“Can I help you with anything?” I must be looking confused like walking into a maze, so one of Amcal’s staffs came over and offered her hand.

“I am actually looking for some Betadine please.” I asked, looking at rows and rows of medication on the shelves, couldn’t find the thing I wanted, I did get confused.

“Panadol?” she brought me to the shelf piling of painkillers and pain relief tablets.

“No, I don’t need tablets. I need something liquid that can clean my wound to protect it get infectious.” I raised my right hand to show her my wrist wrapped with dressing.

“Oh, Padding?” She tried to taking me to the dressing shelf. No! but at least we were getting closer.

“No, no, I need Betadine. It’s something I can apply on my wound. It should be liquid thing packed in a bottle.”

“Ah… Betadine!” Thanks the God! She finally got me, Otherwise I wouldn’t know what else I can do to make her understand what I wanted.

Anyway I got a 15ml bottle of Betadine for 7 bucks (so expensive!!! But another brand of same size would cost almost 10 bucks), wondering if I have had really pronounced the medical terminology that remarkably bad. Betadine is something I heard hundreds of times when I was working in the nursing home where RNs, ENs or residents sent us to fetch more Betadine to complete a dressing. It was in a dark brown big bottle where there was a label attached but I had never really looked at it), I heard how it sounds, but I guess I have never exactly grab the spelling of the word, so I might have pronounced wrong. But this is something always happens on non-English native speakers, where we are struggling between what we have seen on the piece of paper and what we have heard from somebody’s mouth.

See how Wikipedia interprets Betadine……