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When Ashwini Thirupathi woke up with a fever one morning last July, in the midst of her preparations for the GCE O’ Levels, she thought nothing of it and duly took a few rounds of aspirin. But days went by and the fever still persisted, peaking at 45 deg C. The...

When Ashwini Thirupathi woke up with a fever one morning last July, in the midst of her preparations for the GCE O’ Levels, she thought nothing of it and duly took a few rounds of aspirin.

Ashwini soon found herself in the hospital’s operating theatre, where she underwent a 12-hour open-heart surgery. Dr Charmaine Chan, a global data consultant in cardiology with KK hospital, explained: “When a person is affected by infective endocarditis, bacteria enter the bloodstream and attach to a damaged part of the heart lining or valves, forming vegetations.

It was only while recovering from surgery that Ashwini learnt of her situation, when the surgeon explained it to her. Though she did not secure a place in a mass communications course at a polytechnic as she had hoped, Ashwini enrolled in a criminology diploma programme at Kaplan University.

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