Trust His Protection Upon Your Life - Part 3: If it matters to you, it matters to Him

 

In this part 3 of my sharing, I would like to share my testimony during my surgery. They are not extravaganza but for me I feel that God really cares for me by sending little blessing here and there during my surgery and my recovery.

As I mentioned in the first part, we should embrace the little thing that God has done for you to appreciate His kindness to us. He wants to let us know that He is there for us while we are going through some challenges.

Approaching to the surgery date, I was a bit anxious. I was not afraid of the surgery itself because I was so looking forward for this surgery. My fear was if this surgery is being cancelled or postponed for any reason i.e. Covid 19, my circumstance, doctor’s circumstances, etc. Because I couldn’t wait to get this procedure to be done asap.

3 days before my surgery suddenly I got some kind of viral infection that made me fever, body pain, and sore throat. I was panicking with this issue because of the fear of cancellation. I was afraid that if I got cough, they would want me to get Covid tested etc. So I just prayed hard for God to take away this virus. I have taken all medication needed to speed up the recovery but up until Sunday 01/11/20 I was still very weak and got sore throat. I was very nervous to face tomorrow if my symptoms still persisted. I kept praying to God to give me peace for this. Somehow throughout the day on Sunday, I felt something inside me speaking that by tomorrow everything is going to be ok.

When I woke up early morning on Monday, the day of my surgery, I was already feeling good. Sore throat suddenly had gone and body fever had gone as well. I was so relieved that God had prepared me for the day of my surgery. Those things that I had to go through before the surgery I think was the attack from the Devil to take away my peace and to give me the fear and anxiety. But I learnt that if this is the will of God for me to go through this, He, Himself will make all the way so that on the day will be smooth according to His plan.

Another fear that I had was that I was afraid of the need to fast for surgery. Since last year, for some reasons, I couldn’t hold my hunger even for 15 minutes. If I feel hungry, I have to eat right away. Any delay of eating will result in severe stomach pain for at least a couple of weeks. Up until first 6 months of this year I have been battling with this issue and it made me very stress. Eventually my stomach got better in the past couple of months and it started to have more resistant in holding the hunger for longer period of time, but the trauma was still there for me. So being told to fast for almost the whole day really scared me out.

I have heard some of the experiences from a couple of my friends who had surgeries in the past few weeks before me, their surgery was delayed for few hours from the scheduled time. Hearing their stories made me nervous of the possibility of being delay for my surgery. I kept praying to God so there wouldn’t be any delay of my surgery so I didn’t have to hold my hunger too long.

And God had listened to my prayer. I was asked to come at 11.30 am. I came exactly at 11.30 and after finishing the paperwork, administration, and blood test, the nurse asked me to sit down and wait for me to be called. At exactly 12.30, the nurse called me and prepared me for the theatre room. I was so relieved that I didn’t have to wait long at all.

Surgery was 3 hours and it was a smooth one, Praise God. I didn’t feel much pain as I had anticipated. Doctor was surprised that I didn’t use much pain killer at all. By the 3^rd day I hardly feel any pain from the surgery. I believe this was God who had protected me all the way. I heard some people experienced a lot of pain with the same surgery and still depending on higher level of pain killer after a week or so. However I was amazed that on my 4^th day I didn’t even have to take Panadol at all.

Another thing was, I do not like to stay in a private room in the hospital. I like to stay with many people because I cannot sleep if I am alone in a room. So I just mentioned to God before my surgery, if it’s ok, I would like to have a room with 4 people inside. I feel more comfortable when I have many people sleep with me. And even on this request God had showed His kindness by letting me stay with 3 other ladies in my room. Once I started walking the next day I moved around the hospital ward and saw that on each room there were only around 2 people in a room. But only my room that had the most people.

Lastly, during the first few days of my recovery at home, many times I was not feeling good due to bloated, blood loss, anaesthetic effect, nausea, etc so my body was still very weak. On the 5^th day after my operation, I was so sick with bloated stomach that during my shower I had a thought it would be nice to have a sweet hot ginger drink now. It was just a thought, however to my surprise, just after I finished shower suddenly my doorbell rang and my neighbour gave me a sweet hot ginger drink! This was exactly what I had in my mind. I was so thankful to God that He is so good to me and care to me even on little things. I cherished any little things that God had given me because he wanted to show me that He cares for me.

Thank you for reading my testimony and I hope you are blessed.