Better than AMERICA? We find AFFORDABLE Healthcare abroad, but is it as ADVANCED? 🇲🇾 [SE E32]

Better than AMERICA? We find AFFORDABLE Healthcare abroad, but is it as ADVANCED? 🇲🇾 [SE E32]

Previously on “Two Up and Overloaded” – We came  face to face with some terrifying reptiles, along   with some other amazing wildlife of Sarawak, East Malaysia. But our wildlife adventures that day were not over as we headed with our  friend Lee to the Semonggoh Wildlife Center.  

After getting tickets at the front, we took  this little bus thing. What are those called?   It was a golf cart… trolley. The golf cart trolley!  Where they put little kids on at Disneyland,   you know? Yeah, exactly. We took  one of those further into the park.

And as it came to a stop at a parking lot,   we noticed a huge crowd of people gathering  around this one corner of the parking lot.   And we knew there had to be something going on  in the forest, something special in the trees. Yes.

It was an orangutan. It was super, super duper  awesome. Yeah. It was a pair of them. Yeah.   That’s true. There were two of them, but there  was one that was really kind of front and center  

Right there. And there was a guy who was tossing  up a kind of fruit up to the orangutan. I think   it might have been jackfruit or something. It looked  really, really yellow. So the orangutan actually   moved down out of the tree and towards the  crowd of people. And the ranger was like,  

“Get back, get back! Everybody move back!”  But the orangutan climbed down the tree,   and then the orangutan went into the  jungle. It knew that it was about to rain. They could sense that a thunderstorm of epic   proportions was about to  unleash its wrath upon us. It’s raining!

We all ran for shelter. There’s a little,  for lack of a better word, “shelter” that we ran   under. And we waited for our little trolley  thing to come pick us up. Golf cart trolley.   Golf cart trolley. It was raining so hard, and  under the shelter, we weren’t getting wet. But  

Once we got into that trolley and then trying  to get to the car in the parking lot, I mean,   we just got soaked. Yeah, and when it rains,  it pours. Yeah, it does, though. It’s like  

Just a crazy thunderstorm. We were in Lee’s car,  and you couldn’t see 20 ft ahead of you. Traffic   was just stopped. Crazy. We went somewhere to eat  and getting out of the car into the restaurant,   which is always outdoors, you know? Well,  there’s no doors. They’re indoors without  

Doors. You get out of the car, and you’re  instantly just soaked. It was raining kuchings “cats” and dogs. Wow, I think with the chicken, I have  to use my fingers. You want to use finger? Yes.   This restaurant had such good food. It had a  very special sauce from the Peninsular side  

Of Malaysia. So this was our first time eating  Peninsular Malaysian food. It was from a place   called Kota Bharu, and it was delicious  like a sauce that went over chicken and rice.  That is so good. All right, you want to  taste the most delicious thing in the world? Yeah.

That’s to die for. We can’t thank Lee enough  for his friendship and his kindness and for   escorting us around Kuching. We’re glad that  we now have acquired yet another lifelong friend.  … Let everyone feel comfortable… Yeah, let’s go to  breakfast. Okay. Our fantastic adventures with   Lee were far from over.

But first, we had a not-so-great adventure. Because sometimes   when your life is on the road, you need to take a  moment to go to the doctor. And I had a motorcycle   injury from a fall in Indonesia that was just not  healing. “Are you all right? Are you all right?”  

So before we could go anywhere else, we needed  to first go to a hospital. From what they could tell, it seemed like it’s not  healing. And that could require surgery. So… I don’t know. Hey everyone! Nice to have you here. We are  Tim, and Marisa Notier. I ride in the front.  

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[Join for as little as $1 a month! See link in the description below.] Okay, good morning. Today I’m going to be eating  something that is considered by Anthony Bourdain   to be the Breakfast of the Gods. It is called  Sarawak Laksa. Check it out.    [Laksa Sarawak] This was actually my first time

Having one of my new favorite foods of the whole  world, and it is called Laksa. To be specific,   Laksa Sarawak. It’s made with a coconut broth that  is spicy. So, this is the special Sarawak version   that is not like the rest of Malaysia. Let’s give  it a try.

Oh, it’s good! It’s spicy, but it’s   really good. It’s so delicious. It’s like all the  flavors that I love put into one. It’s almost like   a coconut creamy Thai curry that has shrimp and  very thin rice noodles and bean sprouts and other   vegetables in it. Really, really good.

Glutenous flour and bean paste inside. I like it.    What do you think, Tim? It’s not bad. I like it. So, as  we were spending time in Kuching catching up   on making videos and taking a bit of a rest from  the constant fatigue of the road, we figured this  

Would be as good of a moment as any to go to the  doctor. And we also had been renting this amazing   apartment from our good friends Jason and Pilly.  Thank you, Jason and Pilly and Aya and Ibu, you guys  

Are the best to let us rent this place. Thank you so  much. Wow, it’s beautiful. Look at this wonderful   gift! Thank you! Thank you! And it’s just given us  some time to settle down and do some research on  

The doctors to go to. Malaysia is one of the best  places to go because the healthcare services are   top-notch while being still very affordable. Yeah,  there’s some cool apps out there that can help you   decide where to go with trusted reviews and such,  and one of them being On Vacation Doctor just gets  

You in contact with doctors that speak English,  which is really important because sometimes when   you’re describing pain and issues, there’s poor  translation. I mean, we had like a trio of   failures, majority on my end. I had lost some  hearing. I’m listening to podcasts and stuff,  

And it seems echoey. Yeah. And it was really affecting  your mood too. Yeah, I was even more   stubborn. If you can imagine! Can you imagine,  folks? Yeah, I wanted to know   what it was, because I needed it to go away. I mean,  we ride motorcycles around the world, for like 6  

Years. So that’s a lot of wind damage. And when I  was in my teenagers, there was a lot of Pantera and   Guns and Roses blaring in my ears. And no earplugs  at that point in time. Young and reckless. Now  

I’m old and a wreck. So we wanted to see the  hearing doctor. And we’re about to insert a   gross picture. So children, women, men under 70,  close your eyes. Men over 70 can handle this. They’d be lik, “Oh yeah…” “I got that too.” “I get that too.”

But I went to the hearing doctor,  and there was a very nice gentleman,   and he pulled out of my head a candlestick. So much wax! It was a lot of ear wax! This is true. So this was the before

And after of my eardrums. How disgusting is  that, folks? We won’t go into further detail   just because I don’t want to lose subscribers.  Oh, but the best part is they give you this little   before and after thing like an ultrasound,  right? Yeah, this picture.  

They give you this picture of shame  to bring home. Like I’m going to put it on   my fridge or something. But I turned it around and  I wrote a little postcard to my brother Matt and  

Sent it to him. And it never got to him because  I think along the way all the postal service people were   vomiting. Just like “what is this? Blahhh!” Until   someone finally… burnt it. You look to the mirror, you can  

See this crack all the way going down. You went to the  dentist. Yeah, I had this nerve pain, ghost pain.   And I’ve had a root canal done. I call it my crown  of Africa. I was crowned in Uganda. Yes,  

We lived in Uganda for a little bit during the  pandemic, and you got a crown from our favorite   dentist over there, Stanley. I got a root  canal, but it had been giving me trouble ever   since. Yeah, recurring infections actually. It  was pretty bad. And so we went to a dentist who  

Said that the root canal was not done all the  way down and so he gave me a new root canal.   Right? How exciting! Halfway through the root  canal, he said your tooth is highly damaged.  

And so they pulled my tooth out. Mhm. So now  I have like a half a pound of ear wax removed,   a couple grams of a tooth removed. Are you feeling  more lightheaded now? I am. I’m still grumpy.  

Can’t take that away from me. That’s my bloodline.  But the most important doctor that we went to go   see… Excuse me. I think. The  most important doctor was for my wrist.  Ok, so as you may know, about 3 months ago I fell  getting off the motorcycle and hurt my wrist.  

I fell in a ditch and put my hand out, and I  pretty much went immediately to the nearest   hospital in Cianjur in Indonesia, and they took  x-rays. According to the X-rays, I had not broken   any bones. So that was really, really great. I  was trying to take care of my wrist after that,  

And for about the first two weeks, it was feeling  pretty good, like it was really on the mend.   But then after that, it started getting worse  and getting a lot more pain. I don’t know if I  

Reinjured it in some way. But it’s been 3 months  now and now it doesn’t move, and it doesn’t move   back or forward. I can bend my fingers back,  but the wrist, this is as far back as it bends,  

Whereas this one goes like that. And then it  doesn’t bend any more than that. I can’t put   any pressure on it. I can’t be like, “stop,” like  it just doesn’t bend. I can’t do a push-up,   obviously. I can’t even do air push-ups, no.  So that’s not good, and I definitely want it  

To get checked out again. So today, we are  going to go to the hospital and talk to the   doctors and see what’s going on because there’s  definitely something wrong. So we went to one of   the biggest hospitals here in Kuching who had  specialists in this area. But unfortunately,  

When they did the x-ray, they were not able to get  any conclusive determination of whether my wrist…   Whether my wrist was injured or not. Yes. There’s  a small little scaphoid bone that they said it  

Could be broken, it might not be, it doesn’t look  like there’s a lot of healing going on, but we’re   not sure. So they wanted to get an MRI, and this  was my first time in an MRI. It is big, it’s loud,  

It’s clunky. You have to hold perfectly still for  a very long time. And for me, that was thankfully   only about 20 minutes, but it’s still pretty  uncomfortable and very, very loud and unnerving. But I got out of it. And then the worst  part happened. I just got out of the MRI,  

Which was an interesting experience. Basically,  they’re not sure if I have a broken bone or not.   It might be a tiny fracture. They want to see  how much is healing. It might not be anything,   but there is something wrong. But that’s why the  MRI was needed. But from what they could tell,  

It seemed like it’s not healing. Worst case  scenario is I would need surgery. They said,   “Look, we don’t know if there’s any healing  happening here. If there isn’t any healing,   you are probably going to need some sort  of surgery.” Like a bone graft was going to  

Be involved because we didn’t catch it in time.  Along with titanium rods. It sounded pretty bad.   But they said that they  wouldn’t know for sure until the MRI results   came in, which would be the next morning. The next  day, and it’s like 13 hours of like, “Oh my God!”  

We’ll see. We’ll come back tomorrow  at 10:30 a.m. to find out the results. Okay, so it is the morning that we are going  to go back to the hospital and see the official   diagnosis of my wrist. I got an MRI, and that  should tell if my scaphoid is broken or not,  

Or if I need to have surgery. So we’re going to go find out. Wish us luck. The next morning, we headed to the hospital. Good news, good news, good news! The MRI showed that   I do not have a very serious broken bone. If  anything, it’s just small minor fractures, and  

It seems to be healing. In general, I don’t need a  cast, I don’t need surgery! All I need is time and   love and patience and doing some exercises with my  wrist. Yay! This is such such such good news! Oh,  

What a great day! I did not have any broken bones,  and as you can see since then, it has improved   dramatically. It is not 100%, but it bends a  whole lot better than it used to. This is true. Show people your purple palm.  Oh! In the comments below,  

Guess why Marisa’s hands are purple? So we had a celebratory meal right after the good  news and went to our favorite little restaurant in   the area. It’s called The All-In Cafe. Hey! I’m  here at my favorite little restaurant here. We  

Always always eat here, and this is Andi, and  he is just the best. He’s such a great chef,   and we absolutely love all the food that he cooks  here, and we come here all the time. Thank you so  

Much, Andi! Thank you so much! Thank you so much.  And our dear friend Andi works there. He became   our friend because we went to this restaurant all  the time, and he’s amazing. He’s an awesome person.   And Andi makes these wonderful Indian breads  called “roti canai-o.” I mean, he makes all  

Sorts of different types, but those are the ones  that we like, and a special curry sauce that goes   along with it. And he’s just an awesome dude.  And through Google translate and broken Malay…   There’s a language barrier. But it’s just  really cool. We really are appreciative of  

His kindness. Everybody’s kindness! Lee has  just been an awesome tour guide.   And he wanted to take us to that night bridge  Yeah!   [Satok Bridge – 1.5547˙ North 110.3243˙ East] So for further celebration,  we went to this gorgeous bridge at night that  was all lit up. Walking down that bridge was like  

Bifrost from Thor. Oh, that bridge in Asgard,  the Rainbow Bridge? Yeah. It was like that!   It was totally awesome. I was Thor, I didn’t know  if that was obvious. I’ll be Loki, don’t worry. But it was about time that we felt we wanted  to get back on a motorcycle. And Lee said   that we could borrow his little Honda 150.  Good morning, everyone! Today, we’re going to do   something super special. We’re going to be riding  a motorcycle here in Malaysia for the first time.  

As you probably know, we had to leave Dorco, our  motorcycle, back in Indonesia. But here our friend   Lee is going to be letting us use his motorcycle,  one of his motorcycles, so that we’re  

Going to go together to a very special place that  a lot of motorcyclists here go to called Mile 0 or   Kilometer Zero. It’s kind of like the end of the  road of Borneo. So that should be pretty cool,  

And we’re super excited to finally be on the  road in Malaysia. 150 cubic cm’s, small motorcycle.   Small bike, lightweight bike. I love it. What is it  exactly? Honda RS 150R, this one. And he would   ride his BMW GS 1200. And we were like, “Yeah,  this sounds awesome!” Uh, but yeah, I didn’t know  

How the little 150 was going to keep up with the  1200. Especially with both of us on it. Whoa… But that will all be in the next episode. We’re going faster than we were on Dorco! Look at  that! 85! We’re cruising, folks! How fast? We’re doing a 100 kilometers per hour!  

We’re only in fifth gear. We got a whole other  gear to burn through. So I hope you like this   video. If you did, please give us a big thumbs  up and hit the subscribe button below. Ding ding. 

And we’ll be seeing you next time. Stay safe,  everybody. We’d love to have you guys along for   the ride. And if you are interested, we  do have a Patreon page where we release the   videos like 5 days to a week early. And we send  out postcards from wherever we are in the world.

So check out our Patreon link in the description  below, and we hope to see you there. Stay safe,   everybody. Bye! Peace. The thing about laksa is  that it could be spice level one or it could be   spice level 101. You just don’t  know what you’re getting until you’re  

Either crying tears of happiness  or tears of pain. Tears of pain.   Yes, and sometimes both. Yes. One out  of each eye. A tear and a little blood drop.

It’s scary enough leaving your home for a trip to the other side of the world. But when your life is completely on the road, there are times when you have to do things that you would normally save for back home – such as going to the hospital.

That’s precisely what we had to do in Kuching, East Malaysia. And not just the hospital, but the hearing doctor, the dentist… And we had one burning question on our minds the whole time – is health care good in Southeast Asia? Will it meet our standards?

Well, we’re here to dispel all myths, and share the reality of the Malaysian medical system.

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