Updated: March 30, 2022 – Happy Mother’s Day
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Midnight Rounds
The clock at the Subang Medical Centre struck midnight. The nurse has just left the room after her routine midnight roundings.
My mum was lying on the bed with the drips with her sixth chemotherapy that week. She was in her weakest condition. Besides diarrhoea, she has lost almost all her hair. However, I still can remember that night she got up and covered me with a blanket, as I was sleeping next to her. Giving all the support we could do.
The Battle
Family members took turns to care for her during her last days of life.
Being battling with leukaemia reminds me life is precious.
When my mum died, it didn’t mean that she had lost to cancer. She has beaten cancer by how she lives in those six months. Why she lived, and in the manner in which she lived. We will all die one day. Perhaps the winner here is the person who does it under his or her terms—the person who dies peacefully and not at war.
Let us focus on the life that people enjoyed before being told “you have cancer” and remember them as victors in life, not losers in death. Let us stop letting cancer appear to be the winner.
What does family mean to me?
Lost my dearest mum in 2007; my loving sister in 2009; my best companion dog in 2010 and my proud grandma last year. We might be so busy chasing ourselves in the rat race going around the arena. Once in a while forgetting what had kept the family ties together. The few last words from my mum were taking her to places to enjoy the most delicious, famous local food every weekend back in Malaysia. That was the happiest moment in her entire life.
She was a superwoman to me. My mum handled all the household chores, cooking, taking care of kids, giving all the love, helping my dad in taking care of the tax and accounting business. She was a strong woman inside out. We will always remember all the sacrifices that she has done for a very long time.
As my loved ones are still around, cherishing the moment together is the most important part of my life. Is hopeless to say how much I’ve missed them and things I should have done to make it better when they are no longer here anymore because we can not turn the clock back. They will not get up from their coffin and be alive again.
Take-Home Message
So what does family mean to me? Priceless…
To all the mothers around the world – Happy Mother’s Day
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