Friday, August 25, 2006

TB or no TB, that is the question

Two days ago i went for the compulsory TB skin test - the usual shallow injection of some protein derivative into the left forearm. The reading was today, and it came out like this:


Hmm as much as the above looks like a shot of a solar eclipse or some sort of astronomical event or other, it is merely a picture of my left forearm with the flash on - and i suppose this serves no purpose at all since you can't see anything...



So this is how my arm looked after 48 hours (looks quite gross i know) - the result being that i need to go back for a further evaluation just in case i indeed have TB (though i went to check up on this test on the internet and found that there are many other possibilities with regards to why the skin test looks like that - so don't be rejoicing that i'm not in S'pore now coughing infected droplets repeatedly onto you just yet).


Well apart from this possible health scare which may see me back in S'pore far sooner than you'd expect it, things have been going quite nicely here. Attended another ice cream social today followed by an IV welcome event, and met many nice people at both events too. It was interesting to see the latter and how things may be the same or different from how we do it in CF back in S'pore. Well i'll say this - some of the people there were very friendly and approachable, while others, well, were not. But then again, who am i to frown upon such things here when they happen back home too, and sometimes even with me playing the role of an unapproachable person...

Am in the midst of doing my first piece of homework - nothing much really - but in any case, looks like my lack of focus in doing schoolwork has manifested itself again...

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