Thursday, 17 February 2022
Every morning when mum helped me to walk in and out to the bathroom which is only a short distance for bathing and toileting. I always pray to God for strength and protection for mum and me from any falls
Walking in is easier than walking out. It’s
because the bathroom floor is more slippery. When both of us are walking out, I
keep praying while walking until I sit in my wheelchair then I thank Him for
protecting us.
Wednesday, 16 February 2022
This morning as I was alone at home when Janice dropped mum for dental at Adventist Hospital and did some errands. I did my usual things in my room eg: did some hands exercises and checked what I did online.
I felt peaceful being alone at home,
but on the other hand, emotionally I felt very frustrated, angry, etc.
When the time I need to ease myself,
I always call mum for help when she is at home. But today I was alone, so I
thought of what to do either to sit on my wheelchair and use my bedpan or lie
down. So I decided to lie down to ease myself.
Before I transfer myself to my bed, I
prayed to God to help me and give the strength and protect me from any fall.
When I transferred myself, I kept praying for help. When I sat on my bed and
lie down I continued to pray to lift up my legs onto my bed. When I was on my
bed, I thank Him that He protected me from any fall. I felt very tired just to
transfer as I lack of strength, but I continue to pray He would help until I finish
eased myself.
I thank Him after I finished
everything. It was very tiring when I struggled to bed to ease myself, but God
lighten my difficulties when I prayed to Him.
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
It has been almost 8 months since my last write-up. My poor blog was empty since July 2021
My mind was blank on what to write
and at the same time my mood was really down. So I put my writing aside.
In February, it was the second time we were not able to celebrate Chinese New Year as it was MCO 2.0. The first time was 2020 due to Julie passing away.
On the eve of Chinese New Year, mum
and I went to Janice house to have a reunion lunch together with her in-laws.
On Chinese New Day, Janice and her family
came to our place to wished us and gave me Ang Pow. Of all the years, 2021 was
a very quiet CNY as there was no visitation allowed and I got the least Ang
Pow. I also couldn’t go outstation with my friends as the inter-states travel
was closed. It was very boring staying at home as every CNY I would go
outstation with my daring and friends’
From May –October -MCO 3.0 (Lockdown) started again. It was a terrible time for me as where I couldn’t go anywhere. I was in my room the whole day. Where I could go was to the eating table (breakfast, lunch and dinner) then back to my room again.
I occupied myself upon doing other
thing eg: choose, arranged, took photos
of the First Day Cover and stamps and posted them on Carousell Online. It took
a lot of my time in doing that. At night I watched Netflix movies.
Even though I did so many things the
whole day, emotionally I felt down and don’t have mood. I couldn’t even go for therapy
or my check-ups in GH. The psychiatrist doctor called Janice to collect my
medicine and changed the date of my check-up to later dates.
At the end of July and the beginning of August, I received my Pfizer vaccination. Before I went for my jab, I prayed that there would not be any side-effect on me. Thank God, my left arm which was vaccinated had some pain for 2 days only.
For Neuro check-ups, I hardly go to
see the doctors. Janice will call the nurses when I wanted to follow up with my
medication. The doctors’ would write a chit of all medicines and Janice would
collect them. The doctors in the Neuro Department doctors’ were unable to do
anything with my spasm. So what I do every day is to take a bunch of spasm,
thyroid, and depression medicine 4 times a day (mostly are my spasm medicine)
As for my thyroid check-ups, I only
went to the Endocrinologist Department the first 2 times. After knowing that I
need not have to see a doctor, and knowing that they wanted to see my blood
test results. The nurses would give me a chit to do a blood test every four
months. Two weeks before my check-up date Janice will bring me to the blood test
lab.
When I go for my blood test, the
nurses would allow wheelchair users to go into the lab first. For able-bodies,
they have to queue up for their number to go in. On my check-up day, the nurse
will call Janice to collect the medicine chit. If nothing is wrong with my
blood, the doctor will continue to give me medication only. I will have to take
it forever.
The only thing I hated most about thyroid
is I gain weight. I now put on weight quite a lot as some t-shirts and dresses
couldn’t fit me anymore. Many times, I feel angry with my thyroid sickness.
I couldn’t meet darling for five months
during the lockdown. He was also unable to work during that period. I missed
him a lot.
After the Covid cases went down and
the lockdown was opened in October, I went to Occupied Therapy and Physiotherapy
again in GH. Spastic Centre was re-opened as everyone in the group has been
vaccinated. So we went there for our therapy again.
It was the first time after a year since I last went to Gurney Plaza. On my birthday in December Janice took me for a lunch treat and shopping together with mum and my niece Sherine. She came back from Singapore for a few weeks' holidays.
I had a nice time on that day as we
had western food on the ground floor. After lunch, Janice brought me shopping to
buy some items. After buying our stuff mostly at Mr. DIY, we went down to the
ground floor. We saw beautiful Christmas decorations and took photos there.
There were a lot of people who took photos too. The decorations were much more
beautiful than the year before.
It has two years since Covid-19
started as Christmas was not like before. Our church group members’ were not
able to come carolling anymore. We also didn’t put up our Christmas tree
anymore. It wasn’t fun like last time with all the presents’ below our Christmas
tree and my three nieces were together Julie around to open up all our presents’
after dinner.
To me there was no feeling of Christmas
season, but just like regular day. But on Christmas eve, mum and I went to
Janice's house for dinner together with her in-laws.
Life has complete change since
Covid-19 started. This was what happened in 2021
