The ultimate - 8 days MC! (Part I)

天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福

Since I'm on a 8 days MC, I shall find some time to document this episode in my blog. It is quite memorable because I can't remember the last time I was awarded with an 8 days medical leave, including the weekends, I actually got 12 days! -unbeatable-

(maybe chicken pox might have rivalled that count, but that was kindergarten era...)

As someone who loves to think (too much), I've arrived at the cause of this battle.
I have no one else to blame but myself...

祸从口出，病从口入。

Mindless eating has led me down the path of illness.

11 March 2018

It was a Sunday, usually lazy for the both of us. We woke up at ~9am and ordered McD breakfast. This usually carry us through till the late afternoon.
In the afternoon, we went out for Jalan Jalan and decided to let the downtown line brings us to Jalan Besar! We were both hungry by then and went to the Jalan Besar food center for snacks. It was 4pm in the afternoon, many of the hawker stores were either closed or not opened yet. JQ said they used to come to the this place to eat turtle soup after DB training... (yikes)

With limited choices, we orders chicken claypot rice and 猪脚醋。
Both of the dishes were yummy!

But here's the problem, my stomach was really empty by then and I could feel the acid rolling around with nothing to digest. Then I ate a dish full of vinegar... my stomach can't help but to protest! I was a minor one, I didn't feel very good after the meal but I just ignored it.

We head down to my parent's place to have dinner with them and I've requested some days ago that I wanna eat spicy hot-plate stingray! I haven't had this for a long time, so my family agreed! Of cos, we added the complimentary goods that was sold together at the stall. You can imagine... dishes all looked red.
Mum being mum, will make me 八珍汤 tonic soup when she can. So I took the soup back to my home and I had to drink it despite feeling really full from dinner. (I didn't want to waste my mum's effort)

So it was a day of SUPER mindless eating!!! Looking back I feel so stupid... The variety of stuff I put into my body in a single day was really stressing my stomach. :(

12 March 2018 

Monday back to work, I still have the stomach discomfort carried over from Sunday, but it was minor, so I ignored it and continue with my day. By the late afternoon, it got a bit more of my attention and I decided to visit the clinic. Dr. J saw me and told me my spicy food days are over!! Especially spicy + sour combo (Thai food, mee siam...) I'm ok with that, because I'm not that particular about food. I eat to live, I have quite a high level of self-control with food (if I'm thinking...)

She asked me to go home to rest, which I did, anyway it was already 4pm in the afternoon. 

I have this habit that I don't like to eat medication, so out of the whole bag of medication she gave me, I only took probiotics. I felt resting and eating plain food should do the trick. 

She also said, I needed to poop and I will feel much better once I expel the toxins out from my body.

13 March 2018

It was day of meeting, I was in a meeting room most of the time, with 1 foreign colleague and 2 locals. 

I was feeling okay, getting on with my day, sneaking time in between to punch buttons on my laptop and getting things done. 

By the afternoon, 2pm I was feeling a shoulder and neck ache. I was thinking "ergo problem! I have been working on my laptop for almost the whole day!" So I stopped whenever I got the signal from my laptop, and took water break. 

It was getting worse, by 4pm, I can hardly sit down on the chair and look at my laptop screen. The ache is killing me!

I went downstairs for some fresh air and a walk, (trying to counteract the amount of sitting). I didn't feel better, and I decided that after the last meeting of the day, I'm going to head home, to stretch, to lie on the ground to do whatever to get rid of the ache. I even went to my colleague to tell him that being stuck in a full day meeting is very bad for ergonomics. 

JQ offered to fetch me home but I just can't wait. I decided to take the train home. Since I'm aching so badly, I decided to leave the laptop in office so I don't have to carry the extra weigh on my achy shoulders or strain my neck further. 

Zoomed out of the office, into the train! I didn't want to sit cause I sat tooooo much in the office.

I was feeling chills already, I know the fever is coming. 

It was a 45 min journey and once I got home, I wrapped myself in a blanket and lay down on the sofa, without opening any windows as I was having the chills.

I knew I needed paracetamol and before medication, I needed some food. So I ordered porridge via food panda and went to take a quick shower.

By then, my face was flushed. I could feel the heat emitting within me an escaping through my eyes and my breathe. 

JQ's home and wanted to bring me to the clinic. I protested because I just want to lie down... So I forced myself to eat a meagre of porridge and took paracetamol. 

Feeling slightly better, I agree to go to the clinic nearby our place. I was moving like a sloth, JQ drove us there. Luckily, there wasn't much of a queue.

Saw the locum doctor and he gave me medications for all my symptoms. I was having a high fever of 38.9C. He also gave me a 2 days MC and told me to come back if the fever persist.

Night time was the scariest. 

Everything seems to be aggravated in the night.  

to be continued...

- feeling drowsy now, the medication is taking effect, I need to go lie down-