Please support Suzanne's father in ICU
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This campaign has been set up for Suzanne, whose Malaysian father suffered a medical emergency on the last day of his vacation in China.
Suzanne has shared an account of what happened:
Father had a stroke on 5/10/19 and after he was taken to the Emergency Room, he suffered from a diabetes-induced heart attack on 5/12/19. Father did not purchase travel insurance, and his stroke happened on the last day of his vacation. The hospital here requires payment in cash, because as non-Chinese nationals, we cannot use our credit card. Today is Day 10, and we have spent 80% of the cash we brought over. We still owe the hospital another $10K and each additional day costs about $1,500. We have no idea how long he has to stay at the hospital until his condition is stable enough to fly home for further treatment. Our options are: 1. Air ambulance which costs $65,000; or 2. Commercial airline with medic support and bed-to-bed service at about $15,000 to $20,000. If we opt for option 2, the application process could take anywhere from 5-7 working/business days, AND my father has to be in a stable condition in order for the doctor to issue us a report that we can present to the commercial airline for approval. My father is not in a stable condition yet, although he is slowly improving.
I humbly ask for your assistance in a form of a donation. Every dollar raised is a dollar I do not have.
In gratitude,
Suzanne
Suzanne had also shared with us this heartwarming account of her father, pre-and post-stroke:
Father is awake, aware and conversant. He has been talking to me a lot in between the many short naps he takes. We have laughed about the irony of our situation - he gave me the name 向华, which means Facing China, and the two times that I’ve been to China, I was with him.
The first time was when I took him and my family on a 7-day cultural education trip to Beijing in 2012. I was very proud to be able to take him to China as I know he wants to visit it with me at least once.
The second time has definitely not been fun so far...but we are coping. Several times a day, he mentions that he has to keep on living, as he has a lot of work to do (he is 78). He wants to live a better life and do more positive things to help others. He says that while he has been laying in a hospital bed for 10 days, he has had many dreams about his life in the past, and in the future. He would like to be a vegetarian because his paralyzed left arm looked to him like a dead pig’s hoof when he first saw it after his stroke. He had a profound revelation at that moment to not eat meat or cause any animals to be killed. He believes in karma. Before his stroke, he had visited a Buddhist temple in the countryside and he loved it so much that he told a fellow tour group member that he wanted to return for a 1-month retreat sometime in the future. He still hopes to do so. It is quite remarkable to me how lucid his mind is, and how strong his will to live is.
Suzanne has shared an account of what happened:
Father had a stroke on 5/10/19 and after he was taken to the Emergency Room, he suffered from a diabetes-induced heart attack on 5/12/19. Father did not purchase travel insurance, and his stroke happened on the last day of his vacation. The hospital here requires payment in cash, because as non-Chinese nationals, we cannot use our credit card. Today is Day 10, and we have spent 80% of the cash we brought over. We still owe the hospital another $10K and each additional day costs about $1,500. We have no idea how long he has to stay at the hospital until his condition is stable enough to fly home for further treatment. Our options are: 1. Air ambulance which costs $65,000; or 2. Commercial airline with medic support and bed-to-bed service at about $15,000 to $20,000. If we opt for option 2, the application process could take anywhere from 5-7 working/business days, AND my father has to be in a stable condition in order for the doctor to issue us a report that we can present to the commercial airline for approval. My father is not in a stable condition yet, although he is slowly improving.
I humbly ask for your assistance in a form of a donation. Every dollar raised is a dollar I do not have.
In gratitude,
Suzanne
Suzanne had also shared with us this heartwarming account of her father, pre-and post-stroke:
Father is awake, aware and conversant. He has been talking to me a lot in between the many short naps he takes. We have laughed about the irony of our situation - he gave me the name 向华, which means Facing China, and the two times that I’ve been to China, I was with him.
The first time was when I took him and my family on a 7-day cultural education trip to Beijing in 2012. I was very proud to be able to take him to China as I know he wants to visit it with me at least once.
The second time has definitely not been fun so far...but we are coping. Several times a day, he mentions that he has to keep on living, as he has a lot of work to do (he is 78). He wants to live a better life and do more positive things to help others. He says that while he has been laying in a hospital bed for 10 days, he has had many dreams about his life in the past, and in the future. He would like to be a vegetarian because his paralyzed left arm looked to him like a dead pig’s hoof when he first saw it after his stroke. He had a profound revelation at that moment to not eat meat or cause any animals to be killed. He believes in karma. Before his stroke, he had visited a Buddhist temple in the countryside and he loved it so much that he told a fellow tour group member that he wanted to return for a 1-month retreat sometime in the future. He still hopes to do so. It is quite remarkable to me how lucid his mind is, and how strong his will to live is.
Organizer and beneficiary
Aikwan Chong
Organizer
South Riding, VA
Suzanne Chai
Beneficiary