Health is Wealth
It has been a dreadful past 2 wks for me. It all happened on 26 Sep, just a day after i updated this blog abt Rain's sickness. Never did I imagine that I would encounter the worst sickness in my life after this. I felt unwell in the morning & started to have chills in the office. Soon the fever came & I was weak all over. Took half a day off to see the doc. Did not really worry abt my sickness & tot that its juz the common flu which I would get over soon. But I was so wrong. Juz when I tot I was well, the fever came back to torture me again. Over the next few days, it was back to the doc & conducting blood tests for dengue fever. However, all the test results were negative. My body got weaker & weaker by the day & I started to worry abt wad disease I could have contracted. My body was screaming for help & my mind was in a daze. I was like a walkin zombie. Finally, the fever came back with a vengence on a sat night & I was rush to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.The nurse took my temperature & it was 39.6 deg!! I felt like dying & had to endure another 3 hrs before I saw the doc. Took a blood test (again??!!) & xray & was told that I had an unknown "patch" in my lungs. The doc could not aceratain wad was this 'patch' in my lungs & I was eventually admitted to hospital. It was abt 2.30am & I was lying in the hospital bed wif a raging fever. I was told that the doc was busy & could not attend to me immediately. After an hr, I could not take it anymore & had to ask the nurse for help. The kind nurse gave me 2 panadols & a wet towel to reduce my fever. There I was, lying in bed with hardly any strength to move & a fever tat seemed to engulfed my whole body. I will neva forget the horrible feeling of helplessness & sadness. I almost felt like on the brink of death. It was not a feeling I would want to experience ever again. The doc finally came & interviewed me in the middle of the night & fortunately my fever had already went down.
In the early morning, I was wheeled to the radiography room for another round of xray. The doc came at ard 9am & I was told the shocking news tat I actually had pneumonia!! How the hell did i get this disease? I was perfectly all rite before the fever came. How could it be? Many questions went through my mind but there were no answers. I was put on a drip with a cocktail of antibiotics to combat my illness. But the fever seemed to hang on to me like a leech & refused to let go. This went on for 2 more days & the doc was getting worried. It appeared that the 1st cocktail of antibiotics was ineffective. I was totally devastated. Strange tots started to cross my mind. Will I survive this disease? I have so much things I hav yet to do & accomplish. I cant juz die like tat! My mind & body seemed to hav given up hope & tears started rolling down. It was time like this when u finally realize that life can be so fragile - like a candle in the wind. In these difficult times, my tots were with my family & Rain. I told myself I hav to be strong for the sake of them. They must be praying and waiting for me to get well soon & I muz not disappoint them. I will fight this disease....
The new antibiotics finally worked & my fever went down on tues. It neva came back after that & I was finally discharged on fri (7 Oct). I was not fully cured & had to recuperate at home but this was much beta than stayin in the hospital. Right now, I'm still on medication but I felt much beta than the past 2 wks. I hope that I would be able to get well by end of tis wk & return to work soon.
This terrible episode really changed my prospective of life. Not matter how rich or successful you are, it is useless without gd health. I finally realize how much my family, gf, frens & colleagues cared abt me & I'm really glad that they hav given me so much care & support during my sickness. I just hope that I will not hav to let them worry again. This experience has taught me that life is really short & I should live each day fully. No matter wad happens in the future, as long as you have live life to the fullest, you will hav no regrets. I'm glad that God has given me a chance to realize this & I promise myself that I will not waste my life away & will treasure every moment of my life & bring joy to my loved ones - coz we neva know wad will happen tmr....
posted by Dezer @ 10:04 PM
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