One hug means thousand to them...^^v

Remember when we first hug by our parents? Of course You can't. I'll pay for those who can still remember that sweetest memory. (*_*)


4 weeks duration in psychogeriatric clinic teach me a lot of how can I take over my parents role of taking care me until what I am now to take care of them when they reach their golden years. Prof. Ros always remind us of increase our frequency of calling our parents, as we do not know when they are feeling lonely or in much better word 'missing' you......

They will never tell you to come home or call them regularly or state that "you must call me every 2 hours" for example.

I would like to share some of the knowledge about psychogeriatric problem. In a simplify version of course.

Most of the patients came to the clinic, diagnosed with dementia either Dementia of Alzheimer-Type or Vascular Dementia which is most likely caused by stroke. Post-stroke event. The prognosis is better is Vascular Dementia compared to Alzheimer in etiology.

Today I went to the Alzheimer Care Centre in Taman Seputeh. We actually went there for pre-visit for our community project. Then, one of the caregiver there asked one question of epidemiology, among all races in Malaysia, why there so many chinese people get Dementia?

Then, we came to the conclusion that chinese people do take it serioulsy. It is a good sign though. When I reflect back, yea, Malay people they tend to normalize everything. 'Normalizing symptoms'. Oh, tu nyanyuk je tu, biaselah.

Quite sad to hear that. They will just only seek for treatment when the conditions deteriorating. As in Dementia, there is a term called BPSD (Behavioral Physiological Symptoms of Dementia), why I'm saying that. When the patient presented with these symptoms, they will be agitated, restless, wandering around and even accompanied with psychotic symptoms such as delusion and hallucination. Where the 'disorganized behaviour' comes around and started to disturb the family members.

What actually can we conclude from that?.....Public education about this disease is very poor and seems that they perceive this thing as normal to aging, which is actually not. For instance, when the patients first presented with apathy emotion (dulled emotion) where they become so quiet and undisturb as compared to agitated patient.

Once they reach this kind of disease, they will turn out to a child-like behavior. If we can just think rationally, why can't we take care of them same as they bring us up until what we are now. Bath, feed, entertain and love them. What they need are just a hug from us...not money to repay them back.....

It is not easy to do and I do realize it. But, I do think that we all should think that now, not waiting until we reach that time. Do not wait a 'suitable time' to call them, or to go back home.

Maybe, right now, when you are reading this entry, they are missing you a lot. Take a phone and call or skype them so that thay can see us.

That's all for now. Hee.....

My weekend...awesome!!!

Assalamualaikuam,

After quite some time of abandoning my blog, here I came. Hope this new blog can be two way communication between us as I will post some of the important thing here. And not to forget sharing my bittersweet life as a medical student, as a friend, as a daughter to my lovely parents and as a slave to god.

Ok, in this 2nd entry, just like to post some of the pictures of us during our recent weekend. Pictures tell thousand of words. (^_^)

We begin with the thursday night. We went to the curve to celebrate Yani's 22nd birthday. Yeah, I almost forgot about that. Hope that the 2 small cute cakes just enough to compensate my

ignorance.

Day 1

Thursday night

Venue: The Curve

Sarah, the driver...hehe...kalau bab bergambar mmg x bleh tahan......

Ka, sarah ngan yani yang sgt seronok bergambar. This picture was taken before our dinner which at 11.oo pm. Punyelah lambat nak tunggu muvie.

Time yang ditunggu, blow the candle girl!!....walaupun agak "besar" keknye, namun cukup untuk kitaorang makan malam tu....

What is FAMILY???

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please" was my reply. He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you". We were very polite and went on our way and we said goodbye.
But at home, how we treat our loved ones. Later that day, cooking the evening meal, My son stood beside me very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked him down. "Move out of the way," I said with a frown. He walked away, his little heart broken. I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.
"While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy we use, but the family we love, we seem to abuse”.
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
And .... ... come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think ?

Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU