health audit

Clearly I've been a slop, not sloppy in my flat but everywhere else...

Dealing with the every day complaints of little aches, pains, diarhoea...for such a long time and only now I realise that I've been sloppy with myself.

In the last one month I have gone to see doctors twice for migraines, one visit to a specialist about my frequent bloatiness, two visits to seek help for laryngitis and common cold. It's scarier to start counting the times I reach over counter to take my prescriptions.

Loss of voice (a case of laryngitis on Chinese new year's eve) gets me stuck in a mood swing which start a strings of damaging thoughts. You know, the typical self-doubts, depressive & cranky ways..

Didn't help is my short-fused ways when having to deal with all my family members all in one week (it's also called the annual event of Chinese new year). I don't know how but I know next year I want to try to be nicer, to the people, supposedly closest to me. Duh, to think I was the one reminding my friend the other day that "this life and this world has enough terrors and horrors that we really don't need, shouldn't add more unpleasantness to it..".

So my laryngitis turned into a maniac case of coughing and half-dripping nose. The uncontrollable coughing worries me and make me sad. Encounter with a seemingly `I dont really care' GP in a 24-hour clinic last weekend didn't help. Completed one course of antibiotics did no improvement to my condition.

So today in the midst of my sulking in my own world with coughs and mucus all over, I went to see my usual GP, about the only GP in town I trust. She examined my throat and told me not to worry too much and put me on another course of antibiotics, plus she said, I need to start sleeping more, and exercise three times a week.

I know working out is a sure fire way to beat depression (I have a mild case of that, am sure) but the past week and today...I just don't feel like moving much, kept thinking about when will my voice come back (no voice, no work).

Ok, it's time to do that health audit and stop the nonsensical ranting about my life when I have so much...

Going to have Valentine's Day dinner tonight with my hero-man, Indian food it is.

The audit

bad meal times
bad sleeping hours
bad management of time
very lack of exercise
very stressed out...duno why

The action plan

starting dance class in Caterpillar end of this month, jazz
contemplate music lessons
sleep earlier than 2am everyday
regular meals
exercise weekly
I duno how yet, but I have to learn how to get less stressed-out