Life Is A Road, Now And Forever, Wonderful Journey

November 24, 2014

Wonderful Journey-Disney's Anastasia

D: We were strangers, starting out on a journey

Never dreaming, what we'd have to go through

Now here we are and I'm suddenly standing

At the beginning with you

R: No one told me I was going to find you

Unexpected, what you did to my heart

When I lost hope, you were there to remind me

This is the start

Chorus (D & R)

And life is a road that I want to keep going

Love is a river, I want to keep flowing

Life is a road, now and forever, wonderful journey

I'll be there when the world stops turning

I'll be there when the storm is through

In the end I wanna be standing

At the beginning with you

D: We were strangers, on a crazy adventure

R: Never dreaming, how our dreams would come true

D & R: Now here we stand, unafraid of the future

At the beginning with you

Back to Chorus

Bridge:

D & R: Knew there was somebody, somewhere

A new love in the dark

Now I know my dream will live on

I've been waiting so long

Nothing is going to tear us apart

Chorus

In the end I want to be standing

At the beginning with you...

Di mobil on the way home, nebeng temen tentunya seperti biasa. Suasana gloomy, hujan, macet dan ditemani seorang teman yang tumben ikutan nebeng sama gw ke Bintaro karena dia lagi meriang dan ga berhasil dapat taksi karena hujan (ga pake protes deh, namanya juga nebeng, jadi walaupun rumah gw di Serpong ya ikut yang punya mobil aja ke Bintaro). 

Tiba-tiba, radio puter lagu ini, Wonderful Journey. I am such a sucker for Disney movies and theme songs. Jadilah lagu itu judul dari blog episode terakhir scoliosis journey E&L yang terkait operasi Lilu. 

Gw kan anti mainstream, jadi somehow ga tau kenapa buat gw personally lagu ini rasanya kok pas ya. As if, we are standing at the beginning, not the end of the story. Bukan story yang jelek tentunya, tapi more fun, crazy, and of course more love stories for years to come. My little daughter has turned into a lovely young lady. I am so proud of her, a girl who has never given up, who has never ever complained and always believe in good karma. 

5 bulan sudah berlalu dari post operasi, so far semua OK. Last xray bulan September 2014. Hasil hitungan terakhir 8 derajat, tapi sewaktu gw protes kenapa waktu abis operasi hitungannya 5 derajat, dia bilang,"hadeeuh, beda 3 derajat sih masalah mata aja, ga substansial". "Mungkin ga curvenya naik lagi?" "Unlikely". Setelah itu, ga tau lupa, ga tau memang udah ga perlu lagi ketemu, gw ga tau jadwal kontrol berikutnya. 

Akhir-akhir ini sih Operation Thursday Night lagi gencar lagi karena ternyata keloid Lilu parah. Sudah dibilangin berkali-kali baik sama si dokter maupun Will Smith, tapi ga tau kenapa kok ya masih aja. Ga ngerti bedanya apa sama waktu caesar Lilu karena gw juga keloid parah (problem yang turun temurun ini), tapi sama Oom Salim sih bekas operasi caesar gw ga masalah (dr. Azen Salim itu sahabat tante gw yang orang Croatia (dulu Yugoslavia)), secara Oom Salim cukup lama disana dan practically dia udah jadi dokter keluarga Sjarief. Sebagian besar populasi clan Sjarief didominasi oleh perempuan dan rata-rata jadi pasiennya oom Salim). 

Masalah dengan keloid itu, khususnya untuk gw dan keluarga, ga bisa didiemin. Makin lama makin membesar. Bayangin aja, hanya gara-gara tindik telinga, gw di usia 8 tahun terpaksa dibedah karena cuping kuping gw penuh dengan daging keloid. Sama dengan adik gw, tapi sayangnya operasinya kurang berhasil dan keloidnya tumbuh lagi.

Jadi sekarang Lilu harus suntik selama 5x setiap minggu (tapi bulan November ini skip 3 minggu karena si dokter lagi sibuk ga terima tamu) jadi ketemu-ketemu untuk suntik yang ke-3 di awal bulan Desember 2014. Suntik keloid itu sakit banget dan ga hanya sekali tusuk tapi berkali-kali dalam satu kali pertemuan. Gosok-gosok alkohol, suntik. Gosok-gosok alkohol, suntik lagi, deeeuh perih liatnya aja. Berdarah-darah punggungnya kalau abis suntik. Suntiknya di bawah kulit, ga jleb ke dalem kaya suntik biasa. Mewek deh kalau gw sendiri yang disuntik, gw ambil langkah seribu alias AWOL kalau harus disuntik kaya Lilu.

Tapi daripada harus dibedah lagi, yaah mau ga mau. See I told ya, Lilu tuh anaknya kuat dan tabah, Ga pernah tuh dia nulis status menye-menye, tegaaar! Love her from earth to heaven and back!

So here we are, at the end of our scoliosis journey. The end buat Lilu hopefully. Tapi buat gw, kayanya masih ada project yang masih berurusan sama scoliosis juga. My personal philanthropic project, yang didukung oleh teman-teman gw yang kebetulan concern dan ingin join dalam project gw. Ga tau kenapa, semua bergulir begitu saja. Ga dicari, ga diminta.  I have been receiving so many helping hands, dalam berbagai bentuk, directly maupun indirectly. Gw rasa, I have to give back to the universe. It is a good karma and hopefully it will lead us to a better future. I do believe that something wonderful is coming in our way. Everything happens for a reason and what meant to be is meant to be.

It is 6 more days to my next birthday...

This beautiful ceramic heart was made by a very talented Indonesian artist,
courtesy of Lie Fhung.

Thank you for granting my wish. Thank you for being my source of light in the end of the tunnel. 
Thank you for being my beacon when my ship is about to crash to the shore.
Thank you for being here with us every steps of the way, side by side, protecting us in ur own special way.
Thank you for reminding me that Life is Great.

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