Se-hun aja nak raya dah ni. Tapi tak rasa macam nak raya. Senyap sangat. Rumah aku, rumah jiran2 semua sunyi sepi. Radio pun tak dengar. Kuali pun takde dengar kena ketuk dengan senduk. Suara budak2 pun takde. Suara jiran aku yang non-stop membebel tu pun tak dengar juga.
Haish.....am I in Twilight Zone????!!!!! Seramlah pulak!!!
Plan dah dirombak. Masak-memasak di downscale-kan memandangkan chef2 ada yang sakit jantung, letih buat kuih untuk iftar ramadhan, letih jaga anak2 menakan, letih jaga laki, letih jaga anak masuk hospital dll. Ramadhan yang sangat eventful bagi kami di No 30!
Tapi....kami akan tetap buat biskut raya. YA!! Plan tu masih mantap. Butter, tepung, bekas kuih semua dah beli. Takkan nak biar tak berusik kan.....kan.
InsyaaAllah akan diusahakan beramai2 lepas berbuka nanti. Pasti seronok buat menyibuk :D
Petang nanti rasanya cukup quorum kat rumah ni. Si cilik2 semua dah balik dari rumah tok depa. Sekarang depa semua keluar pi ambil Hakim kat hospital. Nasib Hakim tak kena dengue. Alhamdulillah.
Tadi, Ali, electrician Pakistan kami tu, dah datang tukar mentol2 lampu yang dah mati. Cerdik betul Ali ni....kat chandelier yang semua mentol kuning tu, tiba2 ada satu mentol putih. Tunggulah bila boss nampak nanti......hehehe.....mesti duit raya kena potong.
Ani kata ada hamba Allah hadiahkan a gothic looking chandelier-like lampu kat sini. Jenuh dia fikir mana nak gantung. Last2 gantung kat garage. Harap2 orang tu tak perasanlah bila dia datang rumah nanti!
My nephew nak makan potato salad hari raya nanti. Macam pelik kan.....tapi layan ajelah. Bukan susah nak buat pun. My sis pula teringinkan cream of mushroom soup. Beres! Kena ada garlic breadlah juga kalau macam tu kan. Imagine makan ni semua pagi raya nanti. Nampak sangat Cik Peah dah takde bersama kami - lari benor menu pagi rayanya!
Student UPSR aku ni pulak terlebih rajin nak datang tuition sampai malam raya. Tersampuk gamaknya budak ni. Aku cakap kat dia, "Forget it! Lepas raya baru datang". Kalau dia datang juga, aku akan suruh dia belajar buat kuih.
Abang aku sibuk menyapu keliling kawasan hari ni. Dia memang the resident gardener cum man Friday. Hari ni dia tak menyanyi pulak sambil berkemas. Tunggu mood raya masuk kot......
Aku juga yang tak boleh pi mana2 sebab tidak dibenarkan berjalan2 sesuka hati. Takut tak sedar diri ini baru aja keluar hospital. Sakit jantung lagi. Nasib aku ni tak rajin merewang pun.
So sekarang aku tengah duduk goyang kaki........
SELAMAT AIDIL FITRI KEPADA SEMUA. Maaf dipinta, maaf dihulur. Semoga semua selamat, sejahtera dan bahagia berhari raya dengan tak kisahlah siapa.
Saturday 26 July 2014
Lessons from a heart attack - Part 2
I got admitted into CCU, HKL, on Tuesday evening. Was given a bed by the window.
Do you know that there are NO toilets for the patients in CCU? We had to do "everything" on our beds. Well, to be fair, most patients there are debilitated. I just happened to be one of the rare ones who got there still active and lucid.
Which made it super difficult to just twiddle my thumbs while trying not to move too much - can't get the heart beating too fast you know! So I got a nurse to tutor me on what those figures on the monitor meant. From then on I monitored my own heartbeat, BP, oxygen level and breathing.
The 2nd lesson:
Your BP [blood pressure] doesn't need to hit the roof for a heart attack. Mine was a steady 120/80 and below throughout my life. With it going lower when I didn't rest/eat well. Which is pretty normal for me :)
Before I had angioplasty done, my heartbeat would rise even for mundane activities like brushing my teeth. I didn't realise that I was doing it so energetically! Had to slow down to a snail's pace.....or was it even slower?? Felt like it anyway.........
Having good breathing techniques help a lot. Thank goodness I was taught to breathe properly as a child. I guess being on the brink of death at 7 made me the recipient of many "wisdom" from the older folks around me. I was the only CCU residents sans oxygen paraphernalia - although they insisted on me breathing bottled oxygen initially. The air-conditioning coupled with oxygen-tube-in-nose caused my nose to bleed. So I got off it. Yea......although hidung sakit untuk beberapa hari.
Because I breathed "well", I passed the breaths-per-minute test with flying colours :)
Oh and when you're in this "fragile" situation, even sitting up isn't allowed. It taxes the heart it seems. So I could only sit up for meals, during sponging, and doctor's examination. Bleaaarggghhhh.........
So I practised being demure - with hands folded over stomach, sweet smile on face.......
Gives one lots of opportunity to berzikir for sure........
Do you know that there are NO toilets for the patients in CCU? We had to do "everything" on our beds. Well, to be fair, most patients there are debilitated. I just happened to be one of the rare ones who got there still active and lucid.
Which made it super difficult to just twiddle my thumbs while trying not to move too much - can't get the heart beating too fast you know! So I got a nurse to tutor me on what those figures on the monitor meant. From then on I monitored my own heartbeat, BP, oxygen level and breathing.
The 2nd lesson:
Your BP [blood pressure] doesn't need to hit the roof for a heart attack. Mine was a steady 120/80 and below throughout my life. With it going lower when I didn't rest/eat well. Which is pretty normal for me :)
Before I had angioplasty done, my heartbeat would rise even for mundane activities like brushing my teeth. I didn't realise that I was doing it so energetically! Had to slow down to a snail's pace.....or was it even slower?? Felt like it anyway.........
Having good breathing techniques help a lot. Thank goodness I was taught to breathe properly as a child. I guess being on the brink of death at 7 made me the recipient of many "wisdom" from the older folks around me. I was the only CCU residents sans oxygen paraphernalia - although they insisted on me breathing bottled oxygen initially. The air-conditioning coupled with oxygen-tube-in-nose caused my nose to bleed. So I got off it. Yea......although hidung sakit untuk beberapa hari.
Because I breathed "well", I passed the breaths-per-minute test with flying colours :)
Oh and when you're in this "fragile" situation, even sitting up isn't allowed. It taxes the heart it seems. So I could only sit up for meals, during sponging, and doctor's examination. Bleaaarggghhhh.........
So I practised being demure - with hands folded over stomach, sweet smile on face.......
Gives one lots of opportunity to berzikir for sure........
Friday 25 July 2014
Lessons from a heart attack - Part 1
I had a heart attack recently. A pretty bad one. Quite an experience. Because the signs fooled me completely.
Since I'm in the high risk category, I've always looked out for chest pains, shortness of breath, sweating, intense headache, etc. I didn't have any of these. Instead I had shoulder pains [left], neck ache and heartburn. The same symptoms of scapulocostal syndrome [sakit belikat] - of which I suffer from regularly. So I didn't think much of it.
Until I had spasms along my left arm and left side of my face during prayer. Funny enough, all the pain I had suffered for more than a week, disappeared. I felt totally fine after that bout of spasm.
But I was so sure I had a heart attack! Somehow.......
I slept well that night.....after a trip to Giant after isya'.
The next morning I gaily trotted off to the nearest government clinic for a consultation. The doctor was initially sceptical when I told her.....until she saw my ECG. She sent me off to HKL in an ambulance pronto!
I must have been the most unlikely "critical" patient in ER. I forgot what code I came under, but there were at least 6 doctors there with me. Plus several nurses. They hooked me up to several machines. They poked, prodded, drew blood, asked the same questions over and over again.
I got rejected by IJN because I was more alive than dead. So I got sent off to CCU after an X-ray was taken. I spent the longest and most boring time of my life there. I wasn't allowed to step off the bed. I could only sit up for meals. The sound of beeps from various machines kept me company. The place was almost devoid of human sound as most patients had oxygen masks over their faces.
Now I get a different set of specialists "visiting" me. A different set of medical "tazkirah" too...........
The 1st lesson:
Women are most likely not to experience chest pains. So be wary when you get a combo of neck ache, shoulder pain and heartburn!!! Nina, a doctor friend, said that her aunt thought she had toothache.....when it was, in reality, a stroke.
Get to a doctor on the double if you experience what I did. Get to a doctor within 3 hours of the attack. According to the MO, that would really help them treat the condition.
Since I'm in the high risk category, I've always looked out for chest pains, shortness of breath, sweating, intense headache, etc. I didn't have any of these. Instead I had shoulder pains [left], neck ache and heartburn. The same symptoms of scapulocostal syndrome [sakit belikat] - of which I suffer from regularly. So I didn't think much of it.
Until I had spasms along my left arm and left side of my face during prayer. Funny enough, all the pain I had suffered for more than a week, disappeared. I felt totally fine after that bout of spasm.
But I was so sure I had a heart attack! Somehow.......
I slept well that night.....after a trip to Giant after isya'.
The next morning I gaily trotted off to the nearest government clinic for a consultation. The doctor was initially sceptical when I told her.....until she saw my ECG. She sent me off to HKL in an ambulance pronto!
I must have been the most unlikely "critical" patient in ER. I forgot what code I came under, but there were at least 6 doctors there with me. Plus several nurses. They hooked me up to several machines. They poked, prodded, drew blood, asked the same questions over and over again.
I got rejected by IJN because I was more alive than dead. So I got sent off to CCU after an X-ray was taken. I spent the longest and most boring time of my life there. I wasn't allowed to step off the bed. I could only sit up for meals. The sound of beeps from various machines kept me company. The place was almost devoid of human sound as most patients had oxygen masks over their faces.
Now I get a different set of specialists "visiting" me. A different set of medical "tazkirah" too...........
The 1st lesson:
Women are most likely not to experience chest pains. So be wary when you get a combo of neck ache, shoulder pain and heartburn!!! Nina, a doctor friend, said that her aunt thought she had toothache.....when it was, in reality, a stroke.
Get to a doctor on the double if you experience what I did. Get to a doctor within 3 hours of the attack. According to the MO, that would really help them treat the condition.
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