Illness

Finding Purpose

Called to care: My unconventional path into geriatric nursing

Before joining St Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) as a nurse, I had taken a gap year after graduating from university in 2023. My educational path was a little longer than most — I started in junior...

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Finding hope amidst my journey with scoliosis

Back in 2019 when I was in Sec 2, I received a bad health report: my scoliosis, a condition where the spine curves abnormally, had worsened. While I had been flagged for scoliosis in 2017 during an...

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“Every night I tell her her name”: Retired pastor who’s spent 13 years caring for wife with Alzheimer’s

Retired pastor Alvin Ngo, 61, spends almost every moment of every day with his wife of 35 years, Wai Leng. They have been inseparable for the last 13 years. It would have been romantic had it not...

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Living through chronic illness, my whole life felt like a dark tunnel

Ever since I was a 6-month-old, I’ve suffered from global gastrointestinal dysmotility, a condition where the muscles in the digestive tract fail to contract and relax properly. Between the ages of...

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Born with three holes in my heart, I’m a “medical anomaly” who was healed by Jesus

I was born with multiple congenital heart defects. I had atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD) and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Big jargon. Simply put, I had 3 holes in my...

Real Life, Real People

How a passion for running became my mission field

I started running competitively during my polytechnic days. Joining the long-distance team as an 800m runner, I found that my coach focused on imparting values without compromising on performance. ...

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I strived to become a world-class pianist my whole life, but tragedy struck overnight

I was 17 when I woke up one day with pain in my wrist and elbow. Writing suddenly became difficult, and all of a sudden, I could no longer control my fingers anymore when playing the piano. I went to...

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Surviving childhood cancer thrice, I never understood why God let me live

My name is Gabriel. I am 20 years old and throughout my life, I have had cancer three times. I had my first encounter with cancer in 2009. I was only five years old then. It started with just...

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I lost a kidney growing up, but I would come to gain so much more

I was three years old when I lost a kidney.  From a young age, I had been having regular fevers. My mother kept bringing me to the general practitioner, but there was no other sign from my body that...