Medical documenting

8 September 2019
@ 0300hrs - worst ever abdominal pain in my life (to-date)
@ 0400hrs - the day the Emergency Department of General Hospital Kuala Lumpur dismissed me disrespectfully, as though my pain didn't matter
@ 0500hrs - first admission in 25 years into the Emergency Department + first CT Scan

11 September 2019
@ 0700hrs - 1900hrs - longest fasting I've ever done in my life
@ 0930hrs - 1300hrs - first time ever to have drank 4 liters of fluid in 4 hours
@ 1700hrs - first time my bowels got flushed clean with zero stool in stock
@ 1730hrs - first oesophagus gastro duodenoscopy scope and colonoscope

What amazed me most was the timing of this incident, and how there might have been divine intervention in some part. (I'm sure there was!)

For the past couple of months I'd been wanting to do a thorough abdominal check due to the frequent abdominal pains I've been having for the past few years - just to confirm that there isn't something seriously nasty growing inside me. It was my medical KPI for the year but also a condition that I had to fulfil in order for us to start family planning again. As important as it was, I procrastinated for months. The incident gave me the opportunity to do all the necessary abdominal tests, from the most basic to the most comprehensive - without having to pay a single dime! It was all covered by the company insurance. Had I not procrastinated and done it proactively on my own, it would have cost me RM 9,000.

Mom was quite certain I wouldn't make it for the Korea trip the next day. I was worried I wouldn't too. Thankfully there were no complications, just 3 minor polyps in my colon and the presence of Helicobacter pylori in my stomach - and the doctor was understanding enough to allow me to be discharged the same day after the procedure was done.

God is good.

2 November 2019
@ 1030hrs - did the urea breath test follow up check and the results for H. pylori were negative.