So I made an appointment last Wednesday. It’s said that my doctor had approved me to do this. So I went there, then was told there was no record showing the approval. As a result of that, the nurses had to ask my doctor again.

I waited and waited, half an hour later, I saw my doctor came out of his office but apparently he was in the middle of chasing one of his patients who mysteriously disappeared for the time being. To be honest, my doctor is the one of the most busiest doctors I have ever seen in my life. He is everywhere, clinic, emergency room, hospital ward, and most of time it was after hours or after a surgery when he was still wearing a surgery cap. I often wondered if he ever sleeps, eats, spends time with his family or has ever been on a holiday. I think he works at least 15 hours a day from 7am to 10pm and for the rest of time, he is probably on call all the time.

Anyway, I got his permission finally after a bit of “Doctor Becker” type of scenarios. You know, doctors normally don’t recognise their patients very well when they are NOT in their office environment. I finally got my injection and was instructed to stay for a further 15 minutes in the clinic.

Another boring 15 minutes I waited, wondering if I would go into a shock or a sever allergy reaction or passing out or something. Nothing happened, and I was free to go. For the rest of that afternoon, I was fine, until late of that evening, I started to develop a bad headache.

I spent a whole night in my bed flipping over from one side to another, like a pie being cooked in a frypan. It was almost unbearable and the last time I had the same sort of level of pain was back to 10 weeks ago. I got up and tried to do something, but nothing really worked.

I eventually went back to the bed and prayed after another a couple of hours, it would be the early morning and headache will be gone and I will be back to normal.

Yes, it did happen though leaving me feeling very week in the morning, I suppose that is called “SIDE EFFECT”. Not sure if it’s caused by injection or it was just out of blue, or I was too stressed yesterday. I carefully checked all the documents that I could find in regards to H1N1 vaccine, it all suggested that it’s a safe practise for ordinary human being to take.

Two days later I am still here, despite feeling a bit sore around the injection area 24 hours afterwards. But it all cleared up now. No more dramas appeared to happen so far, and I can still feel some bubble balls being wheeled all around in there.

My husband said I am one of those “little white mice”——不小心当了一回小白鼠!

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Guess who is going to do it? Or the real question is: Is there any person in this house who is suitable for the job better than me?

So, I was given about 10 minutes training in the Canberra Hospital by a registered nurse, who was an excellent demonstrator and explained the steps so well that I almost believed that I had no fears (I said “ALMOST”). This morning I gave the first complete shot on my husband’s belly (yesterday I only involved in cleaning his skin with a wipe and pushing the syringe to the end).

Here we go……90 degrees angle, got it in, slowly pushed the other end of the syringe and pulled the needle out……it felt actually nice to do it, and I think I want to give it another go……is this thing addictive?

Hubby was satisfied after the injection, as there was no pain, no bruise and you even can not see the needle point. Well, his feeling is more important than my pleasure, isn’t it?

I don’t know how you feel about it, I have come to realise (more and more) that my whole life has been a progress of being forced to grow. No matter I like it or not, I am forced to learn new things, to master new skills, to deal with never dealt-with and to understand mystery of the life.

Slowly and slowly, you gain the confidence and see the bigger world that you have never seen before. Your appearance doesn’t change, but you know that you are probably getting closer to be a “Superwoman”

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I guess my heart is not trembling as badly as the last year around the same time, but it took a lot of patience to get things happen. There was a lot of waiting (for him and for me either) and bad sleeps in noisy and never-stopping hospitals. And there seemed to be always some emergency cases worse than his, then was prioritised before him. That even happened when we were already in the holding bay of Operating Theatre.

Well, I guess that’s fine. The Canberra Hospital has almost done the best, given we are getting total free service with this country’s public hospital system in place. Remember 3 years ago when we were in one of hospitals in Beijing, my husband had the same episode. We were asked to deposit 3000 RMB immediately to just get him admitted.

However, when I was sitting outside the Operating Room waiting yesterday, I had very new and funny ideas about the medical world. Witnessing so many nurses and doctors wearing their special surgery clothing going in and coming out of those doors with big sign of “Restricted Area”, I wondered what they are doing.

Would that be similar to someone working with a chopping board, cutting up people’s skins with a sharp knife and getting things in or pulling things out? I was curious…. but my husband couldn’t remember a thing because he was completely put into sleep.

The only thing he can recall is that the operating table was very short. He had a choice of either having his head or feet hanging out and dropping back. And, he was given an icy pole and forced to hold it himself and eat it in the Recovery Room.

I guess we will never know. To me, it seemed to take a very long time to wake him up after the operation, and he was very very very sleepy when was sent from Recovery Room to EDSU ward. I don’t know how he managed to hold a freezing cold icy pole to eat with his eyes barely open. It was cruel but funny.

That was yesterday afternoon. Now he is home. Guess what? I have never been in bed before 9 pm in the past many years, now I am here, under a warm cotton quilt. I have been off the work since Monday, I knew I needed a good sleep even though I didn’t have time to feel like it. So where has my week gone? I don’t know…but I know where I am going to now, I am going to fall asleep

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不过2008年确实是家人健康欠佳的一年。回顾来看，过去的一年对家里大多数人来说都是苦多甜少。老公2008年春节刚过就得了肺栓塞，现在终于确诊是遗传基因导致的蛋白质C缺乏。爸爸四月份开始闹疱疹。这疱疹可生了得，表面症状早就痊愈，但预后不好，神经疼痛，折腾了他老人家已经整整8个月，到现在还是中药、西医、针灸、拔罐、打营养液，疼痛难忍。妈11月份突然查出血小板巨低，浑身青一块紫一块老出淤血，查了半天也找不到原因。吃了一阵激素虽血小板得到了控制回升到正常水平，但因为激素导 致睡眠质量下降、血压升高。妈一天到晚睡不好一个觉。姐因为忙于照顾爸妈，在妈生病后也得了疱疹。好在她年轻、恢复又快又好，目前已经一切正常。年底前听说姐夫体检查出白血球低于正常，准备观察一阵再去查。

现在好像2008年唯一健康没有受损的就是本人了。虽说本人属牛，但并不是身壮如牛。但自己想想：自己好就好在心态平和、知足常乐。做自己该做的事，也留出时间做自己喜欢做的事。生活有规律，吃得下、睡得着，不近恶人、不惹糗事。能为小顺利开心，但不为大困难忧虑。人生苦短，谁活得容易？要给自己找理由高兴，也要对身边人好点儿，让别人好过一些。

不过说明年就是我本命年了，都说本命年要额外注意。妈千里迢迢给买了红腰带、红袜子和红内衣。我虽然不是完全相信，但决定把自己从头到脚武装起来 我这段时间花了点时间研读房子的风水，所以重新布置了家里的一些小东西。说来奇怪，冥冥之中我觉得明年我会过得很不错，也会很有生产力和效益:-) hehe…..走着瞧……

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I guess it was fun in the class, but seriously it certainly won’t be in a real world if someone has to give a CPR in the scene. Imagine all the energy that you have to have to perform a physical part of rescue and the mental stress level that you could expect, especially when the emergency happens on your loved ones. I guess most likely I would lose my nerves and not know what to do at that point of time I just hope that I can still remember the emergency number 000:-)

Believe it or not, I had used ambulance service 3 times myself since I came to Australia, not including those a couple of times that I ran to drive myself to the hospital almost desperately. I know at my age and over only about several years of time, that’s a lot of usage. I still remember those stressful moments at the night time that I had no one around to seek help and I didn’t know what was going on. That’s why I put those ambulance paramedic people in my top trust list as I know once I call out an ambulance, I sort of have handed over someone’s life to others.

Even though nowadays everybody knows a bit stuff about 1st Aid, if something urgent happens, the best way to get help is still to ring ambulance instead of drive yourself to hospital, as the modern technology and equipment that ambulance services have can make sure the higher chance of successful rescue. Certainly I wish I would never need to contact an ambulance in the future, but the whole world doesn’t always do things as you had hoped, does it?

Only one thing I am curious about, the fee for using an ambulance. I knew Medicare doesn’t cover the ambulance service at all, but it seems we sometimes got a bill while other times we didn’t. I just don’t know what game was being played, or it was just one of those my “lucky days” that they forgot to charge me?

FYI, in NSW, ambulance fee charges basic $290 call out fee plus variable rate at $2.62 p/km from the pick-up place to the nearest hospital. So for a normal emergency scenario, you probably would expect to pay about $300.

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