Good day fellas. Haven't had merely an entry for two months is just because, as usual, I am full throttle towards my career I'm building now as well as health complication that I go through every single day especially morning.
Remember the
accident that I had few months back? Well, it lead me to have breathing difficulties that I have these 3 months, every time I wake up, whether it is night, or morning or even when I take a nap, every time, without fail. At first I thought I'm going to die or I have a disease, maybe lungs problem and whatnot. I even google the symptoms that I had and bump into COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Not satisfied, I consult a few doctors to check what's going on with me and even had ECG test, luckily it turns out to be normal. After 4th visit to the doctors, I think they gave up and hand me a referral letter to specialist hospital.
Few of you who know me, I'm a kind of person who put career first, won't straight away go to the hospital just because I had this everyday-breathing-difficulties. Yup, I delay the appointment up to two weeks until one morning I hardly breath that I'm sure I'm going to die soon. On such a chaotic morning, after performing my Subh prayer, my dad rush me to the KPJ Specialist Hospital to find out more about my 'disease'.
The good thing about private hospital is they are very highly efficient, yeah, we pay them highly of course. In just a few hours, I've done ECG (again), blood test, urine test, X-ray, and CT scan, consults specialist cardiologist including warded me in two-bedded room. Before this I went to the government hospital and they've set my appointment which is on May, (wutta..?). But this is not to say anything bad about government hospital, I totally understand why they are less efficient.
The cardiologist, Dr Daud, didn't suspect me to have heart problem for such at young age, with small build, it can't be heart problem, same things to the lungs. So, if everything turns out to be normal, what is it actually? The very next morning, I was brought to see the specialist in orthopedics. Looking at the CT scanned and X-ray results, is perfectly normal.
Suddenly, he, Dr. Robert zoomed in at the left ribs area and found out that there are fractured at the 8th and 9th ribs. He investigated me whether I had an accident or have I fall lately, yeah, only then I remembered that I had an accident last few month. Just imagine if a car is running about 90 or 100 km/h, and stopped abruptly with force, the inertia that the car is holding is quite an impactful, I suppose. Only now that it affected my respiratory system. He said most probably because I was skinny and the seat-belt must've been gripped my ribs subconsciously. I don't remember the seat-belt tucked me so hardly that it'd fractured my ribs, but the theory might be consistent with tragedy. Luckily, he said that the fractured ribs will recover by itself, time by time. Thus, for the time being, I shouldn't be so active, no more badminton, tennis etc.. ='(
I was hospitalized for three days, and been given MC for the rest of the week. My next appointment is next 7 days, and the bill is RM2,475.90. So, relate the title with the bill ya. It's not about the bill itself but also the medical leaves I've consumed, the breathing difficulties and the self-assumption that I've made which had sometimes, trigger the subconscious panic in my brain, I mean, who wants to have a chronic disease and die when you're not ready, right?
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| A week medical leave |
Therefore, lesson to be learned;
- Safety is not a thing that you can compromise
- Health come first than career ( I remembered Zach told me about this and he went on elaborate it) :)
- Do not delay if you feel something wrong with your body, it might've threaten your life
- Don't go and have your self-assumption that you have this and that diseases, just go and seek consultation from a doctor or two
Till we meet again! Assalamualaikum.
