THE FINAL CHAPTER : A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY (Sept 2009 to Jan 2010)
At the Grotto of Our Immaculate Conception, in Lourdes
Daniel (14+ years old) (Tuesday 15/9/2009)
Day 6 in Lourdes …
4th day in Hospital (Pao) (late evening) ...
"There are multiple lesions here,"the doctor said.
There was no easy way for him to give Dad and Mom that shocking news. Darkness fell heavily over the whole room that instant. Your mother found her world literally crumbled to pieces.
In writing this entry, she does not want to relieve that moment, and will be brief.
Multiples?
The doctor in Lourdes Hospital said there were two.
Only two.
Suddenly, two did not seem so bad.
But multiples?
Her heart cried out with the anguish only mothers can understand.
My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?
She was at her lowest, her very lowest.
She could not have gone any lower even if she tried. Her whole world had collapsed. She felt like she were reliving Tracy's experience again.
Tracy, being your 23 year old aunt who died overseas, from an aggressive metastasis that caused multiple tumors to appear "all over including the brain."
Your young aunt had died in a hospital at the border of Mexico. Mom and Grandma brought her ashes back to Malaysia for burial.
It was at that heart-wrenching moment that a sick realization eerily crept into your mother's veins, and left her horribly stumped and cold.
You were basking in the sun at Mother Mary's territory in Lourdes.
