Day +30

This morning I went to hospital to allow the nurse to draw my blood sample for VNTR and some other research. VNTR stands for Variable Number Tandem Repeats, it is used as DNA fringerprinting to uniquely indentify a person. Thefore, it can serves as a mean to determine if the stem cells from the donor is successfully engrafted.

I am now staying in an isolated room at home, a room smaller than the ward. My eldest sister who took half-paid leave to come here to take care of me is a very careful person. She cleaned every part of the room except the ceiling with antiseptic-germicide Dettol. When I came home from the hospital yesterday, she cleaned everything that we brought back from the hospital with Dettol. This includes the notebook computer, electric cables, guitar, electric kettle and even my cheque book. So when I received the cheque book from her, it is wet:-(

The toilet attached to the room which supposed to be shared with another room where my nephew stay is now monopolized by me. Pitty my nephew who needs to rush to the toilet upstair at midnight :-(

The setting in the room is very similar to the ward. It is equipped with air conditioner and air filter to reduce dust. I wear the same cloth that I wear in the ward - I do not wear hospital cloth in the ward. I also boil the water in the room using the filtered water that my wife passes to me. No one is allowed to enter the room unless the one who help to clean the room. My wife will pass me the meal, cloth and other stuffs through a partially opened door.

And now instead of talking through the glass, we have to talk through the wall:-)

See you next post:-)