So after the operation, I need to follow a strict diet for next few months. As part of the excellent services, there were two dietitians explained to me the details, with an information sheet to summarize what I can and cannot eat during this period.
Then, my parents passed me another information sheet from another source [...]
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Most friends and colleagues around me are not happy - they think they are either under-achievers, or they think they deserve more because they “achieve” lots of thing every single day already.
I reckon it really depends on your definition of achievements. For example, right after a heart operation, the achievements to any patient are actually [...]
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In most of the wards I stayed in the hospital, I am the youngest patient. There are patients 20 or 30 years older than me but also have similar heart surgery such as valvular repair / replacement or vascular bypass.
What puzzled me a lot is these “older” patients recover very fast (faster than me !), [...]
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It’s what the textbook says, your heart beats 72 times a minute. But in fact it is a myth to me because my minor heart problem forces my heart to beat more times (say, 20 more every minute) to become fully functional. I’ve never seen the magic number 72 in my life.
Until this magical operation, [...]
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So the hospital not only take care of my illness, I have doctors visiting me 2 times a day, all the treatments, the magical operation but also dietitian, therapist who help me to recover. And of course I have 4 meals a day and a not too bad resting environment. How much did it cost [...]
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So what you can do in a hospital to kill all the time ?
I have finished 6 books already … I am a slow reader but time runs really slow in hospital.
Other then reading lots of books, luckily I have a 3G / HSDPA smartphone with me.
I promptly set up RSS feeds in my [...]
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Unlike what other people think, the specialists, doctors and nurses in the hospital I am staying are young, energetic, and handsome / beautiful.
In fact, one of the questions I asked myself was “Am I now in a reality TV show ?”
Considering every day they have to handle dozens of cases and hundreds of tasks professionally, [...]
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After 12 days of antibiotics treatment, the heart specialist suggested that it is time to do an operation - to remove the alien object in my heart and repair / replace the valve.
Started from 8:30 in the morning and the operation was done successfully 5 hours later.
Turned out the alien object is only a minor [...]
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So what exactly was the problem ? Since young I was told one of the valves in my heart is a little bit abnormal (actually a bit longer). And all I need to do, from the advices of my family doctor back then are: to keep a balanced life, healthy diet and get some antibiotics [...]
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… it has it’s expiry date.
The experience is really bizarre, I am still in meetings with colleagues in the morning, and in the same evening I was told to admit to hospital emergency unit for a life and death situation. Sooo …
cherish your health
cherish everyone you love and everyone who loves you
cherish every day
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