Maiden Entry For Me!!

I have been wanting to make this entry since my recovery from my illness. well its not that easy because of many reasons. Firstly my eyesight was very poor. Secondly, the monitor screen made my eyes watery and made my vision even more hazy. Thirdly, most of my family members are buzy with the computers at home. fouthly, I am not a 'blogger' before this. The reasons will be many more...

But now can put in my thoughts into the blog with the help of Dayat, my son-in-law. But, even then, the background and the font are both WHITE. So I am typing without knowing what it is - until he can help me to change the contrast. This is a great lesson for me to learn, i.e., even at this age, I still need others to guide me through life.... hehehe.
I don't mind cos its only me who will doing the reading after all.
i will wait for Dayat to edit or change the settings ..til then I am writing as if I am 'blind'. hehehe

My Journey Through My Illness 1

PREAMBLE
This is a retrospective account of my experience before and after my recovery from the illness. After recollecting the events, I will try to make a propective note of my feelings and my experience.

IThis retrospective note/account is a personal and a biased note which is based on me and my thoughts and felings then. The reason why I am putting it down is to remind me and my family of the incident. Hopefully we will benefit from it. Insya Allah.

A WEEK BEFORE FALLING ILL
I was not feeling well since coming back from KL - a day after rreturning from Taiping where I was invited as a speaker. While in Taiping I played golf with Mr Sam. We were playing in the rain that day. After my talk, I wanted to stay another day in Taiping but SKO was upset knowing the course ended earlier and she will be in KL that weekend. So I drove back to KL and stayed in the car while waitting for her to fetch me in between her lectures. Again I was caught in the rain that day. That night, SKO was having a fever and I was OK. The next day I started having low grade fever. I told her about it and she said I might have caught the flu from her. Even though I was not well, but 'low grade fever', running nose or cough is not a nuisance to me. I might have told a couple of staff and friends either in HKL or HM.

27 March 2005
My flight to KK was at 8.00pm. That morning I went to HM to get Paracetamol and Voltaren. Before going I phoned Farah and Hjh Hamidah.When I reached Farah's office, Hjh was there and when I told her about my fever, she discouraged me from going. I told her that I want to rest in KK. Hehe - indeed I took a long vacation from work. Later that morning I belanja Hamidah and KJ Zainon at Restorant 85.
That evening I took Blackie to KL and left it at HO quarters in HGKL. I also left behind all the medicines I took from HM.
While waiting for the flight to depart, I had rigors at the Golden Lounge in KLIA. Fortunately I had 2 PCM with me and took them before alighting the plane. On board the plane I asked for more PCM and even requested from the stewardess to keep the blacket - saying I might be ill in the hotel.
That night I could not remember having any more rigors but the fever still persisted.

28 March 2005
Early that morning, I phoned Dr. Daud to tell him that I needed to see a doctor and he directed me to see a specialist at Queen Hospital KK. I waited for the transport that he promised but decided to go by taxi because the ambulane driver was not near the vehicle. By then my fever was becoming quite unbearable.
The SN at ward 8 was kind enough to check for my temperature and comfirmed that my temperature was high. I think around 40. Nothing much happened that day except (1)I could not take the food they gave me. The fish was simply too tough for me. So I asked ?Dr. Rohaizad to buy for me nasi Kampung pedas and telur dadar. Even then I could not eat them. (2)a few people visted me - Datok Gani, Datuk Aziz, Datin Rahimah, etc (3) I could not remember SMSing people from 28 April til I was intubated. -- to be continued