Home Care – Part 2

Bringing the doctors home!
Mother was first diagnosed by Specialists in National Neuro Institute (NNI) located at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Of course, I had to wait for hours at the Polyclinic in order to get a referral into NNI, just to enjoy the subsidized rate. Well, the subsidized rate makes a lot of difference lor. [...]

Home Care – Part 1

Mother has been sick for 6 years. Over these 6 years, there had been modifications to the home, change of caregivers, different caring techniques, change of hospital providers, change of primary healthcare provider, consulting different specialists, use of alternatives medicine, tried TCM, consulted a geomancer, engagement of a spirit cleanser, praying to the Gods and the “confrontation” with my [...]

This Time

Left work early yesterday to visit my mother, since its Deepavali today.My mother was looking out the window, as if she is in deep thoughts. Even when I called out to her, she didn’t turn her head.What was she thinking?Moments later, she saw me.
She started making some sounds. She frowned. She moaned. She breathed [...]

O2

It was my mother’s bi-monthly doctor appointment. The doctor came to the house with her 2 big bags and nurses along. The usual check up. The usual medication top up. The usual chit chat.This time. The check up prolonged. The medications increased. The chit chat prolonged.I was told to be prepared. One of my mother’s [...]

Want Son?

Had been working so hard…..and no contributions to this blog. Well, didn’t really want to talk about work here…..Brought my mum over to my place to stay for a few nights. I really liked it when she is around, I popped into her room whenever I come home, talked to her, complained to her about [...]

Connection

I had been bad. I hardly had time to visit my mum recently. Only visited her on Saturdays.

She hasn’t been able to open her eyes for long, even when we put her in front of the TV watching one of her favourite show – Planet’s Funniest Animals. She used to make some chuckle. Now, [...]

Lifeline

I had been swamped again ….. with work…needing me at 3 places at the same time.

And so happened that my mum needed a PEG surgery at the same time. 9 months since the last replacement of the gastronomy tube. Her medicine and milk were fed into her body through this tube. This is her [...]

Phenomenon of Premonition of Death

I had been thinking about this.

In Chinese, its called “回光反照”.

I vaguely remembered my father when he was in coma in ICU for 3 weeks. But one thing I remembered the mumblings were that he had been shifted to the inner half of the ICU after observing an “improvement”. Next thing I know, he passed [...]

Her low days

Visited my mum this afternoon. Realised that she had been sleeping more and more and more…..She hardly lifts up her eyelids for more than 1 minute, and she shuts again, then opens again, then shuts again. I think she tried to open her eyes, but just couldn’t stay open. Today must be one of her [...]

Delaying Death, Prolonging Pain

I stop short of defining what is Cortico Basal Ganglionic Degeneration in my last entry.I’m not going to bombard with some chim medical terms here.It simply means the loss of nerve cells in the brain, the shrinkage of of some areas in the brain. The areas that shrunk is called cerebal cortex and basal ganglia. [...]