well honey.. so many things happened to me these past few weeks..
i was busy accompanying my hubby, (hes back for some business) being his chaffeur, entertaining him.. and so much more.. and there was Hari Raya Haji (Eid Adhaj (is it???) and.. chaffeuring again... to KL back and forth.. i fell sick, had high fever, my gradmother was admitted.. then was discharged.. i was in KL, came back, fell sick again, with heavy bleeding and passing out occasionally.. and caught an eye infection from the kids at home (both eyes!).. and it was SO BAD i look like a vampire with a frog face...
and sadly, on Thursday morning 17th of November, my beloved grandmother passed away... the iron woman of my life.. my idol! i was so sad for not being able to be at her side during the final days.. i was also badly infected, the last thing i wanted was to pass all my germs to her.. and now she is gone.. but when i visited her on the day she left us, she was just like sleeping... and i feel relieved to see her like that.. my aunt told me she went in her sleep peacefully.. i'm going to miss you nenek!!! your cooking, your nags, your stories, your complaints.. everything!! mom still cries.. God bless grandma's soul Al-fatihah...
and i was at grandma funerals wearing the Huge Sunglasses because of my read swollen eyes, and it was so bad! i have to put it on all the time, everywhere!!.. indoor/outdoor/day/nite!! and somebody really try to pull a joke out of my condition.. "i tot it was fashion!" that was what my uncle said to me.. and our dear YB Datuk Dr. Helmi was there visiting, he was my father's friend and my mom used to be his regular patient (its not because of his relation with my parents but he was the former ADUN of the area... and grandma was the 5th house he visited that day alone) and there i was having this eye infection,being most unpresentable me, and was not able to socialize with him.. there goes my chance of lobbying but its grandmas funeral.. so i couldnt care less..
i practically went everywhere with my shades on... i picked up my son from school wearing a shades (which is normal) and still having it on while having a conversation with the kids moms and his teachers.. and when i take off the shades to show them the eyes condition.. they just couldn't believe how bad they were.. and luckily, one of the kids mother, an Indian lady just came back from India with a shaved head.. was telling me to soak a handkerchief into tumeric water (doesn't matter if its the real tumeric or the powder) and put it on the eyes.. it will soothes the swell.. and when night came, i did what she said.. and guees what! IT WORKS!and THANK GOD!!! (thanks to the antiseptic thing in the tumeric) and when i'm done with putting damp cotton square on my eyes, i mixed the tumeric water with some rice flour and smear it all over my face like a mask and sleep on it!! and ask my sister to do the same.. and the next morning... walah!! we have very fresh looking face ever! better than any expensive mask! :) the best thing about this mixture is, you can use it for frying some banana fritters or some sweet potato later... or vise versa.. so the mixture wont go to waste! isn't that awesome! and i remember my grandma, she never wasted anything and she is one LOADED lady!
so.. TUMERIC for swollen eyes!!! not the internal redness.. since i'm allergic to eye drops (and ear drops) the only cure for conjuctivitis to me is plenty of sleep... and i ain't getting any.. it has been 4 days now... and counting....
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