Misery

Today’s the fifth day of my fever and cough but it feels like I’m trapped in a time-zone. When will my misery be over?

My gynae told me on Tuesday that I have nothing to worry about even with all this cold symptoms. Of course, being a first-timer, I worry anyway. My coughing has become more violent over time and this morning, I vomited part of my breakfast of chee chong fun and bng kweh. Did I also throw up my vitamin pills too? The mess was too disgusting for me to check. I quickly washed the vomit down the sink.

To make matters worse, I’m moving towards the peak of ‘morning sickness’ of the first trimester. Every slight cooking smell makes me nauseous and therefore, impossible to eat at many foodcourts and coffee shops. Sometimes, I won’t be able to determine which foods are turn-offs until I eat it. My current neutralising agent is NTUC’s or Marigold’s soybean milk. Yang bought me claypot toufu dinner the other night and wow, it was truly my tummy pleaser. Last night, he bought egg toufu and it had an opposite effect on me. I think I need pure soybean products.

Although fruits are fine so far, the doctor told me to stay away from pineapples. In fact, I’m craving for the refreshing crunch of guava (no sour plum powder please) and honey sweetness of rock melon now.