Each year, for most people, they look forward to a new year hoping for a brand new start. However, the start of my year seems pretty tough. I do not know what lies ahead but i definitely hope it will turn out alright(:
As i have mentioned before( a few post earlier) that my grandaunty had to undergo an operation. She finally got hers done on 31st December 2009. All of us were pretty nervous for her due to her old age. The doctors and surgeons have warned us about the post-surgical symptoms and one of them was she might not be able to wake up immediately after the operation. They said she might take days til she wakes up. So the night before her operation, i prayed a really long prayer for her. Prayed that her body is strong enough to be able to overcome the operation, prayed that she will be able to wake up after the operation, prayed that the anesthesia wouldn't be too strong on her,prayed for her to have confidence,to trust the surgeons to do a good job on her(because she was against it at first. Chinese in the olden days used lots of herbal medicine to cure themselves,so they wont go to the doctors unless it's emergency).... I prayed for every single person who was invovled in the operation, the anesthesiologist to have confidence in themselves to put the right amount of anesthesia for her and the surgeons' hands to be secure.
Indeed, the operation went really well that morning. She was the first patient that morning and to the doctors' surprise, she woke up at 1 sumthing in the afternoon. Moreover, i heard that she was pretty alert that afternoon. As soon as the numbness worn off, she started complaining that it was really really painful so the doctors gave her extra pain killers to ease her pain. So the next morning,they continued giving her pain killers to again ease off her pain. So when we visited her after church, she slept the entire time we where there. Even when the nurse,K, came to check her blood glucose level, K woke her up to let her know that K was going to poke a needle into her finger to take some blood sample, she opened her eyes to look at her and fall back to sleep immediately. So we when home earlier that day,letting her get her beauty sleep.
On sunday(3/1) we went to visit her again, this time she was so alert, she was like old times telling us stories of people who I don't even know about.( Huge family and i probably only know 10% of them) She just keep talking and talking and talking. And when they neighbour's(as in next bed) visitor saw her, my aunties told her that she was 91years old, they were so shocked because she looked so healthly and so cheerful. She didnt want to let us go home when visiting hours were over and the guard came up to chase us out. She kept asking us to stay with her but parents show the senior doctors scolding one the guards before in public because there were still quite a lot of visitors in the ward after visiting hours. So before we could cause anymore problems for the guards, we decided to leave.
*Some background so that u will be understand the next part of the story*
There were a few signs when they started giving her the extra pain killers, everytime the pain killer was injected into her body ,she will become slightly dizzy and just start to talk,anything that comes into her brain. When you talk to her, she won't respond. She is lik in her world of her own. My aunties were shocked when they first got to see these, but the doctors said its an side effect of the medicine and true enough after 15 minutes to an hour, she was back to normal.
Today(4/1) things started to get worst. She had insomnia(in my opionion),hence tired but couldnt sleep. And she wanted to go back so badly, she changed her clothes and was ready to leave anytime.but the doctors didnt say a word about when to go home. So she got really angry and started to scold everyone who was around her,even doctors. The doctors blame the medicine for her behaviour and they said all she need is rest right now. I have never seen/heard of her like that before. The one thing,we are afraid right now is that she loses her memories and wont be able to communicate with us anymore.
Many said that my grandaunty will leave up to 100 years( 91 this years) if she overcome this very obstacle in front of her and I believe she will:)
So do continue to pray for her. Pray that the side effect will be a short term one and that her body will return to normal. Pray for a miracle as well. Its really sad seeing someone so close to us but not yet a believer. What are we suppose to do? Especially the older generation have their tradition of praying to their ancestors, my hokkien is terrible and she is deaf one side. All of these are probably excuses but i ll keep on praying, for a miracle to happen.So let's pray together. One saved soul, and the angels in heaven will be celebrating:)
No comments:
Post a Comment