Tag: health

  • Here’s Your Chance To Get Away (Stay)

    Taking a break does wonders for your physical and mental well-being. Even without taking on a spa package at the hotel we stayed at because it was, how you say it, frikkin’ expensive, the knots in my neck and upper back dissolved after one full night’s sleep (it came back after my son insisted on…

  • Remember, Remember The ‘Stache of November

    I hate shaving and I support men’s health issues, so this Movember movement is win-win lor. If you haven’t already, do register as a mo-bro or mo-sista and start growing that ‘stache. If you haven’t decided on what to get for yourself or someone this Christmas, consider a health screening package – we did that…

  • Fungal Infusions

    Once I found out I was suffering from hypertension, I wasted no time and went to Funan to buy a blood pressure monitor dock that works with iOS. Mais well, right? So it turns out that without hypertension medication (I’m only on two types of statins), my BP has come down from 157/90 to 129/90.…

  • A Week After The Uneventful Angiogram

    Anyone else had an angiogram before and whose arm aches like all buggery even after a week? Mine does. But apart from that, I’ve rested a few days, gone straight into work at writing the Hossan Leong Show: Flying Solo with Hirzi and Jasmine (the multi-tasking Stage Manager) – got your tickets yet? – and…

  • An Angiogram To Be Thankful For

    So I went for an angiogram this morning to see if I had any blockages in any coronary artery, and if so, how bad it was, and if it was bad, whether to do a balloon angioplasty or place a stent inside. The procedure involves threading a catheter through a vein in your wrist into…