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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...