hello everyone i am back from the camp. i am very happy to finish the camp on a high, but right now i am not going to blog about the camp. i am going to blog about wat happened to my mum, which is a very very sad case.
so when i reach home, this is wat i noe:
my mum went to do cataract surgery on 14th may, which i was not able to accompany her because i was still at the outdoor camp.
she did the cataract surgery at cgh, and did the right eye first. operating on a eye cost 2900 bucks, inclusive of removing the cataract, correcting her short-sightedness, astimagtism and 老花眼. unfortunately, the operation failed. the cataract was removed, her short-sightedness was corrected, but her astimagtism and 老花眼 were not corrected.
and the next surgery on her left eye will be on 28 may.
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ok after hearing all these, i got two questions.
1) how come my mum did the surgery on 14 may, and she can only do the next surgery two weeks later? which means she must survive with only one perfect-eyesight eye for two weeks??
2) so since the operation on her right eye failed, there is no point in correcting the astimagtism and 老花眼 on the left eye, cos there will be an inbalance, so there is not a need to pay the full 2900 bucks, agree? make sense?
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so these are the answers that i got from my mum:
1) apparently the next available surgery can only be done on 28 may at cgh. however if want to do the surgery at an earlier date, can do on 19 may at sgh. but the post-surgery evaluation must also be done at sgh.
2) the doctor say still must pay the full 2900 bucks, because of some policy issue. and here is the super ultimate part. the doctor tell my mum that she herself (the doctor is a she) is very confused about the policy issues, cos policy keep changing and changing, and she tell my mum not to say this to anyone, because alot of problems will arise.
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so at this point of time i am getting very angry already. is so obvious that something is wrong with the doctor. so i probe for more answers from my mum.
and here are some more happenings before the operation:
my mum had some surgery on her right eye before, which left a scar on the right eye. when my mum went to cgh for pre-evaluation, that female doctor say because of the scar, she is not too sure whether the operation will be a success. so the female doctor ask my mum to go sgh to do a check-up on the right eye, because only sgh have the appropriate equipment to do the check-up.
so my mum went to do the check-up at sgh. the next day, the female doctor called my mum. and my mum told me that during the phone conversation, the female doctor say can do the surgery for my mum.
and this is the most important thing: the female doctor nv tell my mum about percentage of success for the operation. the female doctor nv warn my mum that if she do the operation, there is a possibility that astimagtism and 老花眼 wun be corrected.
and that's why my mum went to do the operation, and it turned out that the operation was a failure.
so when my mum went to do the post-surgery evaluation, she ask the female doctor how come her astimagtism and 老花眼 not corrected.
and this is wat the doctor said to my mum:"我有跟你肯定说我可以做得到你的闪光跟老花吗?"
ok after hearing the above, my blood is boiling already. but i shall still remain cool and talk to the doctor tomorrow in a calm manner. wat i heard so far is my mum's version of the story, so i shall listen to the doctor's version of the story.
tomorrow i am going to call the female doctor and demand an explanation. i only got tomorrow to settle this because i am leaving for taiwan on tuesday morning. i hope can settle everything tomorrow if not i will go to taiwan with a heavy heart.
i am really really praying that my mum will tide through this crisis, and her eyes will be fine. just now i cried in front of her, because of the sad and sorry plight she is in right now. she refuse to put on the eye patch over her left eye, cos she think is very 搞味. imagine ur right eye has perfect eyesight, and your left eye has a degree of 1000 degrees. yes i imagine wat she is going through right now and i really cant help but feel sad for her.
