More Whmmies

After midnight last Thursday, I was taking a late shower and noticed the sound of water dripping. It was obviously not the sound of water dripping from the shower head.

It was from the ceiling. I quickly finished my shower and dressed, and rushed down to the entrance with wet hair to talk to I don’t who living at the unit just above mine on the intercom.

She said, “Nobody is using the bathroom now.” Apparently the leakage was happening in the ceiling not coming down from her unit.

I contacted the owner and the agent.

On Friday, the water kept not dripping but now was flowing down. I looked in the ceiling through the manhole (false ceiling). It seemed the water was leaking from a tank-looking thing with the label, “ARISTON” on it. I couldn’t be if this ARISTON was the source as my view was blocked by the piping. On the web, I found that ARISTON was a water-heater manufacturer. There are a lot of websites that tell about water leak from water heaters including those by ARISTON. Very suspicious. I took a hot shower while looking at the water.

Saturday morning, the agent came. Looking into the ceiling, he confirmed the source was ARISTON and managed to turn off the heater.

I had a weekend of cold shower. And it will continue until the heater is fixed (or replaced). I guess the ceiling needs to be cut open for fixing or replacement.

Friday night, I returned to the Upper Thomson clinic to learn about the result of my blood/urine test.

There was no infection, though initially some kind of infection should have been with the finger. The doctor told me that this should be a case of fixed drug reaction or eruption. The finger is allergic to a drug, possibly anti-fungal Combiderm which made it so so so red, and responded as it should. But a funny thing is this redness should disappear soon after I stopped the drug, but it has been persistent though I see some sign of improvement.

What concerned the doctor was not my finger. It was SGPT/ALT, SGOT/AST and GGT for the liver and the number for urine acid.

SGPT/ALT, SGOT/AST and GGT should be lower than 50, 33 and between  

9 and 50, respectively. Mine were 75, 71 and 161. I’ve never expected my liver’s condition is this bad.

And the number for urine acid was 8.2 when it should be between 3.4 and 7.0.

A major reason for these numbers is excessive drinking, and I know I’ve been drinking more than before, especially for the few months for a reason, which is obviously to me. Getting drunk with shochu and, these days, vodka was my way of putting myself to deep sleep. I know there would be many nights when I have trouble sleeping without alcohol. But looking at these numbers and knowing the reality, I have been alcohol-free from two days and having trouble with sleeping.

The doctor gave me tablets for relieving my allergic reaction and frolic-acid tablets for lowering the urine acid level, and I am now booked for ultrasound liver screening on 16th, to see how fatty my liver now is. I do hope this is a transient condition because of my stressed-out mental state.