Currently, I have to go for TB check-up to ensure that I was not being infected by it. Not only me but to some of my colleagues.

Apparently, one of my colleagues was infected by TB and therefore, the management are measuring their safety for all the staffs and has therefore decided to send us for further medical check-up, only to selected staffs.

Few of my colleagues have been discharge, meaning that they are not infected by it and need not go for further check-up. Unfortunately, I was not that lucky but I was not confirmed having that disease too. I happened to have coughs for the past few weeks and therefore, the X-ray showed that my lungs are not fully cleared.

I was then given antibiotics and will need to return back to their clinic for further check-up. Actually, this is not what has been bothering me. I am being paranoid with works and I am not sure whether loss of appetites is one of the main causes of my stress at work. Just in case you need to find out what is TB. 

I tell you eh, working in this department is killing me. Not only that we are being under paid and no bonus for July’09, ada penyakit lagikkk!! Lepas satu, satu tau!But i don’t blame my colleague who are being infected by it. These are all God’s will. We never know what God has in store for us.:D

What is tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria that grow best in areas of the body that have lots of blood and oxygen. That’s why it is most often found in the lungs. This is called pulmonary TB. But TB can also spread to other parts of the body, which is called extrapulmonary TB. Treatment is often a success, but it is a long process. It takes about 6 to 9 months to treat TB.
Tuberculosis is either latent or active.
 Latent TB means that you have the TB bacteria in your body, but your body’s defenses (immune system) fight the infection and try to keep it from turning into active TB. This means that you don’t have any symptoms of TB right now and can’t spread the disease to others. If you have latent TB, it can become active TB.
 Active TB means that the TB bacteria are growing and causing symptoms. If your lungs are infected with active TB, it is easy to spread the disease to others.
How is TB spread to others?
Pulmonary TB (in the lungs) is contagious. It spreads when a person who has active TB breathes out air that has the TB bacteria in it and then another person breathes in the bacteria from the air. An infected person releases even more bacteria when he or she does things like cough or laugh.
If TB is only in other parts of the body (extrapulmonary TB), it does not spread easily to others.
Who is most at risk for TB?
Some people are more likely than others to get TB. This includes people who:
 Have HIV or another illness that weakens their immune system.
 Have close contact with someone who has active TB, such as living in the same house as someone who is infected with TB.
 Care for a patient who has active TB, such as doctors or nurses.
 Live or work in crowded places such as prisons, nursing homes, or homeless shelters, where other people may have active TB.
 Have poor access to health care, such as homeless people and migrant farm workers.
 Abuse drugs or alcohol.
 Travel to or were born in places where untreated TB is common, such as Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
It is important for people who are at a high risk for getting TB to get tested once or twice every year.
What are the symptoms?
Most of the time when people are first infected with TB, the disease is so mild that they don’t even know they have it. People with latent TB don’t have symptoms unless the disease becomes active.
Symptoms of active TB may include:
 A cough that brings up thick, cloudy, and sometimes bloody mucus from the lungs (called sputum) for more than 2 weeks.
 Tiredness and weight loss.
 Night sweats and a fever.
 A rapid heartbeat.
 Swelling in the neck (when lymph nodes in the neck are infected).
 Shortness of breath and chest pain (in rare cases).
How is TB diagnosed?
Doctors usually find latent TB by doing a tuberculin skin test. During the skin test, a doctor or nurse will inject TB antigens under your skin. If you have TB bacteria in your body, within 2 days you will get a red bump where the needle went into your skin. The test can’t tell when you became infected with TB or if it can be spread to others.
To find pulmonary TB, doctors test a sample of mucus from the lungs (sputum) to see if there are TB bacteria in it. Doctors sometimes take a chest X-ray to help find pulmonary TB.
To find extrapulmonary TB, doctors can take a sample of tissue (biopsy) to test. Or you might get a CT scan or an MRI so the doctor can see pictures of the inside of your body.
How is it treated?
Most of the time, doctors combine four antibiotics to treat active TB. It’s important to take the medicine for active TB for at least 6 months. Almost all people are cured if they take their medicine just like their doctor says to. If tests still show an active TB infection after 6 months, then treatment continues for another 2 or 3 months.
Most people with latent TB are treated with only one antibiotic that they take for 9 months. This reduces their risk for getting active TB.
If you miss doses of your medicine, or if you stop taking your medicine too soon, your treatment may fail or have to go on longer. You may have to start your treatment over again. This can also cause the infection to get worse or lead to an infection that is resistant to antibiotics. This is much harder to treat.
TB can only be cured if you take all the doses of your medicine. A doctor or nurse may have to watch you take it to make sure that you never miss a dose and that you take it the proper way. You may have to go to the doctor’s office every day, or a nurse may come to your home or work. This is called direct observational treatment. It helps people follow all of the instructions and keep up with their treatment, which can be complex and take a long time. Cure rates for TB have greatly improved because of this type of treatment.
If active TB is not treated, it can damage your lungs or other organs and can be deadly.

Of late, my work has been giving me so much pressure until there was one time, i went back home with a heavy head and vomitted when i was having shower. I never had this experience before and there is only one thing which can relate to these vomitting and headache, STRESS.

After the tiring weekends but wonderful and memorable events (my SIL’s wedding), I did not have a chance to take leave on Monday as I had to attend two days course at MDIS. I was happy to attend for the course. It brings me away from stress and irritating customers. I made friend with a lady named Nicole and was delighted to know that she is a breastfeeding mummy too! Her daughter is almost 3 yrs old and she had the same worries as me, “When should we stop b/f our kids?” Hehehhe.

Other than her, the rest of the people were okay okay. The most not okay one was this particular lady who seemed to be unfriendly, only in my eyes lah. I don’t really know what’s her problem because she doesn’t bother to smile at me and the best part is, she made me feel as if I am invisible. Lol! Okay lah. Whatever lerrrr.

Let’s move on to something else. Fasting month is like a month away and I am excited about it. Excited because I am very much in love with Ramadhan month as it brings me to realise the importance of being a Muslim. This is the month where we can prove our strength to endure hunger and avoid unnecessary gossips, skimpy outfit and etc.

My mum used to tell me that fasting without praying will not benefits me at the end of the day because I will somehow have that ZERO markah for my amalan. When I was young, of course I was afraid that I will have zero markah if I don’t pray whilst fasting and that advice, that voice, still lingers in my mind.

My drastic change during last year Ramadhan has brought some curiosity (and of course lah some gossips) among my colleagues and it was as if there was something which has manipulated my mind and resulted me to start praying! It was unbelievable for them and some couldn’t help but to ask me whether if I am doing it sincerely or trying to make myself feel good? I somehow knew what they meant but I just couldn’t be bothered to give my honest opinion to them since i prefer not to talk too much else my amalan semua missing and I will definitely have zero point. Lol!

Unfortunately, the fasting and the praying does not last long, not even a month. I quit fasting and praying after 2 weeks later because I told myself that I don’t have the time to do it and very tired lah. Semangat dua minit aje! That was terrible right? That’s a very LAME excuse, yes i know. :p

Ok, i’ve been dying to upload photos at my blog but i have not been camwhoring for the past months, (all thanks to the stress at work), so these are the photos that i could come up with, my beautiful apek son Mat Shib! Lol!!

He has these favourite words which has been fully absorbed in his mind and has been successful pronouncing the words with full of confidence and without any missing letters on it. They are, “Alamak! ” “Mamak Prata!” ” Apek!”

LOL! Suka ajar anak bukan-bukan?

But the most interesting and yet soothing word that he said is ‘Heylluu!” You should have heard his tone and could never imagine that the voice actually came from a 21 months old boy! LOL! It is something like a British man saying hellu to you in a slang way but with a little high pitch tone.

And of course, the mummy has never missed a chance to snap a photo of herself!

The bacin me.

Till we meet again!

I am happy with our current financial status. Things have been improving and we are so contented to have wonderful supports from our families. On a brighter note, hubby got a big project with a certain company dealing with Hummers and Lamborghinis. Yes, did I type it correctly? Lamborghinis! That is beyond our expectation. Never did I expect that he got the deal to create the website for such a reputable company and that explained why he badly need a skilled photographer in order for him to put all the photos in their website!

After several discussions with him, we decided that we got to take our own risk by taking photos for the Hummer (yeah not Lamborghini because that wasn’t the main thing that the boss wants to promote at the moment). We feel that it is unfair to pay nothing to stranger who volunteered for the photoshoot. They got nothing and we got something. That is so unfair and unjust.

Anyway, it is not my project and the boss will not give us Lamborghini or Hummer just because my hubby got the deal for the website. Lol! I was thinking to earn extra money too after being inspired with the hubby’s hobby which has finally bears some fruits on it.

But what am I to be? I think I am more prone in spending money than to earn money. *roll eyes*

Tracking back on the Hummer photoshoot, I told hubby that it is time to buy good camera or SLR so that we can take better quality of the picture. As usual, he wasn’t keen on my idea and told me that he wants to earn money and not spending money on such items. But heck! Aren’t the SLR meant for work purpose? (of course, to me its more than that, it’s more for my own camwhoring and without any useful purpose, geez!)

Not only that he refused to buy the SLR camera, he even objected to my request of buying a new fan to be placed at Shibly’s room! I almost wanted to scream at him for being so stingy and so unreasonable. I have my reason to buy the fan of course. I do not like the idea to switch on the air-con in his room because i hate to close the window as it only turns out to make his room more dull and gloomy. But come to think of it again, what is the purpose of buying fans when you have air-cons in every room? Well, I do still have my reason and I shall keep that to myself at the moment. 

Apparently, the project that he is working on now has yet to be completed and thus resulted to a “how much do we need to quote them’ question. Of course, few thousands has been lingered in his mind but he is as timid as a mouse can be whenever he have to face with such situation. My husband is not not not good when quoting a price and will always ask for my opinion. Being the ‘ya-ya-or’ accountant wife, ( I have to be ya-ya-or because I love my husband and hate to see him got bullied with ungrateful pests) I will have to give my 2 cents worth of price to him. Only then he will start to open his mouth and give his 2nd thought of my quotation and then agreed with it and will proceed to tell his customer of his best price.

Sigh. Not only he is timid with the quotation stuffs but he is at times, too kind-hearted. After being dealt with a great blow few years back (all thanks to the failure of ***which he has been working so hard on it and were paid with a minimal sum for a price of your monthly power supply bills), we decided not to give face to any friends when comes to business. Business is business and if you’re unhappy with the price quotation, feel free to approach other web designers. We have learnt so much from people that we feel that we are being stepped and stabbed real hard from them. People love to take advantage when we are being nice to them. These people still pretend that nothing happened when their project failed and could even ask for his help again to set up another one! That is very ridiculous and that is part of the reason why he has stayed away from drifting. Drifting was his passion and if you have no money, better stay away from the rich and never invite troubles.

Anyway, Shibly is turning 2 in 3 months time. That is very fast and I have yet to plan for the future. The actual fact is, I planned so many things for Shibly but I have not started with any of my plans yet. I feel that I need to spend more time with him and the thought of being SAHM has to be destroyed forever. I know that I can never be one. But I am thankful of course, to be blessed with this current job and a husband who can still support me at the same time.

My sister in law is getting married this weekend and I am indeed happy for her. Things will definitely changed once she got married and who knows, there might be additional members in our family next year? The thought of having extra member in the family has started to haunt me. Is it time for me to start saving and revised back all my expenses? Will things go smoothly as ever or do I have to juggle with times and thinking of a way to earn extra money to hire a maid in future?