Archive for Testimony
{ March 10, 2010 @ 7:49 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Personal, Religion, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Exams, Faith, God, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
Have you become totally impatient with yourself? I have heard even the strongest Christians cry in utter frustration, “What’s wrong? I’m supposed to be a ‘new creation’ in Christ, but nothing seems to be changing. It’s the same old me!”
You may spend wakeful nights, feeling you can’t possibly measure up to God’s expectations of you, but put your mind to rest. Realize that spiritual growth is a process; sometimes a long process. Genuine maturity does not happen overnight.
The following Scripture, with which you may be very familiar, offers some helpful insights: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV). In the original language the full meaning is that old things are in the process of passing away; behold, all things are in the process of becoming new.
This refers directly to your life. What God is telling you is that all things in your soul and your innermost being are in the process of being transformed in and through His Life!
Don’t be impatient. Don’t be frustrated with yourself when progress doesn’t come as quickly as you’d like. You aren’t failing God. In His time He will complete a work in you that far exceeds what you could ever imagine or believe!
{ March 5, 2010 @ 7:07 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Housemanship, Medical studies, Personal, Religion, Testimony }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christianity, Faith, Faithfulness, HO, Hospital, House Calls, Houseman, Life, Medicine, Religion, Spiritual Life, Trials } · { }
If you were to look outside on a dark, stormy day, would you think the sun had disappeared, just because you couldn’t see it? Of course not.
Yet, some of you may be beside yourselves tonight because you’ve failed the Lord so badly you can’t imagine Him still being faithful to you. “After all,” you reason, “we reap what we sow. I’ve hit hard times and haven’t sown anything, so I guess I can’t expect anything from the Lord. I don’t know if I’ll ever pull out of this rut.”
But, as valid as God’s principle of reaping and sowing is, there’s another part of His Word, even more powerful, which says, “If we are faithless…He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself…He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you” (II Timothy 2:13 and Isaiah 30:19, AMP).
So, tonight, rest securely in the knowledge that there is nothing you can do to diminish His faithfulness to you, even if you haven’t been faithful to Him! Believe that He will be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it He will answer you! He understands the circumstances of your life and wants to help you draw close to Him again!
{ January 28, 2010 @ 10:31 pm }
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{ Academics, Faith, Hospital, Housemanship, Medicine, Personal, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Faith, God, HO, Hospital, Houseman, Malaysia, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Testimony } · { }
I was oncall last 2 days. Tat was an eventful call, cuz i oncall with a ‘Jonah’ MO. That was this patient, referred from a peripheral hospital. 60 year old malay lady, known case of diabetes melitus, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure and chronic kidney disease. She complain of right abdominal pain with vomiting and diarrhea. The working diagnosis was, 1) Sepsis secondary to ? source, TRO Pneumonia, 2) Acute kidney injury on chronic kidney disease, 3) Underlying DM, HPT, Chronic kidney disease, Congestive Cardiac Failure. She was having spiking temperature with urea about 44.0 and ABG of metabolic acidosis.
Patient was attended by MO oncall in A&E. He then call me thru the ward and asked me to trace the PT/INR and then to do a Peritoneal Dialysis(PD) for this patient after reviewing the PT/INR. PT/INR results came back normal and I was requested to PD this patient.
So then I did the PD for this patient. I inserted the PD cathether into her abdomen. She complain of abdominal pain. Managed to run in 1 litre of hypertonic fluid. But when I tried the outflow, initially came out clear fluid, but then came out about 50-100cc of turbid, yellowish fluid with some whitish material. Being afraid of perforating her bowel, I quickly alerted the MO oncall.
MO came and see this patient. After looking at the PD fluid, he said ‘Its shit!!! And U r in deep shit!!!’ Then he said ‘Initially we planned this patient for maximum medical management, but now that u have perforated her bowels, we have to HD this patient!!!’ Now that he has tonnes of work to do, he was kinda irritated with wat I has done.
We then referred this patient to surgical, TRO Perforated viscus. Also refer to GA for Haemodialysis via femoral catheter. I got myself into writing referral the referral letters.
The following day, the surgical team came to review this patient, their impression was, TRO perforated viscua. They then planned this patient for exploratory laparotomy. Patient’s condition was optimised and then she went for exploratory laparotomy.
But, thanks to God’s wondrous grace. Post op diagnosis was appendicular abscess and pus collection over right illiac fossa. Bowel was normal!!! Patient was actually having sepsis secondary to appendicular abscess. and the turbid yellow fluid during my PD insertion was the pus discharge from the appendicular abscess.
I dunno whether I will be requested to present a morbidity review on this. But Im glad that, my so-called ‘Traumatic PD’ lead to the correct diagnosis. She is currently in ICU. Pray that she will walk out healthy….
{ January 23, 2010 @ 7:58 pm }
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{ Hospital, Housemanship, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Faith, HO, Houseman, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Spiritual Life } · { }
Maximum medical management! This is a word that is not rare. I wonder who created this term. Some patients admitted with severely ill condition, sometimes our boss will say ‘This patient is for maximum medical management’. It simply means that patient is not for active resuscication should he ever collapse. For this group of unfortunate patients, should they ever collapse, we still resuscitate them. But we don’t intubate them. Mostly, its grave prognosis.
Usually its the elderly, known case of carcinoma and with multiple illness will be in the group ‘maximum medical management’. But the word maximum medical management means maximum. So their management should be maximized. Sometimes I noticed, their management is not maximized. Kinda disappointing….
Just finished my evening rounds. Here, we housemans do our rounds twice a day including saturday and sunday, which is actually good for patients, but not good for us. Cuz we dont get weekends off. Actually they shud just allow us to do rounds once a day on weekends. I tot of suggesting tis to Boss, but who am I. Im just the ‘know-nothing’ houseman. Boss surely gonna shut me off and give me a piece of her mind… Hahaha! Nevermind, take it as something tat is beneficial for our patients…
{ January 18, 2010 @ 10:31 pm }
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{ Hospital, Housemanship, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Testimony, University }
{ Tags: Blogs, Campus Life, Exams, HO, Hospital, Houseman, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Spiritual Life, Testimony, USM } · { }
Surviving as houseman simply means surviving our mistakes. Lets admit it, no one is perfect. But, when we see a dr for treatment, we expect perfect treatment. Of course, because it involves our life.
But, the fact is, doctors also make mistakes. Commonly most of a doctor’s mistakes will be during his/her housemanship days. In this department, when our seniors found out our mistakes, they will come after us like a hungry lions. So if one of us makes a mistake, we will be in deep ‘misery’. One of my colleagues even slept in the hospital room, even she wasnt oncall. Cause she was too worried that she might make any mistakes. She change her ward shortly after that. Cant blame her oso, cuz the MO in charge of that particular ward has too high expectation on HO. Man… I hope they dun post me in that particular ward. All the patients inside there were unstable and can collapse anytime.
I remembered how I made a big mistake during my final year pro exam. In the long case, I made a wrong diagnosis. It almost cost me that whole exam. By God’s grace, I narrowly passed my Pro 3 exam. I was so worried that I didnt even went to hear the result announcement… If I didnt make it during that Pro exam, I may have not started my housemanship yet, and the little one in my family may have not started his therapy yet. Although we are still struggling with him now, but still I thank God, at least now after I started working, our family has started to move somewhere…
Its so so late dy, and I need to get an early sleep again. Hopefully I get a ‘bedsore’ call this wednesday….
{ February 16, 2009 @ 12:42 pm }
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{ Faith, Personal, Sports, Testimony, University }
{ Tags: Archery, Athlete, Blogs, Campus, Campus Life, Faith, God, Murni Nurani, Sports, Sukad, Testimony, University } · { }
It’s been some time since I last posted a blog here. Very much ‘distracted’ by many things. After losing badly in SUKAD Squash few months back, I started playing archery. With Julian as the coach, and my 2 brothers as teammate, Alex and Arvind, we started training way back 3 months ago. I know I’m taking a big risk, cause by doing this, I will have less time in studies. But I really wanna try this last opportunity to glorify God in sports. Age is catching up with me, so does time. Archery was my last shot to get a gold in SUKAD. After this, I will ‘officially’ retired from competitive sports. No more intensive training after this. Just as the bible says in 1 Corinthians 9: 24-25, “Do you know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.”
The crown that athletes won in sport is a crown that will not last. Somehow, someday, they will be beaten or their records broken. But the crown that will last forever is the crown of our personal relationship with Jesus. We live a life that glorify God, that’s the crown that last forever. That’s why in sports, we give glory to God when we win.
Our training wasn’t an easy one. It was really a strenuous time. We shot arrows everyday except when it was raining, starting around 4.30pm till around 7pm. On weekends, we trained in the morning and evenings. And most of time, especially in the mornings, I go knocking on Arvind’s door. He will show his sleepy face, opening the door. Then after a few weeks, there come the raining season for about 1-2 months. During that period, I went to district hospital, Hospital Pasir Mas for 3 weeks.
Sometimes our training was fun, all those kutuk-mengutuk and gurau-bergurau between me, Alex and Arvind was hilarious. We used to joke, saying to Arvind, ‘If he hits the bullseye, Lynn will fall in love with him.’ Hahaha! Through this hard but fun training, I develop a bonding with Alex and Arvind.:-)
Came back from district hospital in the early January, we continue our intensive training for 2 weeks before we depart to USM Main Campus together with the female team. My family prayed for me and Im very happy that my dad owiz support my course and struggle in university. Many friends sms me encouraging messages, I was very touched.:-)
We prayed together before we go for each competition. The archery competition in Penang was eventful, we leads both events, 20m and 30m,winning the gold. The women team also got gold. This is my 1st gold won in USM, an unforgettable memory.
Gold medalist
{ December 12, 2008 @ 10:29 am }
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{ CF, Christianity, Faith, Religion, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Campus, Cell Group, Christian Fellowship, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony, USM, USMKK } · { }
Testimony by T. W. Hao
I was born into a Christian family. Everybody assumed I was a well-behaved child. But this is not true until I believe and accepted Christ. Since kindergarden I was a very very rebellious child who likes to break the rules. I liked to bully girls and was constantly picking on a fight with the boys. As a consequences, my teacher, frustrated with me, decided to send me away from the ‘excellent’ class as she was worried that I may have a negative influence on the well-behaved children.
Then, I enter into primary school. I started to smoke, gamble, fight, and even steal my parents’ money to buy story books I fancy. I stole books from book exhibitions. My neighbours also thought that my future was gone. By the time I graduated from primary school, my elder sister decided to bring me to church. Initially I was reluctant to attend because I could not stand the boring sermons by the preachers. With my attitude at that time, it was astonishing that I would have the patience to give it another try,but I suspect it was the work of Holy Spirit, that I have the patience for attending the biblical teachings conducted in the church. All of a sudden, I begin to experience a 180 degree change in my life. I became enthusiastic to care and help other people. I do not steal anymore and I even admit my small faults like breaking an egg to my mother. My mother was surprised and touched by the new change in me and encourage me to go to church more often.
However, in secondary school, I became decadent once again. The reason was – all the youth attending at that time were females and I was embarrassed and shy to go to church to mix with them. I was dissatisfied for a few years. Then arrive to the second turning point of my life when I was in matriculation, and my friends invited me to join their Christian gathering, which was conducted weekly. I joined their activities and was again touched by the Holy Spirit. I attended every gathering there and went to church regularly even if the members of the church consists mostly of girls as I do not feel embarrassed in front of them anymore because I know we are brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.
I was baptized 3 years ago, now I am most happy and relaxed when I go to church and I am drawing closer to God day by day. If it wasn’t because of Jesus, I think I will not be here in USMKK. If it wasn’t because of Jesus, I think you would have seen my photo in newspaper photographed as gangster, thief, robber and any other law-breaker. Jesus Christ is the Giver of my life because He turned my life and gave me a new life. How about you, who is your Giver of life?
{ December 1, 2008 @ 7:27 pm }
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{ Testimony }
{ Tags: Challenges, Chicken pox, Christ, Diseases, God, Joseph, Testimony, Trials, Tribulations, USM } · { }
Heartfelt sharing by J. Ding
For most of us, we must have read about Joseph’s story. Basically Joseph was Jacob’s favourite son, because of his brothers’ jealousy towards him; Joseph was then sold as a slave to Egypt and was subsequently bought by Potiphar, the King’s official in charge of the palace guard. There Joseph was put in charge of Potiphar’s house but was sent to prison after Potiphar’s wife failed to seduce Joseph and accused Joseph of rape. In prison, he met the King’s personal servant and chief cook and helped them interpret their dreams. Later, when the King of Egypt had a strange dream, Joseph was brought forth to interpret it and in the end was made Governor of Egypt second only to the Pharaoh.
For us, knowing the ending of Joseph’s story, it is a happy story. However, what if we were in Joseph’s shoes? He faced challenges after challenges. At times when things were looking better, he suddenly found himself to be in a worse state than before.
I recently just recovered from chicken pox. Due to the disease, I was on medical leave for 10 days in my 6 weeks posting in the medical department. During the time I was sick, I had high grade fever, persistent headache, difficulty in swallowing food and vesicles all over my body. I also faced a risk of disfigurement because my face was swollen and covered with pustules. The scars from the pustule of adult onset chicken pox are very deep. But to cut a long story short, I finally recovered and managed to return to USM with minimal disfigurement but to without consequences.
Firstly, my medical leave meant that I missed some important lectures and had to self study them. Second, I was late in handing up my reports and had to do all the work within one week. Third, I missed an exam that I was supposed to have in the medical posting. Luckily, the lecturer allowed the exam to be postponed until I was back in USM. Fourth, I had to sacrifice my holiday with my family planned for the convocation holiday.
With all this misgivings, I was mad at God at first. I asked why this had to happen to me. But later I realized that everything could have gone worse.
Things like diseases and accidents happen without warning. They disrupt our lives, make our routine stress free life chaotic, and give us anxieties and worries. These are the challenges that God throws at us to make us grow up in mind, body and spirit. I believe that God gave Joseph all the challenges in his life so that he could be prepared to become the Governor of Egypt and fulfill his life’s mission of saving his family and people when the severe drought hit Egypt and the surrounding lands.
So friends, do not be despair when u face troubles or challenges, may it be studies, family, relationship. Have faith that God will always be there for you and help you. My motto is ‘I do not know about tomorrow, but I know who holds tomorrow’.
For those who do not know me yet, last year I got dengue fever and was admitted on my 21st birthday. This year, I got chicken pox around the same month. I am eager to know what I will get next year.
{ November 29, 2008 @ 8:28 am }
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{ Testimony }
{ Tags: CF, CFUSMKK, Health Campus, Heart to heart, Kelantan, Kubang Kerian, Testimony, USM, USMKK } · { }
Heart to heart with Asso. Prof. Dr. Phua Kia Kien
The PPK of CF as we call today, was already in existence in May 1986 when I first reported for duty as a lecturer in the department of Chemical Pathology, PPSP. Dr. Low Heng Chin, who joined the Department of Community Medicine in July 1984, had taken over responsibility for a small group of Christians at PPSP in the Penang Campus when Dr. Graham McCall (from the Department of Surgery) was transferred to the Kelantan Branch campus in 1985. The 2 CFs continued to exist as 2 separate groups until June 1990 when the two halfs of the Medical School finally merge to form PPSP as we know it today. Through the encouragement of Graham and Jenny McCall and the perseverance of the Christian student leaders then, the group was first registered as the Persatuan Pelajar Kristian Kubang Kerian (PPK KK) toward the end of 1989, which was also the year the McCalls returned to UK. By the grace of God the group grew in size as Dr. Low and I remain faithful to the calling. With the merging of the 2 halfs of PPSP and the opening up of new courses for diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology (1992) and Nursing (1994), there were more students at the new PPSP complex in Kelantan. Later, it was called the ‘Health Campus’ (HC) when new schools, ie. School of Dental Sciences and School of Health Sciences, were formed in 1998 and 1999, respectively; and with it a rise in the Christian student population.
In its infancy the group was besieged with many problems, but by God’s grace, the CF survived and now stands as a towering witness to the power and wisdom of a might God. As part of the requirements of USM, Dr. Nick Jackson and I were appointed advisors to the CF. This we were willing to do as it would further the cause of the CF. There we serve as conduits for the CF to channel our request to the authorities. We were indeed blessed with facilities and opportunities that allow us to have an impact on the community in the HC. Personally, I felt much blessed by the comradeship of Dr. Nick and Dr. Alison Jackson (Department of Community Medicine). They not only took the burden off my shoulders sharing in the teaching ministry at the CF which Dr. Low’s passion and love for the students had sustained us for 5 years, but also encouraged me by their selfless sacrifices for others. As the population grew, we moved from our home-fellowship meetings to the lecture halls. Sometimes our gatherings were small and sometimes they were large, but we desired above all to meet with the Lord every time we got together. We saw the hand of the Lord in many projects we undertook, inspite of racial polarization problems that broke up in the campus.
In 2003, after 17 years at the CF, I relinquished my duties to Dr. Tee Meng Hun when I took my Sabbatical leave. I felt it was time to pass the baton along to a younger and more suited lecturer – for the responsibility and priviledge! One of my greatest joys as a member of the CF was being able to introduce people to Jesus and to help them discover of rediscover their faith. It has been my blessing to see young people turn to Christ, from a lukewarm heart to one that is full of enthusiasm and love for Him. It is indeed a joy to see people discover their potential to serve the Lord and be willing channels of blessings for others.
Over the years, I have seen many CF members come and go, and many have left behind a legacy of the love and faithfulness of an endearing God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who paved the way for this small group to grow and prosper even in the midst of real challenges. Indeed, many can testify that it is through those trials and tribulations that we grew as a community as remain faithful to the cause of the Gospel Message. To those of you who are new to CF of you have just joined as a student, do rest assured that God has provided the best for you, and you are precisely where you should be at this time of your life. Open your heart to the opportunities and possibilities around you that calls you to be His messenger. For it is in answering this call, to be His ambassador in this campus, that we will most satisfaction. If you have not been going to the CF, may I encourage you to do so, for there you will find enduring friends that will last a life time! Trust me, for I have been there….
{ November 28, 2008 @ 10:01 pm }
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{ Academics, CF, Faith, Testimony, University }
{ Tags: Campus, CF, Christmas, Exam, God, Life, Medic life, Struggle, Testimony, University, USMKK } · { }
Testimony by L. B. Liang
Hi brothers and sisters,
First of all, for those who have never heard of me, I am Lau Bik Liang, a 4th year medical student from Sibu, Sarawak.
Christmas night is coming soon. This is the biggest event for CF. I have been through three meaningful Christmas nights in USMKK that has brought me a lot of good memories.
In my first year, I was so excited about Christmas night that I wished to participate in a lot of performances. However I ended up with only joining choir. Haih… Maybe I really am not a talented person, haha! Never mind, I still enjoyed myself during that Christmas because I found something special about CF – love among brothers and sisters. CF had given me a sense of belonging and we are all like in a big family with lots of care and encouragement from each other. During that time, we spent a lot of time and effort in practicing choir. Despite feeling exhausted, we got support from each other. Besides that, many Christians who seldom turn up for routine CF meeting also came to help for Christmas night. There was a great deal of fellowship among us. It was a warmth Christmas night for me staying so far away from my family
The following year, I was surprised to be asked to take charge of Christmas night choir. In the beginning of our practice, we faced problems like a lack of musicians and song selections. We have a very limited number of musicians as compared to now during that time and most of the musicians were final year students who were very busy in their study. Thus, I feel quite stress at that time. Thanks to the Christmas night committee that year who prayed continuously for these matters and we finally got the musicians. I think God had answered our prayers and that’s why most of our problems were solved. Prayer is great!
Last year’s Christmas was a struggle to me, the most struggling, in fact. I actually felt bored after serving two years in Christmas night. However, David (our previous CF president) came to my room and asked me to become vice president for the Christmas night committee. At first I rejected because of my Pro 2 exam. I wished to focus more on my studies since that was my Pro 2 exam year. Previously we rarely see a Year 3 medical student taking such a heavy job in any CF event. Thus, that discouraged me in taking the position as the vice chairman for Christmas night. The thought of worrying about “others would have a chance to study much more than I do as they continued to stay in their room” had ruminated in my mind. Thank God that in the end, I did agree to become vice president and my results was considered good enough for me to enter my 4th year. Haha! I think this was the first time I struggle to participate in God’s work and I am glad that I had chosen the correct pathway
This coming Christmas, I wish I can continue to involve in the work of God and experience God’s work on me. For those brothers and sisters who still hesitate to help in Christmas night, please hurry to lend a helping hand. I am sure God will make this a special Christmas for you as He had made it for me in the past three years.
May God bless you all!!!
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