The current cndition of Abu Aman's eyes (left and right).
His vision has been impaired
It was on the 9th July, 2007 that i was referred
to the eye clinic at the Serdang Hospital. When the dateline came excitedly I presented myself at the
clinic. i arrived very early thinking that if I would have arrived late I would
be faced with parking problem. So, you can see that now. At every clinic and
hospital we are facing this problem or car parking. I think Malaysians are a
very sickly population.
After
much ado and procedures, I was inspected by a very pretty young budding optometristologist.
As usual she scanned and checked both my eyes. Finally this was what the pretty
lady had to tell me.
She said, " Pakcik, there is bleeding in
your right eye. You've to watch your intake of carbohydrates, otherwise very
soon you 'll go blind." So blunt was
she that I softly told myself, “Ya Allah
habislah aku. The news the doctor broke to me was a terrible blow to me. i was blinded.
I spent
the whole day at Serdang Hospital. That's how long I took to be given this
bombshell by the young pretty doctor. I left the Serdang Hospital at almost
4.30 in the evening, driving with my vision very blurred towards home. Had it
not that I was familiar with the road to my house, I would have gone astray and
ended up I do not know where. The blurred vision was the after effects of
various lotions and eye drops administered into your eyes.
When I
arrived home safely, thank God the Almighty, i sadly told my wife about what
the young doctor said. Very comfortingly my wife told me to go for a second
opinion.
“Thank you darling,” I told her. “I'll just do
that!”
So, on 29th
July, 2007, i went to see Dato' Dr. Mohd Shukri, at the Shukri and Hardeep Eye
specialist Centre, at Jalan Ipoh. Dr. Shukri was the Surgeon who did an implant
operation on my retarded daughter some years ago, for her cataract. After going
through all the necessary checking, inspecting, photographing, scanning and
testing, then came the delivery of the final findings. In his findings Dr.
Shukri concluded that there was no bleeding, contrary to that of the young
pretty doctor.
Cikgu Aman Bachik ketika menghadiri REUNI Alumni TBSST 1 Mei 2012yang lalu di Kedai Kopi, Shah Alam.. Beliu kelihatn sedang bersembang dengan MZMY dan alumni wanita TBS. (Perhatian: Atas sebab-sebab tertentu surat Dr. Syukri tidak dapat disertakan dalam posting ini).
Nevertheless, Dr. Shukri said there was a damage especially in
the right eye due to what he termed as diabetic
maculopathy. In simple terms, it means that the retina of my right eye had been
scarred by a burst of the nerves as an after result of long diabetic malignant.
The fluid that came out of the burst caused the scar. And it was this scar that
blocked the vision. This misfortune must be addressed immediately, through an
Argon Laser Treatment, as advised by Dato'.
Since Dr.
Syukri's Clinic was not equipped with this facility, I was then referred to
another opthalmologist, a consultant. i was referred to Dr. Barkeh Hanim bt
Dato' Jumaat, daughter of former Director General of Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka,
at the Pusat Rawatan Islam, in front of the IJN, located near Bangunan Persatun
Sejarah Malaysia
So to
Pusrawi I went to seek for another treatment. Sure enough, both my eyes were given
laser treatment. Both the eyes were malignant. I visited Dr. Barkeh at Pusrawi for a couple of years until 2008. I
knew through reading the Pusrawi's pamphlets that Dr Barkeh was a visiting
opthalmologist there. So I asked her where her main clinic was. She told me
that hers was at The Eye Specialist Centre , at Mid Valley City. After getting her
consent to see her at her own clinic, I became her patient until today.
After these years of consultation and treatment
by Dr.Barkeh, I had gone through a series of operations and treatments, such as
injection of medicine into the eyes for retinal
maculation treatment, eye laser, eye cataract and eye glucoma operations, plus
the myriad eye lotions and eye drops. Until now, this precious eyes of mine
have devoured almost, or probably more than 20k of our savings. I chose to go
private for this pair 0f invaluable eyes because of the terrible waiting experience
at the Serdang Hospital eye clinic, . After all, the other medical needs of
mine are being taken care of by the God-blessed BN Government.
Despite all the treatments and operations, the
damaged eyes devastated by diabetes, could not be revived as compared to the
original given by the Almighty Allah. So there goes Abu Aman till
the rest of his life with 1.5 eyes. The
vision of the left eye is full 100 per cent, but the vision of the right is left
with only 0.5 per cent. If I cover the
left eye I could barely walk. Nevertheless, syukur Alhamdulillah, the vision of
the left eye is still good. Thank You, Allah.
Life with 1.5-eye is quite frustrating. When you
want to reach for something, and you think you've reached the object, you in
actual fact have not. You seem to be probing. If an onlooker looks at you he's
sure to think that you are blind.
Another problem is if I try to reach for
something, for instance an object nearby. You think you'll not braise it but there
it is you would have knocked down that nearby object first. Why does this
happen? I think the eyes ' vision is now impaired. It is no longer synchronized.
When I
have a poor vision I often blame the eyes. Little do I remember that I have now
only a 1.05 per cent vision. aab 1245 -
1323.........24092012.
