My bacteria culture test came up negative for any bacterial infection and this of course is good news. The chill and fever is probably resulted from the residual "bacteria" from the bile juice that is draining into the small intestine. As such, there was no reason to keep me in the hospital anymore considering that the hole from the catheter for draining the bile had also closed up, is clean and no infection at the site either.
I am a little lethargic from staying in the hospital and lying on the bed for so long and I had lost quite a fair bit of weight too and my pants are really loose.
The discharged procedure went very smoothly and I was literally able to go home by about 10:30am. Waited for Josie and got home by around 11:30am.
Really thank God for His care and compassion. During my stay in TTSH, I was reading another classic book “The Twelve Steps of Humility and Pride / On Loving God” by Bernard of Clairvaux” that spoke not just about humility and pride but also about compassion and love. It will be a topic for another blog entry. Why I mention this book is that the 24 days that I was in TTSH, I saw a lot of things and learnt a lot of things as well. One of the most obvious is about pain and I quote from the book what had become so obvious to me.
“‘A healthy man has no idea what an ill person is suffering, neither does a well-fed person know what a hungry person goes through.’ A sick person can feel for the sick, and a hungry person can understand the plight of the hungry, especially when those who suffer are in similar circumstances. Just as pure truth is only properly understood by the pure in heart, so a brother’s sadness is best understood by the sad in heart.”
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8 (NASB)
In God We Trust
Hebrews 11:1
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