Berikut ini bahan-bahan presentasi untuk membuat Paper Pra UAS mata kuliah Kapita Selekta untuk kelas 07PAT, 07PBT, dan 07PCT.

Pertemuan ke-8 : Aditya Kurniawan, S.Kom, MMSI, “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design : Behind The Truth“, klik di sini

Pertemuan ke-9 : GSLC, tidak ada kelas.

Salam,
-Tri Djoko

Salam,
Tri Djoko Wahjono

Berikut daftar mahasiswa yang dapat memanfaatkan Forum Diskusi ini :

Salam,
Tri Djoko Wahjono

Berikut daftar mahasiswa yang dapat memanfaatkan Forum Diskusi ini :

Yth. Bapak/Ibu Dosen,
Kami ingin menyampaikan file materi yang dipresentasikan mengenai kegiatan Developer Conference 2012 yang diadakan pada tanggal 18-19 Desember 2012 di JCC. File ini boleh dibagikan kepada mahasiswa Bapak/Ibu.

Kami menginformasikan bahwa seluruh mahasiswa Jurusan Teknik Informatika semester 5 dan 7 diwajibkan mengikuti kegiatan Developer Conference 2012, Windows 8 Hackathon yang diadakan pada tanggal 18-19 Desember 2012 di JCC. Perkuliahan di hari ini akan menjadi GSLC (semester 5) dan untuk matakuliah Kapita Selekta penyelenggaraannya akan di JCC.

Kami sudah menyarankan mahasiswa untuk dapat mendaftarkan diri segera mengikuti pelatihan berupa workshop pada tanggal 16/17 Oktober 2012 yang dilakukan melalui email ke Binusw8hackathon@binus.edu dengan mencantumkan data NIM, Jurusan, Nama Lengkap, No HP, Email, Material yang dipilih (C# .NET atau JavaScript)

Bagi Bapak/Ibu yang mengajar matakuliah IMK mohon dapat menjadikan kegiatan ini sebagai salah komponen dari penilaian Tugas Mandiri, dimana mahasiswa akan membuat aplikasi secara berkelompok yang terdiri dari 2-5 orang dan membuat perancangan UI (User Interface). Kami akan membagikan DVD yang dapat diberikan kepada Komti Kelas untuk dicopykan kepada mahasiswa berupa Stater Kit Windows 8 dan petunjuk untuk mengikuti kegiatan ini pada saat rapat UTS. Terima kasih.

Regards,
Michael Yoseph (Yp)
Deputy Head of Computer Science School – Student & Alumni
Jl KH Syahdan No 9, Kemanggisan
021-5345830 ext 2230

http://socs.binus.ac.id/

Untuk lebih jelasnya, lihat file Developer Conference Hackaton Windows 8 di sini

07PAT :
Pertemuan ke-1 :  Dr. Widodo Budiharto, S.Si, M.Kom, “Artificial Intelligence dan Computer Vision Research“, klik di sini
Pertemuan ke-2 : Afan Galih Salman, S.T., M.Si, “Mobile Computing and Its Research“, klik di sini
Pertemuan ke-3 : Benny Fajarai, S.Kom, “Entrepreneuship in IT Start-up Company“, klik bagian 1 di sini dan bagian 2 di sini
Pertemuan ke-4 : Tri Djoko Wahjono, Ir, MSc, “Pengenalan CoBIT 5.0 dan Karier Sebagai IS/IT Auditor“, klik di sini

07PBT :
Pertemuan ke-1 : Diyurman Gea, S.Kom, MMSI, “Entrepreneurship in The Open Source Era“, klik di sini
Pertemuan ke-2 : Elidjen, S.Kom, M.InfoCommTech, “Innovate or Die“, klik di sini
Pertemuan ke-3 : Renan Prasta Jenie, S.P., MT, “Hackaton : Development Conference 2012“, klik di sini

07PCT :
Pertemuan ke-1 : Diyurman Gea, S.Kom, MMSI, “Entrepreneurship in The Open Source Era“, klik di sini
Pertemuan ke-2 : Elidjen, S.Kom, M.InfoCommTech, “Innovate or Die“, klik di sini
Pertemuan ke-3 : Benny Fajarai, S.Kom, “Entrepreneuship in IT Start-up Company“, klik bagian 1 di sini dan bagian 2 di sini
Pertemuan ke-4 : Suharjito, S.Si, MT, Dr., “Program MTI Binus” dan Koyita Hashimoto, Ph.D, “Tourism Informatics“, klik di sini

PENGUMUMAN PENULISAN PAPER PRA UTS
Perhatian : Untuk mahasiswa kelas 07PBT yang jumlah pertemuannya tidak terlalu banyak, anda bebas untuk mengambil topik dari paper yang telah dibawakan di 2 kelas lainnya (07PAT dan 07PCT) walaupun di kelas anda topik itu belum sempat dibawakan
Kertas : Letter
Margin : Top 2,5 cm, Bottom 2,5 cm, Left 4 cm, Right 2,5 cm
Spasi : 1,5 spasi
Font : Times New Roman, 12 point
Minimal : 15 halaman
Outline :
A. Latar Belakang
B. Tujuan
C. Permasalahan
D. Pemecahan Masalah
E. Pembahasan
F. Kesimpulan
G. Daftar Pustaka

PENGUMUMAN HACKATON : DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE 2012
What : Pesta Pengembangan Software Berbasis Windows 8
Where : Jakarta Convention Center (JCC)
When : Selasa-Rabu, 18-19 Desember 2012 dari jam 10.00 18 Des sampai 10.00 19 Des (24 jam)
Who  : 3000 peserta, mahasiswa TI Binus yang mengambil mata kuliah PAA, IMK, dan Kapsel
How : Tidak ada perkuliahan untuk seluruh mahasiswa TI tanggal 19-19 Desember 2012, akan disediakan 60 bis komuter Binus-JCC, akan disediakan makanan setiap 3 jam, akan disediakan berbagai ruang : ruang santai, ruang makan, ruang game, bagi mahasiswi akan disediakan Surat Ijin kepada Orang Tua

To continue my previous stories, here I am going to tell the readers about anything I have experienced in the last 6 months after the cardiac surgery. For brevity, I recap anything I experienced from the first month after the cardiac surgery until the sixth month after the surgery.

First Month

In this first month at the first week I was still staying in the ICU room after the surgery and got a bleeding 3 times in a row as a result of the Bentall procedure surgery I had —a pretty dangerous surgery compared with bypass surgery (CABG), for example. At the second week, I was transferred from the ICU room to the treatment room which was called IWS (Intermediate Ward —Surgical) since my condition was getting better. In this IWS room my appetite was lost along with the healing of my surgery wound and the cessation of the remaining bleeding. In this IWS also, the three channels in my stomach which were called “ducting” were taken off because my stomach didn’t bleed anymore. After the “ducting” in my stomach was removed, I could sleep freely since now I could lean to right or left side. I then was transferred to the treatment room, in the building II floor 6 RSJHK (Rumah Sakit Jantung Harapan Kita/Harapan Kita Heart Hospital). Once transferred to the treatment room in Building II, each ex cardiac surgical patient was required to follow a rehabilitation program with still wearing the blue patient suit, which the program was called the Rehabilitation Program Phase I. The rehabilitation program was concerned with the patients’ ability to walk properly and quickly. On the 15th day after the surgery, I was allowed to go home (some patients were allowed to go home on the 7^th day, 10^th or 12^nd day after the surgery, depending on the conditions of each patient). I then went home but it was lasted only one night, because in the tomorrow morning I passed out in the bathroom because of a gastric bleeding that caused my HB lasted 5.6 and my INR raised up drastically to 5.0 (super thin blood). For two weeks I had to stay in the IWM (Intermediate Ward —Medical) treatment room to recover my condition and to stop my gastric bleeding. On the 30th day I was finally allowed to go home.

Second month

In the second month I spent my time by following the rehabilitation program in RSJHK. Because the RSJHK rehabilitation was paid by my insurance, Askes, I decided to follow 24 meetings which were consisted of 12 meetings of Rehabilitation Phase II (called “Red-Belt”) and 12 meetings of Rehabilitation Phase III (called “Blue-Belt”). But with the pace of following the rehabilitation program for 3 times a week for 12 meetings in Rehabilitation Program Phase II, it means that this second month was spent by following the rehabilitation. I was still living at my sister’s house in Cilandak in order to be closer to RSJHK compared with my own house in Bekasi. Even if I had to take a taxi, the fee was only the half. Apparently this rehabilitation program Phase II was quite exciting; each patient was vying to quickly recover as well as possible. Many were quickly recovered, but some of them were slowly recovered. The rehabilitation program Phase II began with a 10 minute riding a static bike, and a walk of 1000 meters (2 x 500 meters) in the first day. On the second day it increased to 1200 meters, on the third day rose to 1400 meters and beyond. If it were up to 1800 meters, the patient might switch to the treadmill from the distance walking. At the 13^rd meeting of the Rehabilitation program Phase II, the patient must follow the “Upgrading Test” of the Red-Belt to the Blue-Belt. The test was quite exciting as well, which was riding a treadmill and it was tuned up from super soft to super fast and the elevation was raised too… it felt just like a quick run up to the mountain … and if you could riding the treadmill for 7 minutes with a sadistic “menu” like this, you passed to Blue-Belt!

Third Month

After upgraded from Red-Belt to Blue-Belt, now after 2 months passed, the top jersey that I wore changed from red-white to blue-white. A suit that was very meaningful to me who was sick but tried to be healthy again. Recalling of the upgrading test, it was very sweat-draining and particularly courage-draining. Imagine, in the upgrading test from the Red-Belt to the Blue-Belt the patients had to stand on the treadmill, on the flat floor with the speed of about 3.0 km/h. But this “relaxing time” was soon ended when the speed increased to 5.0 km/h by the operator. Shortly thereafter, the speed was set to 6.0 km/h at 20 degrees of elevation. So it was like climbing a hill but with high speeds, even to run a little. Luckily, I was strong enough on the treadmill before I shouted “Enough…. Enough… Enough…” so the treadmill was stopped by the operator. I held it for 7 minutes, when actually the “passing grade” was when the patients bear to be on the treadmill for 6 minutes. In this third month, I was still living at my sister’s house in Cilandak, with the consideration it was closer to my office and to the hospital. I then had begun “to work” again although only for 1-2 hours. I also had the courage to go to the hospital to follow the rehabilitation program without The Lady. In my opinion, in this Blue-Belt the pride as a patient who had just underwent a cardiac surgery was very maximal…. it was so manly…. because many other rehabilitation program attendances were still at the Red-Belt level, even still wearing patient suits. With the rehabilitation program menu which increased, especially using a treadmill, then my fitness and healthy were greatly improved. My confidence was also getting bigger, so I was more comfortable being in the office, public hospitals sorts, and so on. Only, I was still restricted if I wanted to lift things up to only 5 kg, not to be more than that. It seems that at the 3 months after the surgery, the patient’s heart would return to the starting position before the surgery; within the meaning that the heart swelling was still there, but only last the half. In the third month, I also had tried to drive a car, although only for riding around my neighborhood, and to get the car in and out the garage.

Fourth Month

Three months after the surgery, I had a lot of significant progress. Not only had the strength of my legs been “created” from the Red-Belt, now in Blue-Belt I also got my arm strength back. Although I still hadn’t dared to lift things weighing more than 5 kg, but to pull or push things up to 10 kg, I had ever done it (note, this is pulling or pushing, not lifting). I was happy with the physical progress I have got. Because of the wanting to “live normally” and returning to my own home that I didn’t occupy for 5 months, then started from the fourth month of May 2011 I said goodbye to my sister because I would leave my sister’s house in Cilandak and return to my own home. Actually there was a doubt to start the “second life” in my house. You know, for 5 months I left my home except on weekends, my house already smelled musty, and to remove the smell the windows and doors needed to be opened wide. Fortunately, starting the fourth month my wife has allowed me to drive the car by again. First I learned to drive the car to the mall near my house, and then drive the car up to Matraman Highway Street where my wife is working, a distance of about 20 km. it was pretty far to me that the condition wasn’t fully recovered. In this fourth month, I also have come to work in full, which was five times a week. Luckily in the afternoon there was an office shuttle bus that would drive me until in the front of my neighborhood complexion where I lived. So it very eased me. I began to teach, although the load was only 4 credits, the class thesis guiding. But there was a missing feeling because I couldn’t teach as much as I wanted. Although it entirely due to the health reason. In this fourth month I’d proved that I was able to drive car again, and I was also able to ride the mountain bike that I had. What I couldn’t do was riding motorcycle, and even after I recalled I was also losing my Motorcycle Driving License and haven’t found it yet. And apparently I also didn’t have motorcycle anymore because my Mio motorcycle has been sent to Balikpapan to be used by my daughter… in this fourth month I still controlled my condition to my doctor, dr. Aryo Suryo, Sp.JP once a month, usually to report the progress I have, to be examined, and to be given enough medicines for one month….

Fifth month

Blah .. blah .. blah

Sixth month

Blah .. blah .. blah

[Sorry for the inconvenience, under construction]

And apparently after underwent the heart surgery, I unexpectedly suffered from a syndrome of forgetting people’s name or characters’ names, and popular terms that I have memorized them all before. Later from my discussion with the alumni fellows from SMA 1 Madiun, I discovered the syndrome that afflicted me, it was forgetting Roman numerals! It was discovered when my friends of SMA 1 Madiun filed a protest to me because I was wrong in writing Roman numeral I (one) which was mixed up with the Roman numeral II (two). You know whether I’m serious or not about this, don’t you?

The point was after writing the series of posts on my blog from Chapter 1 to Chapter 28, I felt so relieved immeasurably. As like the heavy burden on my shoulders could be derived to the floor. Take the monkey off my back. Relieved…

[EPILOGUE: Tri Djoko Wahjono is currently has passed 4 months since he had a cardiac surgery. During his rehabilitation program Phase II and III, he and his wife chose to stay at his sister’s house, Enny in Cilandak with the consideration that it was closer to his office and campus. In the first weeks of the rehabilitation program phase II he was always escorted by A Lady who lived in her sister’s house, but once he felt safe enough to walk on his own he then decided to go anywhere alone. At the 3 months after his heart being cut and his aortic valve and the shell were replaced, his heart has beat regularly as like a healthy person, although with a louder sound. After 2 months of his cardiac surgery, he also dared to drive a car again. But he had to wait for 3 months after the rehabilitation program had been completed, until he finally ventured to ride a mountain bike —one of the sports he most loves to do. Tri Djoko Wahjono is soon retiring as a civil servant, but he decided to keep teaching on campus until his physical and mental conditions are no longer possible. There were many would-be cardiac surgical patients or heart specialists who are caught reading his series of posts about his experience in cardiac surgery...]

I also read a lot of books in English on Google Book, including from the ex double heart valve surgical patient, that he had undergone an “aortic valve” surgery and “mitral valve” surgery. However, the most remarkable of the person who wrote this book was that…. he recounted his experience passionately, which was of course meant to encourage the readers, especially to those who would soon undergo cardiac surgeries, which were usually always filled with doubt as whether to take the cardiac surgery or not… that in my opinion, the doubt came from the lack of information they acquired along the way… but unfortunately, this good book only showed Chapter 1, 2 and 3, while the other  chapters were hidden in Google book so I became curious about this book. Actually it’s not the matter of the price which costs USD 20, – but about the uneasiness for Indonesian to buy books on Amazon.com, especially for the state bank credit card holders like me. It might be easy for the credit card holders of foreign banks such as from some bank in the United States (you know what I mean)…

Besides books, nice blogs about cardiac surgeries or cardiac surgical experiences were also found in internet.

Back to what this American who had experienced the “double heart valve surgery” told, in fact each of ex cardiac surgical patients’ abilities should immediately be raised again to be able to live his life and daily routine without any hindrance. If he was formerly a lecturer, then after the cardiac surgery the patient should also be able to teach well in class –without the struggling breath that is the characteristic of a leaked heart valve patient. Actually there were many people, even the families of the cardiac patients, who were always remind the cardiac patients to “not being tired”, “not forcing their selves”, “not doing any heavy activity” and so on. But to my ears these advices didn’t enlighten at all and all of that was only discouragement. But unfortunately to live in Indonesia, it is so rare to see people who give sufficient encouragements to the ex-heart surgical patients like me. Maybe the ones who can give encouragement are the cardiac surgical patients who have been recovery for a long time….

Well, I’ve known on the internet about an American who continued having “heavy” activity after about a year he underwent an open-heart surgery to replace his two leaked heart valves. The activity was “surfing” in Hawaii! Incredible! He even said that his cardiac surgical scar (in America) would not leave much scar on his chest and even it would look so smooth and almost couldn’t be distinguished between the normal to the people who have had open-heart surgery. After 4 months I had cardiac surgery, when I take an eye on my cardiac surgical scar on my chest it is also quite smooth –particularly on the upper chest. It’s just that, the scar around my diaphragms (people used to call it “upper belly area”) looked a little not smooth because there is a kind of colloid (scar)…

From the internet I knew that the ex cardiac surgical patients who did the most “crazy” activity were the group of ex patients who lived in California, Nevada and Oregon, because they had done crazy activities such as doing a continued marathon from San Francisco in the state of California directly to the east city in the state of Nevada, continued to the north-west towards the state of Oregon and ends in San Francisco again. This “crazy” ex cardiac surgical patient group called themselves as “Scar Trek”. Probably it came from the word scar and they run a marathon (track/trek), which from the sound it makes people smile because it sounds very close to “Star Trek” –a very famous Hollywood movie…

Imagine, a bunch of people who were mostly quite old between 40-60 years did a marathon as far as 1.000 km marathon, isn’t it “crazy”? If still there were any young people there –but still it was awesome because all of them were the ex cardiac surgical patients who have undergone the most bold “actions” which were –the hearts were cut!

I became secretly admiring the “Scar Trek” and in my heart I agreed with their behavior that to not give up and to forget their each handicap to achieve the higher goal which was “to be considered as a healthy person”. Although this had to be done by running a marathon as far as 1.000 km, which every member of the “Scar Trek” only ran as far as 5, 10, 20, 30, or 50 km…

I then committed to improve my fitness so that sometime my neighbors, relatives, friends, and students wouldn’t realize that I was a cardiac surgical patient. How joyful if no one asks whether I have ever had cardiac surgery or not…. and if this is achieved I would be considered as a healthy person like the others…. (To be continued)

Even during the writing of “the book” or the “series” posts I’ve received many questions about heart disease. Of course, from my friends, faculty friends, students or ex-students, relatives, acquaintances, or even new friends who came from nowhere that I had never known. I’m pleased to try to answer their questions, either orally, through comments on my blog, through Facebook messages, SMS, or via e-mail. Even in my heart I thought, the more you ask the better, because it means that my blog is read by many people and so many people need the information about heart disease from the standpoint of a laity cardiac patient like me…

Of course, in a long-term… it’s just kidding,… who knows this series of posts I wrote can be written back in a good and proper Indonesian language, or translated into English and will be published by American publisher there and one day it gets into the “Best seller list of The New York Times”? Who knows? It can be, can’t it? You think so, don’t you?

If there is any question about heart disease, I tried to answer it well through reading articles on the internet, discussing with the fellow patients, asking the nurse or the nun who was taking care of me, and for some cases I asked the cardiologist directly. To be simple, some questions about heart disease that I have to answer as best as I can are written again below in the form of FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) as follows:

Q1: How many types of heart disease?

A1: There are three, namely congenital heart disease (congenital), heart disease because of habit, and heart disease because of age. The first type, congenital heart disease such as heart valve leaks or heart cavity perforated which is brought innately causes the heart function cannot work perfectly. The second type, heart disease caused by bad habits such as smoking, eat fries which the cooking oil origin is unknown (used cooking oil), eat foods that contain lots of fat (coconut milk, animal fat), or eat foods that contain high cholesterol (egg yolk), which resulted in blockage of the blood vessels of the heart (cardiovascular). The third type, heart disease because of age that is increasingly aging and causes our heart’s spare parts lose its elasticity (aortic blood vessel inflation which is called “aneurysm” or “dilation”, which can cause damage to the aortic valve, for example).

Q2: What are the early symptoms of heart disease?

A2: Of the various parties who have talked to me, especially the patients themselves, the early symptoms of congenital heart disease ever since as a baby is if crying or agitated the tip of the nails, lips, and lower eyelids will be bluish. While the initial symptoms for cardiovascular heart disease are pain in the left chest, numbness of the left shoulders, arms and hands, the back felt stiff, and the chest felt like squeezed by a big rock. The last symptom of swollen aortic heart disease (aortic dilation, aneurysm) and or valve (one or more of the four heart valves that exist) is often struggling breathing even doing light work such as teaching in the classroom or climbing the office stairs though only 1 level.

Q3: What to do if exposed by heart disease?

A3: According to the book by a cardiologist that I read (I forget the name of the author) entitled “Cardiovascular Heart Disease: The No. 1 Killer”,  if a person is exposed by a heart disease –especially heart attack– what to do is to see a doctor as soon as possible, preferably a cardiologist. Usually the doctor will give you blood thinning pill (I’ll check the name) that is usually placed under the tongue. With this blood thinning pill, the blood becomes thin and is temporarily enough for the first aid for people who have heart attacks. But they must be rushed to the hospital ER –better it is Harapan Kita Heart Hospital ER if possible. For me as a sufferer of leaked valve, if the breathe is out or struggling you should immediately cough or insert your finger into your mouth until you feel like throwing up. Then after going to throw up, moreover coughing, usually the heart will work normally again for a while, so this can also be done for the first aid.

Q4: How do I choose a cardiologist and heart hospital?

A4: If you live in inland, such as NTB or Papua or the Bangka Belitung province that I ever found out from the cardiac patients who shared the same room with me, in the three provinces (probably most other provinces in Indonesia) the number of cardiologist is very minimal. Probably one province only has one heart doctor, for that you sure had to see the only cardiologist. But if you live in big cities like Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Medan, and Makassar… perhaps there are many cardiologists, so you could choose to be examined or treated by which cardiologist you choose. In the big cities you will also have more than one option of the available heart hospitals. For example, in Jakarta there are Abdi Waluya Hospital across Cililitan bus station, or directly to the National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita Heart Hospital (RSJHK). Especially for RSJHK, the heart disease patients will be linked with one of the doctors who work in RSJHK…

Q5: how much does a heart surgery cost?

A5: Maybe it could be asked directly to the telephone operator of each hospital. But as far as I know in RSJHK case, the cost of installing one stent (ring) is Rp. 36 millions (if to install 2 stents means it costs 2 x Rp. 36 millions and so on.), a by-pass surgery costs Rp. 75 millions, and the valve and its shell replacement surgery which is called “Bentall procedure” costs Rp. 105 millions. These prices may vary from the payment method you take: whether cash, whether using Askes, or using Jamkesmas. For details, please inquire to the information section of each hospital… For me as a bureaucrat of category IV/b, most of the heart surgery costs will be borne/covered by Askes and we as the patients only pay a small amount of money called “cost sharing”… not to mention, this cost is only the cost of the surgery, and doesn’t include: the cost of medicines, equipments or materials (e.g. infusion tubes), foods for the patients’ watchmen, and for the patients outside the city have a lodging cost of the patients’ watchmen (there are a guesthouse which costs Rp. 300 thousands for one night, and a boarding house which costs Rp. 800 thousands, and so on)

Q6: What should be prepared before the cardiac surgery?

A6: actually I have already written a separate post with almost has the same title, which is what should be prepared before the cardiac surgery. Non-technical preparation: mental preparation that will soon be at a big surgery in the heart area, the mental preparation for the accompanying family, preparation of the money for the surgery and medicines costs, and meals+lodging expenses for the patient watchmen. Technical preparation: cleaning the teeth tartar, checking the ears, nose and throat –if there are problems in ENT then ask the otolaryngologist to heal the ENT diseases before undergoing the cardiac surgery.

Q7: What should be done to recover the health after the open-heart surgery?

A7: an ex-cardiac surgical patient has to undergo a rehabilitation program Phase I (cardiac exercise, walking, riding static bike), Phase II (cardiac exercise, walking, riding a static bike that at some point replaced with a treadmill to strengthen the legs), and Phase III (cardiac exercise, treadmill, load exercise by using a “dumble” which its purpose is to strengthen the hands). One month after the cardiac surgery the patient is allowed to consume any food, but the emphasis is in the foods that contain protein to restore the heart surgery wound. Usually within the first 2-3 months, the patient isn’t allowed to lift things weighing more than 5 kg….

Q8: What are the foods that are appropriate for the cardiac patients?

A8: Foods that contain sufficient nutrients for cardiac surgery healing are in the form of enough carbohydrates (rice, boiled yam, boiled potatoes, and noodles), adequate proteins (anything, except for egg yolk, it should be limited), sugar (white sugar, syrup, sugar liquid). Then if to eat fries, it should be fried at home with cooking oil such as peanut, sunflower, coconut, or corn oil. Milk is actually not necessary, and please be careful to drink milk as the cardiac patients have many types of medicines. The medicines’ efficacy would be reduced much or ineffective if at the same time you take the medicines you also drink milk.

Q9: What sports are allowed for the heart patients?

A9: The “official” sports that are allowed for the cardiac patients are only 3: aerobics, swimming, and bicycling because the three sports although are pretty heavy, the “burden” of the heart function is relatively stable because from time to time the burden is the same or if there is a difference, the difference will be very few alias insignificant. Even to the level that is competitive, the cardiac patients (who have undergone cardiac surgery) could perform all the three sports. Sports that aren’t recommended to be done by the cardiac patients are they who have stomping reason and the heart function burden can load up and down such as: badminton, ping pong, field tennis, and of course martial arts…!

Q10: Why do I as a cardiac patient must believe in what Mr. Tri says?

A10: Because Mr. Tri has experienced himself how the heart surgery is like, so what Mr. Tri says comes from “first-hand experience” that is worth to be listened to. Moreover, what is said by Mr. Tri is from the patient’s perspective, using simple language, and the medical notions are presented in a layman’s language…

So that’s all the questions that I receive most frequently from my friends, relatives, acquaintances and blog readers about heart disease. Hopefully though this FAQ list is brief, it can be useful to enlighten the would-be cardiac patients or medical students who are seeking the heart surgery understanding information from the perspective of the patient… (To be continued)

Actually, since before the surgery I had prepared the required permission letter in order to be allowed to off-working and teaching. I asked the permission to the office for 2.5 months from February 8, 2011 (H-2 of my surgery) until April 16, 2011. Meanwhile, to the college management, I asked permission for off-teaching for the first 4 weeks of the lecture period (the first meeting to fourth meeting). So during my “house-boarding” at Harapan Kita Heart Hospital I always recalled and thought in my mind of when should I start to work and teach again? Did I have to stick to the original plan, which came to the office after 2.5 months off-working and started teaching at the 5th meeting of the lecture period?

About the letter to my office I scheduled when I should go to the hospital, when my surgery should be done, when I should be treated, and followed by the rehabilitation program phase I, II and III. At any rate, the schedule was complete until took 2 pages, then I submitted this schedule to my office secretary to be made the “cover letter” signed by my boss in the office (Campus).

Earlier in the office of my unit, there was a little arguing when I wanted to ask permission for the cardiac surgery. Some said, I should take a big leave for around 3 month –moreover for 31 years I worked I’ve never taken any leave which actually was the employees’ right every three years. Some proposed to create or fill out a leave form for illness which could be extended more according to the leave letter from the doctor. Both of the opinions felt strange to me, so I immediately went to SDMO (Sumber Daya Manusia dan Organisasi/Human Resources and Organization) bureau to meet Ms. Nita and ask about this. “Just write a letter for permission, then couple with the acknowledgement from your superior and send it here. Actually there were many of our employees asked permission for heart disease and the like”. Well, the words from Ms. Nita were the most logical, so I prepared a letter of permission for cardiac surgery and coupled with the acknowledgement from my superior…

While asking for permission in my office was very formal and procedural, the opposite happened in asking permission from my campus where I taught. I simply used the Facebook message to ask for leave teaching to the Secretary of the Department Mrs. Yen Lina. In an instant I got the answer, knowing everyone was currently having the Facebook fever, even from a simple mobile phone people could access Facebook. The point was Mrs. Yen allowed me to be absent for the first 4 meeting of the second semester year 2010/2011. Fortunately the cardiac surgery schedule that I got on February 10, 2011 was at the end of the first semester, the UAS (Ujian Akhir Semester/ End-term Examination) had been done, and I just needed to fill in the final grade of each student. After everything had been done, I submitted the final grades electronically to the Data Bureau, and before the surgery I still had the time to come to the Data Bureau to ask if everything was ok. Having been answered that all was ok, I then escorted by my brother’s driver headed to Harapan Kita Heart Hospital…

On the 10^th day after the surgery, as I mentioned earlier, I then was transferred from the Intermediate Surgical Ward (ISW) room to the treatment room in Building II Floor, the floor which was specially provided for all ex-cardiac surgical patients. Since my awareness was getting better and better and I was able to get down from my bed and go to the bathroom alone, finally my backpack was returned to me by my wife. Of course the most important contents were my wallet and mobile phone. I then immediately checked my Facebook via mobile phone and wrote a status like this, “Hallo all my friends, I’m already conscious and my health is bit by bit improved. In a few days I will be allowed to go home from the hospital…” Of course my status made me like giving a drop of water for those who got lost in the desert… in a short time, a lot of comments appeared “Congratulation, Sir …,” “Congratulation, Bro…,” “Congratulation, Dad…,” “Congratulation, Uncle…,” and so on that showed what was the relationship between that friend and me…

Via my mobile phone I could also check what were written on my Facebook Wall by my friends, relatives, students, and blog readers. I thought I received more than 50 Wall which generally contained the hope for me to get well soon and all the diseases to be lifted out of my body by the power of God The Almighty. I then felt very deeply touched to read all of the Walls, so touched that I was so hesitated all by myself in the treatment room that I occupied it alone. By reading my Facebook Walls, I could confirm all the stories from my sisters, wife, and daughters about all the noises that existed at the time I had severe bleeding that up to 3 times after undergoing the “Bentall procedure” open-heart surgery…

I then replied all the messages written on my Facebook by writing, “Thank you for all my friends who have prayed for my healing through my Wall…”  Actually not all of them wrote on my Facebook Wall… many of others wrote on my Facebook message or SMS on my mobile phone. But the content was approximately the same, “Sir, how are you? Have you got well, Sir?” But what touched me the most and my spirit for healing became so passionate because there was a student who wrote a message on my Wall, “Get well soon, Mr. Tri… so later you could see me wearing a graduation gown …” Well, it’s definitely from my thesis-guided student, or from a non-thesis-guided student yet “I guided” her morally through my writings on her Facebook Wall…

Thus, although 15 days after I was treated I could go home and then only after stayed an overnight in my home the next day I collapsed in the bathroom that I was finally brought back to the Harapan Kita Heart Hospital Emergency Room and then was admitted to the Intermediate Medical Ward (IMW) room and after one week I was transferred to the treatment room in Building II floor 5 … in the end it was declared that my condition had been improved well and I was discharged from the hospital. I then decided to return to my sister’s home in Cilandak that someone could keep a watch of me when my wife and my sister worked. Another consideration was that Cilandak was closer to my office or campus so if had to take a taxi, the fare was much cheaper than if I stayed in my own house…

So after I was allowed to go home on Wednesday night of March 9, 2011, starting on Monday morning of March 14, I started to follow the Rehabilitation Program Phase II that I wore the red-white uniform (I preferred to call it the “red-belt”). My rehabilitation program in the red-belt was running smoothly. I then could follow the exercise that was held for 10 minutes, followed by riding a static bike for 10 minutes, and ended with a walk as far as 2 x 500 meters on the first day, and increased to 2 x 600 meters on the second day and so on. Once the walking road reached 2 x 900 meters then at the next meeting I was allowed to try to ride the treadmill that I called the treadmill as the most advanced rehabilitation tool because almost for all the motor racing until the Formula 1 athletes who got injury, the rehabilitation program was using treadmill also. The speed of the treadmill was from a slow one of 3.0 km/h, up to 4.0 km/h, from 20 minutes to 30 minutes per day…

After routinely following the “red-belt” rehabilitation program Phase II, I felt that I got better. Especially my legs were able to move more certain and steady –it’s where the core of the “red-belt” that to strengthen our legs. Although at the beginning of the rehabilitation program I was always escorted by The Lady who lived in my sister’s house, just in case something happened to me on the way, such as fainting. But there was not even one incident happened to me during that time; everything was fine and according to the plan…

After a week following the “red-belt” rehabilitation program Phase II, I then ventured myself to come to the office, although for the first time was only for 2 hours. This time I was still escorted by The Lady. Thus my work on my campus should also be started again because I had been absent from teaching for 4 weeks or 4 meetings. Therefore, at the 5th meeting I had already appeared in campus and guided the students in working on their thesis in “Non-class Thesis”. The difference was just if in the office, my office friends always said in discouraging tone, “Oh Mr. Tri … don’t come to the office first, please… don’t tiring yourself, first, Sir… just rest at home.” In my heart I thought, “Gee … When I will be healed if my friends’ attitudes were so discouraging like this…,” while thinking about what I had read on the internet that “a cardiac patient has better immediately returning to the normal activities such as before hadn’t got the disease.”

Otherwise, the staffs, faculty friends, and the students that I met in campus always said things in encouraging tone, “Wow, Mr. Tri… How are you? Hopefully you get well soon as before, Sir so you could teach again as before…”

Well … so it’s not strange that I finally preferred to come to campus than to the office…. (To be continued)