It's the 13th day of the Chinese New Year - and i just went to the 3rd hospital since the turn of the new year of the snake!
Well, thankfully, the visit to the Assunta Hospital today was just a routine check-up - and the doc gave the all clear! =)
Before this was the Sunway Medical Centre - twice - and also the Pantai Medical Centre at Ipoh! =(
A lot of people are unwell since the beginning of the year! Myself included!!! I was told by my students that all who went with me to Macau in January fell sick when they got back. Flu and flu-like symptoms! It was the same with me. I guess the lack of sleep and flurry of activity couple with the travelling compromised everyone's immune system.
Then one of my colleagues was diagnosed with dengue fever! She was in the hospital for quite a bit but thankfully, she is back to work now.
Me mom's eyes had problems - ArMD - and i had to take her to the hospital for treatment last month. It was a little scary but the treatment went smoothly, again all thanks to God! Laser into the eye, injections into the eye...
At the beginning of the Chinese New Year, we were told that me mom-in-law was unwell. It sounded to me like a viral infection. But when we got back to Ipoh and the night of the first day of Chinese New Year, it was feared that her condition was related to her heart condition! Yes, she did have a heart condition but her health has improved so much in recent months! So the news was a blow to us all.
Since it could be so serious, we wasted no time and decided to check her into the hospital that nite itself. Waiting at the emergency ward was pretty down-heartening! It was mainly children who were brought in - all of them still dressed in their CNY cute clothes, but all of them looking not too cute as they were clearly unwell.
So me mom-in-law was admitted into the hospital but thank God it was nothing to do with her heart condition. As i suspected earlier, it was a viral infection and she was up and about in no time! Even cooked a nice meal for us on the 3rd day of CNY before we left!
Fast forward - Sunday morning, the 8th day of the CNY and me sis called me just as we were about to leave for breakfast before church service. It was me mom - her eyes made aturn for the worse. It was pretty bad and that morning itself, there was even blood! She was brought to Sunway - and there we were again, in the emergency waiting room.
It was scary as me mom's eyes were REALLY red!!! You see, the ArMD is basically having bloodcells in the eyes rupturing. This can cause blindness. It was a blow to us too as we were told that the treatment carried out was a success. So why was there blood now? Is me mom in danger of losing her eye-sight? What was even worse is that now both her eyes were red!!! Originally, the ArMD was only in one eye.
We waited until she was called into the treament room - and then she was promptly sent upstairs to the eye-specialist (altho we could not udnerstand why they couldn't send her up immediately). The specialist checked me mom's eyes on her machine - and immediately diagnosed it as conjunctivitis!!! Nothing to do with the ArMD!!!
This explains the pain me mom is feeling in her eyes and why both eyes were now red!
It was a great relief for all of us - and we are so thankful to God! 2 situations where we were fearing the worst and on both counts, it was nothing serious.
Yesterday, we were back at Sunway Medical again!!!! This time it was the missus who was unwell. It was nothing serious and she went mainly to get medication and an MC. We were just across the dialysis centre - and sad memories came back to me... I look at the old men there, hooked up to the machine, with their wives faithfully by their side, keeping them company. I remember how papa was like that and how mama was there with him thru those many hours...
Well, he is now in a better place - and my mom is definitely much happier now!
So this CNY will be remembered among other thigns for the many visits to the hospital! But these are not sad memories - God has been good to us and our families! We are truly thankful to God - and i have also realised how much i take our good health for granted.
So why were we at Assunta today? Well, that's for another post - with a happier title! =)
*One of my all time fav songs!
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