Home Sweet Home!

We arrived home at about 10pm on 31st December just in time for the count down and able catch the sight of some firewood. Our children also touched down at LCCT at 11:45pm, they were coming back from Sandakan Sabah with their grandma.

The first thing I did when I reach home was to try out my bed, it was so soft & nice. I have not been sleeping well for the entire trip(24 days) in Japan. After we have settled with the children I just went straight to sleep and I was able to sleep soundly for the first time and wake up only at 8am in the morning. For those days when I was in Japan, I will almost wake every hour and waiting for the day to come. I was aslo counting the day I could come back home.

Another wonderful news is when I left for Japan on 7th Dec I needed a wheelchair and use nebulizer a few times to clear my lung before I was ready to get on the plane, when the plane take off & landing I was so breathless that I need to use my mouth to breath out but now the great difference is when I came back from Japan I stopped using nebulizer 4 days before departure and I could walk slowly within the KLIA arrival hall without wheelchair assistance anymore.

Many of my friends, relatives, bro & sis in Christ has been praying for me to get well and get healed completely, I believe God is touched and answered our prayers. God is Good all the time!

For these 2 days, I have been enjoying my sweet bed and sleeping most of the time trying to regain my strength and energy level. I have lost quite a few kgs but I am sure I will gain it back quite soon by having good maid to cook nutritional soup and dishes for me to recuperate my health.

I sincerely would like to thank all the friends that have been supporting me for everything that I needed for the trip to Japan, especially those who has generously sponsored some fund for our trip, we feel so blessed and loved.

Thank You.

Extended Stay - Coming back KL 31/12

Today I had a great lunch & a great dinner, it is because I have recovered and able to resume my original taste bud. I was really eating & feeling hungry and craving for food after at least 3 weeks where I have to depend on Prosure milk for my nuritient. I really enjoy my meals today and I will look for my interesting Japaneses food to try tomorrow.

Just want to inform those friend who has not been informed by me, I will be extending my stay to 31st Jan due to a small complication on my lung due to air leakage, it is fixed now and waiting for recovery before I fly that is why I extending my stay.

Treatment is over!!

Praise The Lord for his mercy for the sucessfully treatment and protection during the treatment. The 5 days of tomotherapy has weaken my body and yet he gave me strength again to go thru another 3.5 hours of needle poking procedure and another day of culture cell infusion. It was another day of culture cell infusion. It was amazing when God is working on us. It was scarly at first but each time when I call on to Lord for his comfort I went thru each of the needle process, it was a total of 15 needles went thru my skin right into the tumours into my body, the deepest one could be about 3 inches. I could still remember the needle poking pain even right now. But after going thru this, needle poking it's like nothing to me. I was purging for 4 days could not eat, so Doctor suggested to give me an injection, in my mind I was like, "it's easy, come on just do it!"

I had a leakage of air in my lung after the needle on my air in my lung after the needle poke on my right lung, so on the next day, Doctor has to take it out by doing another needle on my chest to pump out the air, I was told to rest for a few more days before I fly back to KL, So I have extended my stay to 31st instead of 27th.

Today we attend a Church gathering at our Hotel for the Christmas celebration and took a short shopping tour at Shijuku, a huge shopping centre. We had a chinese dinner near our hotel and now almost ready to go to sleep.

My appetite is improving, I am able to eat half a portion today. I used to eat just 2 to 3 spoon of rice or noodle in a day. Kelvin was quite worry, keep pushing me to eat.

It another blessing from God that I am able to enjoy a little of sightseeing here while I am resting for recovery before I fly back to KL.

The next treatment 20-21 Dec

We will be leaving Chiba, Daiichi Hotel today and check into the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo city to prepare for my next treatment on 20th & 21st.

I woke up today and having unbearable stomach pain & purging non-stop, this problem existed since Saturday, so we went to Clinic C4 again to have a jap to stop the symptom. 　This is caused by the side effect of tomotherapy according to the Doctor in C4.

When we check in New Otani Hotel today we will have limited access to internet, therefore I may not update my blog as often as I could do in Chiba.

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, I would like to request for prayer for my treatment tomorrow. Please pray for God to prepare my heart, give me peace & calm. And during the treatment from 9am to 5pm, protect me & cover me in all situations, pray for the wisdom for the Doctor & nurses to handle the procedure smoothly, sucessfully, pray for no complication and everything will be finished accordingly without much suffering on me, pray that Lord will comfort me & give me confidence, give me strength. Pray for God's mercy upon me always.

Yesterday I attended my friend's Christmas Party at her Church called Hope Church, they have a great band & many good singers. The crowd is about 300, it was a pot blessed party, the church members brought a lot of varieties of food, it was just mouth watering. There was also performance from the children, youth and music performance. We had some games in between two. It was fun & enjoyable, the party finished at 3:30pm. I was tired and having stomach pain & purging after coming back to the hotel so I did not eat my dinner just had a little bit of plain porridge to ease the stomach pain.

REST DAY!

TODAY WHEN I WOKE UP AT 7:30AM, I OPEN THE WINDOW & SAW THE BRIGHT SUNNY DAY. I FELT GOOD DESPITE WITH THE TIRENESS YESTERDAY. I THOUGHT MAY BE I COULD HAVE SLEPT ENOUGH, THAT'S WHY I HAVE STRENGTH. OF COURSE IT'S ALSO GOD'S WILL TO ALLOW ME TO WALK AROUND AND TAKE SOME PICTURE AND HAVE SOME INTERESTING FOOD.

WE MET A RETIRED JAPANESE MAN NAMED TANAKA SAN, HE IS THE FOUNDER OF TANAKA PRODUCTS OF JAPAN, HE USED TO TRAVEL TO MALAYSIA, EAST MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE TO MARKET HIS PRODUCTS. HE GAVE US SOME CATALOGUE TO BRING BACK IN CASE WE CAN SELL FOR HIM, HE CAN BE CONTACTED. HE RECOMMENDED SOME INTERESTING SEAFOOD FOR USE, LIKE FISH EGG, SMALL ABALONE, SOME FISH, IT'S NOT COSTLY AS COMPARED TO MALAYSIA. RM60 FOR ONE PIECE OF ABALONE, IT'S FRESH FROM THE SEA. IT'S CHEAPER THAN A BOWL OF PORK NOODLE IN JAPAN. WE WILL NOT KNOW THIS IF WE HAVE NOT MET THIS GUY. I BELIEVE THIS IS THE BLESSING FROM GOD TO US.

WHEN I FEEL WELL, I REALLY ENJOY THE STAY HERE WHEN I FELT SICK, I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GO HOME. LAST NIGHT AS I WAS SUFFERING FROM MY SIDE EFFECT, I JUST FEEL LIKE TELLING KELVIN TO PACK & GO HOME. IT WAS VERY HOME SICK WHEN I AM NOT WELL. BUT IT WAS A BLESSING TODAY I FELT SO GOOD AND EVEN NOW, I JUST FEEL TIRED & SLEEPY.

TOMORROW I HAVE AN EXCITING PLAN AGAIN, MY FRIEND SACHIKO WILL PICK US AT OUR HOTEL TO ATTEND A CHRISTMAS PARY AT HER CHURCH. IF I FEEL WELL AGAIN SHE PROMISE TO DRIVE ME AROUND FOR SIGHT SEEING.

I JUST WANT TO PRAY FOR GOD TO PROVIDE GOOD WEATHER AGAIN TOMORROW GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO WALK AROUND IN GOOD HEALTH CONDITION.

Last day of my Tomotherapy treatment

Dear friends & relatives,

Finally this is the 5th day of my tomotherapy treatment, I felt relief and with a little fear I have to move on to the 2nd treatment on 20th, that will be needle treatment. I don't want to think about it now but will pray & ask Lord to prepare my heart on that day.

Yesterday I had a good time at my friend (Sachiko)'s house, I have cooked the ABC soup, stew pork, grill fish & some crab. We bought so much of things just cost us RM120, we can cook a meal for 4 adults & 3 children, it's very cheap to cook, also we could get fresh food.

Tomorrow I will sleep & rest, 18th will be attending Christmas party at Sachiko's Church. We will get to see how Japanese celebrate Christmas here in Chiba. We were also invited by Chapel Church in Tokyo for their Christmas party on 23rd. It's seasoning time, celebration every where, but over they do not have much decoration as we have in M'sia or Singapore. We don't really feel the Christmas atmosphere in Japan.

I will continue to update as frequent as I could.

Treatment - 2nd day

Second day is over, it was not as bad as yesterday. May be I had a good rest yesterday, my treatment started late at 2pm, everything went smoothly and I did not had any side effect today. I feel like taking a walk with the sunny, cozy weather, we decided to walk to take a train that saved us RM100. The train ride is just one station away, 130 yen (RM5.50). On the way back I found a chinese restaurant that serves fried rice, mixed veg, dumpling and a bowl of noodle, all these only cost us 1450 yen (RM60), the cheapest dinner we ever had so far.

My Japanese friend Sachiko has drove us to the clinic today & she has to leave us there coz' she need to pick up her 2 sons from bus stop at 3:30pm. She always bring with her a 1 year old son, Taichi, very cute and healthy baby, he can eat as much as I eat, 2 pieces of pizza and some noodles. He likes to play with my husband. Tomorrow Sachiko is going bring us to her house to cook dinner, I suggest to cook her some Malaysian dish, she said she like bakut teh but you can't get any herbs here so may be I will cook soya sauce stew port for her and I will cook ABC soup.

So much for now, I will update the fun again tomorrow.