Wednesday night I left work around 9:00pm and went to my cousins dewaneya wear only two of us sat there for a bit. I had a lot of work so I stayed late, but then I passed by my cousins since I was hungry and I knew there would be food. I honestly got dizzier by the minute so I left early and went to Zait & Zaatar to pick up a few sandwiches, and when your hungry you tend to order more then you really need.

I was happy to get home and eat some food while watching anime. I was very happy after finishing the meal and about an hour and a bit later I was asleep around 11:15 pm because I was so tired and full.

Then around 5:15am I woke up and felt something very strange and within seconds I felt pain in my chest, I got right up. I knew what it was after a bit, it was a lot of built up heart burn hitting me one go. My fist was clenching my t-shirt and I knew I couldn’t do anything about it. I drank some cold water but that doesn’t really help. So I got up to walk around but that didn’t help much either, so I walked out of my room to get me a fresh yellow apple. After eating it and drinking some water the pain started dying down after 5 minutes, and I did feel better. It was all my fault and I wouldn’t want to repeat that mistake again, it was a freaky feeling to wake up to.

I have love/hate relationship with dentists, when I really think about it, its just a hate relationship. I hate going to the dentist since every time I go to dentist even if I’m not in pain I leave in pain. I have never left a dentist thinking, I’m happy I went. Maybe it was better for me that I went but I still don’t feel happy about it.

I have been feeling pain in my back tooth for the past couple of days, but I have been ignoring it hoping it goes away or goes somewhere else. With a tooth pain it becomes difficult to concentrate, and the pain I’m having is resulting from pressure. I don’t have a cavity thats for sure, I brush my teeth about 4 times a day, and I’m not much of sweets person. Its the pressure that hurts, and I’m delaying the trip to the dentist as much as possible, but at one point I’m going to have to go.

I don’t have a specific dentist that I go to in Kuwait, since I have run into problems with different dentists and sometimes they really screw up. At one point I didn’t go to a dentist for four years until I had to in the states, and to my luck I stumbled upon a fantastic compassionate dentist. But here I’m going to try my luck with one dentist maybe next week, it all depends how much pain I feel over the next couple of days. I’m very stubborn when it comes to the dentist.

I’m usually a very stubborn person when it comes to going to a Doctor, and usually I try to let the sickness run its course and I will be fine. Today in the morning I woke up feeling drained, and when I was driving I suddenly felt my head start spinning, I felt very light headed. I pulled over since this was the first time something like this has happened to me. At that point I decided to call the doctor at 8:00am and I spoke to him I remember that I have some meeting so I asked if I could pass by around noon, he said anytime since I’m feeling dizzy.

I opened up the little fridge in the Landcruiser and drank two mini-7 Ups to just give me a jolt of energy. When I was at work I felt nauseated the whole time there but I had to keep on going since I had a lot to finish up and I wanted others to finish a few things up as well. I’m usually following up with people, just like a storm through the office, every once in a while I would get this feeling in my gut that something is wrong and I have to rest for bit. I ran around to all the meetings, and finished up a lot of work, I thought to go to the doctor after work, I’m just stubborn and I don’t like leaving any work unfinished. This time I saw that I was losing energy and I wasn’t being as productive as I should be so decided to go to the doctor, but I did finish most of my work. I left work around 2:30pm to be at the doctor by 3:00pm. After his analysis he gave me the medication and I went home to get a little sleep, but I have few things that I wanted to do. Its annoying being sick!

Michael Moore is making another movie and this time is about the American health system. The movie is called “Sicko” and it seems to eb causing some waves. There are a lot of ups and downs to the American Health system but is isn’t as good as it seems to outsiders. The article by the independent goes into deeper details and manages to uncover a lot of truth regarding insurance companies and the hospitals involved.

I myself had personal experience with the US medical system and insurance companies. I rarely went except when it was a medical situation and I had to go. The first time was getting food poisoning and waiting for three hours in the emergency and they didn’t do much either, they just told me to throw up if I felt like it. The second time was due to a sport accident and I had a deep gash across my head and it needed about 14 stitches, but I remained in the emergency room with my friends for over 4 hours with nothing but to put pressure on my head. One time was due to a motorcycle accident and I had to be patched up. That was a bad experience since I felt like a rag which was sown back together and thrown out. Every time it had to do something with health insurance or something of that nature. The only time things go smoothly is when your paying out of your personal pocket. They do have the best medical equipment and great nurses, but they stop caring if people can’t pay. The article is a really good read and gives you better incite into the US medical system.

Link: Independent

I got a request for some help for blood donation. Please people this man is in need of help with blood donations.

Cardiac Hospital (Mostashfa Al Sadri)
Name: Yousif Ahmed Yaqoub Alqabandi
File Number: 151308
Blood Type: B-

When you go to donate blood at the Blood Bank in Jabriya you can specify who it is for and they will see if your blood is eligible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
People don’t realize that we are short on blood in Kuwait, there aren’t enough blood donations and there isn’t enough awareness regarding it. If you can donate then please donate, you will be helping somebody at some point in time.

First off I would like thank everyone for their kinds words and its very much appreciated.

My mother has gotten better over the past few days, hopefully she will be coming home tomorrow. It has been very hectic, and my mind has been overload for the past couple of days.

Its funny, it really is mind over body. I really didn’t sleep much, if I went home its only because my mother would get angry that I was staying late and come at dawn. Its usually because I can’t sleep and my mind is bouncing at 300 kph, I couldn’t think of anything except what to do and what I needed to do and keep things smooth. I also thought about work, and what I had to do. I try to keep a clear head at all times, but I ignored everything else because it wasn’t priority one in my head.

She had a rough first two days but slowly things have gotten better. And my family was constantly there, and somebody was always bringing food or something, it was good. And it kept the mood light. We also gave food to other patients in the ward with us and the nurses because the hospital food was so horrible. You could tell people really appreciated it. And in the section we were in, some people were in a lot of pain and you wish you could help them. Its hard not to want to help, even something small.

I have a lot to talk about regarding hospitals, but thats a later point.

I was forced to come back home early by the family since I looked like a Zombie. I couldn’t go to sleep when I got home, I called and it seemed everyone was enjoying themselves with my brother, aunts, cousins, and a few other people there with my mother she was enjoying herself and it seemed she wasn’t having any problems. But I couldn’t just go to sleep so I went for a quick ride on my bike and got a bite to eat before passing out.

I will be going in around 6:30 am to beat traffic and then go to work because I have a lot on my plate, and my brother will be there. Good family and good friends, things couldn’t be any better.

It has been one hell of a day, I’m going to be out for the next day to.

I just spent the last 13 hours at the hospital with my mom at the hospital. I got a call at work that something happened so I went back home and took her to the hospital. I left work with some people and took off, things have been up and down with her and it got worse this morning.

So I’m happy that she agreed to go to the hospital to at least be under observation. She has somebody with her for the night and its 12:30am right now so I’m gonna get a couple of hours of sleep and be back by 4:30am. I think she will be leaving tomorrow but last week was a bit of scare and so was today. A lot of family came by and stayed most of the day a well.

I’m just happy she is a little better. I got work but I’m putting that aside for now. I wanted to post a few other things but I will leave it at this for now and get back to you guys later. What a roller coaster of a day!

I get heartburn from certain things that I eat and its a few specific types such as greasy pizza, shishtawook with too much garlic, or a low quality burger. These are the things that I usualy avoid, fresh pizza like the thin crust kind or just fresh ingredients, but when its greasy like from Pizza Hut or Dominos it really has a bad effect on me so I avoid them. The other day I ordered shishtawook which had extra amounts of garlic, and I really enjoyed it.

When I woke up in the morning I got this painful sensation in my chest, and I drank a lot of water but still didn’t do much. I went and got myself a cold 7up and that helped a bit. I could feel it, right there with a light burning sensation I didn’t know if it was going to let up or going to get stronger. I knew that is was from the shishtawook and it was completely my fault so I’m not going to do that next time, but damn it was annoying.

I didn’t have any medication to take for heartburn so I went over to starbucks and picked up a Tall plain Mocha Frappachino and I have to say that it felt like the fires of London being put out. I felt so damn good after that. I try to avoid anything that causes me heartburn, and one of those things is things with lots of dough such as pizza or za’atar sandwichs or things like that. It just sits on your chest and doesn’t lighten up, so it isn’t the best feeling in the world.

I got up this morning thinking I had a few things to finish up at work, but that was different then what my body was saying. I woke up at 6:00am hot as hell and I really wanted to cool off. I tried getting up but I was having a hard time, it felt like my joints were all rusted up for the past 50 years. I need some WD 40 or something, I looked at my watch and thought I was good for time, I got from bed and sat on my chair, then I really couldn’t move. After 30 mins of not doing anything specific I switched back to bed.

I got a few phone calls which I had to take between 8:00am to 10:00am to make sure a few things at work was sorted out. Then I was in light sleep, a few people at work and some family kept calling, I have this weird thing that I always pick up the damn phone! But once they hear my voice I make the Cookie Monster sound like Mariah Carey! hehehehe! I woke up around 3:00pm and I feel better but still out of it!

I was planning to go home early but I didn’t get a chance there were a few things I had to finish up at work. I got home and just laid there for a while trying to figure out what I wanted to do, because I didn’t want to sleep.

I was online for a while and then I caught movie on Showtime that I wanted to see from the start which was cool. While I was surfing I was looking into the antibiotic that was pumped into me. Now I know why it caused a hell of a lot of pain, if an antibiotic is pumped right into you it burns where ever its spreading. That really was annoying, it kept going until the morning so for 12 hours before subsiding that it wasn’t a distraction, but at least this time I know!

After that I passed out for a couple of hours on the couch while trying to watch a chinese martial arts movie in Manadarin without subtitles! By the time I realized there weren’t any subtitles I was too lazy to get up and change the movie, so I just watched some of the fight scenes until I passed out. I know I’m going to need some rest, I will be going in for a few hours at work and leaving since I don’t have meetings. I just want to finish up a few things.

Right now I’m drinking some weird tea mixture thats soothing my chest and throat!

(We need good looking female doctors and nurses, I would heal faster! hehehe)