Please pray with us

I’ve delayed writing this for a while.

Now it’s become urgent.

Some of you might have read it in the STAR a couple of days ago, about a Malaysian hiker who went missing in Montana’s Glacier National Park. He went in on the 11th of August and was supposed to come out from the 154 km hike on 18th August. He was hiking alone.

He never came out.

Yi-Jien is the eldest son of my late-pastor, Hwa-Chien. I knew him from way back when he was merely 3 feet tall or so (now he is taller than me!) and even attended his wedding last year.

It has been 11 days since he failed to emerge from the park and US searchers are thinking of calling it quits.

You can read about Yi-Jien here:
1. Kentucky Backpacker Missing in Montana’s Glacier National Park
2. Missing Hiker, Yi-Jien Hwa, in Glacier National Park

Please pray with us (his wife, mother, the entire church and everyone who knows him or his family!):
1. That the weather would clear up so that effective aerial search can be conducted.
2. The searchers may be led to search at the right place (the park is huge!).
3. For the safety of Yi-Jien.
4. For Yi-Jien’s wife and mother (Kim Guat) that they may be comforted and reassured.

Thanks for praying.

Fri, 290808 @ 1214

An update can be read here: Life Letters

Toilet delivery

Question: How many of you can boast of delivering a baby in a public toilet?

Well, I can!

Other than finding an old police report the other day, I also found this:

An old incident report! To those who are not in the medical line, let me enlighten you. Whenever something out of the ordinary happens in the hospital, the person deemed responsible will be asked to write an ‘incident report’. Incidences like patient falling from bed, jump out of the window (yes it has happened before), patients hitting doctors or vice versa (*wink* alluding to a very recent incident in a hospital in KL!) etc etc.

My particular incident happened when I was a HO in the O&G department in GHKL. I was on call that night and was manning the admission counter together with another HO.

The patient was  32 G2P1 at 37+4 days (meaning it’s her second pregnancy at 37 weeks and 4 days). When she came to the hospital, it was 5.45 am but she was already having contractions since 3 am at 1 contraction every 3 minutes.

I did a VE (vaginal examination) and found the cervix to be soft, fully effaced and the os was 4 cm with absent membrane and no liquor (liquor here is not an alcoholic beverage but the amniotic fluid). The station was at +1(station here refers to the descent of the foetal head and not to any railway or bus/taxi stop).

I made arrangments for her to be admitted into the labour room while the patient asked to go to the toilet. I then attended to another 2 patients (first one came in early labour and the other had leaking liquor), and completely forgot about the first patient. When I was examining the patient with leaking liquor, I heard the toilet door opened forcefully.

From within, I could hear her yelling: “Tolong! Tolong! Anak sudah keluar!!!” (Help! Help! My baby is out!)

I quickly ran to the toilet and there she was, squatting on the toilet seat (which was meant to be sat on and not squatted upon) and in between her thighs was the head of her baby!

Good grief!

We quickly got her onto a trolley and she immediately delivered the rest of her baby near the counter, just outside the toilet!

Mother and baby were fine.

I was not fine! Definitely not the preferred way to end a busy night on call!

Moral of the story:

NEVER EVER EVER SQUAT ON A SITTING TOILET, PREGNANT OR OTHERWISE!

Friday, 290808 @ 0700