Abiy ni antara makhluk macho yg takut darah. Nak amek sample darah pun tak suka sbb kena cucuk, lagi kan pula nak derma darah. But that feeling change after TokPa passed away because of Acute Leukimia.
For 6 months, darah TokPa asyik kena ‘top-up’ sbb platlet asyik drop. 2-3 months before die meninggal, darah kuning kena tambah almost every alternate days. Sebulan yg last tu kena tambah like almost 2-3x per day; esp smpai level selaput paru-paru dh bocor. To a level that Dr tu cakap, “isn’t it a waste to give him more blood when the chances to survive for other patients is higher given them the same blood?”
You can choose to be emotional that time but somehow that’s the fact of life you can do nothing abt. It’s very tough situation for abiy bila tengok pesakit lain yg dalam wad tu pun crying for the same commodity; BLOOD. Sejak hari tu, abiy menanam azam untuk derma darah semaksima mungkin; partly to pay back darah sesiapa yg TokPa dah pakai and more importantly, tolong org yg sgt memerlukan; something money kenot buy.
When we were in Miri, he’ll join apa-apa derma darah punya event; esp bila organized by his employer or tpt2 yg senang nak datang like shopping complex, huhu. Bila Hospital Miri call suruh datang derma darah, he went during lunch hour lagik. And while attending Fahry masa die dalam incubator for 42-days, dia boleh singgah ke blood center and derma darah sekejap.
Tp aktiviti menderma darah ni terhenti sejak pindah ke KL. You know, kt KL ni seems no weekend for us lah, weekday apetah lagi. Tp bila tengok berita Blood Bank kita running out of Darah jenis O, it reminds us ‘somebody need you’; ala-ala mcm nk jd superhero Kapten Kit la pulak, haha.
Joke a side, it is a serious matter.
Ask you husband untuk pergi derma darah. Kalau taknak kick them out or tido kandang kuda. Someone is begging you for your blood out there. Kita tak tahu brapa byk lagi org yg bersabung nyawa sbb tak cukup darah.
Kalau dah ajal, mmg kojol la jugak; but give them time to do what they didn’t do bila sihat like infaq, tahajjud, haji, umrah etc. kot2 nak mkn dimsum and minum teh c peng pn ok jugak. Or at least, give some airtime untuk family member yg dtg dari jauh kot2 la ada wasiat, amanat, tips or tricks terakhir sebelum menghembus napas yg last.
I know not many people can feel the urgency the way org kt blood bank tu feel. But believe me, it’s so frustrating when dr said ‘it can be done but subject to blood availability’ to your family member yg sakit/ accident…
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