Thursday, May 13, 2010

Orientation mobility EXAM!!!

Orientation and mobility exam is finally over!! Its to test the ability of the blind or visually impaired in using the white cane. Thank God, the exam were performed in pairs, and my partner had a better eyesight than me...but it was a struggle..it was like a cat and mouse race, because my friend,which sees much better walks very fast.
We were told to go to KL Sentrel from MAB (malaysia blind association). If I'm not wrong, its probably 1km walk. There I was behind my friend with the white cane sweeping from left and right while frantically trying to catch my friend that is already WAY AHEAD...go go go..go faster...Sweat pours down my head, I've never sweat so much for a very LOoooNNNNGGGGGG time. Luckily, my friend was in her uniform (bright green color), so my whole journey was 'look for the green, follow the green'!!! When we reach the traffic light where we needed help from 'normal' people, a guy volunteered to help my friend and I to cross. The path to go into the KL sentrel was horrible, the roads are not straight and I feel like a weirdo swinging her stick in the fully crowded area packed with people. Once, I nearly made a guy fall when he trip on my cane! Oh yea, our mission was to go into KL sentral and find Am Bank.but both my friend and I was to embarrassed to ask for help, in the end the invigilator can't stand us and approach and ask 'Can I help you?" So, in the end we managed to find Am Bank and started our way back to MAB again. (HOT and SWEATY). When we reach MAB, and told another friend that we got help from a guy to cross the road, her first question was ' handsome tak??' -.-"""""""

Saturday, May 08, 2010

Am I really 'luckier'???

Just had my checkups in UMMC yesterday. My CD34 went down again :(... Still have to be on prophylaxis antiviral...White blood cells are still low...My haematologist said I was 'luckier' than most of the other suffering from the same form of cancer as I do (non-hodgkin's lymphoma) because most of them suffered from relapse again and had to go for further chemotherapy and later stem cell transplant. I was thinking in my heart, I would rather have a relapse than to suffer from the side effects that has rendered me blind in the right eye and visually impaired in the left...Am I really 'luckier'..its hard to say...

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