Wednesday, May 18, 2005

A DAY AT THE MOST SICKENING PLACES ON EARTH!!

I’m finally back from that scary-looking hospital!! Like I said the other day, I have been going in and out of hospital since the age of 4 or 5, for operations, x-rays and whatever else… And now, even though it’s only for a night (my doctor requested I be an “experiment” for the medical students to present their practical exam), it still brings back the fear and phobia just by looking at all the patients and different cases… Drips, life-support machines, POP’s (cement plaster casts), metals and screws poking through their legs… *shudders*

Could have just gone in today, and get done with it… But don’t know why, my doctor wanted to admit me… Fine, I was
admitted by about 4.30pm, and gosh, with nothing much to do, ten minutes is like one hour!! Thank God I brought my discman n a book… Just sat there on the bed, reading and rotating it with my Don Moen cd… Without anybody to keep me company, I had to do evrything by myself… Going to toilet, getting up and down the bed, getting water to drink… Thank God for His protection, really!!

Dinner was at 6pm!! Whoa, siau, how to eat, so early?? Didn’t eat much, though… Time dragged on again… Now, I’m beginning to miss my work, haha… Well, not exactly only work lar… Mainly my computer!! Parents called to check on me, chatted for a while, asked me to sleep early… Again, siau ar, 9.30pm!! At least 10.30pm is still not too bad… But then after an hour, I was awakened by the nurse!! Of all the reasons, to take my blood pressure and temperature… Gosh, gimme a break… I’m just gonna be there for two days, haihzz… Thank God it’s only two daysImagine if I was admitted for some major opt or somthin… This whole ordeal is gonna torment me for months… How could anyone possibly take it?

Well, I was told to be ready by 7am, to be at the exam hall… The thing is, I wasn’t informed that the students will be drawing lots to see who gets to go first… Making a fool out of me, they made me wait, without telling me that my turn was supposed to be at 3pm…
The interview (student doctor with patient) will last a whole draggy hour, followed by half an hour of presentation to the big guns (the lecturers and “big guns” from overseas)… freezing to death in there, I made request (sounded more like a complain, actually) that mine was moved half an hour ahead… reason being I gotta rush home to work, since I took half day off yesterday and today already… Request granted… But before they left, the local professor offered to sponsor me, meaning I don’t have to pay a single cent, for a pair of splint, which would really help in keeping my feet properly in shape!! I really do not know what to say, speechless!! Truly that was a blessing & the favor of God, coz if I were to purchase that splint myself, a whole year’s salary wouldn’t be enuff to pay for it!! All glory to God!! Thank God for His showers of favours after favours!!

Anyway, I’m safely back home now, but still praying that I will not have to go through all these ordeal all over again… Went through more than enuff of it 11 years ago… The history is still fresh in my head, no thanx to another batch of sufferings!! Haihzz… Erase, Cancel, Delete… Don’t think about it anymore, Elaine!! It’s painful talking about the past, with the emotional scars still fresh (which sometimes bring tears, I admit)…But it’s TRULY comforting and reassuring to know that God the Father knows what’s in my heart… And that He knows BEST!!

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