Dad fell down in the bathroom whilst showering to get ready for Jummu’ah prayers today and broke his hip. Subhanallah! He is now in Alty Hospital where his orthopaedic surgeon (the one who did both his knee replacements) has his practice. Dato’ Dr Badrul Shah Badaruddin used to practise out of Prince Court Hospital but has since relocated to his own practice at Alty on Jalan Ampang (right next to The Linc, where the first DeWan 1958 is situated).
Dad cannot have surgery right away because he is on Cardipirin, a blood thinning medication and Dato’ Dr Bad says they have to wait for its effects to wear off first. On top of that the replacement ball joint he wants to “install” in my father is not available in stock and they have had to place an order. Boleh?!
So the upshot is, Dad has to wait till Monday to have surgery to repair his broken hip. It broke at the ball joint between the femur and the pelvic bone, so that’s the part that has to be replaced. Poor Daddy, he now has to be on oral AND intravenous painkillers because he has to wait things out till Monday. He told me that it was very painful when he first fell.
Masalahnya, why did he go and bathe in the downstairs bathroom of his house? He has a bathroom on the same level as his bedroom upstairs but he chose to go down to bathe. On top of all that, he had LOCKED THE DOOR of the bedroom of the en suite bathroom that he took his bath in. When he fell, thankfully the helper was downstairs also, so she heard him call out.. saying that he had fallen. Subhanallah…. 🤦🏻♀️ Alhamdulillah she always has the spare key of that bedroom with her and she was able to open the door and “rescue” Dad.
At first, he didn’t want the helper to tell Auntie V, but the pain got so unbearable that he finally acquiesced. By then, he couldn’t move at all… so Auntie V had to call an ambulance for him. We all know why he went down and locked the door. Dia nak pergi tengok duit dia. استغفر الله العظيم 🤦🏻♀️
On top of all that, when Auntie V wanted to change the tiles to the non-slip tiles, he forbade her because he didn’t want to be bothered with the sound of hacking. Haaa.. sekarang dah mendapat. سبحا ن الله At the very least, they could have placed those rubber non-slip pads/tiles on top of the floor… but of course I think that got the veto also from Dad. Then again, I think Auntie V should have been more proactive. When Dad moved upstairs, she should just have gone ahead and changed the tiles in the downstairs AND upstairs bathrooms. Nak save RM10k, say, now have to fork out prolly RM40k for the surgery and hospital fees.
It looks like another Raya at the hospital for us this year. The last one was 9 years ago, when Allahyarhamha Mum was in the ICU 😔 She made it to the next Raya, returning to Rahmatullah on 11th Shawal 1436.
اللهم اغفرلها وارحمها وعافها واعف عنها
May Allah SWT Grant ease and complete shifa’ to Dad. Aameen. 🤲🏻