Cupping Session

I love going for massages. I feel so refresh and revitalize after especially if the masseuse does a great job at it. Unfortunately my last massage fall short of expectation.  It was my first visit and suffice to say there would not be a return session.

These past few weeks have really been stressful. I worked hard and my body needs some pampering. Azwaj suggested going for a “bekam” or cupping session but we have yet to find one nearby our home.  Anyway while checking emails for good Black Friday offers, I saw this offer for a Cupping Therapy Device set. I mean talk about coincidence right? I told Azwaj about it and he immediately told me to get it. It was only going for RM29.90 so I said “why not?”

So now we have to wait 7 days for delivery which means by the time I come home from my Singapore trip next week, the set would have arrived and we could our own personal cupping session (grin).

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Enzymes for Me

I’ve always have digestion problem. Sometimes it takes a while for my system to digest food and it makes me feel bloated and full for too long. It does not go to the extent of heartburn but of course that is something I want to avoid altogether. So I’ve been taking digestive enzymes for some time now and it seems to help with my problem. One capsule after each meal and I don’t feel bloated anymore.

I normally get my supply from the local pharmacy but recently I found this site that claims to the the best source for mega enzyme forte so I’m checking it out to see what they have to offer.

Do you take digestive enzymes and if so does it work for you?

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Compression Garment Choices

If you, like many people, have been advised to wear compression garments to ease discomfort, prevent or control swelling or to provide support, you can find an extensive assortment of compression aids at therapystockings.com. Once you begin browsing around, you will find that they have far more than stockings. Their list of available products includes compression aids for arms and hands. Without compromising on quality and effectiveness, therapy stockings understand that at times, its a mood booster to be able to add some uniqueness to your compression wear. If you want to express a passion, reveal the fun side of your personality or coordinate your arm sleeve with your wardrobe, you can do so with the numerous colors and patterns of arm candy and sassy sleeves they have available. Here you will also find an diverse selection of compression items for your lower extremities. They have socks in various lengths and colors. Compression hose are available in knee high, thigh high and panty hose. You may be surprised to discover that you can now find support hose that are sheer and attractive. These hose will accentuate rather than distract from a professional attire. It’s a wonderful convenience to be able to shop at one location for the compression items you need. It’s also nice to know that you can easily get assistance from caring, professional customer service representatives before you place your order. Customer reviews praise the products and the excellent customer service representatives.
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15th May Surgery

I’m back from Singapore. Fast eh? Anyway I returned to a house full of testors paint smell coz apparently Azwaj was trying to cover up some minor crack in the car. Anyway..

My trip to Singapore went smoothly even though I traveled on Sunday (a pleasant surprise indeed). I arrived in one piece at around 9pm.

I didn’t receive any calls from the hospital with my CT scan results the week before so I really didn’t know what to expect but I was hoping for all good results. Unfortunately during the appointment, my doctor told me that although the CT scan didn’t find anything abnormal, he still couldn’t rule out ovarian cancer for now. He told me that he can only confirm cancer or otherwise once he has access that “solid” mass during the surgery. So basically he would proceed with the keyhole surgery, take out the mass, send it to the labs while I am still under and find out. If it is negative, he would close me up and that will be the end of the surgery. If, however, it is positive, then he would take the necessary action to remove the cancer cells.

He also told me that since I have had repeat surgery on the same spot, the risk is also greater as adhesion might have occurred and depending on the severity of the adhesion, open surgery might be needed instead.

So my surgery is now confirmed for 15 May 2012 while the pre-ops is going to be done on 2nd May, two weeks before the surgery. What fun!

 

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My First CT Scan

So despite the initial hiccup of my CT scan appointment and the feeling of needing to hit my doctor with an angle iron, the CT scan itself went smoothly without any hitches last Thursday, 29th March 2012.

I arrived on time and it was nice to see the nurse remembered me from the day before.  She greeted me, went through the same checklist that I had the day before and proceeded to prepare me the procedure.  I was given four glasses of  plain water to drink within a hour. They also put in an IV needle on my left hand. This will be used for the contrast dye.

It was something like this

At the end of the fourth drink, the nurse called me into the CT scan room.  It was scary to see the huge machine but it was not like those tunnel things that I expected. Instead it was like one of those “Stargate” or something like a vertical buoy. I was asked to lie down on a platform attached to the machine. The nurse explained what will happened and that they will do a test scan to get me comfortable. I was left alone in the room as the machine “talked” to me asking me to hold my breath at certain times while the platform that I was lying on moved in and out of the “stargate”.

After the test scan was done, I was again joined by the nurse that explained she would now activate the contrast dye. I felt a warm sensation as the liquid entered my body through the IV. The sensation ended lasted about 2seconds or so and I was told to put both hands over my head. Now is time for the real scan.

The platform again moved in and out of the “stargate” and within 10minutes I was done. I was asked to remain lying down until the doctor was certain that they got a good scan.  They did and I was asked to get dressed and stay in the recovery room for about half hour to make sure I didn’t have any allergic reaction to the dye.  I was released after that half hour is up 🙂 yeay!

So now is the waiting period. The results would come back this week and if I don’t receive any call by this Friday.. then I should home free from cancer and I would just proceed with my keyhole surgery to remove my cyst.

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Postponed CT Scan

On my visit to the doctor on Monday, I was supposed to get a date for my surgery but instead the surgeon explained to me that seeing how they are still not sure about the status of my “solid mass” they insisted that I for a CT scan to rule out ovarian malignancy before proceeding to remove my cyst.

I was scheduled to go for CT scan this morning at 9.15am. I fasted as instructed since 5.15am and was all ready for my first ever CT scan. Nervous? Of course.. since this was my first time but after reading up on risk and things and also talking to a few friends who had experienced it before, I was prepared.

The missed out Meds

So we got to the hospital bright and early. After changing to the x-ray drapery fabrics gown that consist of the gown and a kimono style outer robe, the nurse brought me to another room to get me prep. She did a preliminary checklist and noticed that I had declared I have asthma. She asked me if I had taken the “prednisoLone” that the doctor had given me. I asked her what’s that and she looked a little panic to be honest. I explained that the doctor didn’t give me any such meds. She asked me to wait a bit while she checked with the CT doc (is that what they are called?). She came back a few moments later and told me that since I was not properly prepared for the CT scan, they fear that I may have an allergic reactions to the contrast dye.

So guess what? I got my “prednisoLone” and a new appointment for tomorrow morning. Erggg.. I could strangle the doctor for making such a careless mistake in not prescribing me the meds but like I told my mom, there must be a blessing somewhere. I mean look at it this way. Normally CT scan appointments are almost always full, what are the odds that I got another one the very next day after my postponed date.. correct?

Anyhow, I’ve taken my first does at 9.30pm and my second dose is at 7.30am tomorrow morning. Wish me luck for tomorrow ya.. Oh and if anyone of you has done CT scan before, so share your experience..

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Optimistic for Good Times Ahead

On my last post I wrote that I was going back to Singapore on Monday.. well it’s Thursday today and I’m already back home in KL. In fact I was home yesterday but since there were too many things to do, I thought I’d update my blog today.

Anyway, I do have to go back to Singapore early next Monday morning to make my doctor’s appointment at 4pm on the same day. Gosh, if this were flights to south africa instead of coach rides to Singapore, can you imagine the frequent flyer miles I’ll be raking up? But then again, if I was going to South Africa, I’ll be soaking up the the vacation mood that I’ll be in instead of somewhat dreading these doctor visits.

So I pretty much decided that I am going through another surgery  hence the doctor’s visit this Monday. I will meet with my surgeon to discuss procedures and dates for the surgery itself.  I am hopeful to eliminate any future needs for more surgery.  At last scan (only 7 month after my last keyhole surgery) the doctors found a cyst measuring 6cm and a solid mass that they worry might be cancerous in my left ovary so this surgery would be to remove that cyst and to find out for sure if that solid mass is anything to worry about.

I strive to be optimistic for now and believe there are good times ahead in front for me and only worry about the implication after the doctor can finalize whether it is indeed cancer.  Till then, it’s the same jovial LJ here 🙂

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Exercise Perhaps?

I’m not sure what’s going on with me but I am sleepy all the time now. I doubt it’s coz of lack of sleep because I do sleep, 10hours at one go if I need to. I don’t think it’s lack of sugar too because I drink a lot of coffee. In fact I think I take too much sugar at times that I often force myself to just drink plain water. I’m thinking that perhaps my body is telling me that I need to and exercise that instead of taking hcg shots for weight loss, I should starting sweating it out at the gym downstairs instead.

Of course, I have every intention to do so. It’s just that I just need to find the RIGHT time. lol! hmm.. Do I sound like a broken record?

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Surgery Day

So the day is finally here.. Second surgery in my lifetime. Am hoping it won’t be as major as the first surgery but one never know what the doctors will find once they are inside you right..lol!

I’ve started my fasting since midnight. I was told at 6am I could have a light breakfast which consist of only a single piece of bread and tea with sugar. NO milk, the nurse told me. I’m supposed to check in at 11.30am at the Admission office on the 1st level of Kandang Kerbau Hospital. The nurse would show me my ward to get me settled. I can request to see the doctor before the surgery but there is no guarantee that would happen. A medical officer in charge that day will come by to see me and assess my health to make sure I am healthy enough to be operated on. My surgery would take place around 4.30pm.

Pray that all goes well for me ya..

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The Cleanse is On

Prior to my surgery tomorrow, I was prescribed some cleansing meds to clean my system. At 10am, I had to take two tablets of Bisacodyl which is normally prescribed for people with constipation problem. As I don’t have any such problem nothing eventful happen.

Then at 4pm, I’m to take a bottle of oral laxative saline. As you may have guessed what that implied.. I’m literally rushing to the toilet every minute. I’m on my 10th round right now and still counting.

I am actually supposed to take another dose at 8pm but I reckon I will give it a miss if I can’t stand it any more.

In the meantime, I am also packing for my admittance tomorrow. I am packing light for sure, so I won’t be packing any nintendo ds games for sure but I will have my phone with me and since that is loaded with loads of boldie episodes, I know I won’t be bored for sure!

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A Challenged Three Months

2011 has so far been very challenging for me in terms of health.

In January, my cysts started acting up which caused me nearly one week of downtime and torture. Earlier this month I had a severe case of diarrhea which saw me rushing to the toilet every 5minutes and another week of downtime.. and just today I have been peeing non-stop and each session, sting.  Not sure what was the cause but I am suspecting my body was dehydrated. I drank like a mug of water every 10minutes and that seemed to help with the situation. Boy, am I glad I’m not working for anyone and rushing off to my 9 to 5 job like before. If I were my boss, I’d fire me! lol!

My client just emailed me asking when I can start working on  her e-commerce site again. I took time off because of Aggie’s surgery and she has been nice enough to hold off any jobs. It also helped because she needed some time off herself to concentrate on her own online degree programs. Yeap, I really envy her, doing online degree programs and running an online store.. how awesome right?

Anyway..I hope no more illness come my way this 2011. I think I had enough of being sick already 🙁

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Burning Drive

My leg is healing very well and I’m almost up to walking without a limp since the fall on 23 November. I can’t wait to be able to walk properly now as I’m all psych up after getting some tips from Shemah on what to do as an exercise noobie. I wonder if I can speed up the process of fat burning if I were to take fat burner supplements or something. The adapexin reviews sure looks interesting from where I’m sitting as it’s supposed to increase metabolic rate. I’m impatient that way but I reckon I better stick to traditional exercise first and see how it goes eh?

I’m just hoping this burning drive would stay with me till that day come!

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Oats for Meals

It’s the 10th day of Ramadhan today and “Alhamdullilah” although I’ve been sick, I managed to not skip any days yet. I’ve been starting to skip taking rice for my meals substituting them for oats instead though I do take bites of the delicious “lauk” that A buys for his break fast. I hope to God that oats can’t make one fat otherwise I may consider taking apidexin instead! 😳

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Rejuvenation

Bought Kinohimitsu Rejuvenating Seat Pad yesterday at Giant and OMG I think it’s working. I feel less tired even after hours of sitting, though of course I slept like 12hours yesterday so that might be it too. Anyway, what the pad does is, it releases high level of negative ions to effectively neutralize effects of fatigue-inducing positive ions supposedly making us feel less tired and more energized. It only cost RM10.90 so we got two and Azwaj said he feels different too when he woke up this morning.  So, we’ll see..

Anyone tried it yet?

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Starting to Sleep On My Back

Now that I know what are the wrinkles facts and myth, I am definitely changing the way I sleep. Basically according to the video that I saw, sleeping on one’s side actually increase wrinkles on the side that you sleep on so can you imagine what’s worse that having wrinkles on your face? Yeap, more wrinkles on one side that the other..lol!!!

So aside from that wrinkle cream that I’ve been slapping on my face since I turned 40, I’m definitely changing the way I sleep too. I’m gonna put pillows on both my side now to make sure I’m sleep on my back! Phew I feel so much better. Now if only i can find out facts and myths on maxoderm. Lol!

Anyway, I did a blogthings test on sleeping position and this is what it tells me about myself:

Your Sleeping Position Says You Need Peace

You are calm and rational person with a good deal of balance in your life. Friends consider you to be kind, caring, and truly loyal. You are easy going and trusting. However, you are too sensible to fall for mind games. Open to the world, you are not afraid to be yourself. If you don’t get enough sleep, you are: Able to cope It’s hard to sleep next to you because: You’re a bed hog

What Does Your Sleeping Position Say About You?

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