Hot

Just late last week, the caregiver called me that mum’s running a fever. My first reaction was “Another infection?”
I asked her to monitor the temperature and place a cool towel over her forehead. At the end of the day, the fever did not subside and we gave her 2 Panadols. It only gave her a [...]

A good help.

After the elbow fracture, I decided to get a hospital bed for mum.

 
TADAA!!!!! Here it is….
I bought it from Alphamed. Their service is really good.
First of all, it cost S$856, inclusive of GST and delivery charges. I thought this is really a good price.
Functionality……..It has 3 cranks. Up/down lever, head tilt and leg tilt. Though not [...]

Prolonging Pain, Delaying Death

I stop short of defining what is Cortico Basal Ganglionic Degeneration in my last entry. I’m not going to bombard with some “chim” medical terms here. It simply means the loss of certain nerve cells in the brain, the shrinkage of of some areas in the brain. The areas that shrunk is called cerebal cortex [...]

Cortico Basal Ganglionic Degeneration

This is a big word. This is a long word. None of it I understood when I 1st heard it. I had to ask the doctor to spell it and write it down for me.
Cortico Basal Ganglionic Degeneration. In short, CBGD.
But the word “degeneration” doesn’t look good, doesn’t sound good either. This was 6 years ago…..2002, [...]

Loss of a baby

I have been dealing with my own pain.
Its been 6 months since the loss of my baby, but I find myself tearing alone. I find myself shunning away from pregnant people. I find myself changing TV channels when commercials of formula milk or diapers flashes. I avoided the baby department in the supermarket. I make a [...]