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A Singaporean girl who graduated from a Medical College in the UK and currently working as a doctor, spending most of my years abroad burying myself amongst medical books, speaking Queen's English and trying to adapt to life in Britain. But I still remain a true blue Singaporean who loves my plate of char kway teow and enjoys the sense of closeness when speaking "Singlish" to my fellow countrymen. Why "The Chinese Doctor"? Because that's what my patients call me since they don't know my name!

Monday, April 18, 2005

Can't imagine getting more unproductive than this weekend

Crap weekend. Almost as good as never do any work at all. Ok, I did some work..but VERY minimal. Read only abt 8-10 chapters (it's short ones somemore). Goodness gracious. *smacks forehead*

And recently, I seem to have irregular meals at irregular hrs again. Skipping meals again, or eating rubbish for a meal e.g. tortilla chips. My health hasn't been good recently too. Been getting the "cold coming up" feeling, and nasty headaches (which have been becoming a daily affair these days). Then now, it seems as though the Gastritis is working up too. I was thinking the headaches could be due to stress, and probably because I haven't been sleeping toooo well. The hrs were fine, but I guess it's the quality rather than quantity that makes the difference. Tend to wake up several times a night. And last night, I got woken up by the neighbours aft dozing off for 2 hours. They were having a big fight in the room next to mine. Yelling at the top of heads at each other, and non stop vulgarities. But because of what has been happening recently, I'm wondering if it could be the cause for my headache. Been losing a lot a lot a lot of blood recently. Nahz, it's not the monthly thing..haha. It's massive bleeding from the back passage.

Normally, I look into the toilet bowl to make sure the stools are ok (sounds disgusting, but trust me, it's very impt to do so because u can detect diseases just by looking at it at times). I'm kinda paranoid because Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is such a common problem here. The alarming signs for that is stools with blood and mucus. IBD can be potentially fatal, so I'm being very cautious here.

I was shocked when I looked into the toilet bowl many days ago. It was all red. Yes, RED. It wasn't dye because I haven't had any food with food dyes, and it was very obvious that it was fresh blood. I got really stunned for a moment because it wasn't a little, but LOADS. Even the toilet paper was stained totally with it.

I think it's highly due to haemorrhoids or piles, but it's the first time having the whole toilet bowl filled with blood. I thought it'll go off after a while, but it hasn't been getting any better. It's still the same today! I hope it'll stop soon..can't imagine losing lots of blood everyday for the next few weeks (I think my blood will run dry by then). In the meanwhile, I'll try to make sure I drink more water, and have a higher fibre intake. If this continues, looks like I really have to book an appointment to see the doctor. It's worrying me a lot.

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