My Strong Yonger Sister

Annie is my younger sister. She is two years old younger than me. However, most of the time, she turns out to be more matured and stronger than I am.

Like during the past several weeks, my father was hopspitalized due to serious cellulitis, diabetes, and sort of hypertension. He underwent three surgery, one of which is amputation. There are only Father, Mother, me, and Annie in our family, and now I study in Canada. Both Annie and Mother have full time job, accountant in an accounting company and restaurant accountant, respectively. Since Father was hospitalized, both of them have to take turns to take care of Father in hospital, which also means that both of them need to take days-off from company frequently recently. During the past several years, quarrels between Mather and Father were of high frequency, which is too complicated a thing that I don't want to talk now. Due to the past dispute and lack of money, Mother needs to work and is not willing to take too many days-off to take care of Father, which leaves two-thirds (maybe) of responsibility of taking care of Father to Annie. I don't blame any of them, for I am the one who should be blamed most, since I am abroad and cannot take even a look at Father.

Seems too detailed concerning the whole situation. Anyway, I just want to say thank you to all my family menmbers and God. At the same time, I also want to let you know how strong my Annie is. Very often when we two go window shopping and encountered with some friends, they regard Annie as elder sister and me as younger one. Annie is good at taking care of others, though sometimes she is really unwilling to do so. However, she is really nice, tender, and thoughtful. She cares everyone but herself.

So I, as her elder sister, will protect her, forever and ever.

Amputation the Result

So it is, the amputation.

Don't know what to respond when hearing such bad news from Mom, for I was totally blank then. They didn't tell me before the amputation, which, I suppose, was because they didn't want me to worry about it. Several days ago when I lain on the bed and prepared to sleep, all of sudden I thought of Father, who was amputated then. How would he feel when he realized the amputation is unavoidable? How will he feel when he is faced with being physically-challenged? How to habdle the daily routines that used to be a piece of cake to him?

I tried to put myself in Father's shoes, discovering that I had little tears in my eyes.

Don't know what to say about such result. Were it be checked and treated by docotors earlier, maybe things would have been different. Were it not for the stubbornness and superstition deep-rooted in Father's mind, were it not for the timely care we family members can provide with, how different the result we can expect?

Whatever, it is too late to regret. ALL I HOPE is that all of us can learn from so pricey a lesson.

Hope to Get Better Soon

My father was sick and now stays in hospital. According to doctors' check, it's diabetes, serious cellulitis, and a little hypertension. He underwent surgery that cleaned his wound several days ago. However, he will undergo another surgery these days for the doctor said the wound (of cellulitis) is so serious that the second treatment is needed. If the second surgey still cannot get rid of the pustule from Father's wound, then an amputation surgery is likely needed...

Hope everything will be fine with my father. (though our relationship is not good...)

Hope Mother and younger sister can be fine as well. Both of them must be exhausted recently, for they have to take care of Father and their job at the same time, which is never easy for common people, not to mention their job is full-time and they are all females. I'm really sorry for not being able to help even a little...

Also hope that I can catch up with the scheduled progress quickly. It's October now and mid of the term. I promise to start with my final thesis and project during this month, but so far it turned out to be a huge lag for me. How to design the learning tool? How to build a social-learning website with Dreamweaver? How to write the thesis? Why am I so serious a procrastinator?

Hope everything will get BETTER SOON.

Do not hesitate and stop complaining, for you don't have the luxury.

Well, then, just GO FOR IT.