Today's the 3rd day at my Grandma's place. And it's not as boring as I thought. Heh. Had some of my relatives over at my Grandma's place over the weekend, so the house was pretty crowded with plenty of company. Boy and my nephew and niece are so big already!So far I have kept myself occupied with books, x-box, tv and cross stitch. Feel so relaxed and well taken care of. But I can't wait to be able to get out of the house for some fresh air too.

Feeling much better and no longer feeling the pain. Moving around is also a lot easier without support. Still have to keep reminding myself to walk tall, walk straight, else I'll end up with a bad back. Just had my dressing changed yesterday so that I can take a bath. Gosh the worst part is the icky feeling from my hair. :P Anyway took my first bath since my operation and feel absolutely rejuvenated. My hair smells heavenly too. *muahahaha* Oh and I took a peek at my stitches when my dressing was changed, it's more than 10cm long! Hope it doesn't leave an ugly scar. My mom was telling me how lucky I am not to have to go back to the hospital to have the stitches removed unlike in her time. The removal of stitch was a painful one as the thread would be covered in dried up blood and when they remove it from your skin it can thug at the wound and cause it to bleed again! Ehhhhh.

Glad that I don't have to go through such agonizing pain. And yes my threshold for pain is actually not that high. Pity the trainee nurse who saw me cringed and almost screamed when she cleaned my wound while I was in the hospital.

So many things I wanna do during this "break". I wanna step out of the house, see the sun, catch a movie, get a hair cut, go for facial, go christmas shopping! I can't wait.

Thanksgiving

After a week of hospital stay, am truely thankful to be back home. After this whole episode, I am filled with nothing but gratitude to God, my family and friends and the doc and nurses who have showered me with love, care, concern and well wishes. Am so touched by all who came to visit me and brought cheer with your flowers and gifts too.

The operation was a successful one and the gyne removed a total of 16 fibroids. In case you have no clue how it looks like, the below is for your viewing pleasure. Beware! May be too gory for the faint-hearted!



*Disclaimer: The author is not responsible for any feeling of repulsion after viewing the above.

The gyne jokingly said that the largest one is like the grandmother of fibroid. It measures 8X10cm. Followed by the mother and the daughters. Took them about 3hours+ plus to get all of them outta me. That sure explains the nasty buldge in my tummy. However a washboard ad is still no where to be found, perhaps with some toning after I recover.

Today's the 3rd day since I've returned home and took some time to reflect about my stay in the hospital. Really thankful to these dearest ones who have showered me with immeasurable love while I was weak and could not care for myself.

My dearest mama
You held my hand as I started to learn to walk, took leave and stayed in the hospital from morning till evening to keep me company and make sure no evil nurse bully me. Walk me to the toilet, cleaned me, even accompany me to the toilet because you were afraid I could not cope on my own when I first started to walk.

My grandmama
For cooking yummy tonic for me, feeding me, coming to the hospital to visit me despite her old age, told me stories while I was in the hospital.

Alexis
For taking time off to send me to the hospital, be beside during my stay in the hosipyal and be there when I get discharged, be beside me, praying for me, making sure that I eat enough, rest enough. For holding my hand when I take baby steps when walking, cheer me up but at the same time not make me break out in stitches. (pun intended)

All relatives and friends
Thank you for taking time to visit me, pray for me, your well wishes and your gifts.

I am loved! :)

Another 2 more days...

Tuesday, Wednesday... Thursday
Will be admitted into the hospital on Thursday and having the op on Friday. Right now don't feel scared but think the feeling may creep up on me when I'm in the hospital.

Will be recuperating in my Grandma's place after I get discharged. Was in quite a fix because I would much rather be home and rest in my own home. And her home's too quiet with just her nad my aunt and I'm scared of being bored too. But Grandma wants to make tonic for me and she also has to brew medicine for my Aunt as well. And her place is in the West, all the travelling would be too tedious for her. So shall not be home for about a week. K but I am very thankful that my Grandma wants to take care of me and yipe spend more time with her too.

So much to do at work, so little time... And my inbox kept hanging at work. *faints*
God, please let my inbox co-operate tomorrow so that I can go for my op in peace.

For fun

The quest for rest
Not as fun as the Crimson Room though.

It's that time of the year where it's snowing. How I wish it snows here too.

I want a snowglobe!!

Holiday plans

Yeah Alexis won a pair of travel vouchers at his company's D&D. How lucky. We're going on a holiday, holiday, holiday....

Happy Deepavali

Not that this festive means anything to me, just that I get to enjoy a holiday. Just lurve holidays and there's another holiday coming up this Monday. Oh and not forgetting Christmas very soon too.

Slept quite early last night at 12am after watching Jurassic 3. Didn't catch the whole show, I napped for a while before that and caught the last 45mins- half an hour of it. Then went to sleep again. Then got up at 9 this morning after a well rested night.

Went out with Alexis to wash the car and went to army market at Beach road. Probably the harsh afternoon heat got to me, I felt dizzy and had a throbbing headache that really felt like it was killing me. I had to draped my head with a towel in the car to block out the sun while Alexis dashed me home. Kept praying for God to take the pain away.

When I got home, what followed was a merlion act, except no clear water but lunch and what have you. Sick and gross feeling. Think I vomited the guts out of me. The only thing I wanted was sleep. But sleep as recommended by my boyfriend does have it wonders. Felt so much better after that. Can still have Long John Silver after that.

Just one more week to go, before I will be having my operation. Not as scared as I used to. Just more worried about my job and hope that everything will be okay. I know I'm not indispensable but hey it might not be a bad thing to know that you're important. Oh my boss shared with me her appraisal on me and very pleased with it. Ha and she gave me a "5" for being able to multi-task! Good lah coz they DO know that I do alot of stuffs. But will be later reviewed by another manager so hope to have some good news when I return :)

Just finished my self evaluation for my annual performance appraisal. This is tough. Clueless on how to evaluate myself... Just the other day, my boss asked me how much is my pay? Ha I should have made it sound more pathetic than she'll consider recommending me for a promotion and pay rise.

Gotta take time out now. Boss just smsed to say need to edit the self evaluation AGAIN. 2nd time already.

Duck rice anyone

AVA has announced that they will now allow more import of ducks. Alexis was amused by the sight of a man don in a suit with a mask chasing the duck in what attmpted to look like one of them before whipping one off the groud and making them get shots in the but*,just to ensure that they are safe for eating. But I was so sad to see them lead to be slaughtered so that they can be someone's duck rice or beijing duck. And I just went, "Duckie" and cried.

Alexis nearly fainted at the sight of the tears rolling down my face. Did you see their necks being clamped, in they go, alive and quaking, and out they come out defeathered and all pale and looking very dead. Ahhhhhh! What a sight. I think I'm going to be a vegetarian. No duck, no chicken, no pork and no beef. And guess that the host of the programme "Road Trip" are eating this week? Hamsters, yes you heard me, cute little home pets, hammies. I'm going to faint too. So cruel, someone gag me.