THIS IS WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT
It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.
I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound.
On exam it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
While taking care of his wound, we began to engage in conversation I asked him if he had a doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry.
The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.
I then inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer Disease. As we talked, and I finished dressing his wound, I asked if she would be worried if he was a bit late.
He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.
I was surprised, and asked him. "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?"
He smiled as he patted my hand and said. "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is."
I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life."
True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
April Fools, May Blooms
25th April 2007,
5.59pm Wednesday. Very inconsistent blogging. Has not been regular nowadays, maybe very lazy, or very buzy, or just didn't make time to do so. Today is alright. Wednesday usually don't have much patients, and patient load seems to be going down. Today has been bombarded with a lot sales people, asking for sales to hit their month quota. Has been very kind initially when I started in this position, but now it's too much, and I am not obligated to do so. Learning on the inventory and purchasing stategies, and discover some world's 'darker scheme'. The grass not always green the other side. Being a Christian employee, how do we response to such scheme.
Not much of traveling early year 2007, but mid-year a lot of workshop going on. Just back from KL, attended MPS 40th AGM Seminar held at Crown Princess Hotel. I've gain more not just in updates, but a lot more. Usually going to KL for seminar, always been tiring, one of the reason because I don't like travelling. But I gain more, with knowledge updates, and also meeting friends. To my surprise, this trip had been really fruitful one, meeting up with so many friends. Unknowingly, to really count, yeah..I think I have more friends in KL than back in Penang, or at least in KL, I have broad group of friends, not just Christian, ot church friends, but also non-Christian.
I reached hotel on Friday morning 11am, then meet up with Kenneth in KLCC for lunch (my CA President, who taught me how to play guitar during my campus life). Then went back hotel for seminar. Very informative workshop, covering wide scope from STENTing, to O&G new Cervical Cancer Vaccine, to Basal Insulin Therapy. After the seminar, I skip the dinner provided, and meet up with Kawai, Alicia and Angie for dinner at Madam Kwan Restaurant. After that, went Parkson to buy gift for Kenneth's BB, BB Joshua Lim. Then back home, then went out again with Harvey and his wife Aggie for Starbuck, that's my Friday Nite.
Saturday morning- continue the lectures, then back room to have 1 hour nap, then 6pm take a LRT from Ampang to Kelana Jaya station. Took me less than 30mins, great! Meet up with my Juniour Pharmacist who's getting married in Sept, his husband-to-be, and the Bestman (Eric's cousin). Went to Tropicana for seafood and crabs! Yum yum! Then go Starbuck for minum, while waiting for Kenneth to be back home. After that went to Kenneth's house: Kelana Putri Apt, and visit BB Joshua and Sarah. Great to catch up after such long time, then after that Eric and Lee Hua brought me to Bangkok Jazz in Raja Chulan. Stay there for an hour plus, then they fetch me home- That;s my whole Saturday!
Sunday: Early morning up for quick breakfast, the check-out and go to Ampang LRT to catch train to Taman Bahagia- but waited for almost half an hour, and surely gonna be late. Reach Taman Bahagia about 9am plus, waited for Kawai to fetch me to church. Church: Peter worship, Ps Joseph preached on Ruth 1, explaining details on the meaning of each names. Service ended about 12.30pm, followed by 3rd Anniversary Lunch. Meet up with Alice, a nurse who work in Tung Shin Hospital. We had short chat about Chemotherapy. Then 2pm, meet up with Jenny and Kok Keong, went to KL Sentral (Starbuck again!) for a drink. I gave Keong Zyban, a new non-additive anti-smoking medicine, and counsel him on setting up Quit Date and the common side effect. Then, 4pm, took KLIA Express to KLIA, oh so tiring! Boarding, and waited for the plane to depart- then suddenly got annuncement plane got technical problem unresolve- passengers to change flight. Delayed for an hour, then finally got into new plane- and reacg home about 7.30pm. Dinner with mum and Celina, then watch DVD then ZZzzz. Oh..so tiring, but that's my day! May-4th gonna be flying to KK then the week after to Johor. Hope that's the end of my traveling, but I'm sure there will be more...so let's see how' things.
5.59pm Wednesday. Very inconsistent blogging. Has not been regular nowadays, maybe very lazy, or very buzy, or just didn't make time to do so. Today is alright. Wednesday usually don't have much patients, and patient load seems to be going down. Today has been bombarded with a lot sales people, asking for sales to hit their month quota. Has been very kind initially when I started in this position, but now it's too much, and I am not obligated to do so. Learning on the inventory and purchasing stategies, and discover some world's 'darker scheme'. The grass not always green the other side. Being a Christian employee, how do we response to such scheme.
Not much of traveling early year 2007, but mid-year a lot of workshop going on. Just back from KL, attended MPS 40th AGM Seminar held at Crown Princess Hotel. I've gain more not just in updates, but a lot more. Usually going to KL for seminar, always been tiring, one of the reason because I don't like travelling. But I gain more, with knowledge updates, and also meeting friends. To my surprise, this trip had been really fruitful one, meeting up with so many friends. Unknowingly, to really count, yeah..I think I have more friends in KL than back in Penang, or at least in KL, I have broad group of friends, not just Christian, ot church friends, but also non-Christian.
I reached hotel on Friday morning 11am, then meet up with Kenneth in KLCC for lunch (my CA President, who taught me how to play guitar during my campus life). Then went back hotel for seminar. Very informative workshop, covering wide scope from STENTing, to O&G new Cervical Cancer Vaccine, to Basal Insulin Therapy. After the seminar, I skip the dinner provided, and meet up with Kawai, Alicia and Angie for dinner at Madam Kwan Restaurant. After that, went Parkson to buy gift for Kenneth's BB, BB Joshua Lim. Then back home, then went out again with Harvey and his wife Aggie for Starbuck, that's my Friday Nite.
Saturday morning- continue the lectures, then back room to have 1 hour nap, then 6pm take a LRT from Ampang to Kelana Jaya station. Took me less than 30mins, great! Meet up with my Juniour Pharmacist who's getting married in Sept, his husband-to-be, and the Bestman (Eric's cousin). Went to Tropicana for seafood and crabs! Yum yum! Then go Starbuck for minum, while waiting for Kenneth to be back home. After that went to Kenneth's house: Kelana Putri Apt, and visit BB Joshua and Sarah. Great to catch up after such long time, then after that Eric and Lee Hua brought me to Bangkok Jazz in Raja Chulan. Stay there for an hour plus, then they fetch me home- That;s my whole Saturday!
Sunday: Early morning up for quick breakfast, the check-out and go to Ampang LRT to catch train to Taman Bahagia- but waited for almost half an hour, and surely gonna be late. Reach Taman Bahagia about 9am plus, waited for Kawai to fetch me to church. Church: Peter worship, Ps Joseph preached on Ruth 1, explaining details on the meaning of each names. Service ended about 12.30pm, followed by 3rd Anniversary Lunch. Meet up with Alice, a nurse who work in Tung Shin Hospital. We had short chat about Chemotherapy. Then 2pm, meet up with Jenny and Kok Keong, went to KL Sentral (Starbuck again!) for a drink. I gave Keong Zyban, a new non-additive anti-smoking medicine, and counsel him on setting up Quit Date and the common side effect. Then, 4pm, took KLIA Express to KLIA, oh so tiring! Boarding, and waited for the plane to depart- then suddenly got annuncement plane got technical problem unresolve- passengers to change flight. Delayed for an hour, then finally got into new plane- and reacg home about 7.30pm. Dinner with mum and Celina, then watch DVD then ZZzzz. Oh..so tiring, but that's my day! May-4th gonna be flying to KK then the week after to Johor. Hope that's the end of my traveling, but I'm sure there will be more...so let's see how' things.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Wind of Change
Life is just so unpredictable, a sudden winds of change, a sudden blow, it's very fragile and short. Very weak and very much unpredictable, beyond our comprehension, beyond our expectation, how it happen, why it happen, how things to be arranged. So many unknowns and so many hurdles that we required to pass through. After another hurdles, comes another one, seems that life challenges is just unending. Some seems to run fast, strong enough to jump up the hurdle, higher level was set infront after the another, to test the strength of the atheletic. Some that is not much well-trained will fall easily. In such race, some speed very fast, some just walk slowly, some barely even can crawl, but all persevere on for the sake of the ending-line, maybe some looking and focused on the prize that set before them. Some half way through just give up running, some fall many many times, yet pick themselves up and dust themselves down and continue on the journey of race....
In our Christian Journey, it's different...we fail, we fall, we run so slow, but what counts is the determination and perseverance not to give up. It's more of the power and strength above that guide us through the journey. Our aim is not so much of the prize, but the prize heavenward in Christ. But a lot time we give up and say.."I just can't anymore, the race is to hard for me, I am not capable of running, I'm tired...I don't think I can". But then, after some struggles, we rise up again, we find our anchor of hope, we find the strength and help to rise up. To rise up everytime we fall. How? How to rise when we fall again, and rise up and fall again and again? How wretched and so weak and fragile, but how? Let us not focus on our self, on our weak point, let us lift up our eyes on the hill, where does our help comes from, but the Maker of Heaven and Earth. Why is it so frequently that we lost that focus that the Lord of Heaven and the Earth, the one that lead us, the one that form us, the one that Omnipresence and available, the strength is free, how to draw strength from Him? How to die to the self and stay pure, how to rise above our troubles and stay victoriously and pure before Him?
Yeilding to the Lord, meditating in His Word and His Presence, ask for insight, listen and do it. Appy the Word with deed, action, draw the strength from Him, His Word to sooth us and open way through the narrow road. That's what we got to do? Not by might and not by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. It's not that we able, He ENABLE us. To Him be the Glory both now and forevermore.....
In our Christian Journey, it's different...we fail, we fall, we run so slow, but what counts is the determination and perseverance not to give up. It's more of the power and strength above that guide us through the journey. Our aim is not so much of the prize, but the prize heavenward in Christ. But a lot time we give up and say.."I just can't anymore, the race is to hard for me, I am not capable of running, I'm tired...I don't think I can". But then, after some struggles, we rise up again, we find our anchor of hope, we find the strength and help to rise up. To rise up everytime we fall. How? How to rise when we fall again, and rise up and fall again and again? How wretched and so weak and fragile, but how? Let us not focus on our self, on our weak point, let us lift up our eyes on the hill, where does our help comes from, but the Maker of Heaven and Earth. Why is it so frequently that we lost that focus that the Lord of Heaven and the Earth, the one that lead us, the one that form us, the one that Omnipresence and available, the strength is free, how to draw strength from Him? How to die to the self and stay pure, how to rise above our troubles and stay victoriously and pure before Him?
Yeilding to the Lord, meditating in His Word and His Presence, ask for insight, listen and do it. Appy the Word with deed, action, draw the strength from Him, His Word to sooth us and open way through the narrow road. That's what we got to do? Not by might and not by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. It's not that we able, He ENABLE us. To Him be the Glory both now and forevermore.....
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