As a continuation to my blog about the dengue outbreak: If you think you have the symptoms of dengue, you may ask someone to do a quick check. Ask someone to take your blood pressure using the BP cuff. Then add the systole and diastole then divide by 2. Example, if you have 120/80mmHg, it makes 200, divide by two, that is 100. Again inflate the BP cuff up to 100mmHg on the spygmomanometer and let it stand to 5 minutes. Your arm will get numb because blood flow is depleted. Remove the cuff after five minutes and observe for some petechiae on the upper arm. It is like a red pinpoint on the area where the cuff was placed and inflated. Count the petechiae and it it reaches 20 or more, go see your doctor and have yourself tested for dengue.
Is your hair healthy? Try checking if it floats or sinks in water. According to this hair shampoo commercial, if the hair sinks, there are some little holes and breaks on it because it is damaged. And if it floats, then you were using the same shampoo on that commercial. Geeez! IF it really is good for the hair, how come it contains a lot of chemicals that are also used in detergents, cleaning agents and some insecticides? Makes you think twice in using that formula that gives you a "good hair day".
On rainy seasons like this, there are a lot of diseases that suddenly appear like mushrooms. One of these potentially fatal disease is what we call Dengue Fever. It is also called as "breakbone" or "dandy fever". It is an acute illness of sudden onset with benign course. It usually affects muscles and joints thus the name "breakbone". Slaves of the West Indies who had the characteristic posture and gait when afflicted with this fatal disease, thus the name "dandy fever". Usually, there is a triad characteristic of Dengue, that is muscle pain, fever and headache. There are a lot of ways to prevent this from happening. If there are some still waters around the house, make sure to discard it or if not, do some fogging around the house to eliminate the mosquitoes that causes Dengue. For more details about this seasonal disease make sure to be conscious about some ways to prevent it and of course to observe the symptoms for immediate hospital care.
Just recently, there has been a tumultuous event in the Physical Therapy society, of which I am also affected. My friends who are preparing to take the NPTE in the US are deeply depressed. What happened is that some review center have allegedly cheated by providing actual NPTE questions to its reviewers and have consistently and successfully maintained a remarkable number of passers. The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy has taken drastic measures to suspend all NPTE schedules for the year and will resume next year for a new set of NPTE called NPTE-YRLY. This is a bold move considering that there are hundreds of applicants who have already complied and are just waiting for the exam schedules. Friends and colleagues were stricken with disbelief. All the months of studying and preparing financially are at the risk of falling in vain. The chances are getting slimmer for us. For now, the PT society is clamoring for consideration. We do hope that the FBSPT will re consider. After all, the demand for PT’s are rising in the USA, thus, it must be filled up with qualified PT’s like us.
How would you literally know that it is the right time? Given that all basic circumstances are present for survival, how would you know that now is the right time to make a major change? In my case, the issue is my ultimate desire for a career change. According to a blog from LifeReboot.com, let us not wait for the right time because it will not come unless you allow it to happen. Makes sense. Until I could get hold of the instinctual yet unnecessary fear that I carry in my gut, I could not bear to make a major life change. Same goes for every person who are sick and tired of their jobs that does not make them happy. Let us not wait for more years of unhappiness. We might regret it later.
