“Why me?”
Yes, many things in our lives do make us ask God
this question. But being one of the
three out of a hundred people who will get surgical site infection (SSI) got me
searching for deeper answers. Where
could those bacteria have been lurking and then struck after nearly two months
of healing? Being scrupulously careful with wound hygiene, it just seemed
impossible that we had done something wrong.
Who or what was to blame? It would have been easy to make a case for
complaint. But the mystery of life is
that too many things happen randomly without easy explanations. How could a healthy kiasu patient like me have succumbed? Yet it did happen
despite care and caution. Just
shows that healing is not something doctors have that much control over as we
would like to believe. Somehow I can’t
even be bothered to rant and rave. I can
accept that even with a benevolent God, there will be things that can go wrong
in my life. I may not even understand
why they happen, as has been the case for many things past, but I can still be
at peace taking the bad, together with the many good things that life has
proffered.
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