A New Chapter of My Life

It has been several months since my last posting. I am not passing away yet. There are two things that bothered me in this period, business and health.

Every one knows about the economic situation, it is not within our topic here, so I just say that I have to prepare a lot of things in case a better day finally arrives. It is not far for me.

About the health, I have said that there was a problem with my voice. Of course, it is not just a simple disorder of the voice; it is a problem of the respiratory system.

The treatment with Chinese herbal medicine has been continued for a year or so. Last week my doctor suggested me to take an X-ray of the lung. No problem, I said.

The next day evening, he called me and said the outcome was not so good, the experts said that I might develop TB or cancer. He asked me to bring back the medicine for him to add some more ingredients.

I understand that he concerns about my health. For me, this is not astonishing, otherwise why I took medicine for over a year. Furthermore, I have been a smoker since thirteen years old. With decades of bad habit, does any one expect that I had a clear lung as normal one did? No, I am certain that something must be bad and I am not astonished for the experts' advice. Basing on the fact they found, it is true that without treatment, I would be heading for TB or cancer.

One more thing, I had not taken any X-ray last year. If I did, I am sure that the outcome would be much worse than now, where there were three patches of white spots and some mess surrounding of the trachea (windpipe).

This confirms to me the reason why I took so much medicine and still cannot recover the voice easily because of the huge problem behind.

Yet, I have the confidence that the problem would be solved later this year. Now with the knowledge of the actual problem, my doctor will treat it with his dose and my wife will search for the right kind of soup etc. to strengthen that part of my body.