面对流感的态度与方式--两岸大不同

这里的大医院都不给病人筛检H1N1的，所以各位看到新闻报纸上关于H1N1的统计数字，基本上是没有意义的。
昨天带Winston跑了二家大的公立医院，第一家就被赶出来，因为他们只处理“重症”（转院的，或抬进来的）。第二家，人很多，排了半天开了药，问他可不可以筛检，他说，现在都不給筛检了。我在想可能是流感的人太多了，他们也不想动用到特效药（顺便也可以减少H1N1相关的统计数字，就可以向国际高喊他们控制疫情成功了）。后来，得知一个在上海的大学同学，他有台湾带来的筛拣试纸。可见筛拣也不是太大的问题，如果能作必要的筛检，大家也比较能够做好适当的隔离，而一个没有筛拣的地方，怎会让他的人民做好居家隔离里的工作，疫情怎么可能控制好呢？。

Winston烧了几天停了一天，之前去一个颇贵（评价颇高）的医生那儿看过，他说是H1N1，他说流感的方式都一样，没有特效药，开了一些退烧和止咳化痰的药。昨天Winston又烧起来了，还跟我说胸部会痛，我担心變成重症，都快要哭出来了，还好Jessie夫婦都趕来，我的心情安定多了，有同学在苏州真好！。
台湾好像很容易就能做筛检，H1N1流感的症状多数是轻症，少数才会转成重症，如果筛检了，万一转成重症，也比较能快速控制好病情。这里连筛检都没做，那病人万一严重了怎麽知道要送到哪儿去。
当然啦，对于多数的轻症，听网路的美国新闻说，不吃药，和一般流感一样，会于5-7日自然好。所以即使是H1N1也不一定要投以特效药，台湾有一个新闻说一个妇人得了H1N1而死亡，所以要告医生没给流感的药。我想大陆医院可能就怕这样的事发生，就干脆不筛检了吧！然而，这件事也很容易讓台湾医师变得战战兢兢（或没有医德）：只要是H1N1就給特效药。其实那也不必要，因为如此一来，很容易造成将来流感病毒的突变（还好目前病毒没有变种）。
两地医院的心态不同，结论是，台湾的医院觉得即使你可能是那少数的1%，他们也要想办法救你（也保护自己）；这里是救多数人就好了，少数重症的人就讓他去“物兢天择”吧，而且，多做就容易多错。

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好佳在，Winston昨天的咳嗽症状减轻了，烧也退了，所以苏州公立医院的医师也颇有一手的。医生告诉我不是高烧不要去退烧，讓孩子的身体自己去抵抗，这一点讓我颇认同的，他开的药其中二剂是中药成分，合我胃口（虽然不是我要服用的），我也比较安心（当然我也讶异和怀疑他中、西药並用的療法）。另外，他没强制我讓小孩“挂水”（就是台湾的注射点滴），他只有询问我的意愿，是个良医。

Richy说，他在大陆每次生病去看医生，就是先验血，和“挂水”，他们公司很多人最近感冒，都下班后跑去医院挂水,有人还连续挂三天，真是怪象;有人说这里的医院，住进了就很难出来;Winston的小提琴老师也说，这里的医院，你去看个病，就什么检查都帮你做（因为可以收费），看来这些情况视医师的医德而有不同了，而且近来一些台资医院都来了，本地的再不改善，就没生意啦。

H1N1 and Foggy Day

These two days. Su-zhou is covered by thick fog. We live above 20th flr. and sometimes feel like we are on an airplane surrounded by white clouds.

Winston got H1N1. He started high body temperature on Monday night and the temperature was not down until the 3rd day. Then he had stuffy nose on Wednesday
night until now. He coughs a lot today. At least the fever stopped. The leftover symptoms are very much like normal cold, but still bothering him (and me) a lot. Sometimes he is active but sometimes looks tired. I hope the H1N1 wave will pass very soon.

A Complaint Free World

I am reading the book A Complaint Free World written by Will Bowen. This book is clear and easy to follow. So far, I only read the beginning 2 chapters and mostly agree with the author but to a small degree doubt exists in my mind.
I like to raise some questions to myself before I finish this book, and I hope I can find the answers before the end of the book.
How can a complaint free world exist and is it necessary to have a complaint free life? (or maybe I misunderstood the author's meaning.)
If we actually follow the steps to achieve a personal complaint free life, are there really nothing bothering us, or we just learn to ignore troubles and problems.
If we do learn to ignore problems, how can we actually solve the problems?
My thought is that if the problems are there, they will stay no matter we complain it or not.
And isn't it better if we complain and enhance the need to solve the problem?
Isn't it nice to hear friends' complaints to release his/her tension in life?
Is a complaint-free world too cold and people in that world too indifferent?
As I ask these questions, I feel the need to define the word "complain".
My thought is:
Complaint-free doesn't mean problem-free.
If complaining makes you happier and release the burden of your mental life, why not complain and speak out.
If complaint makes better changes, do complain.
If complaining makes your life worse and can not help solve the problems, then save it.

My thought might change after I finish the book.

A complaint free world doesn't sound perfect to me. In business world, complaints create opportunity for a new business to attract customers.
From political aspect, if there is no complaints, the government will not progress.

The thing I agree with the authors is:
If you don't like something, Change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ---by Maya Angelou
Complaint should happen infrequently; critique and gossip, never.
It is important to focus on what we want in our lives rather than putting our attention on what we don't want. Complaining is focusing on what we don't want. ---by the author of the book

I agree with the notion that complaining is focusing on something we don't want. That is why I think there is no need for a complaint free world.
However, if there is something we don't want or don't like, that means making changes will bring us better life. And complaint will attract changes. Of course, we don't want to focus our attention on "complaining"all the time, but we need to complain. Too much complaining would surely make our life miserable.
I feel myself is playing riddles. More pages to dwell on ~

Learn E-mail Posting 發文 Bingo！

IF you see this post in my blog, that means my trial is successful.
Speechless!  Nothing else matters!
I used to write on Google document and share to publish to my blog. Now, "they" blocked the "share”function, too. So hard to breathe in the net!

Now, how did I do it? This would be helpful if you travel to this special country where I currently stay. Or maybe sometimes when you have difficulty openning your blogger.

You go to you blogspot "settings", and find "e-mail & mobile". Click and get in. Set both(1) the e-mail accounts(up to 10 email accounts, I think you at least have two) to post and (2) an Email address (it is specially for mail-posts to your blog) starting with your user name. You need to set your own "secret" words or numbers after your user name and before @blogger.com. And then, you use one of you two e-mail accounts to write a mail to your newly set email. Then you check your blog to see the post. At the end of every post, you better put the words"#end". Otherwise everything including the unwanted words in the bottom of the mail scratch paper will appear in the post.

Don't ask me how to get in blogspot to do it "in this country". Ask the friend you "trust very much" outside of this country to set it for you. But remember once your "secret"word for email posting is revealed, anyone can e-post to your blog. Benefit always comes with Risk!

I was just considering moving my blog to Wordlive Space. But now I think I will stay with blogspot. After all, I am not going to stay in this country forever. And I like the categorizing function in Google.

冷天買好書

Richy回台一周，我和Winston留在苏州，这一周天冷，刚好不用一大早起床洗水果打果汁。
今天Richy要回来了，我得赶快整理家里，...

前几日看到itrustican部落格里的电子书：Think and Grow Rich.
只看了几页，觉得满好的，它的精神不在Get Rich而是在于生活态度。
这个年纪的我，早已不在意Rich与否，
精神层面远远重于物质（虽然，我还是很希望赶快还清那高高的负债）。
电子书看起来眼睛很累，因此我上网查了此书，果然Best Seller在China是很容易找到的，
而且，很便宜，当然是Pirate版的喽！就当它是网路不自由的Trade-off 吧！
我最爱China的就是它的低价CDs、DVDs，现在就加上畅销原文书了。
花了一些时间搜索其他Buyable，worth-reading的书
当然也买了些中文书，中文书竟比原文书贵好几倍
可见，基本上著作权、版权越过大洋就不追究了。
本地要买中文的Pirate书，可能不适合在网络上大张旗鼓
得到坊间问问才知
有机会再Post上读书心得

Blogspot Revisit

The great thing about visiting Google blogspot is that I can catch up with my family's and friends' websites and read good posts. These days I have been able to visit my blogspot and others'. My Chicken Soup websites always give me new inspiration. Don't know when my new door will be closed.

After learning that my 6th grade nephew started his own blog and writes interesting diary, I helped Winston build his own, too. Hope he learns how to put what he thinks and feels in words, Chinese or English. I choose Word-live Space website for Winston's blog(http://winston-funhouse.spaces.live.com/), because it is (one of the very few) not blocked in this country. The bad thing is that everyone need to sign in Wordlive to leave a comment. That means I can not disguise in different names to leave a comment in his blog. That would be less fun.

家長會

今天Winston的学校辦家长会，结果，前面二小时，我们家长就是看他们上课情况，後面一小时是听老师们对家长们的谆谆教诲，最後看小孩子在餐厅吃饭的情形，总共3个半小时。

和我想像的都不一樣，家长会不应是吃吃聊聊吗？第一次当小学生的家长，有点不適應。
回想刚開学时，还所有家长都去一个冷气不够强的会议厅，聽各单位的主管老师的训诫二小时。
原来, 家长会=家长培训。听说不去参加会被老师各别“關注”。

说真的，他们的上课方式颇活泼生动的，英语课有点像台湾的补习班上法，课程很互动紧凑，换句话说，就是“少废话”的意思，全班同学参与率很高；But, Winston可能都学过了，分心率也很高。

语文课也是，每天有二堂语文，学認字、拼音和写字，语文老师教法很活、也有耐性。Winston汉语不好，幸运遇到良师。

数学老师很盡责，可是要求家长要讓小孩子回家多练习题目，竟然要做到一分鐘算完二十题，天啊！我都做不到了，还要求一年级的小孩子。老师要他们背加法、减法，是用背的哦！30秒内把加起来是9的数字按“顺序”到老师面前背出来，1+8=9，2+7=9，3+6=9，.....8+1=9，这种教育好填鸭，但很有效率，真是典型的MIC，重量不重质。

基本上老师都很有爱心，不会体罚苛责学生，有这几位主要的任课老师，很感恩了！

不知台湾的学习环境如何，应该也不错吧！国家的竞争力要從小学教育做起。

对了，大陆的小学晨间还会有十分钟红领巾播放时段，宣扬红领巾（少年隊的由来），没听得太清楚，不太清楚红领巾是否就是当时的红衛兵，反正，对于很多敏感的东西，已经习惯了，最劲爆的是提到“抗日期间”....
难怪日本人都不读本地小学的，会被欺负..
倒是不少韩国学生，因为经济不景气，都跑来念本地小学了，这里也有很多韩国店。
至于台湾学生呢？很实际，早就因为不必多缴教育捐，纷纷被收编，享受当地人的福利了。
在这里，我们只谈金钱，不谈政治。

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氣溫撐竿跳

三天前苏州白天二十度以上，这二日五度，周六听说要升至28度，寒流熊熊的来，严重过敏鼻炎的我又吸不到新鲜空氣了。

鼻塞得严重，眼睛红红、鼻子肿肿，连呼吸都会痛。

夏天只求能见日（日光型皮肤疹），冬日只望能呼吸（过敏性鼻炎）。

这就是我夏、冬二季的写照。

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