On Monday (17 March) morning, I went to another clinic for
consultation and told the doctor what had happened to me since Friday.
She asked me to have a blood test immediately. I waited for about 10
minutes for the result. Dr informed me that my platelets (PLT) and white
blood cells (WBC) had dropped from the normal range. My hematocrit
(HCT) also gone up. Dr said she suspected it was a dengue fever but I
had to come back tomorrow again for another blood test to see those
three readings movement. She prescribed 4 different medicines to me and
told me stop taking the previous medicines since there were not
effective to help me recover. I was on medical leave again.
The
medicines did not bring any good sign to my body. The temperature went
up and down through out the day and night. I was suffering from the
muscle aches and high temperature. My wife had to cancel her piano
classes at night to look after our two princesses.
On
Tuesday (18 Mar), I went back to the same clinic for another blood test.
The result was not favored to me....my PLT and WBC continued to drop
and HCT was going up. The doctor advised me to admit to a private
hospital as government hospital would only let me to admit when my PLT
dropped to 80 per micro liters. That time my PLT was 114 and the normal
range should be between 150 to 400.
She wrote a referral letter to me to bring along to the hospital. I went home and informed my wife about this.
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