Holistic

It was simply one of those days. There was something to do with respect virtually all aspects of my life today. Thankfully, only 1 posed serious problem.

Health
I had my initial consultation with a gastroenterologist at SGH in the morning, after being refered by my GP. From previous experience at that hospital, waiting time i.e. waiting to be called to the specialist's room after registered usually takes about 2 freaking hours. So, as per previous practice, besides the referral letter, I was armed with a bottle of water, newspapers and a book "History of the World", which I have already started reading (usually in transit between home and office).

Surprisingly, it took about only 40 mins before I was called. By then, I've already read the newspapers (but to be fair, I've already read some of it before I got there) and continued reading my book. The consultation was less than 10 mins. The specialist decided have me take blood test (full blood count, a liver test thingy, T4 and something lol) and undergo an endoscopy the next morning. I then queued for each of the following: (1) pay bill for the day and the blood test, (2) blood sample drawn and (3) information and forms for the endoscopy. The estimated fee for the anaestesia to be used during the procedure is about 6 bloody times of the total fee today.

When I was back at office later, to my great relief, I found out that endoscopy can be claimed under Hospitalisation & Surgical Benefits insurance, rather than outpatient specialist. If it was the latter, I would have busted the limit!

Wealth
Went straight for lunch after spending almost 2 hours at the hospital. After lunch, I've exchanged S$ into RM to bring home to pay my dad for stuff he bought for me. Rate was S$1=RM2.38, down from 2.4 just about 5 days ago or so.

Job
I was inundated with work once I was back at office. Sorry, I meant once my boss was back at office after lunch hour. A colleague is on leave until end of this week while another until next year. I'm already following up on the project of the latter (and yet to find time to seriously follow up!) but I was sucked into the work of the former because there was no one else to help my boss! In addition, I was also sucked into work handed over by my ex-manager to my boss. I myself have 2 urgent jobs of which one I have to prepare the draft report for my boss's review by today while the deadline for the other was...errr last week lol. I ended knocking off work 2.5 hours after than I usually do. Took taxi home. One of these clients is going to pay for it.

Social
Since I am going home on Christmast Eve until Sunday morning (company gave half day off for the eve, full day for Boxing Day and full day for the day after New Year), I won't be having any Christmas gathering with my friends here. Hence, I was organising dinner for tomorrow night. So sms was flying back and forth for quite a while before the matter was settled.

Personal grooming
I wanted to wait till after I'm back to have my monthly haircut but this morning I decided not to because it looks thick and definitely feels like it. I wanted to do it today but my hairstylist was booked the whole day. Alternative suggestion was given i.e. tomorrow after lunch but I then asked to postpone once I was informed that the enscopy is tomorrow just after noon. Also, there is that dinner being planned, and before dinner, I plan to collect my monthly supplements from Pharmanex. So fortunately after a couple of phone calls and him checking at his end, I managed to get a rather convenient slot. Phew!

Family
Something has been brewing at home for past few days. It was getting nastier and ridiculous by the day. To paraphrase a quote from a  loved one: "It's turning into a rather good drama series! I know it's not funny but sometimes you just gotta laugh." It seems to have escalated to whole new level today of which urgent call needed to be made to someone else to arrest its development. Due to timezone difference, it could only be done at night. It was short, shocking for the receiver but I was relieved I have delivered the message asap and the receiver agreed that this is getting out of hand and agreed to do something asap. Hopefully this matter could be prevented from taking the next new level. It will be a lousy Christmas for me since I would be involved in sorting this out while I'm back home but it would be worthwhile if it results in a much better situation in future

Comments

Little Dove said…
Merry Christmas Jaded Jeremy! ^_^
William said…
Every family has their big closet 'o secrets.

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