Celebrity Chef Wan advised people not to travel if they were feeling sick. — Picture via Instagram/@chefwan58
By ANNE GRACE SAVITHA
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 5:33 PM MYT
PETALING JAYA, March 24 — Chef Wan took to Instagram to advise his fans to not travel if they are feeling unwell in his Instagram post earlier this morning.
Chef Wan, whose real name is Datuk Wan Redzuawan Ismail, also said in the post that he finally had a good night’s sleep, ate a hearty breakfast, took his medication and was waiting to be discharged from the hospital.
“I flew back from London about two and a half months ago, and was surrounded by four other passengers who were having cough and flu.
“I then became sick for two weeks after catching the cough and flu from them,” he said in his Instagram post.
He added that he then caught shingles, resulting in him being hospitalised for five days.
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The celebrity chef revealed that he was overwhelmed physically and mentally as he had been experiencing burning sensations when down with shingles.
“This was followed by a filming that I had to attend for two weeks, which alleviated my stress levels, when I should have been resting instead.”
The 62-year-old chef then took on an advisory tone on his post, “Next time if you are not feeling well, do not travel.
“Even if you decide to head to the movies or public places when you’re sick puts you at risk when surrounded by other people.
“Currently, travelling is risky and just look around at how the pandemic is spreading globally.
“The public places cannot afford to accommodate all these sick people as they would then spread it to others,” he concludes in his post.
In an earlier post he also wrote about losing his ex-wife, Norhayati Ayub who died on March 18.
She had been suffering from kidney and heart ailments and he said she had had a mild stroke.
Thank you for the thousand of wishes and condolences on the passing away of my x wife due to her kidney failure, diabetes and just hours before she passed away a mild brain stroke. She was hospitalised again due to her pneumonia attack and difficulty in breathing. On the day she passed away she was doing her blood diaysis when she had this stroke and difficulty in breathing. As her heart was weak she slowly start to " Nazak". It lasted for about 3 hrs, i was there, my son but my daughter was flying back from KT. I was feverish that day so i went back to my penthouse in Ampang to take my medicine, have a shower and intended to come back to the hospital. As soon as i took my shower i recieved the new that she had passed away from my son. By this time some of my sisters, sister in law and nieces was all there to say good bye to her. According to my son her breath just got weeker and finally it stopped. Alhamdulilah she does not have to suffer and endured more pain and had her both leg amputated. The stroke from her brain if she had recovered would have been too complicated for me to also look after her properly. God love her and she has suffered enough with diabetes. We laid her to rest by 9am yesterday at the Ukay Perdana cementry. From the hospital that evening segala mandi jenazah dan solat di urus while i make the arrangement to bring back her body to the Masjid Ampang. My siblings , nephew ,nieces, her sister and my kids was at the mosque all night to baca yassin, Alquran to menjaga jenazah sampai keesokan hari. Initially i wanted to take her body to my Cyberjaya home and laid her to rest in Cyberjaya sahaja. At the moment of panic i just dont know what to do. So i went to our Masjid Ampang of which over the years i have given cash donation to the mosque. Nasib ada Ahli jawatan kuasa masjid ketika itu dan iman yg kata... " CW jangan susah kan ini.. Since she lived here and CW selalu bantu kami let us now help u to urus semua ini. Just get the forensic letter from the hospital and we will sent our kereta jenazah to collect her body mlm tu and just leave her to rest in the mosque with your family to look after and esoknya we arranged her funeral. Alhamdulilah
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Mar 19, 2020 at 9:08pm PDT Chef Wan took to Instagram to share an old picture of the both of them when Norhayati was pregnant with their son.
He also shared another old family photograph, relating how he tried to take care of Norhayati to the best of his ability.
His instagram post on advising against travelling has since garnered over 5,000 likes with many people wishing him a speedy recovery.