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āYouāre turning 24? Me too!” I’d only been speaking with Emily Ho for a whole 5 minutes, yet we had already made a connection. Both of us were born in the same year and we’d...
āYolanda, I’m really sorry but you have cancer.ā I didnāt know how to react. My mind was a blank. The doctor continued explaining my report, but I just stared blankly at her. As I lay...
Along with the rise of social media platforms ā with Facebook hitting almost 2 billion global monthly active users, more than a quarter of the worldās population ā many have risen to popularity...
Iām not the kind to keep up with health screenings, but I went for a mammogram anyway ā something told me I had to. When my results came back from the lab, my veteran GP confirmed from her...
InĀ 2015, I heardĀ the amazing testimony of Ivan and RachelĀ Tan. TheirĀ baby, Johanna, had beenĀ diagnosed with a series of congenital heart defects that were diagnosed asĀ life-threatening if left...
āThere’s something wrong with your babyās heart.ā In 2014, 22 weeks into my pregnancy, a routine ultrasound revealed severe anomalies in the babyās heart. A rare congenital heart defect...
I remember climbing the Great Wall of China with my father in 2009. My sisters and mother were predictably not game enough to ascend the cobbled steps, but we men were always so brave. I led the way...
Time: 3.43AM.Ā Distance covered: 22.7km.Ā Calories burned: 1,743kcal.Ā Current weight: 52.7kg. That was how far shame took me. At 14 years old, I was training to be a national high jumper. My fat...
OneĀ midnight in April 1999, I was pushed into the operation theatre for an emergency operation. I was then 6 weeks pregnant. My first child was growing in my right fallopian tube and the tube was...