21st Jan @ SF

Me feel so bad about going for a photography session, but I need to relief some stress and the weather was so sunny...

My medical report from my doctor

here is the details,

I sustained an intra-abdominal injury and had an emergency laparotomy in Johor, Malaysia. Got transferred back to Singapore the very next day after the op and admitted into NUH. While having my post operative management, I complained of low back pain and was referred to the orthopaedic team, did an emergency CAT scan and the xray showed there was bilateral facet dislocation at lumbar L3 and L4. So I underwent another operation for an interspinous ligament and disc ruptured. L3/4 facets reduction and instrumentations with posterior lateral fusion was performed. In simple english, they cut from the back, removed the disc between my 3 and 4 vertebrae, added 2 screws each on L3 and L4, aligned with some sort of plate to secured the screws in place.

it looks something like this in my x-ray


The procedure was to hold both vertebrae together and together with an implant between the two, fusion or rather fused both together into one.



ok, here comes the bad news, my surgeon after going through my routine x-ray, thinks that the progress of the fusion wasn't as fast as he expected. (could be due to my shooting? or smoking?)
So, he told me to avoid any strenous exercise that might cause more problems for my back, so no trekking, no photography or anything that requires constant bending. He wouldnt be in town of the next 1 year and scheduled me to see him 1.5 years later (wonder why that long). Anyway, I will be starting on my phyiso therapy on monday, so lets see how things goes with it. Apart from my low back experience, the frontal defects :P has healed very well. But I'm not too pleased with the looks of it (maybe a pic of my tummy?), the 2nd surgery to cover the previous laparotomy was done because the wound was taking too long to heal, so I underwent a comestic surgery, in which a patch of skin from my right thigh was taken to graft over my tummy. It healed well and now it looks disfigured. Also, the left side of my body looks fatter than the right, apparently, the laparotomy cut through my stomach muscle which holds the shape of the stomach, without those muscle, the internal organs shifted to my left side, making me look like I had lost weight on the right and not on my left... (can you imagine it?). will find the courage to take a pix of it soon.

thanks for listening
all pix taken from http://www.augustaortho.com/spinefusion.htm

I cannot keep my promise :)

Since last wed, I was thinking of retiring for 1.5 years. As advised by my orthopaedic surgeon, who thought that trekking around in the nature reserves wasn't good for my low back injury. More of that later.

Finally some sun after a week of rain, which I couldn't resist going out for a shoot. Luckily with the help of my master, who provided the transport to ease the weight. Had to used my haversack instead of my usual lowepro mini trekker.

more pix, less talk. That is the my principle.. put our words into pictures, or rather let the pix speak for itself.

More backlog pix

as promised (been raining non stop.... RATZ!)

May series


2nd trip up to ER


Lornie Trail




thats all for May, next up June (non butterflies month.... :P )

Weather was rather disappointing, went to my usual hunt and got tricked by mother nature..
So I think I do alittle backlogging

Shots taken on 25th March 2005



Shots from April 2005











Thats all for the month of march and april, next up will be May
Hope you guys enjoy my pictures, feel free to post your comments

Return of Bloggfly

Firstly, like to apologise for the disappearance act. Been busy with work, school and recovery.
Also been trying some short outings to test my body. Overall, I'm still in one piece, just troubled with backaches due to the surgery. My tummy has recovered quite well (as long as I stay away from chillies :( , there goes my favourite thingy, no more sambal belacan.. maybe not entirely :) )
Apart from that, its just the physical sight that might be disturbing... will post a pic (maybe, someday)

here are some pix from recent outings.

series from Lornie Trail
















series from USR (plus some other macro shots)







ok, its all for now, will upload more pix soon