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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Time, slow down a little will you?

These two days have been hectic and nerve-wrecking.
Yesterday :
- My great-grandma fell unconscious in the morning. She has been alright till then. She was sitting on my living room chair when she fell 'asleep', a deep one. No matter how we all called/shouted/woke her, she couldn't wake up. So my grandma called a GP to the house, he checked her, and her blood pressure and everything was good. No sickness, no high blood pressure, no diabetics, nothing! (she's 91 by the way, and still doesn't wear glasses) So he said, we have 2 choices, either, send her to the hospital, for there will be higher chances of them saving her, or let nature takes its course and bring her back to her hometown. All this happened before 9.30am, while i was still asleep.

Dad's phone call woke me up, "Lynn, go downstairs and check on lau-ma(great-grandma), mama(grandma) said that she's not breathing anymore." That immediately woke me up. I rushed downstairs, and thankfully, she's still breathing, just that she has lost consciousness, and grandma said that her whole body was already straight and there are signs of passing. So dad rushed home and we brought lau-ma to UH. A sight till now touched my heart so powerfully, was watching my dad carrying lau-ma. He carried her like he was carrying a baby.. When i saw that, i couldn't help it, i cried.

When we reached UH, the stupid emergency staffs worked like snails. They tooked their own sweet time in everything they did. Most of them were even rude. I mean, like 'where are your manners?' Sheesh. So, the doctor checked and sent her for x-rays and ct scans. That finished at about 11.30am. And after that? We waited till 5pm for the results. During that time, lau-ma gained consciousness. When she woke up, she told my grandma, before that, she felt very sleepy, so she fell asleep, and during the time she was 'asleep', she saw alot of people's hands and feet were being clipped by dark figures, and their heads too were clamp in cages. There was this dark figure, who wanted to clamp her head with the cage but couldn't, tried and tried , but couldn't. After that, she woke up. That means, during the 3 hours she was unconscious, her soul was already halfway 'there'. And had we not done anything, she would have already been gone.

By mid-noon, she's already alert. But, she has her moments of blurness. It comes on and off. One moment, she'll talk to us like normal, and another, she'll talk of emperors and how the staffs are serving the emperor or something like that. Usual old-age syndrome. At one point, she was talking to us, and suddenly she asked in teochew,"why is a big bus doing there?" She's in the emergency ward and her bed is facing an entrance to another emergency room. So grandma, quickly said, "there's no bus here, it's a hospital". After that, she's all ok and alert again.

After the results were out and everything proves that she's really healthy for her age, the doctor did some excercises with her, to test her alertness and coordination, which she fared pretty well. But the doctor said that it would be better if she stayed the night at the hospital to ensure everything is really okay.

Today :
- Lau-ma is better like before! She's back to walking, talking, and doing everything normally. Just that, grandma says that she still has her moments of blurness. She still has to remain in the hospital for another night though. Just to be sure. Well, i guess it's normal isn't it, when you're at her age. I really salute my lau-ma though. She's 91 years old, and she still can walk like normal without the help of any walking sticks or so on, she doesn't need glasses, and she has no illness whatsoever. Even the hospital staffs were amazed. Only thing is, she's got hearing problems. We've all got to speak louder to her. Other than that? Very healthy.

Time really flies.

It felt like it was just a few years ago, that lau-ma came and babysat us, and us children taught her how to speak english. "Noodle!", "loolel." :) Sigh, that was more than a decade ago.

6 Comments:

Blogger swen said...

i didn't know anything happened until i saw jinn's msn nick, saying that lau ma is in the hospital. my gosh...that was scary. heard that she's doing fine now, mama said she can 'sing song' already. haha....aww, i wanna come home and see her as soon as possible. take care of her properly at the meantime.

28/4/05 4:13 pm  
Blogger Lynnie said...

lau-ma's better already! just that she's still a lil blur at times, like when i was driving her home from the hospital after she was discharged, she asked,"whose hse is that?". sigh, but nvm, a lil blurness is ok if she's safe and sound..

ann, waiting for you..

thanks tammy for the pics! :)

29/4/05 1:55 am  
Blogger Peanutxz said...

gawd...u're a strong girl!! how's ur lau-ma now? why do you call her LAU-ma?? nvm. u're great to still be able to remember about our payment to the agent while u have probs urself...thank god ur great gran's fine now. and the part where she said she saw black figures, chills went down my spine. i watched 'healing hands' on tv that day and this stupid nick cheung said...'if u see a dark tunnel and a white light at the end, don't go near!'...hehe...remind ur lau-ma. JUST JOKING! don't worry to much. ur gran's very very active at this age. my gran can't even recognise me! take care alrite? and take care of ur lau-ma...wake up earlier lar! hehe...chiao!

29/4/05 3:38 pm  
Blogger Lynnie said...

well, we call her lau-ma coz it's a term in teochew for great-grandma, like mama is for grandma. in cantonese, lau-ma = tai-ma. about the same.. :) haha, i'm 'trying' to wake up early already, but..lol.

anyway, another 2 more days, and u guys are shifting to pj already eh?

30/4/05 12:40 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hope your lau-ma is getting better. =)

by the way, you teochew? I'm also teochew lang! hehehehe.

1/5/05 5:37 pm  
Blogger Lynnie said...

wah! gakee lang!! lol.
anyway, thanks man! :)

3/5/05 12:44 am  

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