medical check-up

yesterday.

at batu pahat policlinic.

counter number : 4. one lady nurse and one male lady (seriously) and me and a bunch others (sick children with their mothers - where were the fathers?, a few men with x-ray envelopes, a couple of young malay ladies with red hair - yeah red!, a few old chinese ladies - coughing badly, 4 mothers with 6 and 7 days old cute little angels with their proud grandmothers - again where were the fathers. a few healthy children running here and there :)

(translated. loosely. )

(height - weight)
nurse #1 (male): "over here!". (pointing the scale to me).
me: " shoes off?" (why ask? i know already, silly me.)
nurse #1: "yes." (smiling, thanks). "38."
nurse #2 (lady): "aa!! how much?"
nurse #1: "38!"
nurse #2: "so light!? underweight is not good. man looks for meat not bone!" (huh! like i was not there? :P )

(eye)
nurse #2: "readd!" (hehe! like the first surah of al'alaq)
me (closing my right eye) : 9 , 5 .. (interrupted)
nurse #2: "you don't have to close your eye. just read. start from the line below the box)
me: "mmm.."
nurse #2: "you can't see it? are you wearing specs? okay, start from the top."
me: (i read, from the top, until that line below the box)
nurse #2: "your eye sight is 6/9 you know. better see opthometist after this." (me : really?)

(blood pressure)
nurse #2 : "you have a low blood pressure. is this normal for you?" (90/60)
me : "ermmmm!!"
nurse #2 : "have you ever gone thru medical check up before? or at least your blood pressure checked?"
me : "errr! long ago i think. is it so bad?)
nurse #2 : "you even look pale. are you scared? you go home and eat spinach okay? she has 90/60 (to another nurse, nurse #3)" (like i was not there, again :P)
nurse #3: "try eat 3 telur ayam kampung a week!"
i just smile. speachless.

earlier before, during my urine check, counter number 5.
medical lab technician (young and beautiful lady) : " are you having your period?"
me : "no. why?"
medical lab technician : "your urine is slightly dirty."
me : "okay. what does that means? is there anything that i should be alarmed off?"
medical lab technician : "you may drink little to your need or that you often put off before you went to pee"
me : "oh! okay. thanks"


(the-should- be-final-destination-but-not) final destination: doctor's room. (muslim malay lady doctor, my batch from usm - the world is small)
doctor : "lets do a full blood count" (after looking into my eyes with a torch pointing at it and palm and declared that i am pale and may have a low hemoglobin count)

i went to nurse #2, showed her the form from the doctor. "again! huh!", she said. she asked me to curl my fingerss so that she can see my hold counter number 5. the result was ready within few minute. great.

went back to the doctor.
dr.: "ok,

okay: i have a slightly dirty urine, low blood pressure (with Hg at 10.2), am underweight, look pale with an eyesight of 6/9. not good.