A Major Operation

It was back in the year 2000 that I had a bad attack of artery lesion that nearly cost me my dear life. The left main artery, the main artery had a lesion that caused the blood circulation to be impeded to such an extent that I felt fainting and pain in the heart and the sickening feeling of throbbing of the artery running up the neck which could be felt with bare hand. As I had the previous experience of dizziness caused by imbalance of the fluid in the middle ear called vertigo, I thought it could go off in a short time by lying down. But then after lying down for a long time, I didn't feel any relief so I knew it was not the case. I informed my daughter and was taken to the hospital to see the doctor. After examination by the Indian doctor on call, it was diagnosed as Aorta lesion and it was decided to send me to Kuching for operation accompanied by a doctor. In Normah Hospital, the surgeon who attended me informed that he would have to go abroad the next day for urgent duties and that due to lack of necessary equipments, he recommended to go to Singapore that very evening for an operation to be carried out the next morning. I arrived in Singapore late at midnight and rested for the next day. The next morning, another more urgent case came out and a aged pastor was operated first with only 40% chance and he did not survive the operation. That afternoon, I was wheeled into the operation at about 2 p.m. and the heart surgeon took about 8 hours to operate on me and he told my wife that I was lucky to be alive as it was not a simple feat. With the repair on my aorta, I recovered quickly and my general health has impoved greatly with better blood circulation as since very young I had cold extremities and could not stand hard work. I had a narrow escape from death!