Latest Update as at 2203

Sorry for not being able to update earlier. It's a hassle to look for computers to use around here when you personally do not have one.

In any case, here are some of the latest happenings from HK.

As of this week, the amount of sedative drug used by the doctors should be lesser so that the body is able to function by its own without the use of the drug (reminder, the use of the drug is to control the BP so that it doesn't go up too high, resulting in another possible risk of bleeding within the brain) but unfortunately, they were unable to do so.

20 March:
Doctors have already lessen the amount of sedative drug used here. Have to observe how the body can cope from here onwards. Nothing much we can do.

21 March:
In the afternoon at about 1pm, my mum's BP rose to about 110 and usually for us, it would normally be alright but for my mum's condition, the doctor have specific instructions for the nurses to not allow her BP to go beyond 100. The nurses had to put her back on drugs again and when I visited her that night, her BP was around 80+ and the nurse mentioned that it was alright for her BP to remain in the 80 - 100 range.

Her face looked a little more swelled up today and they had finally changed her head bandage. Still, I find it hard to accept that it was my mum on that very bed.

22 March:
When we visited her today, we were told that her condition wasn't getting any better. When I first arrived, the one thing I took note first was always her BP and today, it was in the low 70s, just like before, which occured to me that they had probably put her back on the same amount of sedation as of before. It was later that I was told that she had a fever this afternoon and am still having one now, at 38 degree celsisus and it wasn't a good sign at all. (Having a fever could be a possible sign of her having any sort of infection, which is not going to do her any good if she really has any sort of infection because her body would not be strong enough to fight the infection.)


On my personal thoughts of what have been happening so far:
Today marks the first week that I have been here. It feels as though I've been here for 2 or 3 weeks at least! I'm not really sure if I've come to terms with what has happened in the last one week.

Today, I got a chance to go to a local church here in Hong Kong, called the Island ECC if I'm not wrong. Anyway, it was nice to be in a church over here and being able to be in His Presence in the midst of my situation now. Sat through a very interesting sermon, which really spoke to my heart, and I believe also to the heart of my christian aunt who brought us there and also to another 2 aunts who were with me and even though I know that they are non-believers, I know they have already heard God speak. IF MY 2 AUNTS ARE READING THIS NOW, REMEMBER THAT GOD HAD SENT YOU TO THIS CHURCH, NOT OUT OF COINCEDENCE BUT SO THAT YOU CAN KNOW THAT HE IS REAL BECAUSE HE HAS SPOKEN TO YOUR HEART!

Alright. The speaker today, Pastor Daniel David, if that is his name, spoke on the topic of Unanswered Prayer. I was pretty much amazed at the way he disected the parable into 5 different parts but it was his last point on his sermon that really stuck a chord with all our hearts.

He was trying to illustrate his point that Faith is a relationship and he shared with us this story about a young couple in the States who was expecting a pair of twins. The wife went into early labour in the midst of their women's retreat and she was rushed to the hospital and it was at the hospital that the doctors told the couple that because she was only 19 months pregnant, if the babies have to be delievered, it would be nearly possible for the babies to survive. The pastor (the same pastor that was speaking to us) arrived at the hospital to pray for the husband and he was praying for the babies to be safe and everything and when the prayer ended, the husband looked up to the pastor and said, "Hey pastor, I know what's going to happen to the babies if they get delievered but I trust God." At the end of that day, one of the babies was delivered but never got to breathe a breath of air outside the womb but God also miracously closed the womb, meaning that there was still another baby in the womb.

One week later, the same lady was rushed to the hospital again. The same whole thing was happening again and the husband was there, anxiously waiting on the fate of his other baby. In the midst of all this, this young husband was still saying the same thing. I trust God. The outcome was the same. The baby died.

The point that the speaker was trying to illustrate was that sometimes, we think of Faith as something that we give to God so that God can give something back to us. But, no. Faith is a relationship. This young man chose to trust God despite his own circumstances because he had faith in God. He loved God for who He is and not what He can give. One of the test of faith is to see how we react to God, no matter what God's doing for us, be it putting us in times of success of in times of trial.

It's going to be hard for me to come to terms with this but God is in control and God has to be in control because that's all that I'm counting on.

Hopefully, there will come a day when my mum will wake up and things will be better, but I also cannot run away from the fact that maybe there won't be that moment if things gets worse but I will still tell myself, that God is in control and because He loves me, I will recognise the fact that everything will work out to the good of those who love Him because He'll never give up on me and so I shouldn't give up on what He has planned for me.

Thank you for all those who have been praying. Let's keep going! You'll never know what God might have in stored for you as well. :)