妈妈在医院等我。。。 Mum is waiting for me in the hospital…

姐姐的简讯说：“妈妈问为什么义忠没来。。。”，我倍感内疚。。。
真的，有时候我们会太忙碌而忽略了真正需要我们的人。。。

星期六还在吉隆坡时，接到消息说妈妈在家乡林梦跌倒了。。。她凌晨一点半上厕所摔倒，脚骨断了，没力气起来与喊叫，可怜的她就忍痛坐在厕所的地上到凌晨六点才被亲戚发现。。。
因林梦是小地方，没办法为妈妈开刀把骨头接回去，又要坐救护车四个小时到最靠近的美里动手术。。。

起初我以为她是昏迷了，所以没有人发现，后来知道她是脚断了，人还清醒，就比较放心。。。
但因没生命危险，所以我没有从吉隆坡赶回东马，就照着原本的行程星期日才回去。。。但我是回到古晋，不是妈妈被送往的美里。

二姐礼拜一飞过去代替三姐在医院照顾妈。
妈在礼拜天早上动了好几个小时的手术，礼拜一她还可以边被人扶、边学习用拐杖慢慢行走，可是今天姐说她上吐下泻，无法吃喝，人非常虚弱。。。然后问说“义忠在哪？为什么没来看我？”。。。
我听了很心酸，心里很自责，我不该因忙碌而忽略年纪老迈母亲的需要和感受！再加上我今天教导的查经课中还提到提摩太前书5章8节的：“人若不看顾亲属，就是背了真道，比不信的人还不好。不看顾自己家里的人更是如此。”

所以一读完姐姐的简讯我就马上买了机票，一定要去看妈妈。。。
今天中午会乘搭一个小时的飞机到美里探望妈妈，要不然我再厉害教导也都是假的。。。
希望我的出现能让她心情大好，情况也加速进步！请为我妈祷告吧，谢谢。。。

My sister’s text message read: “Mum asked why isn’t GT here…”, I felt really guilty…
Really, sometimes we can really neglect the people who really need us due to our busy-ness…

While I was still in KL on Saturday, I received news that mum had a bad fall in our hometown Limbang… She went to the toilet at about 1:30am and fell down in the toilet and broke her leg or hip bone, she was too weak to get up or scream for help, so she sat there suffering the pain on the toilet floor till about 6am when my relative discovered her…
Because Limbang is a small town, they do not have the facility to operate on her, so she had to travel about four hours in an ambulance to the nearest Miri…

Initially I thought she was unconscious, that was why no one knew, but when I heard it was her leg that was broken and she was still conscious, I felt more relieved…
But because it was not life-endangering, I did not fly back immediately from KL to East Malaysia, I stayed with my initial schedule of flying back on Sunday… but that was to Kuching, not Miri where mum was sent…

My second sister flew over on Monday to replace my third sister in taking care of mum.
Mum went through a few hours’ operation on Sunday morning, and on Monday she was able to learn to walk with her walking stick supported by others; but today my sister said she suffers from severe vomitting and diarrhoea till she is very weak and not able to eat or drink… and she asked “where is Gee Tiong? Why isn’t he coming to see me?”…
I felt really bad and ashamed, I should not have neglected my elderly mother’s needs and feelings due to my busy-ness! Furthermore my Bible-teaching today mentioned 1Timothy 5:8 “If anyone does not provide/care for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

So after reading my sister’s message, I bought the air ticket immediately, I must go and see mum…
I will be flying the one-hour flight to Miri this afternoon to visit mum, otherwise no matter how good I am at teaching, it will be all meaningless…

May my appearance lift her spirit and her condition greatly improve! Do pray for my mum, thank you…