Did life give me a second chance?

Did life give me a second chance?

Life is indeed very strange. When I wrote about health-rich is more important than cash-rich in my last blog, I was of course not in real actual position/situations of those truly sick people and will most probably never know how it really feels to be truly sick.

Well, I had a sort of those possible near-miss life and death/coma/paralysed situation just recently. It just happened unexpectedly out of the blue.

A supposed-to-be romantic two-day one-night stay trip to this exclusive

Swiss-Garden Beach Resort Damai Laut at Lumut for yours truly and my spouse instead turned up to be a night stay at Pantai Hospital some distance away.

An evening walk around the resort's pool side around 7.00 pm evening seemed a pleasant and harmless one for us. Unfortunately I had a slip on  the concrete staircase and landed surprisingly in a perfect buttock sitting position.

Although both my arms were slightly injured, I got up and started to feel giddy moments later. Then I told my wife I needed to sit down as the giddiness was becoming too much for me.

Then I passed out. (But I still remembered those split seconds before I passed out, my vision just simply shrank into total darkness. There were no feeling of any pain at all).

Sensing I had passed out, my wife ran to seek help. But miraculously, I somehow regained back my consciousness and found myself alone sitting on the staircase. I was beginning to sweat profusely in my whole body.

When my spouse came back with some nearby people, she was relieved to see me conscious again. Later, officials and the resort's security guards came and I was wheel chaired to the spacious airy lobby where I was able to calm down and relax back as much as possible.

As I am on medication for hypertension (actually well-controlled prior to this trip), there were fears that I might be on the verge of a possible heart attack or an early sign of stroke).

I decided to stay for a night observation at Pantai Hospital Manjung where an ECG and a blood test showed my heart beat is normal and my blood did not show any sign of heart attack. Well, it was such a relief in the end.

There were several deep thoughts that I must share after this incident.

What if I passed out and did not regain back my consciousness?

One never knows unless one has the rare opportunity like yours truly to experience it. What caused a person to pass out? Most probably it is due to lack of oxygen supply to the brain. If this is the cause, then this is actually very frightening indeed because the person could be clinically dead if no urgent CPR is performed.

Even if the person somehow regains back his consciousness after CPR is performed, there is no telling if he can be back to his normal self again. His brain could be damaged and cause the person to suffer a stroke.

Yours truly thanked God for giving me a chance to regain back my consciousness. Perhaps it is due to my good karma for always helping those many snails crossing the walkway to safety in our gated apartments for many years.

Experiencing the tremendous kindness and concern of people you don't know at all

This near-miss trip also gave me a valuable opportunity to experience the kindness and concern of those people who came to my side to check on my condition and offering some life-saving advices in case of an early sign of mild stroke or possible heart attack.

There were a family of four elderly diners at the nearby Thai Restaurants who rushed to my side thus having their enjoyable Thai cuisines dinner interrupted. 

The resort's management and staff who were with me right from that moment till I was eventually driven to the hospital. The extended check out time when I finally came back from the hospital the next day after discharged to pack my belongings. The Front Office Manager on duty, Mr Vikneswaran who was assisting me on that evening and even checking on my condition during my check out period to ensure I was fit enough to drive back home to Penang. I say thank you so much to each and everyone of you deeply from the bottom of my heart.

Also I must thank the two burly sized Nepalese security guards who helped me with their mighty strengths to carefully push me back to the lobby from the side pool. Not only that, one of them even used his sort of cowboy hat to fan me strongly to let me create real strong cool wind for me during my non stop sweating moment. I really don't know their names, but I hope management of Swiss Damar Laut took note of their very unselfish efforts for me. It gave me a lot of confidence with their presence around.

Did I get a second chance in life?

I shall never know if ever life gave me a second chance or not? But I shudder to think if it did not. You would not be needing to tab into kassimsblogspot any more for the latest blogs.

As such, I would rather see it as a very grateful act from God. I would see life from a very different and bigger perspective from now onwards.

I would even treat my investment in Bursa Malaysia as just as another appendage to my new lease of life.

Suddenly it feels so good to be waking up in the morning again to enjoy all those simple regular daily activities in life. And to communicate/interact with our those loved ones, friends and even strangers as well.

Do appreciate your life now and live everyday in a significant and meaningful way.