Have you seen the world with your other eyes?

This morning, i had blackout in my home. Already six times in one month, i had that. But the worst thing, it happened in the early morning, when sunshine still hide inside his cloudy blanket. And really disturbed our activity pace, that needed fast in preparing ourselves before went work.

Working something under low intensity light could be difficult activity. Perhaps for two lovers that have their romantic dinner, dimming light can be extraordinary moment. But how about breakfast? Romantic breakfast? Umm, i dont think so.

And further more,  the one disturbed me a lot about blackout is  preparing your work bag really need your "other eyes". I dont mean about our spiritual eyes, that can be used for seeing unseen in other world eg ghost, angel, etc but I mean about our palpation sense.

Ok, i think urent trust my word bout how valuable ur touch senses. Let us do some trial, in front of u there is your work bag, first please grab it to your lap,gently dont be rush. Second, now shut off ur eyes, please no peeping, ok. be honest to yourselves. third, i ask u to open your bag zipper without opening your eyes, can u find it? ah,i see u can complete that.  Last task, please get yor wallet which placed inside your bag. Not really difficult, right?

Now, let we do second trial. I will borrow u very thick wool gloves and i ask u to wear them double. Then try do the same like first trial. See what happened.

Ya, now u have known how important your sense of touch, unconciously that help u completing lot of ordinary task from  difficult things like sewing or knitting, till very simplest daily thing, open your bra clips.

So have u seen with your other eyes?

For homework activity u can try closing ur eyes while do these
= opening your trousers zipper when u stand facing your urinoir (for men),
= placing your belt,
= inserting your button
= cleaning your dirty nose

and make this list longer with ur daily investigation.... good luck

Tempe way of life

"Makanan enak belum tentu sehat. Makanan enak belum tentu sehat. Makanan sehat dan enak itu tempe."
Rustono Tempe

Physiotherapy Today

occupational physiotherapy room,
 lot of games stuff

Today is my physiotherapy day. Umm, actually not physical physiotherapy, but occupational therapy. I have been in this for 4 months. Lot of patients is sent here, most of them geriatric patients, some of them pediatric, and the other, in productive ages.

In the exercise room, lot of games tools. Makes me feel as if in kindergarten once more. Sand box, clays, dart, and lot of games. So now i know how our activities when we spent our time in kindergarten was really specially designed to train our motoric development. And of course our creativity too.

till now lot of improvement in my daily living. Hold spoon for eating by myself, scratch my back, shower, etc. Although cant be compared with my previous ability before operation. Still need time to accept my disability, but i sure along with time, I can cope and getting usual with all these. Just like my rehabilitative medicine doctor said, " Dont focus to what u loose, but work what still left" or like english proverbs, " Dont cry over spilt milk" , and I add some more , " Let us go to supermarket and buy one."

Once upon a time in Glosis

Baby Back Ribs @ Glosis Hegarmanah

Senin kemarin diajak makan oleh saudara yang datang dari jauh. Berdasarkan saran dari salah seorang yang hadir, yang nampaknya sering makan disini, dia merekomendasikan hidangan ini.
Baby Back Ribs namanya. Terbuat dari anak babi ( yang konon didatangkan dari Bali). Untuk saya yang mempunyai keterbatasan motorik halus, cukup keder juga saat tahu hidangan ini merupakan iga-igaan. Karena kita harus menyeset daging tersebut sedikit demi sedikit. Namun setelah dijajal, teksturnya benar-benar lembut, sama sekali tidak alot. Saya pribadi lebih senang tidak memakai sausnya, karena menurut saya tanpa saus pun sudah enak, dan rasa dagingnya terasa lebih asli tanpa saus. Pelengkapnya berupa kentang dan sayuran parutnya biasa saja tidak ada yang istimewa. Buat anda yag bisa makan makanan yang non halal, saya menyarankan mencicipi menu ini.

passion fruit mojito

Untuk minuman saya memesan Mojito, campuran lemon, soda, dan daun mint. saat disajikan jujur saja saya agak geli melihat presentasinya. Oom saya langsung mengasosiasikannya dengan air di sawah. Hmmm, setelah dipikir-pikir... sayangnya memang mirip sih. airnya semu kuning dengan banyak dedaunan mint yang dibuat mengambang di atasnya. akan tetapi rasanya tidak mengecewakan, segar, ringan, dan unik. Sangat pas dengan hidangan steak yang cenderung berat dan tasty. dan  menghadirkan sensasi rasa yang mengejutkan dan berubah-ubah disetiap seruputnya di waktu yang berbeda-beda.

kue stroberi

Makan malam saya diakhiri dengan menyantap sepotong kue strawberry, yang namanya saya lupa. Presentasinya semanis rasanya, dengan tekstur kue yang lembut dan adem di lidah. ditaburi dengan coklat putih memberikan rasa yang lebih kaya. Sejujurnya saya berharap selainya lebih asam sedikit supaya lebih segar.

Untuk informasi menu-menu lebih lanjut, bisa mengintip dulu di websitenya http://glosis.kulcard.com/files/11-1017-213.php tidak terlalu lengkap, namun lumayan informatif sebelum Anda memutuskan mengunjunginya. Bon appetite

Take time to ...

my friend took this pic somewhere and shared in his facebook ....

Elderly Wisdom

I want to share the quotes from the ex english teacher in my senior high school. She is the first person that i interviewed in my journalistic track record. Her name is Mrs. Kwee, an inspiring teacher in her era. Even my aunty is one of her student too.When my friends and I asked her what her life motto, she said

" We must struggle for life"

" Duty first, pleasure after"

" Dont put till tomorrow what u can do today"

Now she had passed away several years ago, but her diamonds she shared still gleaming in my minds

Mountain Climbing for Everybody

Nah inilah buku primbon yang dipakai untuk menelusuri Gunung Gede dan Papandayan.

Papandayan kami nyasar-nyasar disini, petunuk di dalam bukunya agak kurang jelas terutama segmen rue pondok selada dan tegal alur, fiuhh jadinya kami nyasar-nyasarrr, i think easy to moderate, yaahh tergantung, kalo buat gue sih moderateee.. btw anyway busway thanks for Mr. Harley Sastha yang udah bikin nih buku, more and less very helpful. Bravo

Ascension Day

"Janganlah gelisah hatimu; percayalah kepada Allah, percayalah juga kepada-Ku. Di rumah Bapa-Ku banyak tempat tinggal. Jika tidak demikian, tentu Aku mengatakannya kepadamu. Sebab Aku pergi ke situ untuk menyediakan tempat bagimu. Dan apabila Aku telah pergi ke situ dan telah menyediakan tempat bagimu, Aku akan datang kembali dan membawa kamu ke tempat-Ku, supaya di tempat di mana Aku berada, kamupun berada. Dan ke mana Aku pergi, kamu tahu jalan ke situ." 

Yohanes 14:1-4

Papandayan Journey Part One: Bandung - Cisurupan

Perjalanan kali ini melibatkan aku, D dan J. Saat waktu menunjukkan pukul setengah delapan  ketika kami mulai berangkat dari rumah D di daerah Toha, kami mengambil kendaraan elf jurusan Bandung-Cikajang. Setelah bernego dengan sengit, akhirnya kami boleh cukup membayar 12 ribu rupiah saja dengan janji bakal sampai di Cisurupan. Seperti yang biasa terjadi, elfnya mengetem nyaris sejam lamanya. Barulah setelah waktu menunjuk mengepakkan sayapnya” dan meluncur terus ke Garut.

Tak disangka lelaki yang menagih pertama kali itu bukanlah supir yang sebenarnya tetapi hanyalah calo, sehingga kami janji tinggal janji, sang supir pun merasa tidak berkewajiban untuk menghantarkan elfnya hingga ke Cikajang. Parahhh! Alhasil kami bertiga pun diturunkan paksa di terminal Guntur, Garut. Sehingga harus mengeluarkan kocek lagi untuk berpindah ke sebuah angkot putih biru jurusan Garut - Cikajang.

Kembali temanku,D mengeluarkan jurusnya untuk menawar . Dengan wajah gembira kami berhasil mendapat  5000 rupiah saja sampai ke pertigaan Cisurupan. tuh angkot lebih gila lagi dari elf. Semua orang dijejelin mpe gak kira2. Penuh pisan, unpleasant driver lah. Berhubung kita buta jalan, ditipu mpe cikajang, pas gituh ujan gede, jadi ditawarin langsung ke cisurupan dianter, patok tarif edaaan 30 rebu per orang, akhirnya tawar2an dapet 55rebu/3 orang. Ngemudinya juga kayak koboi, kasian liat kendaraannya dihantam-hantam tiap lewat lubang besar. Akhirnya kami berhasil sampai di pintu masuk Papandayan sekitar jam 12 lewat.

Papandayan Journey

Nearly one year ago, my friends D, J, and me travelled to this volcanic crater area. But just recent days ago, I was finished my travelling log. Very incredible walk in same time very scary because we lost our way and stucked inside labyrinth forest. But thanks to God, wo helped us.

I devides our story into several parts. Hope someday can visit Papandayan again.. Of course without lost our way and reach the peak =) yah someday

Welcome back

at last after ages, now im updating my blogs again. will make a bit differentiation, for general issue please check sicabemerah.blogspot.com and for futher medical information, can check inside doktercabe.blogspot.com. have a nice day and enjoy the blogs.
any questions and comments, can send to my email drcabemerah@gmail.com

inspiring story - dr. darren chua

he New Paper

Our principal is featured on The New paper on 9th November 2009

Health @ AsiaOne

Helpless and with half his skull lost after a severe stroke, comeback doc wants to inspire others. -TNP

The New Paper
By Ng Wan Ching

IT HAD been his lifelong dream to be a doctor.He graduated top of his cohort in his junior college and worked hard in medical school to realise his dream.After five years, he graduated from medical school and was ready to start housemanship as an intern.Then a massive stroke hit him - and killed his dreams. Dr Darren Chua was just 24 years old then.

But Dr Chua, now 33, is not one to look back on life with regrets.Today, he is forging ahead with a new venture, an education centre, to help students achieve their best.

A few months after his stroke, he had thought he could be back at work within a year."Later I found out it was not very realistic," he said in an interview with The New Paper. The stroke, which hit him on 28 Apr 2000, had sent blood gushing into his brain at such a furious rate that his brain shifted position.
"It moved to the right to make room for the blood," said Dr Chua.

The pressure building up in his head could have caused irreparable brain damage. So doctors removed a part of his skull to relieve the pressure. It made him look like Robocop, in the movie about a super-human cyborg who had part of his skull removed too, he said."Friends who visited said the same thing, when they noticed that one quarter of my head was missing," he said with a laugh.
His missing skull was put back on his head only six months later.

By then, he knew he was not going to get back to work any time soon. The right side of his body was affected by the stroke.

Difficulties
It took him a long time to learn to walk again. He has learnt to write with his left hand as his right hand is still feeling "tight" as a result of the stroke. He had already taken his medical degree, from National University of Singapore, when he had the stroke. "Hence, in a way, I have obtained what I wanted,"he said. But he could not practise as a doctor as he had not undergone the one-year housemanship which was supposed to start a few days later.

On the day of his stroke, he had been home alone in the afternoon. He was at the computer and preparing for emcee duties for the medical students' graduation party that evening.
"My entire right visual field suddenly blacked out," he said. Disorientation quickly followed. He lay down, hoping the symptoms would subside. "I managed to navigate myself to my bed and that was when the headaches started," he said. The pounding was gradual but relentless. He started experiencing weakness over the entire right-side of his body and had difficulty completing sentences.

He called his then girlfriend, who called for an ambulance. By the time the ambulance arrived, he was immobile. He passed out during the trip to the National University Hospital. "I have always been asked, 'Did you know you were having a stroke?' My answer is no. "At that point, I was just more interested in holding myself together and not breaking down,"he said.

Learning to walk, talk
He regained consciousness two to three weeks later but was unable to speak or walk.
He found out later from his parents that doctors had told them they could not commit to how much recovery he could achieve.

Said Dr Timothy Lee, Gleneagles Hospital consultant neurosurgeon, who operated on him at NUH: "He almost died. He had a huge blood clot."

Dr Chua's stroke was caused by a ruptured arteriovenous malformation in his left brain.
He stayed in NUH for two months and spent another two months at Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital.
He went back to full-time work 2 1/2 years later as a health administrator for the National Healthcare Group and stayed for two years. By then he could walk, albeit with a limp. Then he was offered a research scholarship to pursue a Masters in Science at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
"The decision to accept was not easy. In 2005, the aftermath of the stroke was still very much on my
body. My right side was physically weaker and I still could not see in my right visual field. "The only thing that was going for me then was that my mental skills were very much unharmed," he said.

Challenging himself
As a challenge to himself, he took on the two-year research programme.
It was also during this period that he got married. After that, he had a one-year stint with SingHealth, before leaving to open Potter's Clay Education in Parkway Centre in Marine Parade in June this year.
He said: "If there is one thing I have drawn from these experiences, it is that persistence rules. No matter how many times I fell in the hospital, I always willed myself up because I refused to be in a wheelchair. 
"No matter how many times I spelt or pronounced a word wrongly, I would attempt it again."
He would not be treated as a disabled person.
Slowly he saw improvements. What started as a 40-minute walk from Suntec City Convention Centre to Tower 4, can now be done in eight to 10 minutes. He continues to clock better times, though he still walks with a limp. He is now devoting his time to teaching because he has a passion for it.

And he is telling his story because he wants to motivate students.

"Even when you feel that life is against you, never ever give up," he said.

This article was first published in The New Paper.