December Post - 2

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Sunday, 31 December 2023.

Okay, let's start with the context dulu lah aa. Before my 43rd birthday, I was diagnosed with Hypertension and it started with this. Well, bukan plang is the actual reason but here's the context of the story. Eh berapa banyak context laaa.

So this was taken on the 2nd day of Ramadhan this year. Kami membali tapau in Tutong. At this time my head mulai udah sakit sakit and kinda berabis lah sakitnya but ku tahan. Biasalah kan namanya jua time awal awal puasa just like in yester years. The first week my body will be trying to acclimatize with fasting hence I will be suffering from headaches.

And as usual lapas sungkai when I have food and makan panadol all will be well.

Later in the night, I went to have an early sahur at Anjung Saujana with Amir and Jirul. Jirul was visiting his family for a few days hence biasalah membawa sahur taus minta hantar ke hotelnya. I had a good nap before meeting them and the headache hilang. However, once ku di sini it started to creep on and then sakitnya makin kuat sampai ke esok pagi. To the point aku nda dpt puasa.

The next morning, we went to KB to have sungkai with my family but as I mentioned earlier, the headache had gotten so bad that my body ached. To the point where when I was walking up to my car. The wind from a passing vehicle ached me. Both my wife and mom told me my blood pressure was for sure in the danger zone and I should get myself checked. Biasalah ego hantap nda kan mau mendgr although if I'm being honest takut ku plang. So I promised my wife that I will get myself checked.

Hehehe I promised my wife that I'll get myself checked but I didn't tell her where. So when to Yong Clinic, Sengkurong, and the Dr. checked my blood pressure and it was in the region of 180/110 which was very high. She told me, she would give me medication to ease my headache but I need to go to the Government for a proper check.

Got myself checked and at that time my BP was still in the high region, so the Dr. gave me a few weeks to control my meal and take a small medication. 5mg yo aimulanya and as of today, I'm on 14mg of hypertension meds and 500mg of diabetes meds.

So what can I say now? To you my dear readers, if you are pushing the late 30s. Jarang exercise didn't even care about what you eat. You need to pace yourself. I ain't kidding man, after talking to doctors, and potentially knowing where I would end up with, I promise myself that I will at least take care of myself. And to promise my wife that I wanted at least another 40 years of living with her. 

Hence now I put a lil bit of effort into taking care of what I eat. I do enjoy the usual comfort food here and there but mesti sentiasa berjaga as you do not want to rely on medication only.

In Shaa Allah.

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