Monday, April 25, 2005

hi guys.. finally, the website is up!

anyway, aviery haven't done the recording yet and it's all because of me.
all it started out with a minor chest pain. i thought it would recover, but i was totally wrong.
i was hospitalized for 11 days and did 2 operations!

reason: Left apical bullae with pneumothorax

here's the link to know more about it. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000087.htm

it was really traumatizing.

day 1: minor pain
day 2: mnor pain
day 3: doctor told me was muscular pain and i didn't take x-ray. at night, i could move or breath well
day 4: the pain expanded it's way down
day 5: still painful
day 6: started coughing at night
day 7: coughed non-stop. took X-ray at GP, admitted to hospital immediately. eyes wide opened during the operation. they inserted a tube inside to suck the air.
day 8: X-ray not showing improvement. put on suction. couldn't talk much.
day 9: X-ray showing improvement. still painful.
day 10: no X-ray today
day 11: X-ray not showing improvement. scheduled for operation
day 12: Surgeon came to explain
day 13: operation. nauseous after the op.
day 14: still on suction. painful.
day 15: still on suction. took out morphine aid. more alive.
day 16: finally took out suction. relieved.
day 17: home. doc pulled the tube out infront of my naked eyes and stitched back the wound.
ouch.

some pictures:

the tube is about 20cm long in my body.



here's where my blood water goes to. collected about 850ml on the last day.



thought it wrote my initial "JX" behind.

finally washed my hair on the 6th day!

on this bed for 11 days

pretty flowers. thanks to jiayan, angelia, wendy and hubby, shirdeen and mates.

party!


great thanks to those who visited me..

these 11days, i couldn't have survived without the help from my parents, don, chris, shirley, all my classmates and not forgetting my darling.

love you people..

now it's time to rest..

-fred jx