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 Today while eating mango, I had an attacked that lasted about a minute. The throat was very painful. It was not a prickling effect but a patch of pain at the right of the throat. I was quite freaked out. Luckily I was seated on the floor and she was beside me. I figured that I might have too much of the following: Too much beef and fish Too much nuts Talking too much So I decided to cool down, less of talking, proteins and nuts. Perhaps talking a bath to cool down too.  In the morning, I had break with butter and also I had taken the neutropenia-E, as I had to supplement with e1. Now feeling sleep and weak. Just in 10 minutes. 

 I had a brisk walk from home to Bishan Park one, made a round from one end to another. The sun warmed up the chilly moisture in the air. There were many older folks exercising, synching with the music that was blasting from old recorders. The scenes were heart warming.  Recently a school of Starlings had landed on Bishan Park, perching and swirling in the morning sun. Among them there were some lighter coloured few. They shimmered as they circled around the pond and returned to the same tree. It was enjoyable watching them. Their calls were unique. It provided the background ambience for the sharp and loud calls of the Koel.  I did about 4 kilometres of walking. Prickling was little, except that the watch warned me that my energy level was low, something that I had yet to figured out. A friend advised that I should take vitamin B12 even I had eaten eggs, beef or fish. I took the Neutrogen-E, which had B2, B6 and B12 with E too. Would monitor my energy level using the Xia...

Not sure why I was  so tired in the morning. I woke up at about 6am to pee and started to read some text on the mobile and kept up with friends. I went back to sleep at about 7am until 8am. I felt very sleepy. The whole day was very lethargic. I checked the Xiaomi smart watch. It stated that my energy level is exhausted. How did it know? The whole day I checked it was exhausted. It advice me to rest. I took a nap before dinner. It did not help.  I decided to sleep at about 11pm. Perhaps I should resume the jogging as both wrist seem to be better. The left wrist was still very weak. The knee had recovered well. The bone below the right hip was still having bruise pain.  I had taking Lirica for a few days and today I experienced a little more prickling at the throat. 

I walk for 100 metres after leaving my flat, took the first few jogging step and fell. It was a slow motion, three step fall, I was trying to stabilised the fall by flowing with he force but the leg was weak and the final third step I landed on the right knee. Bled on both palms, right palm was numb, wrist slightly jerked, left palm had a few stratches, right knee was stratch through the jeans. I folded up to take a look at the injury, swang the leg and decided to carry on for my first outdoor jog and walk. I thought it was a warning for me to start slowly. So I took it slow, started with walk then see if I am upto the jog. 

 I was intoxicated by the oil that flooded every room. I was trying to warm down, but my eyes could not open, doubled up to the rear windows of the master bedroom to take a big gup of air. My advice was left on deaf ears. Flying oil doesn't help in cooking but makes the space oily and the lung intoxicated, also olive oil is not good for high heat frying. The floor was now oily. 

I had been listening to this book for a few days now. Diet was my major concern as I need all the nutrients to recover from the condition. It was obvious that I was lacking in some nerve building nutrients as the Dr. Rhamani prescribed Neurogen-E for me. Apparently some of this vitamin B has to be ingested daily to keep the nerve healthy. That was the reason why I have to get acquainted with Diet and the nutrients I need. I had increased my intake of Vitamin B by having more beef and fish. That was quite a deviation from my Ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet. Some adjustment to get well first. Survive. Warrior Diet was a revert to a highly combative, alert body condition. It promotes a single meal a day, at the end of the day. The author,  Ori Hofmekler, researched and adopted this extreme diet to keep the body alert, hunger keeps the body in full alertness. He believed that a hungry body kept the mind in full alertness, in a fight/flight condition. The full meal in the evening ensure that ...

Meditation is one of the ways I believe can help to tune my body back to the state where my nerve is not giving me syncope. I used to meditate before I sleep and it helps to put me to sleep quickly. It was also effective when I experienced my first syncope and I had bleeding in the brain due to the bad fall. I was meditating every night and also I slept a lot for the first few days as I was experiencing headache and my right foot could not lift up properly. I did that for nine days and I could get down to walk and raise my foot doing some Chinese Kungfu kicks.  However, meditation made my tongue and throat condition worst, before I landed in the hospital with frequent syncope. So much so that I dared not event focus on the throat and tongue. It would excite it and I would faint. I believed another form of meditation was not about focusing on the problematics area, but ignore it instead, so that the subconscious body could do its own healing. Recollecting the first syncope, I was no...

Today I listened to Warrior Diet while doing my usual exercise, jogging indoor forward and backwards for 4 km using the XOSS and Nike Run Club app, and of course winding down with BaDuanJin.  Cycles is a common things in life. We have the Circadian cycles, the monthly cycles, the yearly cycles and the twelve yearly cycles and perhaps bigger celestial cycles that we may not be aware. Yes, as I was listening, my jogging forward and backward were also cycles and rhythm. The author, Ori Hofmekler, suggested that warriors were more alert when they were hungry and they only ate once a day at the end of the day. He compare them to the training of the Falcon, the hunters used them to hunt for birds and animals or some tribes to retrieve their targets. So fasting everyday, as warrior only took one meal in the night, seem so contradicting to current trend of eat little and more frequently. Warrior and discipline attracts the romantics. Swordsman perhaps is a better lure, educated, restr...

I talk too much last night. Perhaps that was why I woke up full of energy at 5pm. Since I was so awake, I took out the Sleep app to check on my sleep situation. It indicated poor sleep. I suspected that it was because of the number hours I was lying on the bed, less then six hours. The recommended was six to eight hours. 

Sleep is one of the major contributor of mental health. A child with epileptic seizure was given another psychotic drug and he was dead some days later. Drug dependency was a major killer in his country according to the author of 'Mental Health Inc', Art Levine. Other cases were old age home where folks were fed with drug to sedate them in the night resulting on quick deterioration in health resulting in death; returning soldiers' dependency on depressant and painkillers eventually led to overdose and death.  Psychotic Drug  The message was clear, drug dependency is doom. One has to take responsibility for one' s health and not depend on health care workers alone. I have to depend on myself for my own well-being. I have to find my own solution and keep at it. My discipline, persistence, and faith are keys to my well being. There are no magical drug for the quick fix to my condition but only a temporary one. The nerve misbehaviour is still a mystery for doctors after man...

Yesterday's sleep was great I thought but the result showed otherwise, a score of 67. Perhaps it was because I drank too much water before I slept. I drank a glass of water with the Pipagao mixture. The throat felt better last night.  Exercise Today I had a very sweaty exercise and I was really charge up, although my jogging was at an average pace of 9minutes 40 secs. I jogged for about 3.28 km. I was focus and thinking less of the prickling and some how I felt less prickling that way. A focus mind definitely helped. From the data, not much calories were burned with the jogging. The heart rate was rather unbelievable. My watch tells be a different result, it hoovered between 90 to more than 110 bpm. That seem more likely when I sweat so profusely. I also had a better warm down BaDuanJin. 

I had decided that Sunday to be dedicated to my other pleasure, photography. The routine of everyday can take a rest. I went out early to photograph birds and nature. Bishan Park, my favourite site, was looking warm and welcoming. Already many people were there, some running, some cycling, some walking and a few photographing with heavy, huge, camouflaged lens. I admired their strength and endurance to haul the weight and held them up to chase after that split moment. The lens and camera are expensive too. I used a bridge camera that is light in weight and my pocket. I hardly felt the prickling during bird hunting, perhaps I was too engrossed, or it was really so. I took all my meal at home and shuttled to the garden again after my breakfast and lunch. It was amazing to watch the bird going by their beings. Finally after two months, I was back to my routine, photographing. Birds are always alert, conscious of their environment and ever ready to take the flight of fright. I had learned ...

Sleep Last night I was listening to audio book Conversation with Buddha before I slept and I had set the audio to shut down at 11pm. I slept before the audio was off. It was a good sleep supposedly, as the score from Da Fit was 79 and categorized as good. I wondered how and when I would reach excellent. I had about 4 cycles of wake, light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep. I learned from Nick Littlehales author of sleep that some people need 5 cycles and some need 4 cycles. I was not sure of what I need so I was trying out, listen to an audio book before going to bed at 10:30pm. For waking up I roughly knew that I had about 4 cycles when I woke up at 5pm. I learned this by browsing my sleep pattern history.  I had read a few books on sleep and there were many similar suggestion in the books. All authors clarify that sleep patterns and habits have to be individualised. It varies person to person. There are no one solution that works for everyone. Nick provides a systematic approach to...

It was a long road ahead, we cannot see where it was going to end, the perspective looked the same again and again as each lamp post passed us, there would be another, then another. Our expectation was rekindled as each lamp post passed us, but to be dimmed by another appearing from infinity. Soon we had to find another way to measure that ending point. We began to count the steps, one, two, three, four, five, bravo, bravo, fight, fight, fight, here we go again, one, two, three, four, five ...  We soon learned just keep going was the only way, kept going, kept the feet moving, breathed, maintained the rhythm, maintained the spirit. It was in 1983 when we, as cadets, dressed in army boots, camouflaged slacks and green singlets running down Tuas road for our endurance run.  This time the training was different, I am pacing up and down the living room with classical music playing and replaying. Yes, keep the rhythm, I will come to it. In my mind, I heard Nietzsche repeating 'Eter...

Mi Smart Scale which had been serving me well since a few years ago. I was first warn of something going wrong when my body score dropped from 70+ to 50+.  I was at a few thousand kilometre above the sea, listening to soothing music and watching the cloud below me, sipping a cup of freshly brew coffee, yes coffee, above the cloud, not on the plane but 2,400 metre above the sea level in the city of Lijiang. A familiar song kept playing in my mind. It was in 2017 I last visited this place with my son. I was playing the series of hundreds of songs I bought when my wife and me came to ride horses along the mountain road. Now, I could only imagine, COVID and this neuralgia had stopped all traveling. Imagining is good enough. As they said, 'been there done that'.   Music Last night I started to play the songs that I bought from Lijiang before I slept. Reading from the result from the watch, my sleep was worst last night scoring at 62 and deep sleep was non-existence. I like tho...

This shows clearly where the Glossopharyngeal nerve is connected to the various parts of the tongue and the throat.  I had started to draw the region of the neck and how the Glossopharyngeal nerve is connected to the brain. I use the pencil this time as I had learned last year for my course in fashion design. I had been downloading detail illustration from the internet. Sunzi's famous text, 'If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles'. I should know how the nerve are situated, connected and function.  Exercise I sat on he chair for massage, setting the mode to neck and shoulder, and move on to stretch function, it was not so painful. Perhaps I was getting use to the massage.  I did 3 km with a pace of 9min 23 sec, with a cadence of 127. I felt that I had ran faster but the result showed otherwise. I was not sure where went wrong. Just strange. Sometimes I wondered if I should trust myself or the tech gadget. They seem to be ...

Exercise I did about 4500 steps during the slow jogging forward and backward at home, total 3 km, another 20 counts each of sit-ups, push-up and touch-and-go, winding down with BaDuanJin.  I experience a few pricks during the exercise towards the end of the slow jog as the throat was getting dry. There were some pricks during the winding down exercise too. There were more pricks during breakfast. It is as if to remind me of eating slowly and masticate the food until it was watery before swallowing. After breakfast I noticed a little star at the bottom of the sight, sat down to rest and massage the back of the neck. It was gone in awhile, perhaps 10 minutes.  Sleep After listening to Dr. Neil Stanley on 'How to Sleep Well' I wrote down some notes. Here are some pointers on sleeping: The temperature for a good sleep is between 16 to 18 degree Celsius Avoid bright lights in the room Avoid coffee or tea before sleep A quiet and calm mind Relax body before sleep Bedroom is conduciv...

A screen Shot of the Nike Run Club record for today The quick Steps I accelerated the exercise to improve my agility. With a few step I did a step up the platform. Tracking with the Nike app, I could see my pace instantly and I could regulate it according to my body condition. My heart rate was between 90-105 bpm. I was fine today with a prickling sensation almost at the end of targeted 2.4 km. I was sweating more than yesterday. Did 20 sit-ups and 20 push-ups. I added 20 touch and go too. Finally winding down with the BaDuanJin. I tried to measure the rate of winding down after a few minutes. I saw that it went down from 90+ to 80+ at about 6-7 bpm for that minute I was timing. Some where I read that it is one of the measure of the heart.  Always wonder what is cadence, a search showed that it is the number of steps per minute. Some running coach set the standard as 180 steps per minute is the gold standard. Sleep Yesterday my sleep was recorded as 6 hour I minute. The sleeping ti...

I had reduced the Lirica last night to 25mg, I have to observe the result.  Last night I went to bed around 10:35pm. I woke up around 1:30am to use the bathroom. I felt fully awake. I continue to sleep. In the quietness I could clearly hear my breath and slowly I seem to take longer breath with each additional breath. It felt strange. Perhaps I was half dreaming. After some time I checked my Rock watch and was surprised that my heart rate was racing towards hundred and more. I checked my pulse, nothing like hundred. I went to use the Sinocare to check my blood pressure and heart rate. It was 110/78 and pulse 60. Strange, the watch I gone berserk. I tried to ignore the watch reading and went back to sleep but the watch was giving me a numb effect on my wrist. I removed it, put on the Fossil watch running the Wear OS. The heart rate reading was closer to the range of 60. I felt better and calmer, as my suspicion was right.  Later in the morning, I checked my sleep result, it was...

The ROCK from RoHs. There are a few clock face to choose from. So far it seem to work for every function but the accuracy is questionable for some functions. However, I was very satisfied with many of its function. It does excellently well for the price I paid.  I sat for 45 minutes on the massage chair. It helped to loosen the notches on my neck and the spine area. I felt good after the massage.  Exercise Before the exercise, I would wear the XOSS chest strap that would count my Heart Rate, which I set to beep if it reached 130 bpm. Just a safety precaution. Then I would play the classical music, sometimes Mozart. If I am at home, I uses a portable Bluetooth speaker which is link to either my mobile or the iPad. Next I would wear the ROCK, the smart watch from RoHs. On the mobile, I would fire up the Google Fit and the Nike Run Club. Set it to run when I start the quick walk. The Nike apps, has huge black text and yellow background. So my Heart Rate was figured prominently on...

My wife was more excited to see the doctor than me. The doctor wanted to see my screw points to ensure that they were healing well. The front healed much better than the back. The back still had some visible scars and very minor sore when I rubbed hard on them. His room was hanged with quite a few Chinese Calligraphy work. We were glad that he shared the same interest. When asked how would the outcome be of the GAMA treatment. He was candid, as all things in the world, three outcomes, cured, remained the same, or it got worst. His advice was to be patient get on with life, try to do the normal things, or those things I had been doing. However, sometimes the body is also telling us to make some changes too. So that part we need to figure it out.  My wife was so happy when the doctor suggested that I should eat food that promote nerve heath which were fishes such as cod and salmon. They are usually fishes that have oil. I could see that she was going to buy lots of fishes. I have bee...

As I was pacing my step around the Bishan Park, initially when I started, my throat was nice and chill, I took a glass of water before I came, but as I made the fourth round, the throat was drier, the prickling sensation started to set in. Obviously, the breathing dried up the throat and it did not self lubricate. It occurred to me that during yesterday's lunch, I masticated the Persimmon into juice before swallowing it. The smooth and cool sensation soothed the prickling area, immediately there seem to be a switch that I notice the prickling was gone for the moment.  It dawn on me now that because no one found anything wrong with the tongue and throat does not mean that the problem was not there. We only focused on the macro view of things. The scarring of the nerve nearer to the cranial; ingesting pills Lirica to numb the nerves in the process other functional faculty became duller; adjusting sleep to balance the body; listening to sound waves that benefited the psychological wel...

A huge monitor lizard. Last night I had a good sleep. The smartwatch was also recording an improvement from the last few nights. I had seven hours and 19 minutes of sleep and one hour forty-eight minutes of deep sleep. I am not sure what was the standard or the norm. I shall google and check. The striated heron.  I did about 4000 steps around the Bishan Lake this morning and completed the BaDuanJin. It took about an hour. Another thing I did was to play classical music during the walking. It was a good one hour. The sun was warm and enriching.  While I was cooking, suddenly I saw some stars on the right side of my vision. I quickly set the potatoes to slow cooking and went to rest on the sofa and did some deep breathing and massage my head. It did not improve. I quickly went to put the Tofu and soya dark sauce into the wok and let it boil so that I could attend to my stars. I started to massage the back of my neck and the stars disappeared when I massaged the right side of the...

The Tibetan Bowl with the timber instrument.  Side view of the Tibetan Bowl Yesterday was an intense day finding new ways to deal with the prickling of the tongue, or the Glossopharyngeal nerve. I was very inspired by the book ' Activating the Vagus Nerve '. It was a time to work back and forth, crossed checking what I did two years ago that the syncope did not occur again then, I was well for two years. I only had a few incidences of sharp pain in the tongue if I took strongly acidic and gassy drinks or fruits. I usually skip them, but I was still eating chocolate ice cream. I could not eat ice cream now it would trigger a sharp pain. There were a few things I started: Did not drink water one hour before I sleep. This was to reduce waking up to pee and interrupt sleep.  Slept on the side instead of belly up. I suspect this helps to prevent me from using the mouth to breathe. Use the watch to track my sleep pattern.  Gargle with saltwater before sleep It helped to improve...

Today the prickling sensation was stronger I was getting more cautious, but it did not help at all. I did about 3,000 steps I stopped and wind down with the BaDuanJin. Now the prickling sensation came like a spark without any form of stimulation. Even when I was sitting still or standing it could erratically spark. For sure somewhere the throat or tongue was overstretched. Thinking back two years ago after I had the first incident of the syncope that caused the head trauma resulting in the brain hemorrhage, I stayed at home for a month not talking to anyone nor doing much social media. I was diligently writing Chinese calligraphy in the morning, afternoon I watched and learned from YouTube, about Chinese calligraphy. In the late afternoon, I started exercising and slowly increased the number of steps and eventually on the last week of the month could complete 10,000 steps. In that month, I had cleared the haemorrhage and there was no incident of syncope. The distinct differences this t...

We reached Bishan Garden at about 7am. We had a nice walk and made 5 rounds along the lake. I did 3500 steps and decided to stop as I was experiencing prickling sensation more often on the tongue. The XOSS did not work today. I tried quitting the program and restarting but it still did not work. I could only rely on the ROCK smart watch. My heart rate was between 80-95 bpm.  Finally today, I sat down to transfer data and apps from my old mobile to the new one, it was postponed for many weeks since I bought it about a month ago. Astonishingly the MI fit I was using for the smart weighing machine gave me a big shock. With the old mobile I was scoring 74 and this morning I scored 80, however after transferring the data to the new mobile the score change from 80 to 63, so strange. I winder how could this happened. The profile is exactly the same. So where went wrong? I measure again after dinner, it is 60.5 kg and a health score of 63. I had dropped from average of 74 to 63, unbelievab...

We went out for morning exercise at 7am. I walked at a slower pace, did about 3500 steps, then wind down with BaDuanJin. There were still some prickling at the tongue while I was walking. Q We saw the Flamed Back Woodpecker, hopping and scanning the bark of the tree trunk. Beautifully lighted in the golden light. She photographed, while I continued my walk. There were many kind park users who love to collect the crust of bread and spread them on selected grass patch, disregarding the no-feeding sign or the regulation. Previously I ever saw a beautiful yellow Oriole choked on the piece of bread. The Myna and the pigeon, mostly the black and grey bird know how to break it down before swallowing them. A proliferation of Myna and Pigeon can impact on the population of other birds population that are necessary for an ecologically balanced nature. Beauty is perhaps the only possible measure of that balance.  I always believe in sharing food with birds or animals but not the wrong kind of...

It was 6:16am. The vibrating and beeping watch woke me up. I stretched and twisted about to warm up before stepping into the bathroom. I tested my blood pressure, it read 106/64 (systolic/diastolic) and the pulse rate was 74 bpm. I noticed the hospital measured me frequently, every three hours in the night and after my breakfast. So I ordered one online before I was discharged. I bought the Sinocare from Lazada. It would give me a figure slightly lower than that measured in the hospital. The RoHs watch also measured my blood pressure but the figures were at least 20 higher, so I would not take it seriously. At eleven I measured again, it was 93/60 and pulse rate 75.  I did about 3500 steps with a slow pace and wearing the XOSS, checking often the heart rate with the mobile apps Nike Run Club. It hovered around 80-95 bpm. I ended the exercise with BaDuanJin. The stretching was good and I could feel the warmth streaming from my arms and legs.  I realized that the pill cause some...

Since I was not feeling good yesterday evening I stayed indoor to do some light walking. I did about 2,000 steps and then wind down with BaDuanJin. It took about 45 minutes. In all, I tried to maintain the heart rate below 90 bpm. I was experiencing less prickling.  I decided to make an excel to record my situation with temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. I used the oximeter and the XOSS for heart rate during exercise.  Later afternoon, at about 4:30pm. I felt very tired and was trying to sleep but had a strange feeling of needing more energy to breathe, as if the chest and the stomach were tightening. I tried to rest but it was difficult. I stayed in bed for an hour, was not really sleeping but drifting along, woke up an hour later.  It was dinner time, so I started cooking. Although I was slightly light and not so alert, moving around, being occupied with cooking helped to distract from the discomfort. Today, as usual, I cooked porridge with pumpkin; it was eas...

I woke up late today, at about 7am. I did some typing and it started to rain. So we took it slow today. We went to Bishan Park at 8am. The rain had stopped and the clouds were clearing. When we reached the park the sun came out in full. There were less people.  Everyday I would wore the chest belt in the car and position the XOSS gadget in the middle of the chess. It gains two beeps, indicating that it was paired with the mobile app, Nike Run Club. I noticed that the heart rate was reflected but the rest of the function remained as zero. There was no updates for pace, cadence, distance, and no voice report when I hit a kilometer. Kinda strange. Perhaps I was having conflict with the new program DaFit for the smart watch, which connected in a breeze. I opened the Google Fit too to compare the readings of different applications, maybe the processors cannot cope. I was also listening to the jogging music too.  The prickling sensations were more pronounced after about 3,000 steps....

My temperature for last evening was 37.2 and this mornign it was 36.2, a difference of 1 degree. I tested several days, the result were the same, a difference of a degree celsius. I was not staying air conditioned room unlike the hospital so that might be one of the factor. The body was perhaps colder in the early morning and warmed up through the day.  We were at the Bishan Park by about 7:10am. I started to walk around the lake while my wife did two rounds and then continue photographing the birds. Again it was a good sun rise with warm and glory. I used her camera and did a few shots of the Bishan River, or some also called it the Kallang River. I tried to get the body to be accustom to jogging by walking for the whole circuit except for about 50 meters I would jog. I monitored the heart rate and saw that I never went higher that 130 Bpm. The shoes were giving blister above the big toe. It was going well, for about 4,000 steps, until I felt that there were some pricking at the t...