Life's lessons

Today I learnt:

I'd give anything for good health.

Money seems important. Feels important. But in face of retaining my pretty face (ahem) or maintaining a good health, money becomes so superfluous. And so negligible. 

Was down with a virus invasion and an infection (which I didn't pay much attention to), and I started to run a fever (which I also didn't realise). My face was so swollen it scared me quite a bit. And the swell hurts like mad. I thought I wasn't gonna go see the doctor, but i got scared ......what if its a salivary gland stone?

So i went to the doctor i usually go...TAADAA: CLOSED. Damn?

Plan B: Polyclinic. Travelled (without my underwear lol) all the way to the polyclinic 4 bus stops away in my pyjamas. Waited for like 2 hours and finally got to "see" the doctor. He said many things which I didn't understand, then gave me a referral letter to the Ear Nose Throat specialist at NUH. 

Wait....

.

.

.

What?!

A specialist at the hospital?! :(!!!!

I was quite lost. And scared. And lost. And scared. Did I say I was lost and scared?

So I messaged my siblings and told them everything, and they thought I should seek a second opinion before heading to the specialist. 

"Yeah, why not" I thought. 

When I got home, I started imagining all the scary things that could happen. They're gonna cut open my face and leave a big long scar......and i have 2 possible options to this:

1) JUST DIE. Not gonna live with a scar. On my face. :,(

2) Operate, then go have plastic surgery. Legit, right? Never gonna risk having a less than perfect face. 

Then I began to be weak again. Cried a lot, and tried to sleep. But couldn't sleep despite feeling so tired. Then I decided to go see Nam Seng at Beauty World. He's an awesome doctor!

Travelled down on a long bus ride and started imagining bad things again. Yeah i'm a loser who cries on bus rides. Haha. 

And long story short? Dr Koh gave a different analysis and even showed me his medical book on what it is!

So relieved. So happy. 

And my day went on as usual. Had my meds (polyclinic gave me 60 tablets of pain killers although they rated my pain to be mild - 2/10. Yeah so frivolous right.) and continued my day!

Started to realise how important my face is to me. I mean.....everywhere is important. But if you let me choose between removing my toe nails or leaving a scar on my face, GO AHEAD AND TAKE ALL MY TOE NAILS. If i really have to choose. If. 

And yeah! Thats it :D

Gonna pop some pills and head to bed now. Tata!