Prayers

Yesterday. Received a shocking SMS from Yassie's dad from London. Initailly, it took half a minute for his words to register. From his scantily worded message coupled with his broken English, he was telling me that he was rushing to the hospital to see my nephew W's wife as her brain was bleeding and was in serious danger.

I felt an ALMIGHTY shock! For a moment, I was too dumbstruck to reply. Another SMS came and he said he will call me later.

Waited and waited, in horror, for a whole afternoon. Eventually he called. My nephew's wife S has just undergone a craniotomy to remove a tumor in her brain, may need sometime to recover from the general anesthesia.

Apparently she had a blackout and fell while at work. The doctor later discovered a tumor in her brain, pressing against and bursting some arteries/veins, hence the bleeding. For reasons best known to the surgeon, he had chosen to surgically remove the tumor instead of opting for laser/radiosurgery. According to Yassie's dad, the surgeon made an incision on the shaved scalp, then used a special type of saw to cut open a piece of bone in the skull. To everyone's surprise, the tumor was no way to be seen!!! The surgeon covered up the skull and took a few more brain mapping scans to locate the tumor before he opened the skull the second time. Eventually, the tumor had been successfully removed.

Eeerrrrr! A horrible mixture of vexation and terror grips my intestines. But I took this with a grain of salt. I always reckon brain surgery is the most demanding, requiring a unique combination of training, skill, dexterity and precision. But then, how on earth could this happen? This is life threatening, fatal peril!!

Poor S, she is so young, only in her early thirties. Tumor, the very word strikes fear in the heart of anyone. Moreover, it is in the brain. Surgery in the brain, the most frightful event!

Being thousand miles apart, we can only pray for S. She will definitely make it and will recover soon, there is still a long way for her to go...

Prayers.