Significant change

Significant change

Normally people will only change after something significant happen in their lives.

On the 24th of October 2009, I received a call from an unknown person asking for Mr. Kong. My very first instinct was to just say that the unknown person got the wrong number. He hesitated and said “but its Mr. Kong’s house number, he saved it in his phone.” I stopped for a second and thought, shit it’s my own uncle. (No one calls my uncle Mr. Kong but uses another name instead)

I told him directly that he wasn’t at home.

He paused of a moment, taking a deep breath, saying, “yes I know, he is in HUKM right now, inside the emergency room.”

I felt frozen for a while, but kept calm and asked for more details like what happen and all. Straight after the phone call, I gave my aunt a ring, woke my mother up and accidently woke my grandmother up and called my brother, he did manage to reach HUKM too.

So I’m just going to cut the story short, what happened was he fell off a bike due to high blood pressure causing him to faint. He had our dog (Nana) with him while riding. (the dog was lost and don’t ask)

So let’s fast forward all this, he came out of the emergency room and all, was stable and all but had some brain damages.

After coming out of the hospital, he was abnormal, abnormal in what sense? He became a kid. Like a real kid, he asked for 100 plus and if he couldn’t get it, he would throw a tantrum. He would watch cartoons all day, his speech does not make sense most of the time.

But luckily, after a week, after the blood clots in his brains have gone, he was slightly normal, still he couldn’t walk properly. During this time, I could see my aunt, putting all her love, all her time, just to care about him. My mum, my grandmother and even my maid, took extra attention to care for him.

He was touched, he was seriously touched, although he acted like a kid, but he knows who was there for him when he was at the verge of dying. He appreciated all the love, and now my uncle, is a brand new person.

He never said a word most of the time, he was really very cool in a lot of ways. He never treated us like a family, he was doing his own things, not much time into family, I never heard of him mentioning my cousin (his son), but all this has changed.

This incident made me feel the same too, I’m also like him, I do my own things, I hardly spend much time with the family, but after seeing all this, it touched my heart too. Seriously, if we were in deep troubles and times like this, who would be there for you? It’s only your family. Appreciate them, don’t regret later.