Dialogue no 3

Dialogue no 3

A Dialogue between two peopele, not knowing each other

On Sunday afternoon a person calls one of the emergency
operatorsby dialling 112, to get a piece of advice, when not feeling well.
The operator recommends a visit at the hospitals’ emergency room,
the so called the E.R., for consulting, where the following dialogue
takes place between a doctor and his patient:

The patient: “Good afternoon! I’m glad you’re taking your
time to look at me, because I don’t feel very well.
I’ve no idea what’s the matter with me."
The doctor: “Good afternoon! As a matter of fact I’ve finished
off the meeting with the former patient, which
enables me to visit you within soon. Now, tell me,
what's wrong with you?”
The patient:“Yesterday, I went to the West Coast together with
boyfriend. We just intended to go to the South end
of the Koster Island and back during the day, as to
I suddenly began to feel ill.”
The doctor: “That sounds to be a very nice trip, but what
happened?”The patient: “Already, in the morning,
when starting the trip by car to Strömstad I felt very
frozen and had got head-ache. Arriving in Strömstad
we took the ferry to the South end of the Koster Island.
It was a hot and sunny day. Even on board at the ferry
I felt frozen, which I thought depended on the wind blowing.
I love to take a swim in the salt water at the West Coast
even if there are some jelly-fishes, so the first thing I did
entering the beach was to go for a swim. In the cold
salted water I was seized by cramp, what made me
interrupt swimming around. The water was cold, which
it usually is at the South end of the Koster Island. We
had brought some sandwiches and a vacuum jug with
hot coffee. As I started to feel sick, I didn't participate
the picnic. It was a wonderful sunny day and I went for
another swim. At about four o’clock in the afternoon,
we took the ferry back to Strömstad, where we had the car
at a parking lot. At the ferry my body started to freeze still
more. I was almost shaking. As soon as the ferry arrived in
Strömstad we started the journey back to Karlstad. The
driver had to put on the heat in the car cabin, as I was
shivering so much. I felt like having high fever. However,
there had arisen another problem, because next day at
eleven o’clock a.m. I was supposed to participate in a golf
competition at Kils’ Golf Court. I felt pity for my friend
should’ve to sustain playing golf, because of me not
feeling well. Anyway, I recommended him to go."

"Awaking this morning I still had got fever, more than +40
degrees, why I immediately had a couple of antipyretics.
When my friend went back this afternoon, I still had very
high fever, despite the antipyretics. Then, I started to feel
somewhat anxious about the condition. That’s why I called
one of the emergency operators for a piece of advice. The
nurse wanted me to visit the E.R., the Emergency Room at
the hospital and here I’m. Look, I’ve also got a discoloured
spot on my left leg."
The doctor: “For your information, I’ve got the result of the blood test,
taken by the nurse, which indicates some sort of infection,
but there is a problem. We don’t know what kind of infection
it is. You see, working at the hospital’s E.R. is very alike
working as Sherlock Holmes, being a detective. Would you
please tell me what you’ve been up to these days before
going to Strömstad?”
The patient: “Yes of course, on Thursday evening my friend and I went
to Grums’ Old Homestead Museum, where they had an
entertainment in a barn. You see, the father of a school-
mate of mine has given the Homestead Museum to the
church and the community. It’s driven as a non-profit-
making association and I was a member of the board.
Afterwards, when people went for coffee-time that evening,
I was assisting bringing chairs out of the barn. It was dark
and dirty inside the barn. On Friday morning I went as usual
to work.”
The doctor: “Would you please take off your trousers, enabling me to have
a look at the discoloured spot on your left leg! Have you got
some insect-bite on your body?”
The patient: “No, not that I’m aware of. Before going to the hospitals’ E.R.
I carefully checked the body to eliminate tick-bites, but I
couldn’t find any.”
The doctor: “Let me examine your body! Please raise your left leg another
time! Ah, there it is! Here on you left leg you’ve got a red
mark. I’ll take a test and send it away to the laboratory in
Sundsvall for an analysis. Now, I’ve got a slight idea, what
it might be, but I’ll wait for an answer of the analysis before
making any diagnosis. You see, it’s no good to give you
penicillin, not knowing exactly, what kind of penicillin is
going to work in your case. Now, we’ll have to wait a day
or two, before we’ve got the answer of the analysis. Until
then, I’ll keep you at the hospital and prescribe some
antipyretics and discharge fluid. I just want you to be patient!”

Dear readers, I’d like you to guess and answer the five questions below:
No 1: “Who are the actors in this dialogue?”
No 2: “What’s the reason, why this person contacts the emergency operator?”
No 3: “What occurred to this person before contacting the E.R.?”
No 4: “How did it happened?"
No 5: "When did it happended?"
July 13, 2008, Nilla