Dr. Alwin Lee Kim Peng(1981 - 2006)
Six months has passed since Alwin passed away last Christmas.
I was lazing on the couch on Christmas noon, easing my hangover from the rowdy night before, when I received this sms:
"Dr Alwin just pass away 25/12/06 @10.44am...Thank you. Fr: family"
For two heart beats, I just laid there staring at my phone screen, before it finally dawned on me.
Alwin was really gone.
The few months counting down to Alwin's last moment, I sent him more sms's and called him more times than any other times in college. He was still the same him. A little naughty, and being himself. I guess I regretted a little for not making the trip over to KL to visit him when he was hospitalized. At least WM did make it on one trip, after I told her that Alwin was suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). My case, I had to fly over to his place, and that was not something I was willing to do at that time.
So, I made that up by calling him often, though not everyday, and prayed for him in the nights.
Alwin did a bone marrow transplant sometime in April or May last year, and was for a period at a slightly better condition. He even went home and had supper out in the market place with his family once. But AML was no easy disease. Every single effort was needed in order to fight it. It was one of the most aggressive and lethal malignancy that killed young people who was diagnosed with it.
Eventually, Alwin stopped replying my messages. He was getting too weak to even type a message on his cell phone.
I was getting more and more worried as the day passed by.
I kept another of his sms in my phone:
"still having discomfort & in hospital! will email u my progress later! dun call me now! can pray for me?"
It just broke my heart to read it.
Then, at 23 December 2006, I remembered another sms that told of him going into a coma. It was then that I knew that it won't be long.
Two days later, Alwin passed away.
Rest in peace, Al, and I hope that your stay here was good.
I was lazing on the couch on Christmas noon, easing my hangover from the rowdy night before, when I received this sms:
"Dr Alwin just pass away 25/12/06 @10.44am...Thank you. Fr: family"
For two heart beats, I just laid there staring at my phone screen, before it finally dawned on me.
Alwin was really gone.
The few months counting down to Alwin's last moment, I sent him more sms's and called him more times than any other times in college. He was still the same him. A little naughty, and being himself. I guess I regretted a little for not making the trip over to KL to visit him when he was hospitalized. At least WM did make it on one trip, after I told her that Alwin was suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). My case, I had to fly over to his place, and that was not something I was willing to do at that time.
So, I made that up by calling him often, though not everyday, and prayed for him in the nights.
Alwin did a bone marrow transplant sometime in April or May last year, and was for a period at a slightly better condition. He even went home and had supper out in the market place with his family once. But AML was no easy disease. Every single effort was needed in order to fight it. It was one of the most aggressive and lethal malignancy that killed young people who was diagnosed with it.
Eventually, Alwin stopped replying my messages. He was getting too weak to even type a message on his cell phone.
I was getting more and more worried as the day passed by.
I kept another of his sms in my phone:
"still having discomfort & in hospital! will email u my progress later! dun call me now! can pray for me?"
It just broke my heart to read it.
Then, at 23 December 2006, I remembered another sms that told of him going into a coma. It was then that I knew that it won't be long.
Two days later, Alwin passed away.
Rest in peace, Al, and I hope that your stay here was good.
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