Mind Games
Twig of Stick Insect
Below is a photo taken from an exhibition at the Science Gallery near Guy’s Hospital in London.
Can you spot the stick insect/s?!!! How many can you see?
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Mind Games
Below is a photo taken from an exhibition at the Science Gallery near Guy’s Hospital in London.
Can you spot the stick insect/s?!!! How many can you see?
Skin Care
I started using this facial wash a couple of days ago and I must say I am loving it, especially the very fresh scent.
The scent lasts in your freshly washed skin for ages.
I must say, the scent brought me back to my childhood when we were living in the province where everything is fresh and organic, more organic than what is organic as of today.
This Vitamin C facial wash has that really fresh feel about it. It is apparently made from yuzu, which is a citrus fruit from Japan and around East Asia.
A small drop is all you need. It contains tiny beads which are good for stimulating the pores, it is great for exfoliating the skin. The beads are also biodegradable.
Massage and lather the stuff into your face and then rinse.
It would then give you a fresh, clean and rather taut feeling on your face.
This is very energising to apply moisturiser to your skin.
You then have lovely fresh smelling skin, ready for your make-up or without while lounging at home.
I recommend it. I’ll update in a week’s time if I am still in love with it😜
13 April 2022 Update
Still loving this product but it is not halfway yet but it is getting harder to get a dollop as the bottle is rather hard to squeeze. It would have been better if this bottle has a pump action.
Sleep
Did you get a good night’s sleep?
You do know though that the ideal amount of sleep one gets each night should be 7 hours, don’t you?
More than 7 hours is too much and less than 7 years is too little.
I do sleep around 5-6 hours only but I do feel tired around 6-7 pm and if I nap, it would be hard for me to sleep at night.
I heard just now from a BBC radio show that it is good to have a nap during the day if you can’t sleep at night.
However, this nap should only be for 20 minutes, just enough to refresh your body and brain.
And the best time to do this power naps is between 2-3 in the afternoon.
To test whether your power nap did you good,
Do a brain and reflexes exercise before your nap, make sure to record the time how quickly you did the exercise.
Then do the same exercise after your nap. Compare the times and you will know whether you were faster or slower before and after your nap.
Disease
The World Health Organisation (WHO) had officially confirmed that Covid 19, better known as Coronavirus, is now pandemic.
Meaning, the disease, Covid 19, is spreading in various countries in the world at an alarming rate at the same time. It has really gone viral.
Risk Alert in the UK: From a low, had gone up to Moderate!
Most important advice: Wash your hand with soap and water for twenty seconds!!!
Wash your hand immediately when you get home or when you get to work, school, and places where you are going to.
As much as possible do not touch surfaces in public places such as doors (use your elbow to open doors, if possible), handrails on stairs, lifts, escalators, public transport,etc. Be aware of tables in restaurants, treat it safely. If it can’t be helped having to touch things in public places, sanitised your hands immediately and refrain from touching your face.
Sanitise your hand after handling paper money & coins.
Bin used tissue ASAP and wash your hands.
According to the National Health Service (NHS) Coronavirus is a new type of disease that can affect your lungs and airways.
Try to avoid close contact with people who are unwell
Coronavirus or Covid 19 in humans had the parity of bats and pangolin. (Tests are still being undertaken).
The first case occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China where there is a huge seafood market that also sells wildlife animals.
(Note, suffering from these symptoms will not necessarily mean you have the coronavirus; don’t panic!)
Cover your mouth and and nose with tissue paper or your sleeve when you sneeze or cough. DO NOT COUGH ON YOUR HAND!
They can enter your body through:
It can be passed through droplet transmission. If a person who already has a coronavirus sneeze, the droplets from his sneeze can have a trajectory of just under a metre. If you happen to be near, less than a metre, him his droplets would likely to have landed in your clothes. You might then unknowingly touched the droplets from your clothes and then touch your face.
The coronavirus tends to be sensitive to temperature. The virus can last up to 3-4 hours on surfaces under room temperature. But up to 48 hours in other surfaces and colder weather.
Make it a rule not to touch your face, mouth, eyes with your hands while out and about.
If you are in the UK and you suspect that you have got the virus or you have a headache, high temperature, difficulty breathing, and sore throat do not go immediately to the hospital or your local GP. Instead, call 111. Let us not spread the disease if we can help it.
If it is at all possible stay in your house, do not go to overly crowded places. Self-isolate yourself.
When out and about, bring a packet of baby wipes and wipe your hands often and then spray with hand sanitiser.
Unfortunately, there is no current available medication or treatment specific to Coronavirus, as it is a new disease. Anti-biotics do not work.
What the hospital/doctor will do, is to make your lungs and breathing stabilised while your body fights the disease itself.
Medical scientists from around the world hope that a vaccine will be available by the end of the year.
What should be done:
Five things to help stop the spread of coronavirus
The World Health Organization is advising people to follow five simple steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19:
1. Wash your hands
2. Cough/sneeze into your elbow
3. Don’t touch your face
4. Stay more than 3ft (1m) away from others
5. Stay home if you feel sick
Medical Matters
I was in my 30s when I suffered from a subarachnoid hemorrhage which led to brain aneurysm. I was very fit then and was never prone to any illness.
In fact I was on the treadmill when I had the attack.
My late mother came to visit me here in London from the Philippines. After scolding me for exercising right after finishing breakfast, my mother asked me what book I would recommend for her to read.
I wickedly recommended The Blood and The Holy Grail, a 1982 book written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. This book was way way way before Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
The book is about the hypothesis that Jesus and Mary’s children went to live in France. As soon as I explained this to my mother, suddenly everything started to blacken and I was looking into a tunnel with my mother’s horrified face at the end of it.
I was in a dead faint for at least a couple of minutes.
As soon as I got up, I staggered to the bedroom and slept only to be woken a couple of hours later by my husband, who was called by my mother at work.
I was just so tired and sleepy that day and had a bit of a headache.
That night, my arms were so uncomfortably numbed. Throughout the night, I would raise both my arms and moved them in circle again and again. I was sleepy but so restless.
The next day, Peter took me to the doctors. We saw Dr Andrawis (RIP) who at first thought I had the onset of a flu. He even said that he won’t prescribe me any tablets as it would be cheaper to get them over the counter at the chemist.
Peter said that I did not have the symptoms of a flu as I was complaining of tingling, pins and needles in both my arms and legs. I was sleepy but so restless.
This stopped Dr Andrawis. He got a reflex hammer and then he called an ambulance to take me straight to the Royal Free Hospital. The paramedic put a neckbrace on me which stayed for weeks while I had to stay perfectly still in bed. Apparently this was the only way to find out where the exact location of the aneurysm.
I have to commend the medical and nursing staff at the RFH, I am sure I would have died if I had the hemorrhage in the Philippines. (No disrespect to the Philippines, but the medical facility would have been horrendously expensive or something). Everything was free with the NHS.
It was rather frustrating though at the hospital, they had to wake you up every couple of hours, 24/7. This was to ensure that I had not succumbed to coma. I was so tired.
I was rather cheerful though, I was thinking of all the weights I must have lost by being nil by mouth for so many weeks.
I also remembered the surgeon telling me how they are going to go about the surgery. He said that they are going to open my head by the left temple to get to the burst blood vessel. They would then put a metal clip into the where the aneurysm was to stop the bleeding.
He gave me all the possible outcome or side effect like memory loss, coma, impaired speech, vision, coordination, balance, stroke and even death.
The consultant was so lovely, so I asked him if he can give me plastic surgery as well. 🙂
The brain operation took 5 hours.
Apparently I went very very cold during the recovery. I think I must have been feeling really cold because I was babbling about putting enough sugar in my son’s milkshake!
After the surgery, I got better quickly but I had to stay in the hospital for more weeks. The brain does have a way of coping by itself. I keep having dreams of being a different person. Sometimes as an Italian, sometimes as a journalist working in the Killing Fields.
The nurses still had to wake me up every couple of hours. I really longed for a good long sleep. I wanted to go home.
Thank goodness there were not much side-effect from the hemorrhage nor from the surgery except for forgetting words, especially when I am talking. I used to be really fluent in English 🙂 my vocabulary was very good, but suddenly I was struggling for words. This went on for years. Fortunately I am getting better. I found out the reason for this was that the craniotomy was done near my temporal lobe, which control memory and understanding language.
Other early temporary side-effect was when the first few times I first opened my eyes, it was like looking through a kaleidoscope, complete with flashing lights, bursting with colours. Also the first night I was home, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a man next to me I did not recognise. I had face-blindness. It was Peter, of course and thank God the feeling lasted only for a couple of minutes.
I am all better now, except for the almost permanent high blood pressure.
I asked the doctor for the possible cause of the aneurysm, he said that I had a week vein in the brain. It was also found that I have a sickle cell trait which did not help.
But mother always believed that I was blasphemous and was punished! LOL 🙂 🙂 🙂