Best Birthday Presents - Celebrating Life

IT IS OF course impossible to say what can be regarded as the best birthday present. No doubt, the gift of life precedes all. When the fall happened, my prayers immediately took me back to 1975 when I had my first fall. I was riding pillion with my sister where the bike hit a small cow which rushed onto the road. I was thrown off it and my face hit the road first and broke half of my 2 front teeth and had stitches on my eyebrow and top corner of my upper lip. I was rushed to the hospital in a Samaritan's car while I was reciting the Hail Mary.

That day, my brother was 12 days old as he was being baptised at St Michael's Church. Upon hearing the news of the accident, my mother thought she may have lost a son while having just given birth to another. It's amazing how life is... that was my major flashback while I was lying in the middle of MRR2 (right after the flyover of Taman Connaught).

I thought I received the best birthday present last year - an OSIM hand held massager and no fussy celebrations. This year, the best remains the amount of love and care my family and friends have shown me. 10 days before my actual birthday, I was shocked when family bought me a Mac Book. They secretly went off to a Mac shop and brought it to the hospital at night! I was angry as usual! I must say now, it is such a wonderful gift for I am able to (or encouraged to) actually share a voice on a blog that was never used AS a blog!



I am healing fine, went to see the doc at GlenEagles yesterday morning (Thurs) where the bandages were taken off, thus revealing the 18 1/4 inches scar where the operation took place. They run from my hip down to above the side of my knee. We were all making guesses to what the scars look like: fish bones, zipper, cakar ayam, railroad, staplers, baseball stitches, bicycle trackmarks, etc! Will see doc again in 3 weeks with new Xrays to be taken. Am doing my 30 mins to 1 hr physio daily in order to prevent muscle wastage and permanent lost of movement range. Now and then, I do feel sharp drilling sensations in my bones but have gotten used to it. Still cant bend my knee entirely but am half way there. I should be able to walk after as little as 3 months or up to 6! Being on a wheelchair can be fun!



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