When you feel down, just give yourself a smile,
When you have friends around, flash your sweet smile,
When you miss your train, just scream and force yourself to smile,
When you don't understand a foreigner, signal "sorry" and give a smile,
When another day has gone by, surely it's something to smile,
A smile for you and me , and life is actually quite simple.
Prescription : Smile Always
Dengue fever could cause haemorrhage. It's caused by a type of virus spread by female Aedes mosquitoes. It's very dangerous if not treated early and may cause fatality. Actually there's no specific treatment. Only treat the symptom such as fever- give fever medicine and if dehydrated-on water drip ( given saline solution). Nothing much could be done. The patient's immune system has to do the fighting and extremely low platelets counts spelled danger.
All 3 of my children got this fever before. Suspected that they got it from being at their tuition centre because the tuition teacher and son was down with dengue fever a few days earlier and was warded at a specialist hospital.Our house has mosquito nettings and I took extra precaution to keep away mosquitoes. A family friend recommended me to cook thick eel porridge with a little ginger (use freshwater eel is better and cook like cooking fish porridge - 1 cup rice, 1 eel steam & take out the flesh, 3 cups water and a few slices of ginger, some fried garlic and fried shallots, a pinch of salt and little soy sauce - boil first then cook using low fire till rice is smooth and soft) because it is believed that it helps in improving platelet counts. Cooked that for my children to hopefully improve platelet count, gave them "100 Plus"(get rid of the gas), coconut water (is believed to be a good remedy for cooling and detoxification by Malay community) and made them drink lots of water (at least 1/2- 3/4 glass per hour except at night- about 2 cups) for cooling the body because to me, logically, water could dilute the strength of toxins and urinating more could maybe and hopefully flush out more toxins from the body. Luckily they recovered quite fast to my relieve and praise GOD for that. I was so scared and worried then. Their platelet count improve each day I gave them eel porridge till become normal again. Maybe it's coincidence but my family friend swear by it because her daughter was admitted before for the same dengue fever and her platelet count also improve after taking eel porridge. No harm in trying because eel porridge is very nutritious and full of iron boost for red blood cells formation in the body since dengue fever is a haemorrhagic fever.
I sincerely hope to share this experience and hope it will help those down with dengue fever although not exactly proven. Tell me if it works for you too but of course 'touch wood !' that you don't get dengue fever. I hope you know what I mean..... The tuition teacher and son drank lots of red guava juice because it was believed to help for recovering from dengue fever too (natural Vitamin C boost for immune system ?Probably yes too!) They recovered after more than a week in the hospital. My children was admitted to the hospital for 3 days. The earlier stage about 3 days high fever and 2 days intermittent mild and moderate fever (went to local GP only) which I thought was the normal kind of fever because they have sore throat too until I saw red patches of rashes on some parts of their bodies which made me suspicious and sent them to the hospital for blood screening. They were on water drips and on paracetamol medicine for fever only during their duration in the hospital. Another remedy which the Chinese believe helps to cure dengue fever is an organ part of the porcupine that can be bought from Chinese medical shop at exorbitant price. The last time I heard was RM 200 for very little. I didn't try it because I heard from my plumber about it after my children got well because he was down with that fever before and he spent quite a sum for the porcupine part. Another thing to remember is when having fever, don't eat oily stuff because it is believed that oily food slow down fever recovery. Better take precaution in case it's true...
Prescription : Could try some unproven scientifically remedies if it brings no harm to the body. Some natural remedies actually helps in some cases ( I am nuts about natural remedies and a believer but I balance out with western medication and Chinese medication - must know how to go about it or one might actually aggravate the situation instead of improving)
Been so occupied with work that I just didn't really have time to do other things. Charging up my energy by just taking a few minutes rest was blissful. Then I was up on my toes going around doing things and by the end, it's time to sleep and slept like a log. Think about it, actually I didn't get much work done but the days ended just like that.
I suppose many people are much busier with hardly any time for rest. They forgo their sleep at times just to finish whatever stuff at hand. We are living in a rat race and every minute counts. No wonder many are having stress related problems these days. We know that lack of rest is detrimental to health but sometimes we just don't have much choice. It's not that we want to be workaholic but for many reasons we just have to be. We can't afford to rest well. Maybe we are afraid. Afraid to loose, afraid we can't finish, afraid business will drop, afraid not enough money, afraid of this and that. Then there is the 'want' in us. We want to do well and be successful, we want to earn more, we want to live comfortably, we want branded stuffs, we want to be recognized, we want to have a lot of things, we want our dreams to come true...So we end up becoming as busy as can be. Welcome to BUSY BEES CLUB!!!
Prescription : Stopping just for a while won't hurt much
Prescription : No matter what happen, you have to carry on and handle your life yourself
It all started with our pair of orange Taiwan parrot fishes. Both of them became inactive, not swimming much and not feeding. Later they only remained at the bottom of a corner of the aquarium and not moving much except when we went near. Been having them for more than half a year and had never seen them behaving in such a peculiar way. We tried to focus our eyes on them that was quite difficult for both of us, hubby and I because both of us are long sighted. After some time only did we notice that they had some tiny white salt-like particles on their fins. We also noticed that our other red parrot fishes were also having salt-like particles on their bodies but much lesser. We looked up in the internet and read up about fish diseases under different entries until we got hold of the correct one which diagnosed the problem as white spot disease or ich disease caused by Ichthyophthirius multifilis which is a parasite. Other fishes in the tank did not get it such as a tiny Taiwanese koi and 'lampan'. They were still swimming vigorously and feeding normally. Maybe its due to the introduction of a new fish, the 'Bandaraya' fish which died after 2 days in the aquarium.
We bought medicine specially for white spots made by a local company, raised the water temperature by installing a heater and add the salinity of the water but the condition of the fishes did not improve much. One of the orange parrot fish died. Then we tried another white spot medicine made from Germany at RM 40. Saw some improvement but still slow. So we added a type of yellow powder from Japan. This combination seemed to work well. Its after 2 weeks now and all of the fishes are feeding and swimming but two of the fishes still have white spots on them at the fins and head. These two are swimming slowly and spend most of the time floating near the surface. Got to continue treatment and need to buy more medicine because the one we bought is nearly used up.
Prescription : All living things need care
Feel real swell today. Yet another year had passed and I had nothing much to complain about my life so far. Basically everything went smoothly though at times there were some minor hiccups but those times only showed me how blessed I am to have people around me who really love and care about me. I am really thankful for that and look forward to many more happy moments to hang on the wall of my memories as my journey in life goes on. I just love presents on this day. It's not so much about opening them excitedly but the feeling of not knowing what lies inside a present and the satisfaction of opening them slowly. Sometimes I may get presents that I didn't really need or want but each of them came with the heart of trying to please or make me happy. Most of all, those people actually remember my birthday ! Isn't that wonderful since I am just mere ordinary me ?
On a more somber mood, well, there are still so many things I want/need to do and experience but time is running out fast. Gosh, feel that time is real short for me now unlike before I used to feel that our orbit was turning a bit too slow for my liking. Anyway, thank you so much to all the people who care and love me for myself. Love you too!!!
Prescription : Feel young at heart
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO DADDY DEAREST !!!
DADDY IS A REAL SPORT,
ALWAYS FULL OF SUPPORT,
LUCKY TO BE FOREVER IN HIS TIME SLOT !!!
