Hello Buddy! Welcome to my personal home page.
This is a place where you can find my story, study,
business... and many many things about me.
So if you are really interest on me, check this out!
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Feb 2007
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I've formed a football team with my working colleagues named HTSA TKT United, to
join the company's soccer competition.
From left to right:
Ronald, Tony, Leo, Jeffrey, Jeff, Christopher, Avin, Patrick
The first round of matches were held on a rainy Sunday, though our team can't enter the
second round matches, I was feeling good playing football with my teammates.
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Jan 2007
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I was hospitalized during 28-Dec-2006 to 20-Jan-2007 inclusively.
Once again, I was admitted to the hospital due to fever of unknown origin.
It has been long time ago since I was 12, I was suffering from mysterious fever
of unknown origin, many many doctors fail to find the cure for this illness, neither
could they figure out the source.
Approximately for every 3 years, the illness recovered just like the wake-up of a sleeping
volcano, each time it could totally defeat my body defence, and seriously tolerated my health
that I need admit to the hospital.
So this time it happened on 2006 X'Mas Eve, while everybody is celebrating for the holiday, I
was in high fever, suffering from chills and rigor, ulcer in the mouth cavity, and enlarged
lymph nodes all over the neck. Luckily it was holiday and I don't need to work, so I just take
some medication from the GP and rest on the bed, hoping the disease would leave me when the
holiday end.
Yet it didn't and I finally admitted to the Baptist hospital (the one I admitted on 2003) on
28-Dec-2006.
Here is the clinical investigation for the first week admission in the hospital:
WCC decrease 3.3, HB 13.1g/dl, Platelet 173;
SGPT/SGOT increase 149/239, A/G 39/31;
LDH increase 2127 (N<401);
Blood culture, CMV pp65 antigenmia, Toxoplasmosis lgM Ab, malaris, HIV Abm ANF all negative and CXR
normal.
And I was initially treated with the following medication:
Oral Vibramycin and ivi Invanz 1g daily for one week.
I stayed over new years eve and my fever seems to be successfully suppressed by the medication,
but on 3-Jan-2007, when I was in the hospital canteen to have lunch, suddenly I lost conciousness
and simply fainted. The day when I fully resume conciousness was 3 days later and I found myself
lying on the bed of the Intesive Care Unit (ICU), I was wearing some kind of restraining gown which
tied my body on the bed, and many wires were connected in front of my chest, while the drip for
intravenous medication were found on my foot.
I couldn't remember what had happended but just see many relatives beside me, looking at me with joy
in their eyes, I realized that something terrible must have happened on me that is serious enough to
threaten them as if I was dying.
Several hours after I woke up, my doctor arrived together with a neurologist to perform some
checking, then they told me what had happened:
After fainting, I was completely unconcious and was having convulsion (which never appears on me before),
the nurses around the canteen rescue me, brought me back to the ward and my doctor was called to the
hospital immediately. According to the nurses, my condition was seriously bad: high fever and generalized
skin rash followed by confusion.
Urgent CT brain scan showed no abnormal findings, lumbar puncture was performed with CSF findings as below:
WCC increase 101/mm3, (lymphocte 88%, PMN 12%), RBC 187/mm3; protein increase 128mg/dl (N: 12-60), glucose
decrease 2.0mmol/l (blood glucose 6.4), AFB smear, latex aggulination for bacterial antigens, Crptococcus
smear all negative; CSF C/ST, AFB PCR & Herpes Simplex PCR negative; The doctor suspect it was TB-Meningitis,
and thus prescribed me anti-TB drugs together with intravenous Vancomycin 2g ivi q12h and Rocephin 2g ivi
q12h (for 7 days), Acyclovir 500 mg ivi (for 10 days), Dilantin 300 mg daily and short courses of prednisolone
45mg daily tapering off in 10 days). I resumed conciousness on the next few days without focal neurological
deficit, while the fever and skin rash also resolved gradually.
Due to the post-traumatic effect of convulsion to my brain, the control to my limbs were greatly influenced as
evidenced by decreased limb's strength and the ability to perform voluntary movement was degraded. I must then
visit the physiopherapist daily, doing various body exercises for recovery, which is recommended by the neurologist.
My status was getting better for the next 10 days, but on 12-Jan-2007 I experienced progressive lethargy, headache,
numbness of limbs on standing and anorexia. Blood tests including liver function tests LFT then were unremarkable.
Dilantin was switched to Lyrica 75 mg twice daily with prompt resolution of the symptoms. Yet the KFT was noted
deranged on 19-Jan-2007 though I was asympotmatic: SGPT/SGOT 158/114 (increase 3x). As my HBsAg and HCV antibody
were negative, the doctor estimated that I was suffering from drug induced hepatitis due to anti-TB drugs.
I was finally discharged on 20-Jan-2007, with Lyrica 75mg twice daily, Zantac 150mg twice daily, Isoniazid 300mg
once daily, Rifampicin 600mg once daily, Ethambutol 1.6g once daily, Pyrazinamide 1.5g once daily and Pyridoxine
50mg once daily. Since then, I must visit the doctors for periodic health checking and obtain the medication every
2 weeks for the next 2 years.
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I really like taking photos of myself, before I am too old...
but I am too old already and I am getting older anyway, Shit!
2007 Spring
2007 Spring
2007 Spring
2007 Spring
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