STABBING VICTIM’S HELL RIDE
BRONSON Chi Siong goes to church every Sunday and has a strong “relationship with God”.
But the 29-year-old chemist says he has been through hell – and six surgeries – after being stabbed in the stomach while at church two months ago.
“It was a hell of an experience,” Mr Siong says, speaking publicly for the first time.
Jiun Hsing Loh has been charged with acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm and has been in custody since the alleged June 1 attack at the Hope Christian Church in Southport.
“I remember not being able to walk at all (after surgery),” Mr Siong said. “Because of the trauma I couldn’t see (properly) ... I had double vision.
“During my first week in hospital I kept getting anxiety attacks, there were dreams where I felt like I was dying and then I would wake up and I would have so much pain I couldn’t even explain it.”
Mr Siong, who feared he would not recover from the attack, asked a friend to take him to Gold Coast University Hospital when his thoughts turned to the afterlife.
“Halfway to the hospital I started suffocating and blacking out, I thought ‘oh no where am I going to go?’ even though I have a relationship with God, I go to church every Sunday and I do the right thing.”
Later he was told his kidneys had been damaged. “It was excruciating. The nurses said ‘wow, you must have someone up there watching over you’ because I had two stab wounds very close to my spine.
“The kidney lacerations were not very deep and my vital organs were missed as well. Now I’m feeling so much better, thanks to the help from my church group and all the prayers.”
Loh’s matter is due to be mentioned in the Southport Magistrates Court on October 23.