Category: love family friendship partnership
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RISING TO A NEW DAWN
I took a long break from writing, during which I suffered another bout of Peritonitis. I’ve since returned home where things are looking up. Home is where Daniel and I, with the help of my help, whom I shall aptly name Kind, spend each and everyday filled with raucious laughter. In spite of this, Daniel…
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RR#09 21 August 2023
There will always be good days, and bad. In year 2022, bad days outnumbered the good. Since then, the tension has eased. Now far and fewer in between, the prospects of good days appear intermittently on the horizon. In tandem with my blood pressure readings, I am grateful for the stability that has eased into…
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RR#08 13 August 2023
A Good Day Against the tapestry of grey skies and curtains of rain, quiet whispers of fragrant cut grass linger in the air. A whiff awakens me to the present – the greyness. Like clouds of foreboding, which appeared to shift and overlap, threatening to embrace me in their thunderous clutches. For a moment, I…
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RR#07 11 AUGUST 2023
The Gift of Time This week, I learn the meaning of Time, as a Gift to me. Time to convalesce, Time for gratitude, Time for deep thoughts and Time for healing. For all these things, most precious is the healing I’m experiencing. And I am not alone in this. It takes a village to help…
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RR#06 4 August 2023
On Borrowed Time I have written my Advanced Care Plan for my doctors. Those are my instructions on how I’d like to die. More so, at what stage I want them to let me go. I know that my faculties will break down, one by one. My heart is supported articially both by drugs and…
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RR#05 14 to 20 July 2023
The people in my life (Part II):My Family –My Elderly Parents, Sister (Y) & Nieces Please understand that penning these thoughts is particularly difficult for me. As such, it has taken me longer than usual, as I struggle to come up with the most appropriate words. Dad is approaching 80, while mum is edging towards 70.…
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RR#04 13 July 2023
The people in my life (Part I):My Support, My Better Half,The Love of My Life –Daniel. I feel the lifting of a few brows, causing a slight disturbance to the air around us. Yes, we often have that effect on people, especially those who don’t know us well.While many are likely to disapprove of the…
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RR#03 12 July 2023
Assisted Recovery In the meantime, Nurse Julie from the Home Nursing Foundation, came today for a short visit. This was to be a six-monthly assessment of my condition. Today’s assessment showed that my blood pressure was low, and that I had lost weight, a result of my bad appetite.Hypotension was attributed to the nightly peritoneal…
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RR#02 11 July 2023
My Health Takes a Tumble In Oct 2021, I underwent ptyroidectemy. Thankfully, surgery went well. However, complications arose the very next day, and I was wheeled into the emergency operating theatre, twice, on the same day. Henceforth, I began my slide down the proverbial slippery slope. Jack & Jill were of no match as I…
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RR#01 10 July 2023
Looking back, my mind is flooded with memories of the yesteryears. Perhaps this is what they refer to when they say one’s life flashes by, just before passing on, but passing on to what?I am riddled with questions, but I refuse to ask, “Why?”. It seems futile when there are no answers to the question.…
Rambling Reflections 