Hi everyone, my name is Jassie. I was a regular at MLCC. But when I got married, and had 2 kids, and my career had just started, I didn’t go to the MLCC very often. But I still called MLCC my spiritual home.
Last year, when I was at home from work, I passed out in the toilet. My older daughter & my husband found me. Then the doctor told me husband he needs to be prepared that I might not make it through as I had stroke. I had AVM, arteriovenous malformation. I never heard of that before. I had been very fit and was young.
I end up with had 3 brain surgeries for that night. The first two didn’t go well, so I had the third. The doctor took one piece of my bone from the end of my neck to relief the pressure from my brain. The surgery went well, but I didn’t wake up. So I was pushed back to my ward to wait to see if I could breathe by myself, not via the machine. A couple of days later, I still didn’t wake up and breathe by myself. Then the doctor told my husband that he had to call brain death for me. My husband was terrified, and said he needs to tell my mother-in law & my dad first if that is case. And my church friends & my friends came to pray for me. Some of the church friends where from a church I didn’t even go to.
Then my mother-in law & my dad were on the way to see me. Somehow the plane for my mother-in law was delayed which gave me a couple of hours. When she arrived, I was awake already.
Thank you so much for my church friends. God is good. He was answering prayers.
After I woke up, I needed to do rehab twice per week. My church friends & friends still came to visit me and told me jokes. And my husband was there every day to help me too. Those things made me feel it was not that hard. They encouraged me a lot.
I stayed in the hospitals for 4 months, in 2 hospitals. I feel so blessed as I have my church friends and my family supporting me. Now I go to rehab every week. I want to be a positive mum for my kids, inspire them sometimes.
So I am doing my rehab positively, and hopefully my story can encourage you too.
Adelaide, May 2026
Jassie