Hi, people...
I'm back in action. Was hospitalised last week for 4 harrowing days. Hee hee.. not harrowing lah but still.. Hospitalised leh..
Starting feeling really sick last last Friday but being the macho man that I am, I simply refused to see the doctor and decided to ride the fever and flu out. As it turned out, I am not as strong as I thought anymore. Lost my appetitie totally, did not eat anything for a full day but did not feel hungry at all and when things did not turn out well by Monday, I decided to go to the company doctor where they promptly called the ambulance and so I went on a ride to the National University Hospital in the middle of lunchtime.
It was funny man.. I glanced at my watch while the medics were preparing me on the wheeled stretcher and it was like 11.55am! I told them "Hey, I think I can walk.." but they would not have that and plonked me (luckily in a sitting position) on the stretcher. Of course I tried to shield myself (as you would when you are walking out of the courtroom building and faced by the media and all their cameras when you do something wrong and embarrasing) and I glanced around and said "Shit!" because I realised that the medics were taking me on a route that passed by at least two coffeeshops in Jurong East. Everybody from JTC would see me! Gosh!! As my luck would have it, Mr Chan Dik Wan was chasing after me and with eyes as wide as saucers, asked me what happened. I just shouted out to him, as casually as I could, that I would give a call once I reached the hospital.
Once I reached the hospital and was being wheeled to the A&E ward, I had another shock. Indi was on his mobile and waving at me from outside the A&E ward!! Gosh! This guy is really everywhere!! I thought I was hallucinating or maybe it was another person but nobody has a wide forehead with very curly hair and black-rimmed glasses like Indi. And he's always talking on his PDA phone too. He was waving at me enthusiastically as you would wave to a friend to say 'Good morning!'. Freaky...
I tell you man.. the hospital's no place to recuperate. The drone of the machines, the groans and moans of the old and very sick people kept me up all night. I resorted to asking for a sleeping pill but when it arrived an hour later, I still could not sleep after popping it in. Yeesh... They must have given me a fake pill, one of those psychological things that they hope that you'd think you are downing a sleeping pill and sleep because of the fact that you think you just popped one but in fact you did not. Hahaha!!! The nurses (most of the higher ranking nurses were Filipinos) woke me up every hour to take my blood pressure and blood sample and temperature and all that, so imagine my exhaustion when they woke me up like 8am in the morning to have breakfast...
Funny though, time didn't seem to drag during my four day stay. Yes, I had my Nintendo Dual Screen Lite with me, two books from Xiaomei (and an alien tortoise rattling toy too) but maybe it's because my ward had some friendly (and cute too) student nurses. One of them was quite sweet - she gave me a chocolate cake and told me I looked 25. Hahahahaha!!! I suppose they had really good training and one of the things they were told to do is to pay compliments to the patients to help in the healing process. Hee hee....
One student nurse I will not forget for a while will be Suriyanti, an eighteen year old sweetie with the most beautiful pair of eyes and a dimple (very deep) on her left cheek. Then there was Saiful, an ITE nursing student (Suriyanti's from Nanyang Polytechnic) who was quite jovial but I enjoyed 'bullying' him and giving him orders - asking him to help me take this and that. Hee hee...
Anyways, I HATE being sick but it was a good break lah. Some folks from work came and visited (very appreciative of that) and I had lots of fruits to eat too. Alicia came after I was discharged and she called to curse and swear at me. It was my fault lah. I did not charge my mobile phone and when my pa brought my charger, there was no adaptor so I left it at that. I didn't want people to visit me anyway. So, I had to go meet her right after my discharge. Hee hee...
too much sex isit?