Any other girls face this issue? My boyfriend is physically out of shape, but I don’t mind because he spends a lot of time at work and he has a good character. I intend to marry him. However, I’m beginning to be worried for his health. He gets out of breath very easily (including nighttime activities), and when I feel/listen to his heartbeat it’s always fast and irregular.

Whenever we do any physical activity together he always has chest pains and chest tightness. I’ve asked him to go to the doctor but he refuses.

How can I convince him to take action? I don’t want to marry him and then have him collapse and die.

Here is what netizens think:

• I was also facing these issues. My boyfriend used to be like yours but I manage to convince him. I told him is either he sees a doctor or make it a point to exercise.He has been doing jogging for almost 3 years. Slimmer and fitter than me. He runs marathon monthly. So proud of him.

• Get good insurance coverage.Jk. On a serious note, can get him like a fitbit or something first so maybe some numbers will convince him something is amiss? Having a blood pressure cuff may be useful too if you can borrow one and say let’s check together or something like that. I have low BP so I have one to check now and then. Only when I checked my hub’s one then he realised he needs to be careful about his own bp as well. So it does help

• Tell him to start slow and small. Can be walking to his lunch place and walking back. Climbing one flight of stairs today, take lift and slowly increase the flight of stairs. Find those quick and simple 5min workouts on youtube that’s manageable. Get him to do once a day, then twice a day, then 6 times a day. Make part of your dates together a long walk (shopping mall or park) to help him.

I just need to get this off my chest somewhere public.

I’m an auditor who tested positive for COVID last month after my VTL trip back from my graudation. Well, to be exact, I was tested positive on Christmas eve. If you didn’t know, for VTL travellers, we have to do 7 days of ART, 2nd and 7th day are to be supervised. And I was just so lucky to be tested positive on my 7th day. As I was tested negative for all 6 days, I dismissed my symptoms as a flu. It was no big deal, I thought to myself, as I just came back from somewhere with the weather hot in the day, freezing cold at night. So a positive result on the 7th day was really a shock to me.

I felt really bad as I was with a colleague at a client’s place who has a very young son. And not just that, the boss of the company I’m auditing is a really old and nice guy, and he even offered to drive me to the MRT when it was raining on the eve itself. So imagine how guilty I was when I found out I was positive.

Well, things got worse. On the first weekday of my self-isolation of 10 days after receiving a PCR positive result, my other colleague called with the request of my boss, only to be asked if I can WFH. My colleague was really angry for me, to which I commented “I was disappointed, but not surprised.” I rejected it anyway.

And all was fine, no one really bothered me as I rested. Until I came back from my self-isolation after the New’s Year. The client requested for a negative ART result every time I visit their office. I don’t know if they even know that we’re paying for our own ART test kit. My company doesn’t even care. And fine, that’s fine if they have trust issues with me. And when one of the staffs from the client’s office came to ask me about everything as one of their customers? Basically, someone they know was tested positive today too, she asked how was everything like, if I had symptoms and all. I mentioned that I had negative results the whole time before the one positive, and yes I had flu. And she just simply asked “why didn’t you wait till you’ve recovered from my flu?”

If it wasn’t because this client is urgently in need of their audited report for XBRL filing and we literally have not enough staff in our firm right now, SURE, I would’ve definitely rest till my blocked nose was gone.

Falling sick is a luxury now with our firm turning from bad to shit. And it’s as if it’s my fault I caught the virus. It’s my fault it even existed. Everyone’s talking about sympathy and understanding but where are they when people really face positive cases?

I’m so sick and tired of this virus and everything relating to it.