Josh's Hospital Adventure

It wasn't that long ago that Josh was boasting that he had never been in hospital. Well now he has joined the ranks of those of us who have, having just spent 5 nights in FV hospital.
I took him to the hospital clinic on Saturday morning two weeks ago after 4 days of continually having the runs and severe stomach pain. The funny thing with the hospital here is that you have to register first and Josh having never been to the hospital or even the clinic here we had to register him. As we are filling out forms, showing passports (thank goodness I remembered that) Josh was doubled over on the desk. Then they told him he had to have his picture taken - as you can imagine it is not a very nice photo. Josh asked me what would happen if you had been in a serious accident and were on your own - I could only imagine that they would still fill out forms, check your passport and take a photo!
We then had to go to the paediatric part of the clinic, I kept telling them that he was 14 and was told yes yes paediatric . So we then found ourselves in a very colorful waiting room that even had a really fun looking playroom, which I wanted to check out but Josh was really not interested.
Anyway we see a lovely doctor who orders blood tests, stool tests, and a ultrasound (for the stomach pain), after which we could go home and someone would ring us.
A doctor did ring us and said we had to come back and be admitted to the paediatric ward. 5 days later, 4 IV drip lines, 1 collapsed vein, what seemed like a million different medications, 7 kilos lighter, numerous doctor visits, and constant reruns of the same shows on TV we came home.
The doctor diagnosed a parasite and a secondary abdominal infection. He did say one of the infections was caused by street food, I was nodding away trying not to think of the banh mi I had sitting beside me that I had just gone down to the street and bought. However we both agreed that infections from food can be caught anywhere, even Norway (I was a tad confused with this example but I nodded anyway - I needed him to finish off so I could eat my street food).
All in all the experience was not that bad, except maybe the food, the nurses were wonderful, the doctors thorough, the care excellent - but I do hope we don't go back again.