New Lifelong Commitment

And so it begins… 7 days before I turn 39, a new milestone. A new lifelong commitment. Not a pleasant one but high cholesterol pills that I’ll be taking for possibly the rest of my life.

Many of us at some point in our lives, will have to start taking some forever pills. For me, I just didn’t see it coming this soon. 
Or maybe it just didn’t dawn on me that I’m getting “wiser”. Feels like time just flew by. How am I already 39?

Sure, I do a botox here, and a laser there to have beautiful skin but now I have to maintain the organs too. Thats quite a new feeling for me.

Actually, my consulting doctor already advised me to start 10 months ago when my thorough blood test results came out, but I was not ready. I figured I could probably eat healthy enough to reverse the high cholesterol, but the 10 months I did live in fear, wondering if today I might be getting a stroke. Call me paranoid, but with my high stress life, it is a possibility.

While I am happy to watch my diet and work out frequently, it is the “what ifs” that I am constantly thinking about that drove me to make the move.

I initially thought this pills will set me back couple of hundreds a month and maybe I should go to the government hospital to try to get into the system and get subsidised pills but it turned out to be RM13 per month if I consume the generic version. I am so grateful to be in Malaysia where honestly, our medicine are some of the most affordable I’ve seen in the world. Thank you Malaysia.

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