Dialogue no 3

A Dialogue between two persons, not knowing each other

On Sunday afternoon a person calls one of the emergency operators
by 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 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, that’s why I've
managed to visit you within soon. Tell me, what's wrong
with you?”
The patient: “Yesterday, I went to the West Coast together with my
boyfriend. We just intended to go to the South end of the
Koster Island and back during the day, as I suddenly
began to feel ill.”
The doctor: “That sounds to be a very nice trip, but what happened?”
The patient: “Already, early 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
with 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 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 boy-
friend should sustain playing golf because of me not feeling
well. Anyway, I recommendet him to go.
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Awaking this morning I still had got fever in my body,
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 felt somewhat anxious about my condition. That’s why
I called the emergency operator 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
pot 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
to 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 for an analysis.
Now, I’ve got a slight idea, what it might be, but I’ll wait for the
answer of the analysis before making a diagnosis.

You see, it’s no good to give you penicillin, when not knowing
exactly what kind of penicillin is going to work your case. Now,
we’ll have to wait a day or two, before we’ve got the answer of
the analysis. Until then, I keep you at the hospital and prescribe
some antipyretic and discharge fluid. I just want you to be patient!”

Dear readers, now 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 happen?”
No 5: “When did it actually happen?”
July 13, 2008, Nilla