I have now passed 1st half of my life and 2nd half is currently underway. Health have started to haunt me badly. Well I must say that I have taken it for granted for the past decade. The purpose of this post is to share with people about my health. The conclusion is please take good care of your precious health and body. It is beautifully created and now up to us to look after it. The story starts here ...
I was healthy and happy until in mid 2005 where I was first diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. The symptoms were sudden lost of weight about 10 over kgs and feeling very fatigue and thirsty. I frequent the toilet and even found ants on the toilet cubical. The symptoms were obvious but at that time I knew nothing about diabetes. I only know that I am working very hard and feeling tired and stressful.
During that time, we were expecting our second child Gabriel and due to this I asked the gyaene about my symptoms and he suspected something is not right. He referred me to his father in law clinic at Dr Lim Lean Huat whom I still see him today for my condition.
I went thru a fasting glucose test and the result of my Hba1c was super sky high of 15%. Normal person without diabetes should range from 6-7%. This was the moment in my life where health is a problem to tackle. Well at this stage I accepted my illness but taking it very lightly. I a lot of reading and gained knowledge about diabetes. I was curious to know more about diabetes and its complications but all these lasted for a while. I was taking oral medication and controlling my diet with regular exercising. It all went well but I did not monitor my blood sugar regularly. Without monitoring, I can't really tell whether I am on right track or not. So over a period of time every thing seems normal again and I don't feel like i am a diabetic at all.
With poor discipline, I started to ignore my diet and at times even my medication. Adding on was additional stress from my new working environment and I have somehow forgotten about diabetes. I always giving myself excuses that I will try and try but it was also always later and later.
The problem with diabetes is you don't feel any pain until complications. So I started to neglect my diabetes and also started to have self denial about my condition and not wanting others to see me a diabetic person. So I became to lead a normal lifestyle with indulging my favourite food, drinks and deserts, I realized sometimes I have over done it.
This kind of lifestyles continues over the next few years. Occasionally I have also started to skip and avoid seeing my doctor regularly.
Let me pause here for a moment and ask myself questions ... so what happened? Why I let this happen on me? I have been a leader in my workplace and always telling my co-workers what is right and what is wrong but yet i never seem to apply it to myself. Maybe I do know what is right and wrong in me but I did not take it seriously since there is no urgency to solve it now. It's like low priority task.
So what is my problem? Let me continue ...
By now, my blood sugar is still uncontrolled over last 7 years. I have neglected my diabetes condition and taken it for granted. Something happened to me in early 2013. The symptoms of diabetes came back haunting seriously and I had a sudden lost of weight again for over 10 more kgs. This time round I looked very thin and weak. This was the moment in my life where people surrounding me have taken notice of my condition and areall very worried about my health. Even by looking at myself in the mirror has given me the fear that this time round it could be something very serious.
I decided to go for a full body medical checkup ....
To be continued ......
