"Dead Man's" Tales

Chapter 1  At Seventy

Well,well.two months back I celebrated my 70th.birthday.What can I say?. There is no denying that I have been blessed to survive past seventy.What a great feeling to be above seventy.Simply great that I have made it despite the odds against my health.Imagine many people had not made thus far.I am plain lucky.

I dare say there are nothing more to ask for- maybe to have my age extended for another ten, perhaps.Twenty would be too much.With God's blessing and our present day medications,I don't see why not?.

At seventy I maybe quite troublesome to others.Maybe my immediate family,i.e.,my children whom I will have to depend on very much should I live longer.Well,I leave that to fate.Anyway,that ought not deter me  from continue living further on.I will carry on living,God willing.

At seventy,it is no big deal really.Health wise my whole picture is seemingly gloomy. I survived a bout of Luekaemia (AML) in year 2000.That was twelve years ago,today I am apparently free from it.But at seventy other sicknesses loomed around the corners.

When I was sickened with cancer,I was also sick with diabetics and high blood pressure. These had effected me badly especially my eyes sights.During those days the Medics at the University Hospital examined and found that I had tiny droplets if blood in my eyes.It was not effecting my sights and they allowed them be,promising to do something when my health improved and only should those effects my sights.

My problem does not end there because being a diabetic,other co-related sickness dropped by too.Such high blood pressure and cholesterol followed suit.Presently I am on medications on these.Horridly I had many medicines to swallow.For my diabetics recently  I was put on insulin injections.I think I am damn lucky the cancer which I had did not bother me all these twelve years.

My problems did not end there for of late I also had some pain in the joints although not that serious,though at times I do get gout which kept me from walking around.However,pain killing injections and medications can keep them at bay.Other than that I get occasional cramps in me legs,nothing bad really only pain for a while during my sleep which soon wore off.

 I used to exercise for at least two hours each early morning at 4 a.m. after my cancer.Nothing tedious but just simple slow walking-actually the "cancer walk'.It did me a world of good keep me fit as a fiddle and away with cancer.

But unfortunately of late that had to be terminated as my legs apparently seem to be getting more tired, unwilling to obey my command to perform as it should.I seem to be heavier for my over worked tired legs.

The joints especially the kneels occasionally gave me pain but they were alright after some rest.So that leaves not much choice but to abstain from more exercises.Well at least that gave reason sufficient to to rest a bit more.So I exercised very much lesser presently.

Another thing I think age has finally caught up with me  .
I think my age does not permit me to work that hard,it augers some rest and why not?.I actually had not rested at all during my working days. Since I have  worked and exercised almost most of life it finally is time to rest and take things easy.

I suspect I am down with Parkinson Disease.Maybe it is the beginning.My hands shake are slightly , thereby I could hardly write properly or clearly now .I used to paint and sketch and because of my shaky hands I had temporarily stop drawing altogether.I last saw the doctor who checked me on my cancer regularly and told him about my position.

He recommended that I consult with their specialist on that,but I refused.Not that I am scared of its existence but because I am fed up with more medications.The thoughts of more tablets to swallow makes me shrink.Sure it could do me a world of good.

Presently I am already on too many medications.At this stage I think it better allow nature to follow its natural course.Well,should that sickness overcome me so be it,the Lord's will be done.It best to face reality once and for all.

No big deal really.as my kidneys are only 26% healthy,Should I saved myself from Parkinson I still had to me weak weak kidneys and at my age,go for kidneys transplant overseas?. Suitable kidneys  can be purchased from donors at an affordable price in India or China.Why spent those hard cash that  way?.

With all these I still cannot get my real self back.By that I mean a strong and healthy me.No I cannot be as young as I wished to be,only God can transformed me not otherwise so why waste time trying.It simply futile wish.Allow what will be - be what ever it be?..

Besides,those kidneys could be more useful to some much younger guys who had still a longer life to live.I am over the hills,having a new kidney does me not much good.The Lord has given me a good life and should He want me to go I will go peacefully not fight His Will.

My problems did not end there.In the year 2004,I was hospitalized with what seem to be a minor stroke.A minor stroke ? Not really because I thought otherwise.On the medical point of view initially as a minor stroke which they later claimed as an imbalance of food uptake which caused my sudden collapsed.

See,in March 2004,I went for my evening walk as usual and at the Kentucky junction near to my residence  stumbled upon a white candle placed there.This lighted candle was placed there by someone of a deceased family to direct mourners to their home to pay their last respect to the demised.

Not only that the candle was also supposed to  direct spirits from the other world,  welcoming  them to the deceased house.The candle was also shield with plastic covers to prevent from wind blowing it off,plus also protecting it from rain.

This was quite a normal thing around but that day as I approached near it,I had a little eerie feeling as I passed.Thereafter,I  returned home without any hitch along the way.However I was exceptionally quiet,had my dinner without any problems 

That evening I remember I had roasted lamb and some green vegetables for dinner.After dinner I remember going to the toilet as I felt uneasy.But the thing was did I went to the toilet.

No.no apparently I went back my bedroom and passed out all my wastes littering around my room and also on to my bed .Without a doubt I was conscious that I was doing my thing at the toilet but reality that in my mind.In actual fact I was not aware that I was dirtying all over the room with greenish shit.Thereafter I laid on bed with wastes all over.

My wife had earlier noted my odd behavior that evening quietly peeped into my room to find out what was wrong with my behavior.She was caught with a full blown surprised.She saw  me lying on bed on a semi-conscious state with open eyes and fifty all over with greenish shit.

Covering her nose she tried to arouse me but to no avail ,I just laid there not responding to her plight.In fright she did know what to do as she was alone in the house,so the next best thing was to call my brother and also her younger brother who were both residing a short distance away.

In the meantime  my son returned home and with his help they tried to call in the ambulances from hospitals all round.But unfortunately  all the ambulances were unavailable,what a coincident.However,his wife's relation came to our plight.He send his St.John Ambulance from Klang who responded without any obligations.Such kind souls,I am really grateful because of them.

By then my brother and brother-in-law too had arrived at my house.My beloved wife by now had cleaned up the messes I so created earlier but unfortunately the room still stink hanged in the air.When the ambulance was finally arrived it took six full grown men to lift me to the ambulance as I was extremely heavy.Nay,I was not that heavy only about one hundred seventy odd lbs., but something else was,I think?.

That night at the University Medical Centre they gave a full scanning of my entire body.Apparently I was in a semi-conscious state with eyes wide opened  but not aware of the situation all around me.I think they found nothing within me because thereafter I was warded  in ICU.There I laid among the very sick.

The next day I was shifted to the extreme end of the huge ward.It seemed I was put up quite a struggle and to calm me  they bounded  my arms.However when I was awake and became conscious of the surrounding they released me.

To my astonishment  found myself in a wretch position.My arms fully blinded up and my goodness!!,my penis had a hose to drain away urine should there be any.Worst of all I was lying on a bed with a rubber sheet lining.I wanted to urinate and they told me do it there on the bed.

How ridiculous?... I mean how to piss like that.No I could not do it.Even if I did all the urine was on the rubber sheet.I protested until they took off the tiny hose and allowed me to urinate as normal.That too,I was not allowed to move away from my bed,as the medication administered on me had not worn out.

Soon a team of Doctors examined me once again.By then I was fit as a fiddle.After much discussion among themselves they concluded that I was not having any stroke,minor or otherwise.They claimed that the imbalance of food consumption during the Chinese New Year could have contributed to my sudden collapsed.The following day I was discharged from the Medical  Centre.All in I was hospitalized for only three days.

They maybe right but I thought otherwise.I suspected that I was besieged by a spirit at the Kentucky junction where a white candle was laid to led spirits to the deceased's house.One of the spirit might had fanciful thought that I was an easy prey as I was still very weak in all respects,so it over took my body.

It overwhelmed my body and took control of it.I was actually in a trance.My eyes were wide opened and in a semi-conscious state.In other words awake but had no control of what was transpiring within and around me.Something else was in control.

That was I could vividly remembered what happened later on.At the Hospital,the spirit opted for other worst off bodies much weaker and more suitable than myself,I think.That was why it rejected  my body while there.It abandoned my body  for some one weaker.That was why I recovered almost immediately thereafter.Anyway good riddance to it.I was discharged from the Hospital the following day.

That was what I thought and not from the medical point of view.I believe it because it overwhelmed my body and left with causing any bodily harm.This was an experience I had.Anyway ,you are entitled to your opinion.Bear with me or otherwise,God blessed you.

I continue with my regular exercise the following morning as usual,much to the astonishment of the neighborhood. Little did  suspect that I would be entertaining another pest over my body especially my head.Being a diabetic for quite a while my well being also attracted this pest.

While warded at ICU at the hospital I was bedded among patients suffering from many types of serious sicknesses.Or at least initially the first night I was given a bed on the worst end of the ward where the very sick had the tender care of nurses and doctor stationed nearby.

Someone in that end must have been a carrier of these pests I am going to divert.Being a diabetic and recovering from cancer  my immunity complex must have been extremely weak to fight off those pests.They  crossed over to my body and fining the condition very suitable for them to survive and multiplied.My hair having been uncombed and not well kept made it the more suitable.

So they came and conquered my head and then my body.I am talking about the pests...............        

To be continued....................................