Tenth Day - Morning walk 2500 step and was asked to stop

Saw this image in my sleep and decided to draw it after my evening exercise while cooling down the heart beat. Sometimes the image becomes more fussy as time passes. 

Each time I pee I had to alert the nurse so that She can watch over me in the toilet. The sensation of the pee coming out of the urinary tract seems reduced. Previously I could feel the warm too. Now it was like not there at all. Perhaps due to the nerve numbing drug. 

The neck sore was getting better as I decided not to massage it and gave it time to heal last night. 

Dr. Rhamani came during noon.

He did the usual checks. I just reported that during exercise i was unaware that my heart was beat fast until  the ICU centre came to warn me. He said it should be alright. He did the usual test. I realized that I had missed out the light finger touch which he went from my legs, arms and face on both sides. 

Exercise

Today I thought of increasing the number of steps to perhaps 3500, but I was asked to stop because the nurse was alerted by the ICU centre that helps to monitor my heart beat and they think it was going too high. I took a look at the gadget and it read close to 120 bpm. Strange I could hardly felt the pumping heart. It did not seems to beat hard but fast. Again I suspected that it was the drug that numbs everything. Soon perhaps I may think slow and less astute. It was good to not depend on the drug continuously. I have to find a way. 

I was glad that by then I had done 2500 steps and I told them I was going to do the cool down exercise BaDuanJin. I did one routing and felt good. 

In the evening, I started to exercise at about 5:10pm. I walk slowly this time so that my heart beat would not alarmed the ICU centre. My walking pace was maintained at a heart beat around 90+ bpm. After I had achieve another 2500 steps I stopped and started the BaDuanJin. During most of the sequence the heart beat rate was maintained, except when I was doing sequence 5 and 6, there were some bending down of the head which increase the heart beat to 100+ bpm. Interesting that such a simple exercise can have such a result. Anyway, a good discovery. 

The Gama Knife

According to Dr Choy from the previous conversations following are the steps the Hospital and he will take for the Gama Knife procedures:
  1. I will be transported to Mount Elizabeth, basement where the GAMA machine is located
  2. They will put a helmet with for screw on me after they anesthetized me.
  3. An MRI is done and they plan and decide on the operation
  4. Expose to 15 minutes of the GAMA
  5. Upon completion I will be transported back to Raffles Hospital
  6. I will remain in the hospital for a few days for observation


The Gama Knife according to Dr. Choy it one of a kind in Singapore. What it dose is to shoot 198 rays towards the target from all direction. So that only the centre will receive the highest dosage of the rays. 

The effect of the scarring the nerve may not effect immediately but over a few days of time, he advised.

After reading some write up. There were some cases that the GAMA treatment irradiate the disease totally, some for a periods of months and years but recurred and some totally ineffective. Well, one step at a time. 

Eating

I had told my condition to the nurse and one kind nurse now watch over me when I eat. I sat on the bed cross legged, in a mediating posture. The bed is the safest place if I get an attack. It calmed my anxiety as I always took a deep breath before I start. Eating can trigger the attack. My last attack a few days ago was swallowing the vitamin bills that strengthen the nurse. I have to eat to get well and I have to find the most non-triggering way to eat. Eat each small portion, masticate it thoroughly until it is fluid or all smushed up with some fluid before I swallow it slowing with the movement of the throat keeping the tongue still. My head has to slightly bout down so that the food do not move the sensitive area.

Something to learn from eating slowing and swallowing with the throat and tongue fixed. I masticate small chunk of food until it becomes fluid or smushed, I could taste them well that way, perhaps digestion becomes easier later in the stomach, and excretion smooth too. Lunch takes about an hour and a good breakfast lasts half an hour. Every swallowing is accompanied by a little fluid, mostly soup or bean curd drink. 

My study table and eating table. Flexible space as the computer and iPad have small foot print and they are easy to set up.

Standing to type

The hospital has a table that can be elevated and lowered. I use it for meals, sitting down to type and today I elevated it, stand and type. The feeling is different. I guess long siting is not good for posture and also the blood circulation to the butt and legs.


Heart monitoring device

It measures the heart beat and the number of times I breath. It is also wirelessly connected to the ICU monitoring centre. Neat device that helps to tell the patient’s condition.




Self portraits



self portraits taken with the Hua wei mobile, with the beauty setting on portraits to 2, otherwise a lot of realistic details are gone. Cropped in iPad. 

The room


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