Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

The Skinny On Cholestrol

Carol Lay

Today I went to the Singapore General Hospital with a colleague who needed to get more medicine for his high cholestrol. SGH is super nice. It’s more like a sprawling holiday resort then a hospital. Nice shops, nice restaurants and wonderful walkways. Great to see that my tax dollars are being put to excellent use.

We stopped at a Deli France for lunch.He has only deigned to reveal that his cholestrol levels are dangerously high to me today which really surprised me because the dude is pencil-thin. He is so skinny, he could probably play an extra in a Jewish Holocust movie.

He had a rather unhealthy pizza thingy for lunch and washed it down with iced lemon tea, whilst I had a healthy smoked tuna sandwich. You’re poisoning yourself with that shite, I said. Turns out the dude didn’t know that the cheese on his pizza was also high in cholestrol.

Later while waiting for him to collect his medicine, I wandered into a medical library for the public. There were no books on how to cure gayism but there was a little booklet on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Inside it was horrible horrible pictures of the surgery to cure it. That really scared the shite out of me. But looks like I’ll be making an appointment soon. My hands don’t feel too good these days.

“So did you get your g-medicine?” I asked.

“My g-medicine?”

“Yes, you know. If you don’t take it you go back to wearing pink and looking in mirrors again” I replied with a smile.

I’m such great company to have. Ha-ha.

aww carpal tunnel. i had it once, but due to pregnancy.. it killed me not being able to type in front of computer. Well, actually, can type, but with great pain. i wish i just got operated rightaway at that time, but my doc told me the syndrome will subside after delivery, which is true. But if it had persisted, i’d go for operation.. be careful with your hands, don’t type / use computer for extended period without a break.

Urm. I work there. No see it like a holiday resort, still look like a traumatising hospital to me… =/

EWww.. show me your hands when you do cut it up

I do a lot of typing and do not have CTS. It’s probably because I have very strongs wrists. I will show you my wrist exercises when I get back to Singapore. By the way, you might want your magazine collection back to help with the exercises ;-)

what’s the exact meaning of *wearing pink*