THE REVELATION: ANKLE FRACTURE

I just got back from KSH yesterday. Went for my first physical therapy (fisioterapi) at the hospital. After a month of not having any movement at my ankle, it moved finally...painfully...arghhhhhhhhh. The medical assistants at the center were so helpful and convincing. They adviced me not to be afraid of doing the exercises as the ankle and my left leg need to be moved eventually. I also must continue doing the exercise at home too...it is the key for a better recovery and to avoid any limp when I move. Actually I had also browsed through the internet to find out other self-assisted treatment that further can enhance my recovery...found a few. And coincidentally I found two photos of x-ray of an ankle fracture that are 95% almost identical with the one that I am having right now. Hope Miss Peesha is happy to see this...(see above photos..they are not mine, but they look almost exactly like mine...). The location of the fractures, the plating and the screws are almost identical... The fibula bone is the one that gets the five screws and a plate implanted and the bimalleolar bone gets one screw fixed.

KILLING THE TIME!

I've always wanted to have this kind of picture in my space here, found it and it is so amazing I thought. A garden I've long dreamt of. Was so close to setting up one...till 1st of August came...and almost erased it from my mind...

By the way, like I wrote before that I would finish reading the Harper Lee's greatest American Literature, "To Kill A Mockingbird"...and yes finally I did it this morning, after almost three-days. The childhhood events storied in that book were adventerous. It is a story of a Finch family down in Maycomb County, Alabama, the two main children characters in the story, Jeremy and Jean, brother and sister along with their lawyer father and their life, encounters, conflicts, laughter, sadness, human dignity lie perfectly in the rest of the story. Somehow, I thought Jem (Jeremy) was a lot like my husband's character when he was small (I strongly believe...knowing him!!). He would be the Jeremy type, tactical, determined, a little bit selfish at times, just a cynical of him...

And then this Jean or her nickname Scout the little sister, well she was the one who narrated the whole story. And there's Dill, the 'pusher' type of friend they had. The adventure, started when they were so keen to find out about the Radleys, their mysterious neighbour who shut the door all the time, the father only came out at 11.30 in the morning every day...why?? Well you should read them on. A nice book to read to rekindle our childhood memories. Well enough of that Miss Lee's book.

Today, just another day of the other days, the normal days will soon be changed with the arrival of the most awaited month of the year, The Ramadhan Al Mubarak. We will start fasting next Monday here and before soon we'll realized that time passes by very smoothly and fast.

I wanted to start another blog and a Malay version blog with of course different kind of experiences and topics...probably add some .... I do not know...just anything that will be nicely written in Malay.

ALIVE

It has been 20 days after the accident. Someone requested the aftermath photo of my leg...I am so sorry...I can't do that, not ready to expose myself on the net yet, however, I feel that I am getting better each day...InsyaALLAH. Thank you for the concern... By the way, are you back here in Terenganu my dear? I thought you were on a week leave....probably wrote it from home yea?

There were so much things to do and so far I have completed a few. One of them is the questionnaire that I am working on. I am on a research project with my colleagues, something on the Processed Food (Halal) Purchasing Decision. I have done it but I could not get through to email it to them...do not know what is wrong with the Intranet?? Try again later. Secondly, a claim letter for a program we did on campus last July, done that too...hope my 'boss' is happy with it...
Yesterday, a friend dropped by asking a few things about the team building program that I've been involved previously, and she would be taking over my tasks...all the best! Hope everything goes well...
See..not so bad too for me, eventhough I am injured badly, there were so many other things that I still can do...
I've done reading a novel too..."First Love, Second Chance"...by a not-so-popular author actually. The novel was bought last year! I could not find time reading it passionately before....so this is the time...since I've got plenty now... I ended up crying at the few pages towards the ending...so touchy...It is about family, love, children, first love, a second chance marriage and stuffs...only married couple could understand that you know...
I am now finishing another novel, "Man and Wife"..whoaaa....another 'thrilling' experience of a marriage life...
I've also a few more books like "To Kill A Mockingbird", I happened to have heard it sometime ago...very long time ago, and last weekend after visited the doctor in Kuantan, my husband kindly enough to bring me to the new mall, ha ha.. the East Coast Mall...so I told him, I want to go the bookstore...luckily one was open, the MBS Bookstore ( I wish for a MPH...but doesn't matter)So picked a few books... I've also got the "La Tahzan" (Don't be sad...) Malay version "Jangan Bersedih" collection. Coming back to the Mockingbird book, written by Harper Lee...it is about Life, Survival and True Events...and I have yet to finish it....and I am going to finish it.
The La Tahzan was introduced by a speaker during one of the trainings I attended at work. Fortunately found it at MBS, so took one and it is very motivating and helpful for a person like me now at the moment....to not be sad of what has happened...InsyaALLAH. And I still want to read its English Version.
I guess that's all for an update of what is roughly going on. Later...

WHAT A WEEK!

Hi there! I am back... I had an accident last weekend...Friday the 1st of August. Actually I fell and broke two ankle bones...at my home. It was very early in the morning...like 7.00 in the morning. I wanted to go to the backyard to look at my herb plants when I accidentally slipped on a wet sandal and fell....prakkkkkkkk! phewwwwww the sound of the broken bones were so terrifying. I knew then that I have broken a bone. I yelled out for help and my husband hurriedly took me to the nearest hospital. Had the x-ray done and yesssss I broke my bone...two bones to be exact.

The pain was so torturing...and within an hour my ankle was swollen badly... Both of us got panicked but as expected the medical assistants at the hospital calmly told us that my injury was not urgent and they need to attend to the patients that need more attention or should I say...more 'emergency' than me! I remembered a friend who told me that the emergency section will attend to you immediately when they see blood coming out from the patient...and as for my case, I was not bleeding but sincerely...it was so darn painful....

While waiting, my husband decided that he would take me to the private hospital instead...and get things more well managed and attended. Before I left the medical assistant put a cast around my broken ankle to reduce movement and definitely the pain that I am experiencing.

By the time we reached at the Kuantan Specialist Hospital from Dungun Terengganu, it was almost 5.30p.m. Luckily we get to meet the orthopaedic, Dr Yong immediately. I went for another x-ray that afternoon and the doctor told me that a surgery need to be done to fix the bones. A metal plate with 7 screws were implanted at the broken areas the next morning during a one and half-hour surgery.

And now I am on a 2-months medical leave...

I must stop now and continue with more later...