Medical screening

I was informed earlier that we were supposed to do a medical screening before our trip.

We are actually going to check in at the airport for the trip coming Sunday night, but the details of the medical screening only came to us last Friday, so apparently its quite a rush. I quickly called up the clinic as I have to report to school until this Friday, working office hours (Yeah, I know it's school hols..don't ask me why I still gotta work). To my horror, the clinic is fully booked till end Dec on weekends and it's only opened during office hours on weekdays.

I decided to play by ear and see if I can get off early any of these days to do my checkup, if not I shall delay it till Saturday, which is just one day before our trip! San went for it yesterday and her ECG report was abnormal, so ended up she had to clear the screening by going to another specialist. This made me even more nervous, as ten years ago when I was applying to go OBS Lumut, I failed my ECG test as well and the condition forced me to give up the trip. Was quite devastated at that time as I was only in Sec 3 and going overseas was a rare opportunity. Of course, after the heart operation done a few months after that, I'm supposed to be in good working condition again.

This morning, I called up the clinic and its unfriendly office hours didn't leave me with much choice, but to apply for permission to leave the school earlier tomorrow to go for the medical checkup. When I filled up the form to take time off for tmr, I noted that I'll have to go to my RO and P for approval. BUT, to my horror again, my HOD informed me that the new procedure is to go through my VP before they can sign on the forms! The VP is known to reject application for leave, and I was really quite anxious as I'm quite sure she will say 'no' since there's quite a few colleagues on MC, leave, courses and etc lately.. Luckily, after I explained the whole situation to her, she said 'Okay, can go'. Really heng (lucky)!

Now just need to cross my fingers for the medical screening tomorrow..