DIY?

An old friend dropped by for a visit today .. all the way from Johor.

Well, he didnt like make the trip JUST to see me .. but he usually makes an effort to see me for a yum cha session whenever he's in KL .. and vice versa.

I havent seen this guy for like a year or so .. so it was basically catching up .. and it was then I noticed the 'patch' on top of his car ..





























Apparently his car roof has rusted out .. seems that the acidity from the incessant bird droppings in his area and his procrastination in washing the droppings off resulted in several large 'holes' in his car roof ...

And so my friend decided to take the most simple solution in keeping rain water out .... seal the holes with cellophane tape ... lots and lots of cellophane tape ... he said it works .. he hasnt had any water coming in ever since ...

I wonder what he would do if his car locks give out ... hehe ..

Follow Ups ..

Was in the hospital today.

I somehow managed to move my appointment date up .... from MARCH 2010 to next week. Either I was very convincing .. or my situation was serious enough for the tests to be done very much earlier.

Anyways .. I was in the hospital today for a battery of bloodtests .. my stress and echo test is next week. And as I waiting for my turn to be 'sucked' for blood .. I noticed my fellow patients who were also there for the same problem ... and it struck me that everyone of them was very much older than I was ..

There was this chinese uncle who easily looked like he was in his 60s .. as well this other two pakcik .. compared to them I looked out of place .. more like someone who was there to accompany his dad than an actual patient himself ...

Hopefully my stress and echo tests next week will reveal some better news .. I could use some right about now ....

Unwell ..

I finally found out what's wrong with me.

Was feeling very sick and frustrated last week .. so decided to go for a second opinion. For the last three months or so, on and off ive been short of breathe, unable to sleep and generally feeling very weak and tired .. and this was AFTER that stupid doc at that hospital said I was fine .. despite all the ECGs and XRAYs and bloodtests.

So I went BACK to the same hospital ( they had all my past records and test results mah ) .. but saw a different doc .. complained that despite the ALL CLEAR from the other doc .. I was still having the same problems ..

And so this particular doc looked back on the test results .. ordered a fresh new set of XRAYs .. and found that I had an enlarged heart .. and lungs filling up with fluids.


Apparently, I have progressive heart failure.

That was last week .. I've been on meds ever since .. and have made appointments to have more tests done to determine what sort of treatment can be done for me. But since im not on any healthcare scheme and have to depend on goverment hospitals .. my next appointment is in MARCH 2010.

The medicine ive been taking is helping somewhat .. I feel slightly better .. but am still a prime candidate for a stroke or a heart attack. And so since I can no longer work ive been stuck at home for the past two weeks .. just trying to take it easy.

I just hope I dont drop dead before my next appointment - or suffer from terrible depression before then .. it's been a real challenge to try and maintain an optimistic view of things when you're only 45 and you're told that you have heart failure.


Guess I'll go get some sleep .. if I can ...

Incommunicado ...

Oh wow.

I just realised that I havent been posting for ... a month. Guess me not feeling well and just having a general sense of lethargy has got something to do with it ..

And the best part of it .. is that not one doctor can tell me what's wrong with me .. ive been having difficulty breathing .. sleeping .. and feeling very very weak and tired even after a few steps ... xrays and ECGs and bloodtests have all been done .. everything is 'NORMAL' as the doc says ....

So what's wrong with me?

I've turned to chinese medication ... according to the sinseh .. i'm just very weak and my so-called body's health is not 'balanced' .. so i've been downing these incredibly bitter stuffs these past few days ... maybe it's me but I don't see any difference .. feel slightly better though ... anyways ...

I just hope I get better soon ... I hate this feeling of being weak and unable to do anything ....

Saddest Looking Pug .....

Found these few pics while I was surfing around .... poor fella looks so incredibly depressed .. guess his owner musta tied him to keep him from wandering off ...












































If there's a competition for the saddest looking dog, I'll bet this fella would win .. hehe ..

Hmm ..

I was driving towards PJ today from Serdang ... this particular sliproad is never jammed with traffic at this time of the morning ... but ..

Anyways .. saw this advertising board ... my first thought was ..... surely someone would have had to ACTUALLY proof-read it before they put it up .... right?

Ok .. maybe whoever was proof-reading it didnt realise it .. but what about the advertising agency?? Shouldnt they have pointed out that the sentence was incorrect?

Well ... guess it doesnt matter if it's a mistake .. as long as it's BIG enough for everybody to see ... hehehe ..

I'm better now ... phew ..

I've been really sick.

Really.

Actually I've been having this chronic cough for some time ( hmm .. now that I think of it, almost 2 months ) and it got really really bad the other day ... bad enough for me to go and see the Doc for some medicine.

I wouldnt even have considered going to see the Doc except that I woke up the other day coughing so badly I felt as if my lungs were practically coming outta my mouth .. guess that's also one of the reasons why I quit smoking.

Anyways .. after asking some questions and giving me the once over, Doc promptly declared that I either had contracted tuberculosis ( WTF? TB?? ) or bronchitis or maybe H1N1 ( except that I didnt have a fever ) .. but to be sure Doc put me on a course of antibiotics and some other yucky stuff I had to take for 5 days ... and if my condition didnt improve, it's XRAYS and off to see a Specialist.

That was one week ago.

I'm glad to say that I can breathe so much more easily now .. my cough is almost gone .. and my chest doesnt hurt anymore. So I guess it was just a lung infection.

I practically spent the entire week in bed .. just dozing in and out of consciousness ( the antibiotics were really strong ) .. only getting up to go to the bathroom and have my medicine. I didnt even feel clear headed enough to eat anything except some soups ..

But hey, I feel so much better now .. and actually am looking forward to going back to work ! I just hope I can remember who to call and who to follow up with .... maybe I can blame it on residual effects of the antibiotics if I forget ... hehe ..