Hospital visits in last week...

I made a trip twice to the hospital last week on Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon.

On Thursday evening, things were not quite improved. She could barely recognized people... her medicine and chemo have affected her eyesight. On Tuesday, when she was warded, she did not even remember Aunt Carol, her own sister. At least on Thursday, focusing took a while but once she could recognize people, she would break into a smile. Lennel and Richard were there and she remembered the Mahjong game we had on her bed and how Richard didn't want to play. However, she had no memories of how she got warded and what the doctors and nurses are doing to her.

She was still on saline drip to combat dehydration, intravenous antibiotics and the doctors added one more... insulin drip. The reason why she was warded was the infection and high blood sugar caused her to become sleepy and caused hallucination. When I left, after 6 hours of insulin drip, her blood sugar level was high... unreadable on the machine. Seems like when she was warded, she was very lucky because if we were any moment later, she would have gone into shock. Once again, God's miracles are shining on her.

On Saturday, when I went, things were much improved. Doctors have limited visitors to 2 at a time to reduce infection risk. She is more aware of people and things around her, except she will ask the same questions over and over again... memory retention is rather poor. Blood sugar has come down so if things improve, they would put her on insulin jabs to monitor her response to it. That's going to add more routine to her regular one... once a day self-administered insulin jabs. She was still on saline and antibiotic drips.

She is sleepy all the time but this is good... I seriously think that she is making up for lost sleep for all the months she had been wheelchaired bound. Hopefully, with enough good and deep sleep, her body can rejuvenate and heal and repair faster.

For anyone who wants to visit, it is not encouraged at this point. Wait till she's discharged... Thanks! :)

Waiting for miracles...

Godma is back in the hospital again. There's an infection so she's now on intravenous antibiotics. She's also severely dehydrated. Doctors are observing her and putting her through scans to make sure everything's okie. Hopefully, this is yet another miracle for all of us...

Happy Teacher's Day!

Today, I took Godma on a Teacher's Day treat to The Cookie Museum @ Esplanade Mall. I must say that tea there is absolutely fabulous. We tried the Museo de Chocolate and the Three Queen's Teacake. Sinful but delightful! Very English and much to her liking...

The most fantastic was the cookie sampling. They had wonderful flavours of cookies of all kinds and they were preservative-free and low sugar. They even had savoury cookies like mushroom, nasi lemak, ikan billis and laska. Aruna bought the Madeline Rose and Laska while Godma bought Nasi Lemak.

This special treat is also to help her enjoy before she begins chemo tomorrow. She going to the hospital at 9 am tomorrow for a blood test and if everything works out well, chemo begins in the afternoon.

The chemo news, which I got last week, is a really good news. God is a good God and His timing is always perfect. When the doctors gave us news in April - May that there's nothing more to be done, we have all been praying for a miracle and been going for healing services monthly. Finally, the miracle came when the oncologist decided to book Godma for chemo last week. This was after she told Godma last year that she didn't want to try for anything cos there was no use prolonging Godma's life when she was going to be in pain (cos of the tumour in the spine) and she was not going to enjoy a good quality of life. Godma put off seeing her for a year because she didn't want to get affected by such news. After much nagging from the neurosurgeon, Aunt Carol booked an appointment and received the good news.

If this chemo works out well, Godma may enjoy another 2 - 5 years again. I believe that if God has made a way for this impossibility to happen, He will make another miracle to awe us with his great provision. After all, the pastor's wife has share with us that there were many mugs in Godma's life for God to fill and only two have been filled. His grace is sufficient for us and we were healed by His stripes. I believe that we shall see yet another miracle again.