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Thomas Ong’s Japan trip was cut short by an accident on Oct 25.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old local actor shared in a Facebook post on Nov 1: “Sometimes, the timing of an incident is even more astonishing than the actual event.”<\/p>\n
The photo accompanying his post shows him at an airport, sitting on a wheelchair with his right ankle bandaged and holding on to his clutches.<\/p>\n
He had initially planned a 45-day trip in Japan, which only lasted over 10 days because of his injury.<\/p>\n
Thomas, who did not reveal how it occurred, wrote: “The doctor gave me two options. One was surgery to place a metal plate in the fractured bone, and I could start moving more freely after about two weeks.<\/p>\n
“The other option was to skip surgery but plaster [my leg] and let the bone heal on its own. No matter which, the doctor said it would take about six weeks of recovery time.”<\/p>\n
When he heard it, he immediately did the math, as he was supposed to serve as a tour guide for a trip to Europe on Dec 7.<\/p>\n
“It just happened to be in six weeks. In that moment, I didn’t feel I am unlucky. Instead, I felt an indescribable kind of gratitude, because if this accident had happened two weeks later, I might not have been able to go on that Europe trip,” Thomas shared.<\/p>\n