Medical Check-up.

Monday I went with mum to TDMC for a check-up. Even though the University of Hong Kong did not require me to do any medical check up prior to my arrival, we still went ahead and did it. (This is my first time getting a medical check up).

I did not know what tests I needed to do as I had no form unlike those universities of other countries so the nurse just advised me to take up the very basic package (forgot the exact term) plus a hepatitis B test and HIV test (that one was because Singapore unis require them so follow lar).

Got my blood pressure checked. Don’t know what the results represented but I think it was fine as they didn’t say anything. Got my weight and my height taken. 56.2kgs! (I was thinking F**K! I was like 55 or 54 while I was still in Semenyih! LOOK WHAT ROTTING DOES TO YOU! BAH! No amount of spending ‘quality time’ with Max will make it go away.) Anyways, on to height, 168cm (that is without shoes, duh!). T.T Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 2 more cm’s till I’m 1.70m! I want to grow 2cms more! Someone please tell me how. I’m 19 so I still have two more years to grow! *positive thinking positive thinking*

Next stop, the X-ray room. I always thought the X-ray thingy would be more… how should I put it… cool? flashy? Irono. I was expecting blinding lights and some dramatic *chik chak* sounds. =P Forgive me lar. I really think that taking an X-ray is like taking a cool photograph. But it just involved me taking off my (LOL! I would pay to see the reaction on your face now boss! ROFLMAO!) br* and t-shirt, changing into their robe and standing in front of I-have-no-idea-what with my arms held in a weird position for like 2 seconds and it was over. My first time doing all these lar. I know I sound a bit wacked but.. bear with me.

Then I proceeded to taking a urine test and a sample of my blood for more tests. Seriously, I do not know how a urine test works and I have never given it much thought until that moment, when they handed me a plastic bottle and asked me to pee into it. I was like *WTF?*. How in the world am I supposed to do that?!?!?!? I took the bottle, went into the toilet, stood there for like 1 or 2 minutes, looking at the poster on the wall teaching you how to do a urine test. It was sorta like ’start pee-ing, but dont take the first few seconds of the flow, take the one in the middle, that’s it’. That’s what I made out of its cartoonish instruction pictures.

-continued today-

I’ve sorta lost the excitement for writing this post. Anyways, just to end it, turns out I’m anaemic. 7.8 was the reading I got from the first blood sample and 11.3 for the second (which the doctor made me go back to do a second test just three days after). During the three days period, I had liver for meals. Liver boiled with ginger and water, liver fried with garlic, boiled liver. Liver tastes okay but eating it for almost every meal? Uhh, you get what I mean.

Anyways, both the pharmacist and my cousin sister (who did hospital lab work before) thought it was weird of the doctor to instruct me to go back I leave for HK for another test as it takes 120 days to build up hemoglobin or something like that (bio. Eeyuck.). So my cousin sister suspected they screwed up they test which resulted in the 7.8. Okay, maybe sometimes I do feel a little dizzy when I get up too quickly from my bed, but never on the verge of fainting.

Oh well, I’ve learnt my lesson. Eat more meat. I can’t afford to feel lethargic when I’m here with all the walking up and down this hilly Pokfulam Road.

CHICKEN, PORK, COW, FISH!

Blog more about life here later.