When I got on the plane on Tuesday to fly from Tokyo to Singapore I felt healthy
Indeed, were it not for the fact that a colleague later discovered me and rushed me to a doctor, I might have died that night.
Fortunately, the doctor who treated me, tropical medicine specialist Oon Chong Teik, had just read online about the obscure W135 mutation in Saudi Arabia.
When I emerged from my brush with meningitis in Singapore, I felt so giddy to be alive that I declared I would try to feel grateful each day — and never “sweat the small stuff” again.
Sadly, that pious resolution probably lasted about a month; humans are hard-wired to lose perspective amid the daily grind.
Gillian Tett FT 11 March 2020
Fortunately, the doctor who treated me, tropical medicine specialist Oon Chong Teik, had just read online about the obscure W135 mutation in Saudi Arabia.
When I emerged from my brush with meningitis in Singapore, I felt so giddy to be alive that I declared I would try to feel grateful each day — and never “sweat the small stuff” again.
Sadly, that pious resolution probably lasted about a month; humans are hard-wired to lose perspective amid the daily grind.
Gillian Tett FT 11 March 2020
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