in my left knee. I elected to have an epidural as I had this feeling I might not wake up if they put me under.

The operation itself was fine although I could have done without the smell of burning bone when the surgeon was using what sounded like a Black and Decker sander behind the screen they had erected so I could not see what was going on.

So absolutely nothing but praise for the surgeon and his staff.

On the other hand, the post operative care was virtually nonexistent. When it was time to finally remove the plaster  they took me downstairs, fitted me with a neoprene knee support and that was that!

Good bye and good luck.

No post operative exercises - no help.  I could not bend my knee at all.

Eventually, I was recommended to go and see "Nigel" at the Sports injury clinic off Pattaya Tai. He was a former physio for the UK Olympic weight lifter team and a real down to earth character. When I limped into his clinic he took one look at the Knee support I was wearing and said  "Well you can throw that thing effing thing away to start with!"

I am indebted to Nigel for the program of exercises he suggested.

 

[ChiFlyer]

Bangkok Pattaya Hospital is my health care destination of choice in Pattaya. I have never had to go there for in-patient, but I have various periodic checkups done there and I am happy with the service level and cost. Actually, I am a little impressed.

 

[KWA]

At my last check up in November last year it was noticed I'd developed a cataract, which often happens after this surgery.  Just had that fixed this week in Rayong Hospital as it was 1/3rd the cost of Bangkok Pattaya but shares a lot of resources.  I went for a monofocal lens and first indications are that all's going well.

[Pumpuynarak]

19 hours ago, KWA said:

Just had that fixed this week in Rayong Hospital as it was 1/3rd the cost of Bangkok Pattaya but shares a lot of resources

Hope all is well after your op. I was a regular at Bangkok Hospital Korat for many years but their pricing just got ridiculous so now i use St Marys private hospital or SUT government hospital.

[fforest]

13 minutes ago, Pumpuynarak said:

Hope all is well after your op. I was a regular at Bangkok Hospital Korat for many years but their pricing just got ridiculous so now i use St Marys private hospital or SUT government hospital.

Bangkok Hospital is like flying first class, which offers terrible value but if the value is of no concern, it's the best.....

[Pumpuynarak]

1 hour ago, fforest said:

Bangkok Hospital is like flying first class, which offers terrible value but if the value is of no concern, it's the best.....

I think its patients are ALL insured or millionaires who could'nt GAF as i can't see many self financing customers being willing to pay their rip off prices. I say customers because we all need to remember they are a business and what are businesses in the game for ? I could quote so many guys here who thought they would be paying what they were quoted only to find that there eventual bill had increased by as much up to 100% more !!! 

They will NEVER be getting anymore business from me.

[KWA]

Too late to edit my previous post, but it was Jomtien Hospital that did my cataract, not Rayong as I typed above.