I have a friend, let’s call her C. I have known C for close to 15 years, and we went to the same highschool, and we joined the same club. Nope, she wasn’t my highschool sweetheart or whatsoever. She is 2 years younger than me and she is like a sister to me. So naturally she called me “bro” or something like that.
I still remember vividly that after I went to the States 10 odd years ago, I got a call from a friend and that friend told me that C felt extremely ill. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t walk, and she was having pain everywhere in her body. She was having trouble tying her own shoe-strings and she couldn’t even walk down the stairs. After sending her to the General Hospital in KL, and the very best hospital in Singapore, all those dumbfuck doctors can’t even tell her parents what went wrong and what kind of disease she contracted. No answer at all. Their best guess is that she has joint-problems.
She took off from school for few weeks, but with her strong will, she stayed put even though it was draining her energy rather quickly. She even attended the SPM exam and scored 6A’s. I was really proud of her, and during this difficult time, I had known her parents rather well and her parents love me like their own son. I went to C’s place a few times and her parents made me the VIP, always treating me to nice restaurant, asking me to stay overnight and all that. When I first came back to Malaysia few years ago, her parents actually wanted to travel few hours to my place to meet up with me. Ah the good folks…
(Ok, some of you might think that its only 6A’s. Let’s put aside the fact that she was so ill that she couldn’t even sit up to study. The standards nowadays are like comparing who got the biggest dick. Those students are scoring 15A’s or 16A’s, and I can foresee that one day they will score 21A’s. But please be reasonable and realistic. The education standard has dropped so much so that all dickhead can score at least 1A or better. So what is 16A’s? Let’s not get into that…)
After highschool, and spending a few years struggling to regain her strength and with her own will, she managed to overcome the difficulties. She still has problems walking, and she has to decend the stairs sideway and a handrail is a must. She can’t sit too long because it will be very painful for her back, and she is always cheerful about things. But I do know that sometimes at night, she will cry quietly in her bedroom because it was really difficult for her to go on.
But go on she did. Despite her father’s strong objections, she moved to KL, found a job and worked really hard. She doesn’t want to feel cripple and she wants to be independent. Later on, she became an insurance agent and worked really hard. She managed to buy a new car, so you can imagine the difficulties that she went through.
After being so difficult for the past 10 years, and trying very hard to keep her chins up and be charmful, she has been hit again last week.
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and she will need an operation next week. From what I know, her body is still very weak and it might be difficult for her to take this heavy load on her body, but she has no choice but to go through the operation to remove it. She is packing and getting ready for the operation next week.
She’s a happy lot, and she has been working very hard to live the life she wants. She tried very hard to be happy even though her whole body is aching all the time, and she went through crazy times because of her illness, she was having problems securing any jobs since those fucking employees discriminated her. (And she says, “Ah its ok. They just don’t know what they had just missed.”)
Yet, when her live is getting calm and steady, the bad news will always surface. Why is it that she has to suffer so much? Why is it being so unfair to her? She’s only at a tender age of 28, and yet she has to go through all the pain, all the difficulties.
Anyway, I am going to pack as well to visit her next week after her operation in Melaka.
Keep your head up, C. The unfairness will not defeat you. I will be at your side whenever you need me.
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