Hope in the face of trials

The story of my life of suffering and hopes

Author: Amel S.

Editions: Al Hadith

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This autobiographical book is the poignant and moving story of a young Muslim woman who went through many ordeals and experienced extraordinary difficulties. Tested in her physical and mental health, Amel endured some of the harshest pain one can experience: long and painful years of illness, suffering, misunderstandings, misunderstandings, visits to specialist doctors, incorrect diagnoses, medical incompetence, hospitalizations, questioning, but also moments of hope, self-discovery and faith, family support and love.

At the cost of suffering and repentance, through misfortunes experienced and values rediscovered, declines and revivals of faith, Amel experienced in his flesh and understood that life is only a test by which Allah U tests those whom he He loves, as our noble Prophet (pbuh) taught us.

Here are the memories of a great soul in a tried body, a message of hope to anyone tested by misfortune and illness.

It is the story of Amel, the story of hope, the story of a sister whose first name means “hope”.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This book is a first for me, I write to express my discomfort. I think some people will recognize themselves through my humble contribution. I need to share what I feel, what I experience deep within myself and what people do to me. I am going through a struggle with myself, my family and especially with medicine.

“It's all in your head” is the most terrible sentence a doctor can say to his patient. From this moment on, a feeling of dissatisfaction and distrust towards doctors is born among patients. Our pain is reduced to a psychological problem. It seems as if the average person is incapable of discerning intense pain from simple temporary or somatic pain. “It’s in your head”! These five words that constantly come to mind and set things on fire. It is sad to see that doctors stop at analyzing and reading the requested tests. Indeed, if the x-ray or scanner does not reveal anything abnormal, there is no need to worry. Additional research or sampling is not necessary or even pointless. What future for us, patients without a fixed diagnosis? Should we wait to die slowly before hoping one day to discover our illness? Always the same sentences that come back and resonate like a drum:

“Madam, there is nothing wrong with you”, “you are fine”, “everything is normal”. No, no and no. Nothing is normal. Quite the contrary. Now my suffering is double. On the one hand, the physical pain which increases day by day and on the other hand, the more subtle and invisible insidious suffering that I have to face, namely the lack of understanding, humanism, credulity and negative judgments within the medical community.

I knew that a long fight awaited me, but I did not lose hope and placed my trust in Allah...

Contents:

Editor's Preface

Introduction

How it all began

My first operation

Back at home

I can't stand anyone anymore

A welcome vacation

Looking for a job

Hospitalization and a battery of examinations

Back to my post at the nursery

My poor parents

I meet an exorcist

My third pregnancy

A journey and new adventures

I am giving birth to my third child

My son saved by miracle

New test and new miracle

Return to Belgium and return of pain

My operation

Hope in the face of trials

An inexplicable event with serious consequences

Patches on my face

My puvatherapy

Surgery for my herniated disc

My urinary infection

The gastric tube comes with me home

Tossed around again from doctor to doctor

My daughter is missing her school year

My son's alopecia areata

Our money problems

An unnatural naturopath

Back to my first nephrologist

My operation to remove parathyroid adenoma

I leave the hospital with my medical file

I meet the mayor of my town

I change treating doctor

I decide not to see a doctor anymore

The revelation

End of 2019-beginning of 2020

Acquire Paradise

Conclusion

Since writing this book