When even typing began to hurt, I started to cry.
For days, my wrists and fingers ached. Then it worsened.
As I went to bed in tears, Cliff said, “You need help. Not OTC stuff- but you need to see a doctor, or physio.“
Before I went to bed, I’d asked for referrals on IG. In the morning, a sweet follower who’d sent me some encouraging messages a week ago wrote, “I’m a physio, but what you really need is an OT (occupational therapist).” She zoomed me, then kindly referred me to a clinic.
Sadly, the clinics were all full. The earliest appointment was in weeks.
It was then that Cliff texted me, “R is an OT!”
“What are you talking about?”
That very morning, as Cliff waited to pick Sarah-Faith up from kindy, he made small talk with R, a mum who’d become special friends with us. Over a year ago, she’d recognized our family at the Esplanade, and bravely introduced herself as my blog reader. After losing contact, we found each other at the same kindy a year later.
When R video-called me in the evening, she said, “Cliff really loves you. You know we never usually talk. Today, we happened to, he casually asked what I worked as and when I said OT, you should have seen his face!”
Who but God would know I needed an OT like R, who then gave me a teleconsult that very evening. “You’ve been a blessing in my life for many years, Wai Jia. I’m so happy to do this.”
As I looked back at the day, I saw fingerprints of God’s goodness- the IG-physio-follower who recommended I see an OT, Cliff’s “accidental” conversation with R, another IG-follower who’d connected with me recently who also shared, “I’m actually an OT,” and a homeschooling Mum who’d recognized us at Clementi mall a year ago who reached out to me and said, “My husband (a hand specialist) can see you at his clinic today!”
Seeing the hand specialist to diagnose what I had was perfect before R stepped in as an OT. In my pain, God was in it- through it all. Even at R’s random encounter with us at esplanade a year ago.
R prayed, “Help Wai Jia know that even in her limitations, You are not limited.”
Truly, I know that🥲❤️. To this special IG community, thank you <3