I would like to share with you an encouraging message that I received from a good classmate, Ee Ding and her husband, Dobrin. They are currently staying in US.
Dear Ah Kiew,
We want to share the story of this Olympics Gold Swimmer with you. With the grace of God, miracles DO HAPPEN!! We are confident that you will recover fully and be stronger than before!
Dobrin and I also have a great news to share, we are pregnant!!! Yes, we are thrilled that our prayers have finally been answered. So far the pregnancy is going well, we are almost in our 15th week, and we pray that we will deliver a healthy baby in February next year.
Praise to the Lord and thank you so much for your well wishes and prayers.
May God bless you and your family richly,
Ee Ding and Dobrin
You can read the Olympics Gold Swimmer, Maarten van der Weijden’s story here.
Some extract from the story:
Dutch swimmer Maarten van der Weijden already fought back from leukemia. An open water fight hardly compared.
The leukemia taught me to think step by step,” van der Weijden said. “When you’re laying in the hospital bed and feeling so much pain and feeling so tired, you don’t want to think about next week or next month, you’re only thinking about the next hour.”
Van der Weijden was diagnosed with leukemia in 2001, came back in 2003 and began swimming faster than before.
“You lay in your bed and just wait,” he added. “It’s almost the same strategy I’ve used here—to stay in the pack, to be patient, and stay easy just waiting for your chance.”
I printed this article and gave it to an 11 years old Leukaemia patient in the hospital. She is the daughter of my wife’s colleague. At that time, she was admitted to UH due to post-chemo fever. She overheard someone in the ward talking something very negative about the disease and became very down. The parents requested me to pay her a visit to convince her that it is not too bad to be diagnosed with Leukaemia. You see this uncle still alive :-)
Finally, we wish Ee Ding a very smooth pregnancy. She and Dobrin wanted to have a baby for quite some time. We prayed and God listened to our prayer. God is good! May God bless the family richly.
Van der Weijden - You see he is not only alive but swim faster after Leukaemia. I think I should swim too.
See you next post :-)
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