Prior to this checkup, which is 2 weeks ago, I had another checkup and was given a scare. My blood pressure had gone up from the regular 120 to 131. Plus, my weight also went up drastically by 4kg. The nurse looked at me shaking her head and said I’m going to need to test for diabetes in a couple of days and monitor my blood pressure every couple of days for 2 weeks and go back for a follow up. So two weeks ago was the diabetes check. For those who have not taken this test before, here’s how it goes. I have to fast from 10pm the night…

I just went to my OBGYN for regular checkup and now I’m well into my 2nd Trimester, more than half way through! It’s quite exciting as I just saw Jordan on the monitor and he’s getting real big. My doc reminded me to watch my weight, coz I have gone past 10kg increase in weight. Oops. So now I have to renew my diet plans and stop taking rice, noodles (especially kolomee) and sweet stuffs. So after the check up, we were supposed to go for fried rice, so instead I decided to take fish and vegetables for lunch. I have to drink more plain water instead of all those…

Ok Maybe I’m exaggerating on the hell bit, it should definitely be worse there. However, being pregnant with chicken pox is pure torture right now. Initially I thought probably it wasn’t going to be so bad, guess I was wrong. On the first day, I thought I had a terrible breakout. On the 2nd day, I looked like Freddy Krueger from Elm Street. Today, I reminded myself of the Elephant man. Looking in the mirror has become quite scary. I already had bad skin, and it normally took forever for a little pimple to heal and then for the scar to disappear. This on my face now looked like it…