Before or after meals?
“3 times a day every 8 hours before meals”
I knew about “the 3 times a day every 8 hours”, and had timed it this time so that I wouldn’t have to get up in the middle of the night to take the meds. But what’s this “before meals” deal?
At 3:30 p.m., I’d eaten more than two hours ago. There was only one thing to do – take a square of chocolate after I’d downed those two pills (one’s a stronger antibiotic than the one prescribed last week, and the other’s for the phlegm).
Mind you, not just any square of chocolate, but a Royce, from a box that’d been delivered by hand all the way from Hong Kong this morning.
S, my colleague in the Corporate Finance Department, was in the Hong Kong office yesterday (training or meeting, I guess) and had called this morning to say Judith had asked him to bring back something for me. I said to put it in the docket (inter-department mail folder) but he said it was too big for that so I sent one of the support staff to go and collect it.
Turns out there was a reason for the chocs, huh? Good timing, too.
I’d never heard of Royce and said as much when I emailed my thanks to her. She replied that Royce is a Japanese brand, introduced to HK a year ago, and that while they only have shops in Japan and HK at present, she heard they are going to open new shops in S’pore, but not yet in M’sia.
She shared that her favourite from Royce is the soft chocolate which has to be kept refrigerated.
“You should try them when you are here next time.”
Hmm … maybe I’ll stop over and visit Judith on my way to see Hua Mei and twins next year. Or maybe there’ll be a business trip soon so I don’t have to pay for the airfare?
