My Life Journey – Part 15:
We are Going to Australia….
During our stay in Qatar in July 2012, we were gifted our 3rd child a beautiful little girl. After a couple of months, I suffered a severe pain and found that I have a huge stone in my right kidney almost 3cm in diameter, there was a doctor in a famous hospital in Qatar decided to take this stone out by simple operation called PCNL using tube with very small cut at the skin, he showed me some videos about this operation. I was unconscious during the operation, when I woke up, they told me that the operation didn’t succeed as the Doctor couldn’t reach to the stone due to some fat in that area, however I was waiting for the alternative solution and pain had started, it was severe pain I never felt like it before and my blood pressure were dropping very quickly. They gave me around 6 litre of blood and still the pressure going down. The doctor came and admitted me for another operation. After the operation I came to know that I was almost dead and when I woke up and walked in the hospital hall, nurses were calling their colleagues to witness the dead-walking. What had happened is that during the first operation and due to lack of experience the doctor cut a major vein without noticing and couldn’t reach to the stone, so after that I had a big internal bleeding caused me to lose almost half of my body blood. The second operation, they had to make a big cut to stop the bleeding, clean the blood and remove the stone. I have a noticeable deformation in that area till now.
However, as I mentioned before, with time passing and the conflict in Syria escalating we started to lose the feeling of future security, there we decided that we need to find another country can grant us a passport and can be considered a home for us and our offspring. It was not an easy task to decide where to go, but one of my Australian subcontractor team started to convince me that Australia is the place. And yes, I took his advice. I had to read a lot about Australia and how to get the best visa, it was a long way and lots of paper works until we got our visas mid of 2015, informed my employer formally and resigned from my job, my last working day was in the first week of August 2015.
I informed my parents about our plan since the biggening and was updating them frequently, but when the visas were issued and we booked the tickets, my dad passed away and I couldn’t tell him goodbye.
We are going to leave to a new country were we don’t know anyone and we don’t know anything except what I heard from that guy and what I read on the internet, it was scary movement, therefore I requested the CEO of the company to keep my Qatari visa valid as I don’t know how life will go and I may need to go back to Qatar, he was very kind and agreed to grant me a special exemption.
My wife met a Syrian lady online who lives in Sydney, her advices were very helpful to us and gave us some kind of comfort.
After booking the tickets, I booked a furnished accommodation through Airbnb. We packed all our staff and jumped on the flight to Sydney.