TIMA’s TCM Team Brought Hope to Bedridden Brain Surgery Patient

TCM doctors, Dr. Chew Sio Peng (first from the right) and Dr. Mao Bing Han (second from the left), giving acupuncture treatment to Mdm. Chieng. (Photo by Lee Beng Hwee)"She went for physiotherapy today, where she was asked by the physiotherapist to practise taking a ball from one basket and putting it into another. But she lifted the whole basket and poured the balls into the other basket instead!” exclaimed Tzu Chi volunteer, Kong Kim Yoke.As Kong witnessed the continual, gradual improvement in Mdm. Chien’s (a brain surgery patient) condition, she felt really happy for her and her family.In 2017, Mdm. Chieng, who worked in the food and beverage industry, started noticing that she could not walk steadily and her body would lean backwards uncontrollably. It did not seem alarming to her at first. However, when she saw no improvement in her symptoms after some time, she began to seek medical treatment.The initial diagnosis by the doctor was stroke, but after going through a tomography sca...