Starting Over at 40

Starting Over at ioh
by Pilosopong Balot.


This blog was certainly forgotten afte I became employed and busy with work back when i was in Singapore. I found it again when a post I did back sprouted on my feed in Facebook. Was thinking to get back into this and share some life stories- since i started journaling daily with my OneNote. I might as well update this, the good and the struggles and well anything basking under the sun. hoping this will continue forever from now on.

This year started with a happy memory. I got married, yeah that's before I celebrated my 40th Birthday. My family went to Japan and really enjoyed their stay here. But I wish there were snow, but what they just experienced was just plain Cold and Rainy Days. Something I was not hoping. But nonetheless, really glad they were able to go and experienced Japan.

The COVID19,  or Novel Corona Virus 2019, a yet to be named virus back then  was starting to get a foot hold in the Japan. I was really scared with it and really anxious since me and my family rode buses filed with Chinese Tourist. We still don't know the extent and the severity of the virus but we were all preapred with mask and alcohol with us. My younger brother started to feel bad after our Disney trip. He started vomiting in the bus on our way back from Disney. That really scared me! But fortunately, later on he became better after taking some medicines. They were able to get back in the Philippines without a hitch. I am so happy things went well and all were safe and back.

On the other hand, I started to have runny nose and a bad cough the day i fetched them to the airport. That too made me anxious and really scared if I contracted the "New Unknown Virus". Since I have fever for 2 days. I  decided to visit the clinic  just to be sure. I had a flu test at it came negative for the flu. I was given some medicines for the Colds(it might be just a common cold that i got and being restless for some weeks now and became vulnerable and contracted one.

It was a first in the 4 years of living in Japan that I had consulted a doctor for my colds. well I seldom have one and always i rely on my immune system to fight back the virus. But since i was worried that it will turned out to be the "New Virus". I did go to the Doctor just to make sure. Oh well the meds are working i guess. the fever came down the next day and the coughing started to subside as well. Still felt bad  and decided to take a day off so not to spread the virus with my colleagues... and then another problem came...

Suddenly, I had constipation. a type that is so bad I need to cry when ever I tried pushed it out. hahahha. Honestly, it was so bad that I became worried . I had an episode before back in SG and felt so bad about a doctor that gave me a medicine that made it worse. Back then I am not sure what triggered it. But speculating maybe due to Antacids I was having before. Moving forward, those times flashed back and since I was having the constipation for 2 days, I decided to consult another doctor for advice and medicine. I don't want this to grow to a point it would be painful everytime I need to go.

And so I went to the hospital and  the Doctor and told me that the cough medicine that I took a week ago causes it,  just what I thought so too. The timing made it clear. And she gave  me some poop softener and poop inducer to help with. Had it for a few days and things went normal ... but after the medicine effect lasted, the problem came back. Looks like the cough medicine's constipation effect was still in effect. Went to do some crazy experiment. Drink wine to make the medicine effect subside. It went to work at first but still the condition came back after the medicine effect subsided...

Moving forward to today... April 16,2020. After so many readings and findings. I stumble to a blog that talked about reversing diseases like Heart issues thru Whole Food Plant Based Diet. I was on a Starch Resistant Diet, it was effective but still i need to.... つづく