Just 3 days away from 2012 and I landed myself into Tan Tock Seng Hospital! It so happened that I had this SHARP pain on my lower right abdomen when I woke up to get ready for work. The pain was so extreme that I can’t really stand straight nor even I can walk without dragging my feet. Knowing how important December is, I insisted on going to work despite Boy telling me to go doctor and get it checked.

From my place to Orchard, the pain just didn’t get any better till I went for briefing at work. But Boy still texted and insisted I go to the doctor. So I went and the doctor suspected that I might have appendicitis. With Boy and my company  insisting that I go to the hospital A&E to get checked before anything serious could happen. And I went… Of course with my dearest Boy, without him, I wouldn’t have the courage to go.

For the first time I registered for consultation in the A&E in TTSH. Service was rather bad with nurses and receptionist giving wrong directions and bad attitude. One telling you to give them the urine bottle once done, one telling you to hold on to the urine bottle till you seen the doctor. How unclear can they get?!

Waited for almost an hour before I get to see the doctor, a young, handsome doctor, probably in his late 20s?! He did the routine checks and also concluded that I might have appendicitis. When he said he’s going to take some blood sample from me, I thought it’s from my arm, but I’m so wrong. It’s from the back of my palm And I cried because it was so damn painful when he adjusted the needle while trying to get the blood to flood smoothly into the tubes.

Then I was put on observation, on the BED and pushed into observation room for Xray and then back to observation room again. From 3pm, I waited for my doctor till about 5.15pm. For the 2 hours, I was put on drip My first time being on drip and I really seriously don’t like it at all. With the drip, I’m bounded to the bed. This photo taken by Boy who kept me company while I was waiting for the doctor.

When the doctor finally came back to look for me, he suggested that I get warded for observation, probably for a day, depending on my condition. I rejected his suggestion because I’m really scare to stay in the hospital. It’s so spooky and you never know would your “neighbours” be nice or not. So the doctor arranged for a review on the 3rd of Jan to observe my appendix again. This time round, I would be going alone as Boy has to book in. My worst fear would be to go under the knife to remove the appendix before it ruptures. Hopefully everything would turn out fine. *pray hard*

Now the back of my palm is blue black because of the needle. Hopefully this blue black can disappear soon.
My 2012 resolution, GOOD HEALTH