Day +661 : Visiting friends

I am fine today.

After seeing the eye specialist, I went to the hematology ward to visit a few friends.

The first one that I visited was Bidah, an Iban from Sarawak who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. She completed first round of chemotherapy in Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre Kuala Lumpur and after that, chose to continue her treatment in UH.

Her cousin stumbled across my blog early of the month and since then we keep in touch constantly. My visit yesterday seemed to encourage Bidah very much.

I believe many patients would be encouraged to see a Leukaemia survivor like me :-) In fact not only me, but any Leukaemia survivor. “When I see you, I see hope,” a mother told me not long after I did my bone marrow transplant. Her daughter was diagnosed with Leukeamia.

After visiting Bidah, I visited Mr. Lim. He was on his Day +10 post bone marrow transplant yesterday. He was generally well but started to have mucositis. Doctor gave him oral morphine to ease the pain.

“I am watching live TV series every day,” his wife joked. She was prohibited to enter the isolated ward and thus could only watch her husband “acting” inside the room through the glass panel :-) I don’t know if my wife shared the same feeling while watching me “acting” inside the isolated ward. Apart from “acting”, I also gave live classical guitar concert in the room :-)

I also visited Mr. Teh. He was still having lung infection but the coughing had improved quite a lot. Besides, his white blood count had increased to 1.1 which was a very positive sign. I pray that the count will continue to increase until it reaches normal level.

Please remember my friends in your prayer.

Thank you and see you next post :-)