Update on 2021

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