Monday, March 06, 2006
Haven’t blogged in a while… can’t post this immediately either as the internet connection is down and no one wants to work overtime to get it fixed. Its like this down under… but I just needed to pen down some thoughts and I believe some people are missing me back in Singapore (I hope!)
Attended Overseas Christian Fellowship for the first time last Friday and went to church with some of the OCF members today to one of their advisors’ church to support her. Felt really at home with the OCF-ers, many of them Singaporeans. They are a bunch of very friendly and warm people. I can see myself forming close bonds with them eventually, and if you know me, I do not say that of just anyone.
Why did we have to go support their advisor? Well, she was giving a testimony about a miracle that just happened to her recently. Her son, Andrew, who is about my age, was jogging as usual and he suddenly just collapsed. However, a doctor who happens to specialize in CPR, happened to be home and saw her son as he collapsed when he looked out of the window. The doctor rushed to his side and tried to resuscitate him after calling for the ambulance, but he was looking blue and there was no pulse. Thankfully the ambulance came in 10 mins and managed to revive him using those electrical shocks I think.
Andrew has a genetic defect which cannot be detected easily and during his jog, his heart started beating out of control, something to do with ventricular fibulations, until it beats so fast that it does not pump any blood at all. The miracle is that Andrew is still alive and very well today. Despite the fact that when he was first admitted into hospital, the doctors told his parents that the chances of him not surviving or becoming permanently severely brain damaged was very high. Had it not been the fact that a doctor, extremely skilled in CPR had gone to his aid within 4 mins, and the ambulance came in 10 mins, Andrew would have no chance of surviving. For when the body is starved of oxygen for a certain amount of time, an irreversible damage occurs which often is fatal, especially for the brain. Statistically speaking, Andrew’s case lies in the 1% of all cases like his. When he awoke from an induced coma the next day, the doctors were taken aback at how quickly he recovered as he was asking to go out for a walk. Today, Andrew has regained most of the memory he lost temporarily, regarding his cardiac arrest and only has some superficial bruises.
What happened was not a matter of fortunate coincidence, but a beautiful orchestration of how God can work in our lives through other people. Whatever happens, good or bad, God made or allowed it to happen. I believe God sent me to Adelaide for a reason. Although from what I hear from my seniors, the course is not an easy one and many drop out, I know God has a purpose for me here. Thankfully, anatomy & physiology is a refresher from biology, linguistics is fun and psychology is interesting. It is only the first week of school, but I take it as a good sign that I am not put off by anything I am learning at the moment. However, the number of datelines I had to put on my calendar is pretty intimidating since I am still quite at a lost for everything.
Have a field placement (an observation of speech pathologists at work) tmr morn so I think I better end of here and will try to blog again soon. In the mean time, to all my friends back home, I love you. Not trying to be mushy, but just wanted to let you all know should I never get the chance to do so again.
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