Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I am sick
Last Thrusday, I headed Jurong Island for my training.
Reached the Island at about 8am.
The moment the taxi entered the island,
I can smell something strong and pundgent. It smelt horrible.
Taxi driver told me that's the typical Jurong Island
smell - chemical, gases & pollution.
He also mentioned that lucky it was raining, if not the smell will be worse.
By the evening, I started coughing and my throat burns!
At about 9pm, I cannot take the burning sensation anymore.
I went opposite my flat to visit Doc James Quek.
He prescribed me some antibiotics, sore throat pills & cough syrup.
Took my drugs diligently after getting home and went to sleep.
I went back to Jurong Island for my 2nd day of my 2-day training.
There's a test to take and I did not want to miss it.
This time round, the same smell started way before I enter the island.
It come on much stronger and smell many times worse.
What the taxi driver said yesterday was really right!
By Sat & Sun, my coughing worsen.
I coughed through the night.
I coughed so hard that my chest ache and I got breathless.
Could not sleep well at night due to the cough too.
Yesterday, went back to the Dr. James Quek.
He said I had mild asthma.
On the road of recovery - I'm coughing lesser, throat feeling less painful.
Still feeling breathless.
Asthma came back to haunt me once again after 15 years.
I hope this is the last time.
It makes me feel like a weakling!
2:10 PM
