Welcome to my blog! Hope you will visit from time to time and enjoy reading! What do I plan to write? Well, more reflective stuff. I'd like to share my thoughts, both about outreach here - so that you can pray for me - but also my thoughts about what's been happening both here and in Singapore. But, like today's entry, sometimes I'll just write about what life is like.
I've decided to move my blog from msn to blogger for (hopefully) easier access. Anyway, here's what I posted on 6th November...
It's 6 pm here and already pitch dark outside. My first autumn in Chiba (which is part of the Kanto region). Actually it's relatively warm still. We were about 16 degrees C today, while Sapporo was 6 degrees and had its first snow of the season. So I'm not complaining. With my sinuses still quite sensitive and infection not cleared up, I'm thankful for the warmer weather and higher humidity.
Speaking of my sinuses, it's been more than 2 weeks since my sinus operation. The first week after the operation went very well, with the bleeding subsiding and cough clearing up completely. And no pain either. Then last Friday evening, I experienced my first sinus headache since the op. Then, to make matters worse, I took my antibiotics (to the medically-attuned ones among you - it was Clarithromycin) on a half-empty stomach. Wow! I thought Clarithromycin didn't cause the same reaction as Erythromycin, but the next day I had the works - vomiting, nausea - plus a sinus headache. Argh.
Well, thankfully, I was able to keep light food and water down by the next day. What a relief. But I had lost 3 kg in 24 hours.
Thankfully, this week has been stable. The sinuses seem to have been "dormant" until last Friday, then this week, I've been drawing out lots of bad stuff (dried blood, mucus, etc) from my nose. But today the nose has been relatively clear. Phew.
Please keep praying that the infection will clear completely, and that the bleeding will stop too! Thanks! And thanks for reading my first entry!
