A Year Ago Today
This is an AI translation, pending the author’s review.
The last day of the working year. (A working year here means the contract, which runs from July to the following June.) Another year over. These past days I have been unusually sentimental.
A year ago today, after work and a quick tidy-up, I went to Tuen Mun Hospital to help Hilda move out of the quarters. I’ve forgotten exactly how I felt; probably a mix of joy and sadness. We should have been celebrating the end of a hard year, but Hilda was on call. Everything seemed rushed. We had barely arrived in Tuen Mun before we were hauling and lifting and hurrying onto the car, and once we got to Hilda’s home we hurried back to mine. I can’t remember whether I had to work the next day, but I must have been very tired.
A year on, today’s mood could be described as flat as still water. On one hand I’m excited to be escaping the hell that is QEH; on the other I’m anxious about facing a new environment.
Life this year has been very different from before, spiritually and in worldly terms alike. There were lots of “first times” in my life. This was the first time that I… had full-time work. spent money more casually. ate more than I needed, so much that I was putting on weight. stopped going to fellowship. became lazy in reading God’s word. faced pressure from work. faced the complexity of a workplace. experienced the “special” relationships among colleagues (seeming friendly and on your side, but…). …
A special event happened yesterday. A cardiology SMO started to have chest pain when he arrived at SOPD after climbing three flights of stairs. The pain was so severe that he could not tolerate it. TNG was offered immediately. He then started to deny the symptoms and preferred to carry on with his work. After persuasion from the nursing staff and his friends, he underwent a series of tests: ECG, TnI (0.13), TMT, echo, coro + PCI. Thank God his life was saved.
This became a reminder about our own health. We should pay more attention to it.