Foreign Thoughts

I went back for consultation today, and another blood test was done -my fourth one in less than a week.
It was kinda funny to see the nurse trying to find new veins to draw blood from.

The doctor revealed that she had suspected I had Leukemia from my first blood test,
my blood count had shown weird and ‘atypical mononuclear cells’.

It was a virus + bacteria attack which had caused the gingivitis, the uncontrolled oral bleeding.
But the test today showed better result.
Medication has managed to suppress and hopefully kill the virus, which might have developed into something nasty.

I didn’t know what went through my mind. Blank.
Leukemia eh?

The question that’s been scratching the back of my mind lately had finally caught full attention.
Was it all worth it? To travel to a foreign country and leave my family behind?

Inevitably you would wonder what would happen if death had caught up with you, in a land not your home.
With no family or friends by your side.
Kinda scary.