So there I am with my puffed up face.

There comes a point of time in life when people extracts their wisdom teeth and look like shit. It was really quite painful, extracting four teeth at one go.
So those are my teeth, what's the point of showing all this?

Once more, I was reminded of the smell of the sickly stench of the hospitals while lying on the hospital bed. Once again, it reminded me of the times when i was staring at the clock at the ward of how slowly time passes when you are sick in bed. Over and over again, I was reminded of how insignificant you become as a patient, waiting for doctors doing their rounds to check out your condition and then leave without saying much. I was reminded how many foreign nurses have infiltrated our hospitals, speaking English with different accents. So after my dental op, I couldn't help agitated but to quicky leave the place. It was my third stay this year in any hospital. It was dengue fever, then it was haemorrhoids, then it was this. I didn't enjoy any single one of them, regardless the duration of stay, regardless of the number of days of MC that followed. Being sick and unwell simply sucks.

The hospital is pretty much a very sad place. Another prison. Some old patients I've talked to stayed for months and months, wearing the same ugly looking patients' clothes. I could see they really wanted to leave, it's a bloody burden financially, mentally and physically. Sleepless nights in the hospital. Anyhow, you've been lying on the bed all day all night, it doesn't matter if you slept or not. Everything is uncomfortable. The bed, the environment, the coughing and the sounds of whinings of pain around you. The older patients are already dying to be discharged, imagine confining a young, active adventurous heart on a bed. It is only then I realised how important one's health could be. Health is truly the greatest wealth and many people do not realise it.

Many of us are destroyers of our own health. Too many temptations in life. Spicy, oily, fatty food are usually the tastiest. Smoking and Booze are the hallmarks of adult life. Soft drinks or other sugared drinks are fast taking over water as the primary fluids we consume. It is definitely not easy, but at one point of our time, we have to really stop this bullshit, the suffering will come later.
As I'm typing this, i'm still sucking my own blood. Very soon, I'll be eating some cold porridge and probably some ice- cream later. Yeah, fatty food, I couldn't help it. Hospitals are eternal prisons, quit whatever you are doing. I'm talking about smoking or drinking alcohol in outrageous amounts. Don't be another patient in another hospital waiting to be discharged and counting the clock.