Nope, this isn't another article but I thought I'd do a little update on what's been going on with me. For those who might have noticed, I have not been playing the game as regularly as I would for the past month, especially in the last two weeks as I've been completely absent. October and November have been a really painful month for me personally.
Starting off with October, just as renovations started at home, I started to have headaches and was also dealing with a toothache, wondering why one side of my jaw feels different to the other. Just as the renovations were done, I started feeling pains in my left ear, little did I know this would start a whole chain of events.
I had never realized the importance of our ears, so from someone who's just gone through a rough patch, please take care of your ears. The discomfort would end up causing me more headaches, and even dizziness at times, which I've never really dealt with all that much. And of course during this time I would end up with a fever as well. The first ear cleansing felt alright but the pressure on the ears was so much, I almost fainted during the middle of the procedure.
The syringing method is one I would never recommend. A week later I would go for the vacuuming method, which cleared 90% of whatever was bugging my ears and I feel a lot better now. So if you're ever dealing with ear pains or have too much "shit" in your ears, go for the vacuuming method. The ear specialist I saw did such a good job, I don't feel much pain in my ears anymore.
In the middle of all of this, while trying to recover from my fever, I started to feel lethargic. I was resting so much my blood pressure went down to the point my doctor said I was having low blood pressure which might have been the reason why I felt my heart racing one night, thinking what was going on and what my head felt so much pain that night. It's a feeling I don't want to go through again and I wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemies. It is strange to find out that I might have had low blood pressure as my family has a history of high blood pressure, so yeah I'm the odd one out.
For those wondering, I do feel a lot better now. I've had my BP readings done daily for the past week and the results have been good, numbers were just nice to be above the low BP count. I've been living off 100 Plus and changing my eating habits such as not eating bread, which is weird to me, eating fries with salt (I'm one of those who would always ask for fries without salt), eating salty sweets, and even started eating Frosties for breakfast, which for some weird reason I never did before.
I'm still on medication for my ears and my eyes (it's been bugging me as well and doctor said my eyes might have also been dehydrated), and have some cough medicine for my cough which sadly still hasn't gone away. Apart from that, I feel much better, good enough to hopefully play Pokemon TCG and get back to my school revision and notes, which I've missed a lot of lately.
Onto the TCG side of things, I've not played the game in 13 days, and my first time back will be in the Autumn 2019 pro circuit invitational, the one where the winner gets $800 prize! It feels weird to get back into the game and prepare for a high stakes tournament right away, but I've already had to miss two League Challenges and CP events do come often for us here in Singapore.
Cosmic Eclipse is an important set as it's in the middle of possibly the most important month in the game for me, in December. Along with tomorrow's pro circuit invitational, there is the Singapore SPE to come in early December and the Malaysia Regional in late December, which will be my first time attending a Regional and also my first time playing Pokemon TCG overseas! But due to all the things that have been happening, I have not had much time to prepare for the upcoming decks, relying mostly on what happened in LAIC and tips from my friends over at PokeStats on how I should approach things (and I'm very grateful for their help during this time to help me out in what is a blind meta for me as well).
Apart from the obvious of testing Turbo Reshiram & Charizard-GX, I have actually put in a lot of my testing time in working on a new Charizard TEU decklist, to the point where I felt I might have finally gotten the right 60 card list for it when I went 3/0/0 at my local leagues for two days running. In a field of Tag Teams and with the right set-up, the deck has a good shot of taking down those decks, especially Gardeon, GreenZard, Mew2Mew and even ADP! So much so I'm strongly considered using the deck for either the SPE or even the Regional.
It feels nice to get back onto the grind of testing games out, mainly online as I don't really have any testing partners in real life apart from the friends I see during my weekly games. I just hope that I'll be healthy for the month of December and be able to focus on doing my best at the SPE and the Regional and hopefully get myself a bit closer to the dream of getting an invite to the World Championships (I'm sitting at 57CP right now and need 193 more to go). A Top 8 finish at both those events would do me a world of good and that's the aim, to do just enough to get Top 8 or at the very least score points out of both events.
Also tomorrow is the pro circuit invitational for the Autumn season and I'll be going into it with zero testing in real life, most of my testing was done online. Hopefully I'll do enough to get into top cut at the very least. Not really expecting much since I've not played in a while but the main thing is to have fun, something I have not done in a while. I'm still deciding between TurboZard or BabyZard, and strangely enough I'm leaning towards the Stage 2 deck.
So to sum it up, I'm on the mend, I feel much better than I have been for the last three weeks or so, I've started to exercise regularly again, my hearing is back to normal and even though I still feel giddy at times and still feeling some pains, hopefully everything will be back to normal. I wouldn't want to head off to my Japan trip right after the Malaysia Regional for my 30th birthday and still feel unwell, especially since I've got to head off to Army reservist right after my trip. Hope you all are doing well and please take care of yourselves.
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