rapelan thank-you’s

day 12:

on saturday i brought the kids to an orphanage. it was good for them to see other children who are not as fortunate as they are. it brings ordinary daily things into a different perspective. they can appreciate the little things more. love and affection from family can now mean a lot more to my children. i also learn to view things differently. i will never again take the little things in live for granted. thank you children. you bring more meanings into my life.

day 13:

yesterday was again another prayer answered. yesterday was the first day that my father drove again after his second stroke. it was like a miracle. i am so grateful for this beautiful progress in my father’s recovery. i hope he will continue to get better.

(supposedly) good hospital. bad service.

we close this month of may with bapak getting a seizure again. for the second time after the first time 6 months ago.

this time it happened at 5 o’clock in the morning and we got to the hospital (one located in south of jakarta) and inside the emergency room by 5:45. we experienced the slowest service. for quite a while yang didapat oleh bapak hanyalah infus. tidak ada tindakan medis lainnya yang quite berarti.

after that we had to try to find a room. and what a headache it was. i still can’t believe that getting a room in a hospital would be a lot harder than finding a free room at a hotel. and i tried more than 5 hospitals. and because we were trying to find all these possible alternatives, the ER people didn’t try to perform any other significant medical treatment. (i remember the when bapak had his first seizure 6 months ago, they gave him some kind of a shot on his arm to lower the viscosity of his blood).

and what’s more annoying and almost made me so mad adalah bahwa dokter jantung bapak sempat datang ke ER, but he didn’t want to pay bapak a visit and comment on his condition because he said that bapak was about to be transferred to another hospital anyway. what kind of an answer is that???? where is the compassion of the doctors here? dimana jiwa pengabdiannya? dimana rasa tanggung jawabnya sebagai seorang dokter yang tugasnya adalah menyembuhkan orang sakit????

it wasn’t until we were finally told that we managed to get a room in this hospital that the ER people called bapak’s neurologist and ask for advise on any medical treatment for bapak. and a shot was organized. after all those long hours!!! (oh, by the way, they did managed to get an MRI test before that – mainly to be able to tell what kind of room to put bapak in).

a hospital with quite a reputation like this one, it is supposed to be a good hospital (the rates are high enough to pass as one of the top hospitals in town) in way of service. when i spend so much money for a hospital, i expect to be treated what my money’s worth. but sadly, i didn’t get that from this hospital. i am disappointed.

jamu

just like any other common people, i don’t like medicine.  of any kind.  (well, let me take that back.  i still am addicted to neuralgin… see my older post).  guess i just hate the bitter taste of medicine.  

but last night, for some good, valid reason, i managed to down a glass of ‘jamu’.  i need not explain the appalling taste of this most famous traditional medicine.  but i did it in one gulp.  and it didn’t taste as bad as i thought.

and guess what.  tonight, i had another portion of jamu  wow.

addicted to drugs

i am, by definition addicted to neuralgin.

today the usual headache decided to pay me a visit again.  i don’t know whether it was the heat, the rush, or my body that has been a bit on the weak side lately.  but it was awful.  i was taking the boys to play at timezone and during all those time i had to endure the most painful feeling in the world.  my head felt heavy and the whole world seemed to shake everytime i moved any part of my body.  including everytime i took a breath.  and the worst part of all, i didn’t have the time to buy the one and only painkiller that works for me.

so when i got home, the first thing i did was find myself some neuralgin.  down one tablet and sat down.  about 10 minutes later i felt fine again.  just as predicted.  gone is the pain in my head.  and it was because of neuralgin.

i am, officially addicted to neuralgin.