Mom’s surgery

 

I could share the gore pic of her wound bleeding or the stitched up knee but let’s not do that. So here’s how it went and it’s going to be a long one.

Surgery was scheduled to be on 14 Oct but we did not hear anything from the hospital. Got a call from the doc on 9 Oct, Fri, that surgery’s brought forward to 12 Oct on a Monday. What! We had to rush to complete pre-admission on that same Fri and we spent almost 5 hours. Sampai waited at the wrong dept to only find out that she has completed that last assessment before.

The very next day had to bring her to dentist to remove a shaky tooth. More waiting.

Monday came and we checked in and her bp was up. But glad the wait to enter that lift didn’t take too long and we managed to visit her at night. Looking calm and hugging her emo support mofusand which the nurses were eyeing on. She was on a 4 bedder ward and eh just one night je tau, she took a wefie with her opp mate. The next day, she was the last to discharge cos awaited a forgotten xray result. 

Took her home and when just entered my house, saw that her bandage was bloodied. A spot. After showering it became much more, panicked I called the ward and had to head back to A&E where we waited for 3 hours before the ER doc stitched her up again. Was told that her surgeon did not stitched tight enough. Bro…..

It was so so confusing after we got home because we were supposed to have 1 home therapist and 1 nurse visit but wasn’t told on the dates. Arrangement for rehab was done but still no call from the ctr. 

So their 18 day stay at my place began and while I had to keep up with the cookings and laundry, there’s cases of missing stuff. 1st mom cldn’t find her walking stick which was abandoned in dad’s room. Dad couldn’t find his black shorts only to be located in my stash of track pants.

Sis lost her bra eh for a good 2 days 1 night and I found it behind the cabinet near the radio’s switch. Like….

Mom’s finally back at her home and hope it only gets better from here. Not sure how long my exhaustion gonna heal but there seems to be a lot of stuff going on still.

Amidst all the surgery drama, obek had a fall and wheeled to A&E. He didn’t look too good when we visited him. 

Umrah send off

 Alhamdulillah.

So grateful that the sun’s back.

Just realised that we did not get to see much clouds or the blue sky of late.

Pretty sunsets returned but no one to share with.

Oh well.

Last night we the whole fam, sent off cousins for their Umrah despite their flight only at 2ish am. 

Gotta give the cousin moral support especially for his first ever umrah. And Bibik packed us snacks and drink, and cousins even gave us vouchers. 🥹

Been too long that we went out late at night and especially so with the whole fam. Can’t wait to hear their stories upon their return. 

Unsure

 Days have been ]!¥]£|?]¥[‘&2$27.

I mean indescribable. Unpredictable.

Can’t wait for me to get back to routine. 

But things had been hmm what’s the opposite of mundane?

A little perk me up which I haven’t even got the time to unbox or check. And the upcoming week’s gotta be different yet again. Oh just glad that the nurse and therapist home visits done and dusted. Can’t believe we got a malay mat nurse and he came lambat eh. Adakah ini janji melayu?

Praying that mom’s post surgery will go well. 

Voices that care

 Stand tall, stand proud

Voices that care

Are crying out loud

And when you close

Your eyes tonight

Feel in your heart

                       How our love burns bright

So today we took this Halloween decorated PHV and the deco was so cute and detailed can? There’s like spideys here there, skeleton and when I complimented him on the deco he even asked if I saw the ‘ghosts’.

Anyways, this song was playing and it brought me flashbacks. All the way to more than 3 decades ago, back to pri sch. We were supposed to learn song lyrics and sing them during school assembly.

Jumper

You could cut ties with all the lies that you’ve been living in,

And if you do not want to see me again,

I would understand .

Allah knows and that is enough. 

It’s been….

 13 days since the last update?

I thought I wanted to wait for everything to settle down, to slow down. But no. Looks like that’s not going to happen any time soon. I received a call from Mom’s doctor to bring forward her surgery on a Fri morning and was told to rush down for a pre ad process which took 5 hours of my life. 

Then the very next day had to go to the dentist to remove her shaky tooth. Wanted to breathe a little on Sunday but had to do groceries. The haze not helping at all. 

Monday sent her for her surgery so had to do some waiting again. The next day she was to be discharged but there’s a delay. Upon reaching home saw her wound bleeding and had to rush back to A&E. Eh even now as I’m typing I can’t catch my breath. After 3 hours at the wait area, finally she was discharged. Her appt was brought forward to the day after and doc removed her dressing to look at her stitches. 

Despite heavy rain, the haze persists. 

And we don’t have any proper mask prep. 

Cousin and fam sent this over. Cheered her up a little.

While mom’s unpredictable recovery is ongoing, received a call yesterday that Obek was sent to A&E after a fall. 

Glad that we went down despite the walk being cancelled. Had some little2 freebies and a breather.

I’m not even sure if i’m doing alright. 

Ultra grateful

This year’s celebration felt a bit off cos we did a belated one. Boy was facing his Maths paper exactly on his actual birthday so he wanted a belated one. 

But Alhamdulillah. 

Food portion was only just nice not like a lot of balance.

We were so lazy to spend over $100 for cake and delivery so we ordered one from the hood bakery instead. 

And self collection too. 

Alhamdulillah too his gifts were mostly so functional. 

There’s more such as his fave pillow. I wanted so much to get him a smaller water bottle which his cousin gotten for him! Got hikmah eh cos I didn’t have time to grab him one.

And that personalised notebook? ❤️

Defo gonna steal his charmera without a doubt. 

Grateful for his monetary gifts as well.

May Allah reward the givers with alot lot lot more than what they gave. Amin. 

 

This was our first time ordering from Four Seasons.

Smooth transaction. 

So touched that the niece prepared these for the party. 

Eh I only had one seh. Didn’t even get to try the vanilla one. 

And his themeless bday cake.

Very affordable and tasted light. 

And I can’t believe I’ve forgotten what last yr goodie bag looked like. So this is proof of this year’s and also not the completed version. I included Popo muruku and corn snack as well. Also did a quiz for the guests and had to prep really cheap prizes for that. Heh. 

Unexpected gifts

 His bday week still going strong.

Uncle Yan and family sent this over on a Sunday night where the 3 of us almost already in lala land.

Heard the door bell and then the husb jolted awake saying someone’s at the door. 

And all 3 of us went to the door to find this ice cream cake sitting on our shoe rack. 

He personally delivered it with the lil one. 🥺

And we all missed them. 

When the husb bff asked me to choose which mofusand I want, he gave this cutie pooh filled with durian mooncakes as well! Now what can I fill this one with? 

Prolly his last Children’s day gifts.

Surprised at the kind of presies P6 got.

He’s so happy getting that deformed car from his form teacher and the other form teacher wrote names and wishes individually to the students. Can’t help singing Semoga Bahagia in our own rendition that goes ‘Sama-sama maju ke hadapan, pandai cari perempuan…’ 😬

It was a hard day trying to get Grab/ Tada so we crossed the road to the HDB area and saw this one. Eh two of them!

I don’t appreciate or get it when people gave hp as gifts because u know it’s only gg to last for a yr or two. So I’ve nvr asked him for hp but he will always gets new one for me when my contract’s up. And he’s been getting me Kate Spade casings since 2011. ❤️