Part 3: Return of the Whines
The food...
Ah! The SGH food, the bane of my life while I was there. 2 words: IT SUCKS!! The funny thing is dat I used to assume that hospital food are kinda good. In fact, I do recalled visting my aunt once in hospital and requesting that she let me try the food (stopped by my mum, of cos) which I thot looked pretty appetitising. What a stoopig fool I was back then! Even one of the docs proclaimed the hospital food to be terrible. Even airplane food is better than these! The worst thing is that the nurses had to take a record of how much I eat; so no choice, I had to try finishing the food which I felt like puking out most of the time. Then again, at least I got food, better than the ppl in the 3rd world countries who are suffering from starvation...
Plugs, drips and needles
I am very very scare of injections or anything that looks like needle nowadays, no thanks to the daily blood test. I reckoned they take at least 4ml of my blood each time. To make things worst, my veins are really small, so the docs had hard time taking my blood. Most of the times, it takes 2 attempts before they can get anything and by then, my arms are full of bruises and holes.
But I hate the plugs(for the drips) most cos the bloody thing has a 3cm tube which has to be inserted into the vein. The pain is so excruciating and I'm feeling painful as I typed this. Unfortunately, during my stay, I had 3 on me, each on different occasions. Usually, the plugs will be placed on the hand but the last plug I had on me was on my right arm cos the doc had difficuties inserting it into my either of my hands. It was in such an awkward position that I could not, or rather, dun dare to bend my arm. Actually, the tube on the plug is made of plastic, so theoretically, it's bend-able; but hearing horror story about it breaking under the skin from my sis, I dare not bend my arm for fear of extending my stay in SGH. So there I was, walking weirdly with a stiff right arm for 4 bloody days. Grrr...
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** Do As Infinity is blasting out "Tokumade" on my slippery bartop**
+ posted by Sunny @ 10:15 AM
Whinester and the Prisoner of SGH
Part 2: The Fellowship of Ward 46
The real story started to unfold on the 2nd day in the B2 ward. In this ward, there are basically 6 patients and I had an interesting (character-wise) array of neighbours and food (shudder!) throughout my 12 days stay there. Well, we shall talk about the neighbours first:
1) Lor-sor and kaypoh auntie:
Fang would know who this is since I've complained incessantly about her. To cut story short, I had to stay in hospital for that bloody long time cos I had prolonged fever that never seemed to go away. Hence, I was always very apprehensive whenever I had to take my temperature since it will determine when I can leave the hellhole (SGH lar). This auntie knew about my fever and she will asked me abt my temperature everytime we had to take it (note: we take our tempt every 4 hrs). Maybe she was concerned about me, but I felt extremely irritated that she kept asking the same question and ending her sentence with "your tempt very high hor". The thing is, I was already feeling pretty depressed having to stay in hospital for so long just becos of a stoopig fever and it felt like she was just adding salt to my wound by asking me such an inane question all the time.
Besides dat, she suffered from slight amnesia; thus, she couldn't really sleep at nite. It would actually be fine if only she can keep quiet but she did exactly the opposite. She would:
(a) try talking to me when I was already falling asleep. I HATE when ppl do this to me cos I'm a light sleeper! It's hard for me to go back to sleep once I'm awake.
(b) move/adjust her stuff around or walk around noisily.
(c) find someone else to talk to her when I ignored her. Hence, she chatted with another patient (see section on Confused Auntie below) who is also an amnesiac. So there I was, stuck in between two amnesiacs (yes, both of them are on my right & left respectively). Arrrrgggghhhh!
Once, she even requested someone to clean her fan (at 12am, mind you) which was actually not very dirty and she chatted with the cleaner. Call me a complain queen but I absolutely hate it when my sleep is disrupted. Anyway, thanks to my bro who visited me almost everyday, I was "relieved" of my duty temporarily to "entertain" her since my bro will gladly take over the job.
2) Confused Auntie
She's a pretty nice lady. However, she is showing signs of Alzeimer's disease but she herself does not know anything. Therefore, her perceptions are quite poor. She mistakenly thought of my bro, dad and mum as my husband, bro and sis respectively; and that I'm in the hospital because I've just gave birth (wat's this thing abt me and pregnancy!). In fact, to her, every new patient is in the ward cos they have just given birth. Initially, I thot she was pretty funny for saying all this. On second thoughts, I felt ashamed that I was laughing at her cos she is saying all these unintentionally. Seeing her makes my fear of growing old stronger... Btw, she's the other amnesiac who chatted with the auntie above.
3) Ah Ma 1
Actually, I wanted to mentioned more of her grandkids (Ah Ma 1 is 92 yrs old btw). They visited her almost everyday, particularly her eldest granddaughter, let's just call her A, who is a stuanch christian. Besides praying loudly, she would asked Ah Ma the question,"Who the saviour?", repeatedly. The answer had to be "Jesus" but Ah Ma answered "Buddha" instead and A was so flustered that she told her that Buddha is evil (!!). No offence to the christians out there, she being filial indeed but I think she taking things a bit too far. Being true to your faith is one thing, but you should never slam another religion. Maybe Ah Ma was so irritated by her that she deliberately gave that answer. Ha ha!
The twist is dat the other granddaughter (B) is a buddhist and she placed a talisman on Ah Ma's garment. A saw it one day and proclaimed loudly (as usual) with disgust, "Who put this thing here?". I bet even Ah Ma herself is really confused by all these. Poor Ah can't even sleep in peace... sigh!
4) Ah Ma 2
Ah Ma 2 is a really nice lady but then again, it's her daughter that I wanted to talk about. Call me judgemental, but I dun really like the way she treat her brother's maid. She forced the poor gal stayed with Ah Ma in the hospital for 2 days and forbade her to go home. Thing is, Ah Ma is very well care for in the hospital by the nurses and docs, therefore, I see no point that she should stay. If you want to take care of Ah Ma, why not do it yourself instead of forcing other people to do it? Humph! It really appall me how some ppl treat their maids sometimes.
5) Ah Ma 3
Ah Ma 3 is one smiley person. I never thot much of her until one evening when she claimed that I stole her glasses. She was pretty upset about it and she kept insisting that I returned them to her. I was very amused yet alarmed by her sudden outburst. Even the nurses had a hard time calming her down. In fact, I felt guilty for making her so upset; but being a 'niao'(stingy) person, I was afraid that if I 'lend' her my glasses, I will not get it back. Anyway, her daughter heard about the incident and apologized to me. She even bought her a pair sunglasses, which Ah Ma wore happily the next day. It was a pretty funny sight, if you ask me.
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** HIRO X is blasting out "Anniversary" on my creaky bartop**
+ posted by Sunny @ 9:25 AM
Part 1: The Two Hospitals
Fang reckons that my misadventure at SGH will make a good blog entry... well, here it is.
*Warning: Extremely long and whiny*
Prior to my hospitalisation, I was having prolonged flu and occasional stomach pain. However, after my rendenvous with Fang and Zsa on 21st May, I reached home feeling feverish and intense pain in my abdomen until the next morning. I told my dad I was dying and he was so shocked that he actually weep (sorry, dad!). Then my uncle drove me to KKH A&E where the bloody idiotic doctor initially misdiagnosed me as pregnant! Here's how the conversation went:
Scene: In the room, after the doctor had asked a whole lot of questions which I answered quite incoherently (was feeling faint lar). He was about to send me out for an injection when the nurse passed him my urine sample.
Doctor (H for Himbo hereafter): Wait! Wait! Miss! Come back, you're pregnant...
Me: WAT!! *eyes wide opened and feeling awake for once*
H: *puzzled look* wat's your name?
Me: *e* L** **n.
H: *Looks embarassed* Ha ha... sorry! Got another patient's urine sample. Can go for injection.
Wah kao! If I wasn't so sick, I would slap Doc H outta shape. So unprofessional! Bet he sat on his Dean's lap, otherwise he wouldn't even graduate from the Med school. The worst thing is, he didn't to admit me (for hospitalisation) even though my blood pressure was very low. He even gave me a BIG bag of medication for constipation, urinary tract infection, etc. Seemed to me that he really dun know wat he was treating me for and the whole bill came to be $140++! Waste of my $$ and time... Argh!
Of course, I never recovered after dat horrible stint at KKH. Finally, after seeing my family doctor, he wrote a letter to admit me to SGH. There, the A&E doc took 10ml (I reckoned) of my blood, gave me an injection and place a plug on my hand for the drip. The whole ordeal was very pretty painful but I tried to act cool cos the A&E doc was a pretty cute guy... haha! Ahhh... if only I could remember his name...
Anyway, I spent the 1st day at the air-conditioned B1 ward since SGH had run outta beds for the B2 ward which my sis had requested for. Nothing happening occured in this ward, so not much things to write on but I must say that B1 is really cool (literally) as there's personal TV and the nurses respond faster to your calls. Now dat's wat I call service... yeah rite?!
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** Gackt is blasting out "Vanilla" on my rotting bartop**
+ posted by Sunny @ 10:00 PM
Here comes the Whinester!!
I'm BAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCKKKK! The Whinester's back in da house to rock...erm, whine ya socks off! 
Yeah, I'm back after a 12 day hiatus in SGH... will tell ya more bout it in the next blog entry...
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OUTRAGEOUS! How can anyone call for a "stop global whining" campaign! Whining is good for health! It helps one to relieve stress and all the pent-up emotions... So go ahead, everyone, whine as much as possible! Long live whining! Down with the "stop global whining" campaign!!! Buahahaha!
**Do As Infinity is blasting out "Under the Sun" on my dusty bartop**
+ posted by Sunny @ 10:00 PM