Waited for the garbage collector to pick up the garbage outside so that I could have the waste container back to its proper place at the backyard then walked out to get the paper and flyers at the newstand next block of the street. I was about to cross the yard grass to the sidewalk, concrete walkway when I almost fall to the ground. Almost! The sidewalk is too icy. I decided to tread on the grassy isle with pebbles and soil not covered with cement. Darn! I could have injured myself there. While thinking about what happened to my niece I tried to be careful. And in that moment of thinking of her injury a loud siren was heard. The noise coming from the next block of the street. What could be happening in that moment? Such an awful to think about. Ambulance? A siren for ambulance or just somebody is over speeding? What could be?
Back to my niece's injury from falling unto an icy walkway outside the church. Somebody forgot to spread or sprinkle industrial salt. Hmmm------. In America or anywhere in America if you had an accident or injury from the area where business establishment is located the injured person can sue the establishment. However if its within the area surrounding the church...can you sue the church?
The point is they only gave an immediate first aid to her foot, wrapped it with white bandages and she's wearing crutches to fairly manage her to stand and walk unassisted. The plaster (cement) to be administered on the next day maybe to find out if there's a need or no need to have such cast on her foot. Ah she'll be okay. She had that one injury before on her arm. Years ago when she was barely 7 years old. So severe that her parents panic and one of them lose consciousness when the doctor had her arm snapped its joint from the elbow to the point of injured dislocated arm. Plaster cement was also applied to join the dislocated bones properly. Oh weird eh? So scary.
It is at this time of the year that we have to keep ourselves in focus. Be cautious of the dangers of icy cold temperature, slippery icy road and streets especially on highways where there are possibility of mishap, vehicles ramming one after another or vehicles falling unto the bridge, canal, or pavements. Make sure your vehicles are in good condition, have snow tires, with chains at least hooked to the tires, have a thorough inspection of your vehicle if its really fit for driving. Slow down and don't drive recklessly.
I remember a time when I had an awful shocking ordeal when after taking a MTR from main terminal to the point of our destination, it was such a pleasant day actually even if that MTR was built on underground tunnel and passing through underground tunnel and caves. I have that fear of being buried alive inside the MTR. (LRT is different altogether, LRT is a special train passing through an open railway above the ground, MTR is underground). Then we rode a bus where the route is around steep highways, around mountainous area, along the sharp edges of the mountains and hills. It was scary alright. Imagine yourself if you are to sit on a double- decker and you are at the top deck. Anyway, would rather sit on the lower deck instead for fear of height in a moving transit. Anything goes well, my friends and I got out of the double decker safely and we walked from the station to the house of my cousin. On the way while we are chatting and securely walking on the sidewalk I noticed a car, slow moving car who keeps following us. tailing us. Why? I don't know if my friends were aware. I was in between sides of my two friends and I changed places. I decided to walk beside my two friends, me at the right side facing the road. Then all of a sudden the driver of the car bumped me instantly. I was hit. I was off balance! I almost scream bloody hell about to get up to face what hit me, then the car's tire started rolling on my left leg. I heard loud screaming and yelling. People standing and sitting outside the store in that small community were screaming loudly and yelling (in their Cantonese language and accent) and rushed to our side to help. They were cursing the driver. I tried to walk as if nothing happened. Actually can't feel anything. Then all of a sudden had a fall again right there on the ground because my left leg was numb. From my thigh to the foot was numb, cannot feel anything. I was paralyzed. My leg was paralyzed! As if I lost my whole leg. There is no blood, no pain. I looked at my shoes, my brown shoes. My new pair of brown shoes the one I just bought on that day had scratch mark on its tip, otherwise that's the only mark on my shoes. Slight mark of scratches even if my foot was rolled over by a moving car's tire. How heavy a car's tire rolling on your foot? If that happened to you what will you feel? No injury? I don't feel anything. Totally NUMB! I was shocked! I started crying. Too many Chinese people rushed to talk to the driver and one passenger with her. Yes the driver was a woman. The woman who hit me. They were talking in Chinese language that I can't barely understand. The two foreigners from Taiwan who was "lost" or unable to locate their destination looking for their friend as what they said to those bystanders. Those "bystanders" asked them to take me to the hospital. Yes I was rushed to the hospital, had an x-ray. My friends were crying with me. Then my employer came at the hospital, rushing to find out what happened to me. I explained to them. My friends and the driver talked to my employer. The hospital staff x-rayed my leg and foot. Then the doctor and another staff talked to my employer. I cannot remember after that what's the result of that x-ray. I had a problem with walking for a month. I was taking medication for pain when my foot started swelling and the numbness gone but still I had problem walking my left leg. My employer gave me a balmy menthol fragrance Chinese medicated cream that I applied to my leg and foot for more than a month until the swelling is healed and until I was able to walk. Turned out that the magic cream came from an old woman who I once see sitting on the cemented concrete stairs downhill going to the market. She was really, really old, like a hermit. Almost hunchback, maybe she is already hundred years old and she had her woven bags filled with many dried herbs and roots used for medicine and herbs used for Chinese three hour soup. The magical mysterious content of 3 hour soup and energy booster herbs and spices plus the medicated cream helped me regained strength and vitality. Thank God and praise the Lord!
Somehow in all account having a religious belief on something that will heal you invokes miracle and it's only granted if you have that strong faith. That's what it is. Too many un-explain mysteries in this world and miracles are granted not to all of us and that's make the believer happy and too sad for those whose not granted with any kind of miracle and that's make them the UNbeliever.
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