Went to the gym with my sister. I sleep around 3am recently and so I can't get up until 11am. That's a vicious cycle coz half a day is gone and I wasted them. And it's always bad for my health if I sleep late. But then I heard another theory that it's okay if you sleep late, just make sure you sleep and wake up at the same exact time every day. I dunno which one is true. I don't feel sick or anything. I once heard that if you sleep late or don't have enough sleep, your body will crave more food and esp. the high calories ones. But I don't have that craving now. I have cravings just because I want to control my diet, and that always backfired.
So we went to the gym and work out. It was fine. And I try to push myself to lift heavier weight. It feels good afterwards. I found that the day that I go to the gym, I can stay up until 3am and not feel sleepy. Is it because of endorphin? Then it acts like caffeine?
Day 6 - Going to Church
My parents were out of town this weekend. I really wanna keep going to church coz I know how it's like to live without Jesus Christ. It's horrible. My life is a total mess, hence the 60 pounds of weight. But it's really hard for me to wake up and go to church early in the morning. And I feel like I'm drifting away from God. I do believe in God, it's just that sometimes my values are different from His. And it's hard to be a person that He wants me to be. I'm trying but it's not good enough. I guess I really have to find a fellowship, a group of people that can support me and care about me. So I would care about them to keep going to church and get involved. But seems like there isn't a group for me yet. I dunno what to do. Today's church is really boring. Kids screaming and running around. And we sing a lot of songs that I used to sing when I was a kid in the church. Brought back some weird feelings.
Day 7 - Blood Test
I'm having my medical appointment on Oct 15 and the doctor asked me to go to the hospital a week before appointment to get my blood sample. I asked him to give me medicine for my blood pressure before my surgery. And he wanted to know how I am responding to the new drug. I'm not sure whether the medicine is working coz my blood pressure seems the same. And I suspect that when I was in the hospital for the surgery, I've taken the same blood test already. But I still need to do it just for sure.
I planned to go to the gym this morning. I wanna go back to my Mon, Wed, Fri schedule. But then I was watching Heroes last night and got totally hooked. So I slept at 2:30am and can't, for the love of God, get up at 9am to go to the gym. I had this plan to go to the gym and then have lunch with my sister. But of course I didn't do that. I woke up late and after I had my lunch, I figure that I don't have time to go to the gym before going to the hospital. I really wanna quit. But I don't wanna go to the gym on another holiday (which is tomorrow) and I have like an hour to do that. So I get my lazy ass to the gym right away.
I'm so glad that I did went to the gym, even though I only have 45 mins to workout. I don't care. And thank you God so much for making me go. I can't do that myself.
My sister is kind enough for go to the hospital with me. My mom told me that it could take hours for me to line up. First you have to take a number, then wait for your turn. I have like 20 numbers in front of me and no more than 20 minutes, it's my turn. Then I went in, give the nurse my doctor's note, confirm my name and ID. Then the nurse starts looking for my vein.
Most people take blood out from their arms, right? I'm fat and it's hard to find already. My vein is deeper than most people. I remember when I was 19 and my school have this blood drive (or blood donation). The nurse gave a shot of anesthetic, then looked for my vein for like 30 mins. She poked me 3 times before she succeed. And I felt the needle going down my skin, no pain of course, then here comes the pain, that the anesthetic didn't go deep enough. Wow!! Then when I was hospitalize the last time, there's this lady who's a professional in drawing blood. I guess I'm her bottleneck of her career. She said it's easier to draw blood from a new born baby than me. Haha. I'm not scare of needle, it's kinda fascinating. But I got scared of drawing blood when I was in the hospital. The only place they can draw my blood is from the back of my hands. Both of my hands are full of needle holes. It's really painful. And it often takes 2 attempts before they succeed. I've counted that I have 10 needles during my stay at the hospital. It's crazy. All I need is like 6 needles but I ended up having 10.
So today, I'm all prepared to be poked for a few times. And I'm ready to do it painful on the back of my hand again. The nurse took like 1 second to try on my arm, then she looked at the back of my hand, then look at my wrist. Holy moly she took my blood from the wrist!! I guess there's a reason why the doctors don't draw my blood from the wrist before. I guess it's pretty dangerous. I dunno why. But the fact is, taking blood from the wrist is quick and less painful. Why didn't they do that before?
All together, less than half an hour, I'm all done. This is my happiest blood drawing experience. Hehe.
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