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Comatose To Life

Comatose To Life Somewhere on a small island called Penang, historically known as the Pearl Of The Orient… There is a heartwarming tale of how tender loving care revived a comatose patient… The patient is a fully qualified Florence Nightingale about to launch her nursing career .. Full of hopes and dreams, excited about achieving her goals in her chosen career… But the cruelties of real life was fatefully unloaded on her one unlucky day… A twisted sense of fate saw a motorcycle accident that cruelly left her for dead.. But her strong will to survive and fight was something no doctors could have forseen… She being in a vegetative state, those experts think they know enough to proclaim… There’s no hope of full recovery, poor girl, and it is best to pull the plug on her… Given her extensive injuries, her vegetative state, it’s best not to prolong her misery.. Her ever loving aunt, her only mother she had known, was resolute in her decision… Come what may, her favorite niece will have her undivided love, care and attention …. No one knows the depths of agony and the despair this loving aunt quietly suffered… The loneliness and the infinite patience, only a mother maternal could have done better… Through 2 long years of unending love and tenderness, against all negative perceptions.. From the expert doctors to the disbelieving relatives, she tirelessly persevered in her actions.. Today her plucky comatose patient is awakened, though she is far from full recovery… What matters is she is alive, she has made it through, though there’s need for counselling … This story is just a beginning for Janice Chuah Chai Ming, it’s the start of a long recovery journey.. This poem is just to document the power and the intensity of love and perseverance extraordinary… For Chuah Bee Hong, the loving aunt who quit her job to devote full time for Janice’s recovery.. Prayers be with you and your loved ones, good deeds like this deserves only good in life’s glory.. http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/11/13/Nurse-makes-strides-after-waking-from-a-coma-Hit-and-run-accident-robs-Janice-of-bright-future/

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Date: 11/20/2015 7:57:00 PM
To THINK about it, that Plug would have been Pulled!
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Keng Chuan Seng
Date: 11/24/2015 12:38:00 AM
Wonder if the medical experts in this case... Suffer self doubts and misgivings from this case... To have to suggest pulling the precious plug of life... When time, nature and tender loving care were much needed for precious life...
Date: 11/20/2015 7:53:00 PM
To you Aunt Chau Bee, for the role you played in Nurse Janice's recovery from vegetative state! God reward you for your patience for two years of faithful belief and maternal instinct. I suspect, like Janice's relatives and friends, the urge for me to have the PLUG pulled would also have been Given!
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Keng Chuan Seng
Date: 11/24/2015 12:33:00 AM
It is incredible the depth of untiring love and determination... Manifested in the loving and patient care for a comatose patient ... The many moments of doubts and despair caring for a vegetative patient.. Even Florence Nightingale could not have done any better for such a patient......

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