INFO : 3 Kanser Utama Wanita

Assalamualaikum..

Jujur, takut nak fikir mengenai sebarang kemungkinan penyakit yang akan mengubah hidup kita selama2 nya. Dengan gaya hidup sekarang, dan juga kepercayaan individu yang pelbagai - vaksin lah, tak nak vaksin lah, dan kualiti udara dan air dan segala perkara di sekeliling yang sudah banyak tercemar.

Dan mengikut bacaan, 2 penyakit utama yang selalu menjadi pembunuh wanita: hati dan kanser. Penyakit hati boleh dikawal dengan tidak merokok, pastikan makan yang betul supaya berat badan optimum dapat dikawal. Tapi kanser lebih susah untuk dijangka. Dan 3 penyakit kanser atau barah ini yang paling banyak menyerang : kanser payudara, kanser paru-paru dan kanser usus besar.

Tapi saya bukan orang yang ahli dalam subjek ini, izinkan saya kongsi dari 1 website yang sangat berguna :

1. Breast Cancer

Your odds: 1 in 8

Risk factors: Your risk factors for breast cancer include family history and age. If you are over 55, your breast cancer diagnosis is more likely to be invasive, and if your mother, sister or daughter has it, your risk is doubled.

Lack of exercise and a high-fat diet are contributing factors to a breast cancer diagnosis, as is drinking heavily and a lack of exercise. Taking birth control pills increases your risk factor, as does not have a pregnancy or having your first pregnancy after thirty.

Screening: Regular breast self-exams are the first step in monitoring any lumps or changes in size or shape in the breast or armpit. Doctors and nurses can offer clinical breast exams, but by the age of forty, you should be talking to your doctor about how often you should be scheduling mammograms.

After fifty you should have a mammogram every two years. Being aware of your body and making sure to address changes or lumps in your breast with your primary care physician is imperative to catching this cancer early and increasing your chances of survival.

2. Lung and Bronchus Cancer

Your odds: 1 in 16

Risk factors: 80% of lung cancers in women could be avoided by simply not smoking. Smoking is the main risk factor for lung and bronchus cancers; smokers can be up to 20 times more likely to get lung cancer than nonsmokers.Other risk factors include an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise and exposure to second-hand smoke, radon gas, arsenic, tar, and soot.

Screening: If you are aged 55-80, currently smoke or have smoked in the past fifteen years, annual lung cancer screenings are recommended. The only recommended screening available for lung cancer is a low-dose computed tomography, which uses low doses of radiation to take pictures of the lungs.

3. Colon and Rectal Cancer

Your odds: 1 in 19

Risk factors: Age is a significant risk factor for these cancers; more than ninety percent of them occur in people over the age of fifty. Inactivity, smoking, heavy drinking, a high-fat diet and a family history of bowel diseases are also contributing factors. 

Screening: It can take ten to fifteen years for cancer cells to grow in the colon, so regular screenings can allow for removal of abnormal cells before there is an issue. Colonoscopies are the preferred screening method for colon, and rectal cancers and regular screening should begin by age fifty. Of course, if you are at higher risk, you should begin screening earlier.

Sumber : Mesothelioma.com.

The Choice is Always Yours

Assalamualaikum..

When I first joined the company, I had the privilege of handling the account for an International operations. Learnt their not-so-attractive attitude and began to appreciate the differences. Then in my 2nd year, been transfered to Audit's team, which I had to travel around, attending operations of the company worldwide.

It was really interesting and fascinating. Imagine : travelling the globe in Business Class, attended as the Very Important Person *rolling eyes* , killing time in Business Lounge, mingle around with the top spot of people, staying in 5 stars hotel, with a driver to drive you around and the list continues.

It took me only 5 trips to felt worn out. Not that I complaining the hours spent for work,its the same whether you are in the head office or not , its still 10++ hours spent.

Its more on the sacrifice that my family had to endure. Minimum of 2 weeks abroad , with a space of 1 week locally then on the move again. Keeping update of my kid via Skype, saying Good Morning and Good Night thru a phone call. Missed important events , birthdays, family gatherings, friends catching up. My luck is:  I have a very good supporting system, a husband who really understand and 3 pairs of parents and sibling who will always up on the 1st ringing. This really help me to survive the next 2 years of THAT life.

The wake up call when Imani, then 2 years old, chose to had her dinner with the maid, rather than me, in one casual family dinner. It's hurting. And sucks. Really.

So mothers, I always belief we have the choice to decide from. If you are the ordinary-surviving-people on this world, you got to choose wisely. You still have to work to provide the best for your kids (everything is money and good things most of the time are pricey) and remember by doing this you might put your kid on your expense, or else if you choose to be with your kids 100%, not tide up with the 8-5 working-your-ass for others clock, then either you have your own job that earn the good money, or be satisfied with moderation with whatever bring in by your spouse. 

And the choices are always there. Please do not compare yourself with others, stop complaining and have less expectation. 

You will survive dearly.

Still waiting for the flight to arrive. A not so frequent travel I can do. The rest, I rather stay with Hasif and the kids. 

Playing hide-and-seek with MAS

Assalamualaikum...

I have this love-hate relationship with airlines. Either the plane will choose to leave me behind, or my luggages choose to dissapear or simply the airlines changed their flite time-which-are-not-so-accomodating-for-me *read between the line please*  haha.

And what happens today, are just the normal series of event. Done with meetings, check my flite time, and tadaaaaaaaa....instead of 6.30PM today, I had stupidly chose 6.30AM tomorrow. I dont mind staying back for one night, thing is I have a scheduled-VVIP-meeting tomorrow at 8AM. 

So..again, the routine. Calling up to Airline..rushing back to hotel..and reach 3 hours earlier at the airport to change the ticket.

And am again, just glad I fly with Malaysia Airlines (MAS). I flew with several airlines before, in first class, business and also economy, and frankly, the service from MAS is still the best. 

Why?

- I don't have to worry AT ALL should there is any incidence like this.

- If I missed the flite, charges is RM106 to catch the later flight (based on availability) and no additional pay for price differences.

- If I want to catch the earlier flite, charges is RM53 at the MAS office or RM106 thru online call to customer service.

- Should I wish to travel for shopping, extra luggage is not a nightmare. RM30kg is easily mine for economy and I still can have a hand carry. I remembered flying with 1 low fees carrier, and got charged for extra size of bag eventhough its weight less than the permissible limit. And at the drop bag counter, an extra of 1 - 5 kgs, normally MAS's staff will give an exception, but not for that low fees carrier.

- When my luggage MIA in Mozambique, MAS took the effort to locate eventhough the responsible party should be South Africa Airlines - the connecting flite. And they compensated me with extra Enrich miles when the effort is unsuccessfull (I still cried over the limited edition Sophie Kinsella set).

Ok. Should stop. Else, I will have to write each of the incidence for the past 20 years of my life. Haha.

Still, I could not stop laughing when I received this for the receipt.

MAS. Please. Invest on something more uptodate machine please. I used this when I joined my first company and that was a decade before. And you should consider the paper usage ok? HAHHAAH