Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

I wondered what is happening to the family clinic that I go to, because when I went there again this morning, there again was a new doctor on duty. Previously when I had problems with a persistent flu, it was Dr. O who saw me, and drew my blood for the tests.

Just last week, when I went to the clinic for my sleeping problems, there was a new doctor sitting in the practitioner chair. Dr. L was working in her pregnancy, which made me wonder whether she was covering for Dr. O. This sometimes happens when male doctors are summoned back by their National Service unit. I didn’t dwell too much on it, since I was more concerned about my out-of-whack body clock.

However, today, there was a petite lady in her mid-40s in the doctor’s office. Dr. T dressed conservatively, as if she was attending a board meeting. She wore a normal floral-print dress with a black unzipped jacket. That didn’t matter, I liked it that she was able to converse in Chinese, since I feel awkward speaking in English with strangers. (Don’t mistake my fluency with familiarity!)

It turned out that on my first visit with Dr. L, I was prescribed with placebos to trick my mind into falling asleep. While I am comforted that I could fall asleep with the help of fake medicine, now she has told me about it, there is no way the same medicine was going to work again, so Dr. T decided to put me on Diazepam. If you have played the popular PS game Metal Gear Solid, you would know Diazepam features in the game as a barbiturate to help Snake aim his sniper rifle at his targets. I pondered over the irony for a while before I realised that I had managed to recognise the medicine straight off the label - my very first! Kudos to game developers; who ever said that you don’t gain anything from playing computer games must have been a really unstimulated person to be unaffected.

I got back the lab report for my blood test taken in September 2006, which essentially gave me a breakdown on the components of my blood. Other than Haemoglobin, I was totally lost at Polymorphs, Lymphocytes, Monocytes, Eosinophils, etc. Well, as long as the composition isn’t anything out of the reference range, I think there isn’t much to be worried about (I still have to worry about sleeping, remember?).

When I reached home, I struggled against the temptation to fall asleep right in the mid-day, which was mind-numbing. It feels like I had just stayed up the night before. In the end, I had to sleep some just to relieve myself.

P.S. I have no idea why I decided to post this, since it looks really boring after I have read it twice. Here’s hoping that I regain my sleep hygiene, and write about something else other than my inability to fall asleep at the appropriate time! It is 11:49pm, and I’ve just swallowed half a tablet of the pill. If what Wikipedia says about the drug is correct, I’ll be asleep by 12:15am. Good morning!

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