wonderment

Reality sank in today …

While walking to the clinic some distance away from the car, I suddenly felt breathless,  my breathing became short and choppy. It wasn’t very serious, but I told the doctor and she waved it away saying that I was just imagining things.  After the blood test and I was walking back to the car with Hsien, I suddenly felt my head spinning and my eyes were blanking out, I could barely see in front of me. Hsien had to support me under my arms so I wouldn’t collapse on the road. It was scary!

Once I returned home and sat down, I felt tons better.

But there was a niggling feeling …Had my platelets gone down?

Throughout the day, I continued to take phone calls, send emails (yes, still working from home!) and Hsien who was with me and overheard my conversations said that no one was ever going to believe I had dengue from the way I sounded! So I felt mighty fine … except I couldn’t stand for too long because the breathlessness and dizzyness would come again.

At about 7pm, the doctor calls again to tell me the result of my report and my fears were right. My platelets had dropped down to 90, just 10 shy of the number to get me immediately admitted into hospital. The funny thing was, my temperature was hovering around the 37 range, a very low grade fever. My dad believed that I was getting better already, I didn’t. The doctor already warned me that even though my temperature could drop, it didn’t mean that my platelets were okay.

So now at 10pm, I’m lying on the sofa feeling absolutely wrung out. The bodyache and headache has set in and I’m really ready to retire to bed …

I hope, I hope, I don’t need to go to the hospital after tomorrow’s blood test …