D-day...D-1....

Day by day passed and I was hoping get my ballot paper on time. As the day draw closer, my anxiety rises; my option had changed from EMS to courier services that offer same day or next day services. I had read through the net and found that there is fellow Malaysian who was willing to deliver the ballot paper to relevant office…. My options had run out as the countdown tick; mailing option had faded out and my final option was to fly back and delivered it personally. If I could receive my ballot paper on 5/7, I would take a flight back on 5/8 and delivered it to the office on 5/9 as the flight from TPE or KHH arrived in KUL late in the afternoon. So receiving the paper after 5/7 was hopeless…..

Well, at the 5/7 evening, I had given up hope and thought that the ballot papers should have been swallowed by someone. At the noon of 5/8, a courier van came and I got 2 DHL envelopes…. The date of posting was 5/5….4 days before the ballot day, apparently the SPR does not want us to vote. I grinned and told Ving about the news. I was not worried as my voting area was stronghold of PH…but yet, I despised the act of SPR of playing dirty.

Nomination day = 4/28, local postal voting date = 5/4, to be fair, we should have received my ballot paper before 5/4. However the ballot papers were sent out on 5/5, 1 days after the local postal voting. There was only a 4 days window for the ballot paper to reach the respective voter. Unless the courier service could be done on a next day arrival basis it was a mission impossible, furthermore, 5/4 was Friday, the delay over Weekend would be obviously another obstacle….

Well, nothing could be done…

Over those few days, the ruling party had stressed over the media that there would not be any tsunami. However the Merdeka Survey Center had published a very queer survey stating that the BN vote would be down to 30+% but would still retained control over the parliament. Weird indeed, but I felt that the result was actually being manipulate before it was published.

post ops....

Ving left us by 2pm and I took over the job of nursing aid. Xian woke up and he was troubled by wound pain. Xian sensory perception was outstanding he had good eye sight, good hearing and also very sensitive to pain. He had no problem of tolerating the pain while laying still, but the pain was torturing when he attempted to get down from bed.

Urine output was an important index for post ops care…5 hours past the surgery and Xian had tried very hard and no urine output was noted. He felt uneasy to do it on the bed and we had tried a lot of method; sitting over the bedside, sitting on the toilet. Every single way led involved getting out from bed and both of us were exhausted. After 9 hrs of struggle, he had finally emptied his bladder. He was indeed dehydrated, over 2000cc was infused/drunk and only 300cc of urine noted. I felt comfortable but did not enjoy a good night sleep. I had awakened on hourly basis to check on the drip and Xian condition.

The pain was better on D2 but was still disturbing. Ving visited us on twice a day bringing us food and supply. On D3, the bed next to us was discharged and I had chartered the room. Nowadays, single occupancy room in the hospital had become very difficult to get as many patients had insurance and afforded to stay in a single occupancy room. When the single room is not available one could still chartered a double room and turn it into a single room (the pay was of course more expensive). When Xian got admitted there was no single room nor any double room to charter. I had to squeeze myself on the foldable chair for first 2 nights.

Taking care of patient with post abdominal surgery was not a simple task. The mission of going to toilet is a great challenge. Every steps was pain and it took forever to complete the few meter walk.

I had day shift on D3 and Ving had come to look after Xian but he was way better and the pain was much tolerable…

Xian was discharged on D5 but it was not the end of the story…..