My mom’s hip operation was a success. She was wheeled into the operation theatre at 1.30pm yesterday, and by 5pm she was out and transferred to ICU. As I am writing this, she has just been moved back to the general ward – a sign that she is doing well post-surgery. The doctors say she should be […]
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In an hour or so, Mom will be wheeled into the operation theatre for her hip surgery. Right now she’s fast asleep after a light breakfast early this morning. Dr Gan has come by for a final check on her, and has given the thumbs up to go ahead with the surgery scheduled for 12pm.
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Today is Day 7 of my mother’s hospitalization. She had an angioplasty done on her last Tuesday. She’s doing fine, eating well and enjoys being pampered by her visitors and the nurses. Still, she is impatient to go home. She has been lying in bed 24/7, unable to move much as her right leg is
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My mom’s hip surgery scheduled for yesterday afternoon had to be postponed when tests showed that she had suffered a heart attack earlier. She has no recollection of it at all. It could have been the cause of her fall. I’ll have to find out more from her cardiologist, Dr Tiang Soon Wee. (Left: Xray
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Source: Straits Times 5 March 2011 Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore’s Minister of Health, announced on Friday that geriatric medicine will be a ‘core competency’ for all doctors and nurses. A far-sighted move, given the fact that by 2030, one-fifth of the population will be aged 65 and above. The government is making sure
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Source: Straits Times 2 March 2011 “…We can each live our dreams, with or without help. If there is help, we get there faster. But if there isn’t, we should keep trying anyway.” This was what Mr Sam Tan (Tanjong Pagar GRC) said in Parliament on Tuesday when he took the floor
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Just found out that UniSIM will be the first university in Singapore to offer a Master of Gerontology in July this year. This is truly exciting news for those of us who have a passion for this area of study. Here’s the full report from ChannelNewsAsia. SINGAPORE: From July this year, SIM University will offer a
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One of the things I must do on my monthly trips to Singapore is catch a movie or two. Senior citizens get to see movies in their entirety, unlike in Malaysia where we have a scissors-happy censorship board. ‘The Passion of Christ’, ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’, for example, were banned from commercial screening. Too much
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I know it sounds morbid, but ever since the first of my high school mates passed away, I’ve taken to scanning the obituary columns in the papers. Death still seemed distant then. My sister’s sudden demise in 2006 from a heart attack brought death literally to my doorstep. She was just two months shy of her
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Malaysia’s superrich. Source: NST There were few surprises in the recently-released list of Malaysia’s top 20 billionaires. The same faces are there in the annual list. It used to be millionaires topping the list. Obviously these former millionaires have raised not only their net worth, but a few have also made the leap to Forbes’
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