Category: Health

• 3.4!!! Cheers To Health!

  10.22.08 |Health| Permalink | 5 Comments

  Today I am so very happy. I got my blood test back and guess what. You gals are gonna kill me for this. All normal and my cholesterol level dropped from 3.7 to 3.4. The desirable level is below 5.2. My doctor said that I can have a few more packs of Nasi Lemak.

  
  
  

  Anyway, it was a long awaited blood test and I tell you why. I have to do the blood test every year to monitor my thyroid hormones. The doc will throw in the entire blood test package instead of doing just the boring thyroid hormones. After all it is free for me.

  On 3rd of Oct, I was happily shopping in Ikea and suddenly a SMS came telling me that I have a doc’s appointment. Oh no, I totally forgot about it. Anyway, I reschedule the appointment. However when I go back to Penang, my menses came. I tried not to have my blood draw during my menses so I postponed it again to another week.

  Third week came and both my children were sick with high fever. Bumma, if I was superstitious I might have thought that the blood test is a jinx. I caught a fever bug too.

  Finally fourth week, I called up the doc’s clinic to check whether I can see him. He may have surgeries in the morning. I got a spot and I went. I took my blood test and he called me in the afternoon to tell me the results, everything looks good.

  My records of Cholesterol Level:
  1996 2.4
  2000 3.7
  2006 3.7
  2007 3.7
  2008 3.4 (Gain 4 kg in weight too)

  I strongly believe that genetic has something to do with having low cholesterol level. 😛 I will definately celebrate this good results with my family.

• Perfect Score

  10.25.07 |Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Perfect Score

  I am so happy today and really thankful to God. He has given me good health. My blood test result came back and I score perfectly. Everything is within range. Doc said I have good gens. My cholesterol level is low 3.7 and ratio of 1.93.Iron is back to normal, red blood and white blood are in range. Phew. Seafood, here I come.

  Now I need to do more exercise. Lately I have been feeling tired easily. Maybe it is the time of the month. Anyway, if you are at my age, I suggest that you do an annual blood test and a bi-yearly full medical checkup. It gives a peace of mind.

  
  
  

• Cheers To Good Health

  10.12.07 |Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Cheers To Good Health

  Yesterday I received a SMS from the hospital reminding me that I have a doctor appointment today. Wow, since when they send out a reminder using SMS. Maybe we patients always forget our appointments and it is a good feature. Nope I am not charged for this.

  Yes, it is my half yearly appointment with the doc for the rest of my life. Let’s see who will miss the appointment first, if you know what I mean. It is great to have the company pays for everything. Now I get a free yearly full blood test too. I hope I am as healthy as last year.

  Why am I seeing a doctor? It is because I have my entire thyroid removed. I am on medication for life. It is not that bad and basically a normal person. I do not have any bad symptoms. I am not sure whether you consider getting hungry all the time and eating but never gain any weight, bad.

  My friend told me that we often take good health for granted. We don’t really appreciate it until it is no longer there. It is just so true. Hey start appreciating your good health.

• Health Alert

  06.19.07 |Book, Food, Health, Science| Permalink | 8 Comments

  After my thyroid case, I try to improve my health, not that I am unhealthy but I am not getting any younger. Recently I heard 5 cancer cases among my dear friends. It is sort of an alert for me to take good care of my health.

  
  
  

  Few months ago as I was browsing around MPH book shop, I picked up this book called “What your doctor doesn’t know about nutritional medicine may be killing you.” It was a good read and opens my eyes a little on supplements. I have always been told if I eat nutritiously, my body is able to capture all the nutrition and vitamins I need. However, as my little body grows old and due to work stress, sometimes it doesn’t function a 100% in absorbing the nutrients I need. Therefore, I need to take supplements. I don’t take it all the time, I only take it when I need it, usually when I have lack of sleep, menstrual cycle day and when I am faced with lots of stress.

  Back to the book, the book talks about people with serious disease such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, heart disease and many more. It teaches me what supplements are good for what? The writer who is a doctor himself mentioned lots of unhealthy medication for serious disease that can kill you. It may work to cure your disease but the side effects will kill you. Taking the optimal amount of certain supplements can help fight disease if you have to take nasty medication such as chemotherapy. You need to consult a doctor for the right prescription but often doctor who is not into nutritional medication will oppose to it.

  Do you know that you need 7 daily servings of vegetables and fruits? I love eating vegetables especially salad. Funny, I do crave for it every now and then. I love to cut celery and carrots into sticks, keep it in my fridge. Whenever my teeth wanna chew something, I will chew that. I love every kind of vegetables and fruits. I was thinking of investing on a good juicer (Jack Lalanne Power Juicer) but my hubby will say “You probably use it once and then will leave it there collecting dust”. Yeap he knows me so well.

  Above all, I need to thank God for taking care of me and my family. I once asked my hubby, if he knew he has terminal illness and only a few months of life what will he do. He told me that he will spend time with the family and he will meditate on God’s word. He said he will be thrill to be call home to meet God. How true. Life does not end in death.