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As a junior doctor in her fourth month on the job, death is no stranger to me. Iāve called families at 3am to let them know that their loved oneās blood pressure is downtrending, that this is a...
When I received my diagnosis in 2017, I was still relatively normal. I could still move about like an ordinary person, I just did my daily activities more slowly. For instance, I took longer to walk...
My heart is poundingā¦ My hands are shakingā¦ I canāt breatheā¦ The whole world is spinningā¦ Iām gonna faintā¦ Am I gonna die? These were the thoughts that were running through my mind when...
I waited with bated breath for mum’s message in the hospital hallway. My phone pinged. I saw image after image of a ugly red, fungating mass in a colon. Immediately, I shrunk into my hospital...
I was 14 when I was diagnosed with leukaemia.Ā My parents sold our flat in our home country to finance my treatment in Singapore.Ā A year later, after five cycles of chemotherapy, the cancer was in...
In July 2020, I lost my dad to Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). He was 59 years old and I was 21. In October 2018, my dad visited our family doctor after a fever he developed had persisted for over a...
Around the middle of 2021, I discovered that I was pregnant, so I arranged to see an obstetrician at the hospital.Ā During the check-up, I also decided to raise the issue of the two lumps on my...
Whenever I read Bible verses that spoke of ādying to selfā, I canāt help but have tears well up in my eyes. I will always remember how my mother embodied this value while she was still on...
Papa has Parkinson’s disease. When I first heard this statement, I didn’t think much of it. Because I was young when it happened, I assumed this was just another illness that would pass....