Survivors

Through this blog, I would like to reveal the real life reflected from a long and hard journey of a woman who has been struggling hard in continuing her life.

In her lifetime, she’s got so many times stopping her breath and experiencing sudden death, but because of The Mercy of ALLAH, until now she still survives and can continue her life, but these happenings have created greater and greater love in her deep heart to The Creature of this Universe.

She has tried to take lessons from all these happenings and wants to share with; and for this purpose she has also tried to thrash out these in the following stages of her life chronologically: she started telling the time when she was a little girl, when she was rather wild and she had ever nightmare experienced, abrupt pulling of her hair by a monkey tightened in a tree, drowning in an irrigation stream and falling from a guava tree; and when she was teens, she had experienced falling from her motorcycle. Then, the sudden death was also happening when she gave birth her first son, her second daughter, and her third son, as well as her fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh miscarriages.

Now she has breathed in a new life, as she calls as her freedom and be a mom for her three wonderful kids to move the tough life through.  She has tried to be a good mom and to be good to herself, too.

She loves to read various fields of books, including the book of health and cure diseases, so when one of her beloved gets fever, and it has been more than three days under her careful treatment, she will immediately call for a doctor and do the sysmex blood analysis for her kids to find out the disease soon.

She also loves to ask all the people that have certain diseases and notes down the entire symptom so she will recognize well when the disease starts sneaking her beloved ones.   One disease that she always cautiously studies is dengue fever, because this disease always taking the life of its victim and  its recovery that really takes time, so supports from the caretakers surroundings are urgently required. She knows also from the thesaurus the definition of dengue fever - a tropical disease caused by a virus that is transmitted by mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) and marked by high fever and severe muscle and joint pains.

She has patiently made a note of the victims of the disease that include the death of her first baby of her beloved youngest sister, the son of her colleague, one of her university students, and she learnt the lessons from each victim carefully.

And these are her findings: (1)   In the case of her beloved youngest sister: her sister was in the six month pregnancy of her first son when she had the disease, one thing that she was really shocked at that time was to know that the disease could take the baby away from a mom's womb; (2) In the case of the son of her colleague, she was really stunned by the great bleeding from the patient's nose, and the change of the color of his skin that became reddish like a barbeque lamb, and (3) In the case of one of her university male students in his last semester- after three days suffering from fever , then the fever has finally been subsided, he got up from his bed to take a bath, and when he brushed his teeth he had got multiple bleedings, and he could never be saved.

She has tried hard to recognize the entire symptom and concluded that the disease can: (1) take the baby out deadly from the womb of a young mom, and (2) create intolerable major bleeding as in the second and third cases.

She has then come to this chronicle:  “Dengue is not as beautiful as its name but it is a terrifying nightmare”

Here now comes to the point when destiny had led her to be one of the victims of mosquitoes and should be one of the patients of dengue fever. She did not realized for the first time that the disease was the disease that she wanted to be far away from. She just felt severe headache, high fever and great pain in the stomach, so she could not get up from the bed because of those pains, even worse, she did not want to eat or drink anything. She just sent her short messages to her staff to ask for someone who could massage to release the great pain in her stomach, she just thought that she had worked too hard lately so it all happened. But she then objected to give help  because of the high fever that she had, and then she just asked her to consult a doctor. Then her staff had helped her to visit a doctor, and doctor asked her to have blood laboratory test, and gave her tablets for reducing pain and fever, and asked her to come to visit him the next day. Then he really begged her to forget her busy day and take care of herself, because the result of the test was very clear enough for her to have hospital care.   

She wrote down all the symptoms that she had already suffered during the terrifying moment that she had experienced, like day by day severe headache, high fever and great pain in the stomach including serious period bleedings. Praise be to ALLAH, she could pass all her life through.

How to Survive

How to survive at home after judging by the doctor that the patient can be continuously nursed at home.

Recovery was the hardest effort that she should face, while she should take care of herself to get healed from the disease she should also take care of her kids, and did all her routines all by herself and soon after reaching home.

The first day at home, she could not sleep for twenty four hours, because of the great pain in her head. She just touched all the parts of her head, and prayed, prayed, prayed while touching all the pain parts in her head, and had to drink, drink, and drink a lot of fresh water without stop.  It was felt like miracle when the pain had set aside in the next day;

Lessons taken from this significant experience:

Ø      Seek for medical helps as soon as possible;

Ø      Ask them to have the blood laboratory test to be better mentally prepared for;

Ø      Drink, drink and drink a lot of fresh water as much as possible;

Ø      Drink more liquids that can promote the increase of trombocyth  in our blood, like drinking red seed guava, dates juices and honey;

Ø      Be positive thinking that we can fight this disease;

Ø      Encourage yourselves to have self high motivation to cure yourselves. 

Hope this information would be beneficial for everyone