FollowAt 52, I had honestly expected to be done with periods by now. Last year, when my periods started becoming irregular—delayed by 2 to 3 months at a time—and I began experiencing hot flashes and insomnia, I was convinced that menopause was finally knocking on my door. I remember tossing and turning in bed at…
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Update On My Yearly Medical Exam
My yearly pap smear and gynaecological scan are now ticked off my 2021 to-do checklist. The pap smear report is clear. I have one less worry now. All is quite well but my gynae saw a small fibroid growing in my uterus 
. I actually had a hunch that there’s a fibroid growing. All the…
Happy Monday – 3 July 2017
Today, being a Monday is surprisingly not a blue Monday at all for me. It’s the first day of school for the girls after a 10-day Hari Raya break. Though it drizzled in the morning and I could not exercise outdoor, I did 40 minutes of brisk-walking at the corridor of our condo lobby after…
Post Laproscopic Myomectomy Surgery
I got my period yesterday – 9 days after the laproscopic myomectomy surgery. My surgeon had warned me that the flow will be very heavy this time but subsequent periods will see a normal flow. Though my Aunt Flow is quite heavy this time, it pales in comparison with the periods I’ve had during my…
The Story Of My Laproscopic Myomectomy Surgery
It’s Getting Real
Pre-Admission In Hospital – 28 May 2017
I was up at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning today. I have been overwhelmed by anxiousness since yesterday as today is my pre-admission to the hospital for a laproscopic myomectomy surgery scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. The reason why I needed to be at the hospital so early is to do a blood test. Should…
Purple Flower, A Natural Anti-Oxidant & Remedy
I had promised earlier that I will blog about this ‘Phong Far’ (as the chinese call it in cantonese), a flower with purplish, greenish petals and tiny white flowers inside the bud. This flower has been known for a long time to be a natural anti-oxidant and remedy for various ailments and diseases. The leaves…