只要还能呼吸就要爭取活著的权利!!!

只要还能呼吸就要爭取活著的权利

* 副刊 * 心灵
2008-10-11 12:52

张老师在2001年得了末期肝癌，当时，医生说他再也无法进行任何治疗，倘若回家的话，或许会有奇蹟出现。

於是，太太唯有把他带回家去。从离开医院到家那段距离，是由救伤车把他载到家的，那一刻起，他一直平躺在床上。

日子每过一天，身体就消瘦一点。导致体衰的至大因素，是因为他心里仅有恐惧，而让他不知道自己该怎么办，当时，张老师的生命完全失去能量。

直到某天，他们的一位好朋友来邀请张老师去上“生活艺术课程”，並告诉他说，那是可以提昇生命能量的课程。

当时，太太问朋友：“连医生都说帮不上忙了，上课会有用吗？”对方回她说：“不尝试，又怎么知道不可以呢？姑且不谈上课后能不能把病治好，但至少能够让他在这段时间活得快乐一些。”

就这样，张老师去上课了。

在还未上课前，太太每天要求丈夫笑一个给她看。可是，他的笑容比哭还难看，因为整张脸都是悲伤的。

然而，张老师上了3天课回来后，他整个人都变了！太太发觉丈夫躺在椅子上睡觉时，其嘴角是往上翘的，这让她觉得很惊讶。因为太太已经好久，好久，没有在丈夫的脸上找到这份安逸，喜悦和寧静的感觉了。当下，他们就肯定了自己走对了路。

自此，他们很努力地走抗癌这条路。由於授课老师来自台湾，当太太要求老师再来马来西亚教课时，对方说，开课需要凑足学生才行。

可是，她並不认识人，要怎么去找这么多人来上课呢？后来，老师给了她一张小纸条，纸条上写了指示，她拿著小纸条到公园去逐个问。

人家问她上的是甚么课？她说生活艺术呼吸法。人家又问那是甚么课，她说不知道。对方疑惑了，再问她：“既然不知道，你叫我去上课做甚么？”，她说：“因为我知道它对你很好，它值得你去上。”

说也奇怪，她这么对人说，竟然也號召到一批人来上课。这课程，从当初的第一班开始到现在，已经是开办了两百多堂课。而且，还从檳城开始一直办到北海、大山脚、双溪大年、亚罗士打、登加楼、霹雳；关丹和怡保等地。

信念和坚持最重要

张老师在“生活艺术课程”里学习自然疗法，自从改变生活和饮食习惯后，他的身体开始慢慢康復过来。在连医生都认为他“无药可救”的情况下，他还是活了下来。人人都认为张老师能活下来是个奇蹟，可他却认为，“那是人为的，因为个人的信念和坚持，对求生意志来说，是很重要的。”

因为有过“死里逃生”的经验，后来，很多癌症患者都找上门来向他们夫妻俩求救。从当初没有计画性地开始帮人，到后来，他们在檳城丹绒武雅成立了“生命重建花园”收容所，而张老师亦顺理成章成为收容所的灵魂人物。

至今，他在生命重建花园服务了9年，主要是照顾病人身心方面的需求。但是，前来求助的人不仅是癌症患者，当中也包括高压族和追求健康的平常人。

在这几年的经验里，让他印象最深刻的，是一位患了忧鬱症的土木工程师。对方来生命重建花园之前，已有服用抗忧鬱药物长达三十多年的经验。

张老师发觉对方所承受的压力非常大，於是，便建议他上生活艺术课程。经过一番心灵辅导，他的身体渐渐好起来，並且决心要停止吃抗忧鬱症药。

他在生命重建花园住的那几个晚上，都由张老师陪伴著他。在短短的4天里，他可以不靠安眠药入眠，2个月后，也终於摆脱抗忧鬱症的药物了。

尔后，他看到了生命的另一面向：生命除了劳碌工作，还有其他更值得自己追求的目標。经过一年来的努力，他的思想有所转变，后来，还跟两个孩子移民到澳洲享清福。

身心平衡事半功倍

生命重建花园强调的是，让人的生命有所改变。但，这必须要当事人在过去的生活划上句號，生命才能重新绽放开来。

而张老师就像人们心灵花圃的农夫，他抓走人们心田里里的害虫，为心中的一亩田施肥和浇水，並且给予细心照料。

他认为，一个人要身心平衡，才能在治疗上达到最大的帮助，因为心灵若失去平静，一切都会处在混浊当中，最后就甚么也做不成了。

因此，他建议有压力的人，一定要学会调整自己的呼吸法，只要能够让心安静下来，自然得以舒缓压抑以及恐惧的情绪。一颗心安静下来了，也自然可以感觉到生活的本质，再也不轻易放弃生命。

生命重建花园是后备家园，病人在这里学会应该怎样吃，吃甚么，才对身体有帮助。可是，再多的保健功夫，若没有把心灵给照顾好，生命就会缺乏喜悦和安寧，这样一来，病人还是会继续糟蹋自己的身体。所以，要健康的身体，就要先做到身心灵的平衡。

因此，每个来生命重建花园求助的病人，都被建议上生活艺术课程，这是第一贴药方。因为上课能让病人建立起好心情，敞开胸膛去面对生命的挫折，也唯有以开阔的心態来面对疾病，在做起调养功夫才能事半功倍。

此外，它还引导病人如何应用生活技巧来面对挫折。很多时候，当癌症患者在面对家人、朋友和环境的为难时，都会引起负面情绪而失去应对问题的能力。

然而，生命重建花园只要提供宣泄的管道予他们发泄自己的情绪，病人的心里就会变得舒坦些。只要在情绪发泄后，即使旁人没有建议解决方案，也自然懂得如何处理问题。

他们也会让癌症患者知道，要接纳人类的不同面貌，但不要成为別人的意见足球。调整病人的心態，加上对方愿意在饮食给予配合，就能看见治疗成绩。

康復过来的癌症病患，会被要求回来生命重建花园服务他人。只要经过服务別人的过程，就可以將生命带到另一层次。

因为在服务过程中会遇到很多问题，如计画病人的治疗方式、与病人和其家属作对应、服务过程中带来的迷惑等等，若能从中整理出所以然，就能觉察到自己的生命缺乏甚么，需要甚么。

此外，癌症康復者在服务他人时，当对方向自己说声谢谢，会不自觉地提昇自己的价值，並且从过去的自卑心慢慢地走出来。

生命重建花园的环境，没有想像中美丽。还没摸上门以前，还以为门前会有鲜花簇簇，花圃绽放出五顏六色得娇艳生命，那样才叫生命重建花园。可是，没有。那只是一间设在马路边的单层排屋，就连门前也没有掛上招牌。

屋子里的陈设更是简单，小小的房子里放了3张单人床，屋內只有两间房子，一次只能收容6个病人。张老师的太太，温秀枝说，因为自己有过亲人生病的经验，所以他们能瞭解病人的处境。

很多贫苦的病人都面对经济压力，而这些经济拮据的病人又该怎样办？她说：“我们走过这样的路，瞭解这些苦，现在只是提供一个方便给別人。病人在这里，只要拿张椅子坐下来，再添双筷子，就和大家一起吃，也一起住。”

在这里，成功康復的癌症患者很多，同样的，失败的也很多。成功的人之所以会成功，是因为他们是自愿地追求健康；失败的人之所以会失败，是因为他们是被逼追求健康。

在生命重建花园，志工们时常面对死亡，也时常面对未亡人。在这里离世的病人的家属，不但没有抱怨，反而心存感恩。因为病人在离世之前，都学会把握有限的生命来实践党下，並且好好享受自己的生命。

这里的志工都给予病人百分百的真心照顾。除了照料病人的饮食，很多时候，他们做的也是临终关怀服务。

曾有个病人在这里晕倒了，叫了救护车也没来，结果，他们把对方抱上车送到医院去，並且也一直陪伴在病人的家属身边。后来，病人去世了。他们一起处理死者的大小二便，为死者换上衣物，化好妆，然后把尸体裹上白布放入铁箱子里。

此外，对於那些行动不便的末期癌症患者，志工们甚至在对方的身体发出臭味都不顾一切抱在身上。虽然病人已经到达不能言语的严重地步，但却能感受到他们的真心。

虽然为癌症患者尽心尽力付出了那么多，但是，志工们却认为，是这些病人让他们有机会学习。

曾有个癌症病患的臀部少了一块肉，可是，这人从来没有苦过自己的一张脸。这人说：“我脸上的笑容不可以拿走。所以，痛，不会剥夺我脸上的笑容。”

当时，闻者流泪，但，对方还是坚持不哭，在他歷世前，他还向志工们逐个说再见，要大家千万別哭。

不管在生命重建花园的癌症病人，到后来是活了下来，还是离开人间世，至少，他们在生命里最终还是建立了属於自己的的生命花圃，並且，在他们的心中的那个花圃，都有一株艷红色的天堂鸟，正准备展翅高飞。

星洲日报‧报道：李秀华‧2008.10.09


读者言： 这篇文章或许说这真人真事，希望与各位共勉之。

Deakin Ball 2008

The annual Deakin Hall Ball. aka. Deakin College Head dinner...

1. Everyone was in formal attire and beautiful dress...so surprise to see the normal looking dining hall became an elegant dancing floor for ball..

2. The only Deakin hall photo was taken, but guess there's not much value to buy it at $10 each!! Totally not worth for the value...

3. Surprisingly, Mess Hall kitchen could cook so delicious & yummy 3 course dinner...esp that lamb and the dessert.

4. Yeah, dancing was so crazy, but some of the people din bother to dance, yet grabbing all the balloon for photos...:P

5. They provided nice alcohol, and met the new college head of Deakin Hall; he is so young.


Here is the photos...CLICK


Final Exam is so near yet I got so much reading undone...
Wish me luck :)

8 Facts about me.......

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Thanks to Yi Chin of tagging me ....:P


8 Facts about me!!
1. I love travelling. I ady travelled to all the states in Malaysia with my own limited finances. I visited 2 World Heritage National Parks in Malaysia: Mulu and Kinabalu National park, and conquered to the peak of the highest mountain in South East Asia. Even now in Australia, I visited New South Wales and Queensland only in last year. One of my dreams is actually travelling to every corner of the world, at least to all the continents in the world…

2. Eating chocolates. I am so happy in Australia that I have so many selections of chocolates. And I almost finish trying all the chocolates’ brand in Australia.

3. I love to sleep. May be people would say who doesn’t like to sleep?!?! Yes may be I am not the odd one out.

4. Flowers. Now is spring, also the season I enjoy the most with so many types of flowers blossoming.

5. I love photo taking..not just taking photo of myself, I just love the scenery especially the nature. U can imagine how many beaches, sunset, sunrise I had seen and captured with my camera. May be I should get another better camera soon if my financial status allow me to do so.

6. I love to read map.. Even when I was in college, I ady had the maps in my brain, and I could go anywhere I want. Mayb I really love travelling, and I love to go around, when I was in INTEC, people thought I was from KL, in fact that I am from a small village in Pahang!! :P

7. Curiosity. I am really curious on everything which can attract my attention. And I would always like to try on sth new… so I did try scuba diving in Sipadan Island, and I loved it so much. I really wish I can have my diving licence and dive all around the world.

8. I like to knock on ppl’s door and chat with them….. mayb those who are my neighbours would ady experienced it…LOL

Who should I tag?….: Jessica Tan, Li Ping, Christina, Yu Wan, Ling Weng, Yit Yung…
(mayb just 6)
Have fun :P

Rural Swan Hill updates 3 - FINAL

30/8 (Sun)
After such a long discussion and visit to the Swan Hill information centre, we decided to go to Nyah State Forest, Murray Sunset National Park- Pink lakes.
1. Nyah State Forest
It is just 15 min North from Swan Hill town centre. The state forest represents a good example forest of the Murray River. The river gum trees lined along the river as great habitat for kangaroo, and other wild animals. We saw a big group of kangaroos hooping around in the forest. The kangaroos were really cute and agile, especially with baby kangaroos. We managed to climb up to 5 trees in the forest PLUS we took heaps of photos on the river bank.

2. Murray Sunset National park- Pink lakes
National park = 4 WD. Fortunately, this national park was with 2WD accessibility track to the pink lakes, the main attraction in the national parks in the shire of Mildura rural city. Along the journey, one of the roads was so greenish with rice estates!! The scenery along with the sapphire blue sky was really great. Conversely, the other side of the road was just bald… the first sight into the lakes, it’s really pinkish!!! The lake floor was so pinkish with the condensation of the salt crystal. It’s not surprising that the water level was so low, and we could just walk on the water…like those in the movie, walking on the lake!! And we left the national park under the colourful rainbow. The sunset on the way back was marvelous and coloured the world into golden.


Is it pinkish?!?

1/9 Mon
First Aid course for 3 hours + Rural ambulance presentation.

2/9 Tue
GP visit in Swan Hill. I was with nurses for the morning, and I did some practical stuff, like cutting the suture, injection, ECG, skin biopsy, ear examination..etc. The best experience was assisting in the biopsy of lipoma, a benign neoplasm of adipose tissues. And I just realized that how big the lipoma could be!! The interview with a patient was really lengthy and interesting. A patient could really get all the diseases in the body!!! Myeloma, Atrial Fibrillation, Osteoporosis, bowel cancer..etc etc……

3/9 Wed
Life story project..presentation and afternoon tea with the old folks. I bought a colourful recipe for the lady I interviewed, if she had no chance to bake, at least she could enjoy looking at the pictures of the yummy food!!

4/9 Thu
A long day with all the presentations: GP, OHS, Panel discussion, Veterinary...and the day was ended with a visit to a dairy farm! The dairy was really big with almost fully automated milk production. The while rotary was so big and could fit 92 cows at the same time!! the cows were really trained to be multi-tasking!! The cows were eating, while the milk was sucked by the pump, and they poo and urinated at the same time!! amazing! :P

5/9 Fri
It’s the final day of the 2 weeks rural placement in Swan Hill, we eventually decided to have a trip up to Macedon ranges for the Hanging Rocks.. we stopped by Bendigo for lunch and when we reached the Hanging Rocks park, unfortunately it’s closed.. then we made our way up to Mt Macedon for the sunset..again!! it’s so magnificent to be immersed into the golden brown world.


Sunset (MT Macedon)

Rural Swan Hill updates 2

30/8 (Sat):
It’s the day we went out for our own day trip…only 4 of us: Shu, Xin, Hamon & I. Initially we planned to go to Mungo National Park IN NSW outback which we decided on the night before!!..it’s the World Heritage area which would add another world heritage area in my list (other than Malaysian Mulu National Park and Kinabalu National park). When we arrived at Balranald, the gateway into Mungo, it’s raining heavily and we decided to ask for further confirmation before we continued our journey north up to Mungo. Unfortunately, Mungo was closed on that day due to heavy rain. Eventually we decided to change our plan to Mildura!!! We took the longer way from Balranald via Euston- Robinvale to Mildura.

After visiting the Information Centre of Mildura, we decided to go Woodies Gem Shop before we headed 30km north to Wentworth, a small town in NSW. I got Jessica’s birth stones for Jess’s birthday present, earings for Yun Ying and another key chain for myself. Why Wentworth?!? The visit was really worth it…we had lunch overlooking the junction of Darling & Murray river, the 2 greatest river in Australia. Then we visited Old Wentworth Goal before we went to Perish Sandhill. Perish Sandhill was the highlight of that day…I was so proud of myself of discovering it via the postcard sold in Mildura!! The sandhill is like a desert in the middle of the barren land. The view was so magnificent…due to the rain, the road to sandhill was so muddy and the mini pinky Nissan Micra was sliding like drifting…luckily I managed to control the car and to stop it!! Here is a picture on the sandhill….



Then we went to Wentworth Show, which was just a rural community show event with all the competitions… we watched the equestrian and enjoyed the celebration ambience. And eventually we headed back to Mildura for the Indian dinner…( P/s: we didn’t even have Asian food so frequent back in Melbourne). When we’re back, it’s ady 12 am!!! We spend like 16 hrs out for the day trip…it’s so fruitful even though we didn’t manage to go to Mungo. It’s so exhausting on driving for the long journey luckily Hamon and I shared the load…


For more picture click the links below:
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Rural Swan Hill updates 1.

Rural in swan hill
I know it's quite late for the update, but I was really too busy with assignments!!



25/8 (Monday)
Depart from Clayton to Swan Hill which took us about 5 hours to reach there. On the way, we stopped by Bendigo for bunch andthen I took the turn to drive all the way up to Swan Hill. The drive was really boring with the road was just straight and with very few turns… The scenery was still almost the same with farm land and some of the barren and flat land of Victoria. We had a short introduction period and then had our PCL (Part A & B) in Aboriginal Co-op centre with a GP.

26/8 (Tuesday)
It’s the aboriginal day which we paid a visit to Tyntynder Homestead, a settlement of the migrants back in hundreds years ago. We learnt about the culture and lifestyle of aboriginal, as well as the history. The place was great with an underground showroom of the collection of aboriginal and the amazing building of migrants which is already more than 100 years old. We paid a visit to Murray River bank for more details observation of the aboriginal lifestyle. Then we went for a meeting at the aboriginal co-op centre, for some presentations of the services provided for the aboriginals. Had a great delicious dinner of roasted pork….etc. yummy

27/8 (Wed)
We had some free time before the visit to a nursing home in Nyah West. I did an interview with a nice, friendly lady. She was really enjoying chatting with me and talked about her life story. It’s so interesting, and luckily I got a good interviewee. Then in the afternoon, I join Chunk, Daves and Matt to Kerang for a pharmacy visit. It’s so cool to look at how the pharmacist work, but the job wasn’t much interesting to me. Anyway, it’s good to have a good understanding of the pharmacy services provided in compliment to the doctors’ prescription. It’s the night we cooked our 2nd dinner. Lin, Sheryl and I were in-charge of it. We cooked tasty mushroom egg noodles soup and with mouth-watering roast-chicken. It’s so satisfying.

28/8 (Thu)
I had my hospital placement and ambulance visit. It’s so packed but I had a great day. Hamon and I were allocated to Acute ward in the hospital and we’re there at 7 am for the shift-handling meeting. I followed a nurse in completing routine check-up on her patients. Interesting, I did some temperature, BP taking and also learnt some new knowledge of medical care in the hospital. Hamon and I walked around and interviewed some of the patients. We also conducted physical examination on a patient and we found shifting dullness on his abdomen!! (which was never found by any doctor!) Initially we just wanted to do percussion and auscultation on the patient’s thorax for diagnosed consolidation of lung! We also met a patient with a very rare disease called vanishing bone disease. We felt so empathy towards the patient. Eventually the session in ward ended a bit late about 4 pm.
In the evening 5.30pm, I needed to attend to ambulance station to have a shift with the paramedics. Unfortunately, there’s no case or call. I was just sitting and relaxing there. Plus I watched a movie there on the super cosy sofa. It’s great that a kind paramedic cooked a yummy dinner for me and also I made some new friends there. It’s such a good experience although without any cases!!

29/8 (Fri)
We had some presentations of the allied health services, like physiotherapy and counseling services. The programs ended earlier today in the afternoon, and I had an interview session for my assignment. We had a picnic and walk in the pioneer riverside park, enjoying the beautiful Murray River bank with the rows of river gum trees. It’s almost spring, all world became alive and awaken from the cold freezing winter. During the day, the weather/temperature was good..while in the morning/ late at night could reach 0 degree. It’s really freezing. (the temperature difference was really big..it’s Australia and inland…)

Food scare :(

Singapore finds more melamine in food

September 22, 2008-The Australian

SINGAPORE has found the potentially deadly chemical melamine in a third milk product imported from China, authorities say.

New laboratory findings showed White Rabbit Creamy Candy from China is also contaminated with melamine, the city-state's government announced late yesterday.

Melamine is at the centre of a widening food safety scandal in China, where authorities said nearly 13,000 children were in hospital yesterday after drinking toxic milk powder.

On Friday, Singapore suspended the import and sale of all milk and milk products from China after local tests found samples containing melamine, which is used to make plastics.

"These products include milk, ice cream, yoghurt, confectionery such as chocolates, biscuits and sweets, as well as any other products containing milk from China as an ingredient,'' the agri-food and veterinary authority (AVA) said.

Retailers and importers have been told to recall these products.

AVA said its tests first found melamine in samples of Yili brand iced yoghurt, and then in the Dutch Lady brand of strawberry-flavoured milk.

At least four children in China have died from drinking poisonous baby formula.

Melamine was initially reported only in milk powder but Chinese authorities later said they found it in some regular milk as well.

The chemical can make milk and other food products appear to have a higher protein content than they actually do.

It has become apparent in recent days that people in China have been deliberately watering down milk and then adding in the melamine to boost the protein content and make the product look normal.

Countries from Brunei to Burundi have barred Chinese milk products as a result.

Melamine can cause chronic nephrotoxicity and finally acute renal failure. It is excreted poorly by the body.

There are also some other food which maybe complicated eg Snickers, M&M, Biskit, Dove chocolate bars, Mentos yogurt balls, Oreo wafer sticks, and Want Want Take One Baby Bites.

I don't know how true is that, but my friends, be careful!