Kinda feels weird to be blogging again after a week-long hiatus..But..nevertheless..am mighty glad to have Internet access again..haa..just a recap of the events of the past week...
Monday 10th Oct..day of admission...had a jittery day..was walking around with a thudding heart & ringing ears..and little beads of anticipation running through my veins...as is the bureaucratic ways of most public hospitals and healthcare...the admission queue took me 1.5 hours...and by the time i got to my ward and my bed...it was about 230pm already..
Eddie surprised me by turning up..with two pints of ice-cream in tow to try to "cheer me up" in his words...from Rohlin's place haa...one's Nutella and the other flavour's Cookies & Cream..was 1/3 way into my Nutella when I had to stop for a doc to draw blood from me...one of those dreaded but bo pian have to go through it times...poked a hole in my right wrist..inserted a plug in there...tried to draw but my blood refused to flow...tmd...poked another hole into the bend of my right elbow..still no flow...wriggled the tubing abit...and by then i was cursing him silently already...in all sorts of languages..finally managed to get it over an done with...
then another doc came..Doc Fong..the unfriendly insensitive young indomitable male doctor wielding a red electric razor...my heart flipped in my chest...and my spirits sank in dismay...damn...I thought wildly..."Thought they said I didn't have to shave my hair off????" Turned out the op was gonna be computer-aided and they needed to place some electrodes on certain prime spots on the right side of my head..so that they can path the route into a soft copy route on the PC. and in order for teh rlectrodes to stick onto my scalp..they had to shave off certain parts..as the whirring sound of the darn razor whizzed into action...i tried hard to keep my emotions in check..every buzzing sound just brought more heartache to me..at the end of it..felt that Doc Fong was quite insensitive..i was littered with remnants of some hair..and looked pretty messed up...with electrodes on my forehead and some part of the head...After he was done..he didn't even wait for me to dust myself off before he drew open the curtains and just walked away..And only left a nurse to help to dust me off...I went back to the guest chairs wheere mum, dad n eddie were seated...and then my floodgaztes just unleashed themselves..just somehow..my face turned damn warm...and i just cried my heart out..yeah..in front of poor hapless Eddie..haa..poor thing..
Gathered my wits later on and survived through dinner...then Ahboy came..and mum n dad left..did a series of tests before the next day's proceedings...did my MRI scan at 915pm..my 12 lead ECG at 1030pm and had my chest x-ray at 1115pm...poor ahboy only left at 1130pm...think he was real tired..
Tried to have a good night's rest..abit difficult considering I was half praying, half chanting, and half hyperventilating..and also considering the fact that nurses were in and out trying to monitor your blood pressure and body temperature...didn't help that the room was god damn cold...slept under 3 blankets..and a jacket..
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