Hospital Experiences

[Rob Tucker]

We had an elderly relative visiting from the mainland that was feeling tired an run down.. a bit excessively so. So late on a Friday afternoon we took her to the Pahoa clinic where they took her in and examined her and did a blood draw. Later, at 9 that night, a nurse from the clinic called and told us to get her to Hilo Medical right away... like now. Which we did.
She turned out to be dangerously anemic in a near fatal way.

Always been grateful for Puna Medical Clinic and those kind folks that work late and don't stack lab reports up to look at tomorrow.