These are, time of, our, bad luck all right! Translated…
Due to the outbreaks of MERS-CoV, it’d, messed up my plans, and, even if the outbreaks didn’t happen, I’d already, gone to the U.S. by last September to help my daughter with her recovery phase after birth. While my mother who’s eighty-two had been overwhelmed with foot pains, gone to the many doctors, maybe it’s her age, and how there are, bigger risks, that no surgeon was willing to operate, and so, we can only, take my mother up to the north to the major hospitals to seek treatment.
Because of how the epidemic rolled on and on, by July, a surgeon was finally, willing to, operate. But all of us, her children, became ill-at-ease, the primary physician asked before the procedures, “I’m confident, that my surgery will go well, but, I’m unwilling, to state, that aunty can recover to fifty, sixty percent. Do you still want the procedures?” my brave mother, stated, that if she didn’t get it, she will become, paralyzed, that if the surgery wasn’t successful, she would become, paralyzed, of course she was going to, go for it.
And just like that, my mother had the first surgery on her cervical spinal column, a week later, the vertebrates on her lumbar, and thankfully, she’d, had no issues. As she got home, my mom worked really hard, in physical therapy, practiced walking around for one, to two hours a day, and although she was still a bit weak on her left, but she could walk around slowly with a cane, it’s such, a huge, progress. My mother kept ranted on how she wanted to head back to the south for her volunteer work, and we’d all, consoled with her, to stay up north so we can, take care of her.
My mother’s, determination, and bravery, inspired me, actually, I also have the same problem of tingling and numbing in my legs. I went to physical therapy over the years, and gone to the traditional treatment methods, but, it’d not, improved. My mother encouraged me to go find the surgeon who’d, operated on her, she’d told me, “Do it while you’re still younger, don’t drag it out too long!” And so, last October, I’d, followed my mother’s, footsteps, finally, gone in, to the OR, the last place I would ever want to be in. I’d originally thought, that I just needed the surgery on my lumbar spinal column, but, as the surgeon reviewed my charts, he’d decided, to operate on my cervical column to resolve the ossification of my tendons to take the pressures off my nerves first, so I won’t bump too hard, and, become, paralyzed.
Let go of my families, of work, of my volunteer activities, now, I can’t go anywhere, just, stay at home, and, rest. I hope, that all of these, problems, will pass over soon, that the world can, start, turning again, that we are all, settled, and felt safer.
And so, this, is on how the greater environment and what’s happened in your personal lives, coincided, and that’s just how it goes sometimes, because you’d not paid enough attention to your health when you were younger, as you entered into the midlife years, everything gets, WHACKED out, and, sometimes, you can’t, dodge this, no matter what you do, no matter, how careful you are, in keeping up with your physical wellbeing, what’s to happen, will happen, and you’re just, going to have to, deal with it!