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December 5, 2005 @ 7:49 pm | Listen to this post

Did you know that if your a foreigner in Korea with HIV, that you can get deported? I thought that was a good opening question for my trip back to the hospital. Well I didn’t get any huge surprises. Actually they didn’t talk about my blood work at all. It was just to see how I was feeling and whether to continue the antibiotics. The doctor was a respiratory specialist though, so it was a good second opinion. When he saw my x-ray of my left lung, I think he was in agreement with the ER doctors, because I got my medication continued but he changed it a little. Plus I got dihydrocodeine (liquid codeine) for my cough. I’m going to sleep good tonight :) Also, they setup another appointment to see how I’m doing. With the national health insurance it’s only $8 per visit and my 4 different medications were less than $10. Social health care is nice.