Actually this story is on April 30 2015. As my promised to my very best friend to take him to Lam Wah Ee Hospital in Penang for consultation regarding his illness.
.. I took leave for 2 days Thursday and Friday. I've told him before that i'll reach Ipoh around 8.00 am - 9.00 am. But on the present day i only reached Ipoh to fetch him at 10.00 am because i need to settle something important at home in Taiping.
Once I reached there he and his parents still do the preparation and packing the things that need to bring together. I help them to make sure nothings left especially the medicines.
We depart from Ipoh around 10.45 am and straight away drove to Penang it takes almost 2 1/2 hours. Our journey to Penang goes smoothly.
But After we passed by Penang second Bridge i started being confused.. It is because i am not familiar to Penang Island. So i really need someone to guide me to the apartment that we booked. The apartment name is 1 World Apartment.
He knows that i am not familiar with Penang roads. He then started guide me to follow his instruction weather to the left or right. But in the same time his mother keep interrupted and give another opinion ha ha ha.... until we met one junction. I heard that he asked me to go straight but on the junction he scold me very loud to take left.. I'm quite shocked but still can maintain and control my emotion. I can see on his face. He look very tired and very sick. Only Allah knows how it feels.
They decided to find a restaurant first to have a lunch. I am forgot the name of the restaurant..Quite confusing the road to that restaurant and the instruction given also consider as incorrect. Actually on his condition he not really can identify the road to the restaurant and to make everybody calm i have decided to use the GPS using my hand phone. I afraid if my gps not accurate because it is depend on the network.
So i stop my car for a while and set up my GPS. Then we just followed the instruction and finally we found the restaurant. We eat Rojak Cucur. Ha ha i am totally starving because i hsve skip my breakfast because on rushed.
So ... At the restaurant we met his brother there and then we decided to sent his parents to the apartment first than we go to Lam Wah Ee. Actually my friends difficult to walk because his leg swollen. It is because his liver not functioning. So every times he want to step out from the car .. I need to help him to lift up his leg one by one and placed his leg properly before he can stand up. And i must hold his armed pit for him to push up his body. Every step have to do it carefully because if not it will hurt him. Both legs and his stomach are swollen. Any heavy shake will cause him painful.
So then i followed his brother drove to the apartment. After settled at the apartment I and my friend straight away to the hospital. Reached the hospital we parked the car and that time quite heavy raining. So lucky in my car i spared an umbrella. Because of his condition i go and take the wheelchair. Easier for him to go to the outpatient clinic which is in the 1st floor. After registered i took him to the 1st floor and waiting for calling. Then we go to see the doctor. We both ask all the procedure that can we do which can make him better. After a quite long discussion the Doctor said that nothing can do. He really wanted to know if he still got hope. But the answer is no... He looked very sad. He looked very frustrated . He ask the Doctor if like that... he want the doctor to help him reduce the swollen on his stomach and his leg to make his movement easier and can reduce his pain. He really want to do it and ask the about the cost. The doctor told him if he want to do it they can do but the implication for the procedure is dangerous which can cause him coma . Then the doctor give us 30 minutes to discuss. So i pull his wheelchair outside and we sit at one of the corner in the first floor. I sit in front of him and hold his hand. On the discussion we discussed all the possibility if he go through the procedure. I am crying within the discussion but try to cover it from other people to see. The end of the discussion he make a decision that he wont do it. So we go back to the doctor and told him about what he decided to. So the doctor wrote a letter for him to refer to Ipoh GH and wrote a prescription for medicine. After that i pull his wheelchair outside and i see the doctor alone. The doctor personally told me he only have 6 months life or less... Suddenly i drop my tears in front of the doctor and nurse. The Doctor said he can see how closed we are from the way i treat him..
After that i took him to the pharmacy and then going back to the apartment. The parking quite far from the elevator so its difficult for him to walk to the elevator. I hold his arm and walk slowly to the elevator.
The apartment is in the 25th floor. Once we reached there he get a rest and sleep. And i am quite surprise that his friend that he told me before also there together with her 3 children's. I make sure that he is comfortable.. I put a small sofa in front of him and pull up his leg on the sofa to reduce the swollen and his friend take a comforter for him because he felt very cold. After everything in order i go to the bedroom for a bath and solat.
After maghrib his friend said want to buy dinner for him and his parents. But his mother ask her to buy for me too.. If the person it self not offered to me better i am refuse and not her duty to serve me ... Am i right... So i decided to go downstairs find my dinner on my own. Once finished i return to the apartment but...his friend still not comeback . I feel very pity of him and his parent. If i know earlier better i bought the dinner for them because they look very starving. After an hour than she came back.
Once she reached.. I walk to the room and let them having the dinner. While solat some one nocked the door ..for sure i just ignore and try to concentrate on what i am doing that time. After finished..again someone nocked the door told that my friend want to see me. I go and get him and ask him why. He told me he want to go out and want me to joint him together with his friend. So i drove the car and they guide me to padang kota... I left them in the car.. My friend can only lay down on the front seat and his friend at the back seat. I walk around and watch the night view of Padang Kota..so beautiful the scenery of lights... After 30 minutes suddenly they drove my car near to me and we sit together i take him out from the car as his wish. So we sit and discuss about many thing. He look happy for a while. We stay there untill 2 o'clock in the morning we buy a drink nescafe ice his favourites and 2 milo ice.
Then we drove back to the apartment... I left both of them at the lobby and i find the parking. After I parked my car i go to the apartment and his mother told me that he is in the room and ask me to sleep with him in the same room.
So once i enter the room i saw him sit on the bed... And look very tired. I help him to wash him self. I took him to the toilet. And take him back to the bed... Help him to lay down on the bed pull up his leg upper on the pillow. Put on comforter for him... Heating his leg using my hand... Until he sleep. After that i do a solat hajat and recite Yassin... After finished then i sleep. That night i sleep on the carpet because easier for me to wake up in the morning because i get sleep quite late at 3.30 am.
At 5.50 am i heard my friend .. I saw him. He try to stand up to go to toilet... So i wake up too and at the same time i listened Azan Subuh. I help him first back to bed. He wanted to lay down. That time suddenly we cried together seems like we know that is last. We see each other and hug like a brothers saying goodbye.
After that i go to the bath room. Taking bath and performed Subuh and again recite Yassin. After finished i go downstairs find breakfast for all of us. While breakfast we discuss whether his parents wanted to follow me or not because i have to go back to Taiping i have promised my wife i will stay there only for one day. He still want to stay there with his friend and planned to go to Padang Besar.
So his parent decided to follow me. Around 9.30 am we depart from Penang to Ipoh because i need to sent back his parents first then i can turn back to Taiping. That day got many cars in the highway all the RnR full of cars. So we cannot stop. And many times we have to slow down the car because of the traffic jammed. It is because that day is a labor day and it is a public holiday for Malaysia. We reached his parents house at 1.30 pm. I help them to take all the things inside then i straight away drove my car to Taiping. I reached home around 5.00 pm because of the traffic jammed. Good bye Penang.... I had a fever since i came back from Penang and untill now i still had a cough.
So that all the stories about the Penang Island memories. I say sorry to him because i cannot wait there together. But no problem his friend can take care of him.
As his very best friend i am satisfied because i can serve him.. give him the happiness even though it is only for one day. I pray to Allah bless his soul and keep his soul among the pious moslem. He meant so much to me as a best friend.
In Memories my beloved friend MKMA
Assalamualaikum w.b.t
