The Star Malaysia Monday May 10, 2010 By MANJIT KAUR
GEORGE TOWN: Mother's Day is supposed to be a time for celebration but not for an octogenarian who is facing "eviction" from the Penang Hospital.
Cheah Say Choo, 86, who has been bed-ridden at the hospital for three years and four months, is in a quandary as the hospital is asking her three children to take her home.
"She does not want to be a burden to her family and neither does she want to be placed in a nursing home," said her youngest son Chan Thye Choon, who added that his mother preferred family members to visit her at the hospital.
"We have never celebrated Mother's Day in a big way before. I guess her only wish is to see her family members," said Thye Choon, a 51-year-old school teacher who visits his mother twice a day bringing her food and diapers.
His elder brother Thye Leong, 60, visits his mother every morning to provide her breakfast.
Thye Choon said his mother had a fall at her house in Tanjung Bungah in January 2007.
Doctors at Penang Hospital inserted a metal piece into her left leg and discharged her but the metal piece caused complications and she required two more operations later. However, when the surgeries failed, doctors had to amputate Cheah's left leg.
"Where am I supposed to take her to in her condition?" he asked.
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