One day, year end, 2022... i felt a pebble hard lump in my 窝 during one of those irritating, annoying, disgusting, menacing painful days that many of my gender have to suffer through on a monthly basis...
another agonising day, beginning year 2023, i felt the pebble again and it felt bigger!!!... hmmm... 掐指一算... realised that because of covid coupled with my max level of procrastination, it had been 3 years since i went for my free yearly body check up @ Raffles Hospital... hurried made an appointment only to be informed that the earliest possible date was 5 months later in August... free 的东西就是这样咯 !!!...
i also didnt have the sense of urgency... slowly slowly went for checks & scans, slowly slowly waited for report, slowly slowly took the report to polyclinic to request for a referral only in November... polyclinic doctor saw my report, immediately put me on iron pills as my iron counts was at a ridiculously level of 8... normal level for women is between 12 to 16... 😅😅😅
and i got an appointment at kkh within a week, which worried me a little... base on my experience with 蔡妈咪's multiple medical conditions, anything too fast with public hospital is always no good news!!! one thing led to another and then I had 7 appointments of blood tests, scans & consults within the 6 weeks of school holiday that year end!!!
final result out beginning of last year > i have 5 huge growth, each the size of a tennis ball, in my 窝... opted for hysterectomy which would put me on 6-8 weeks of HL as i had to go through the full cut across, removal and recovery just like a cesarean birth procedure as the stickiness of my organs wouldnt allow a keyhole surgery to do its due...
but doctor also said that it wasnt urgent urgent to have the procedure immediately as the growth shouldnt be cancerous and so i decided that this could wait till the end of last year or beginning of this year so that it doesnt disrupt my holiday plans and my work for the year... most importantly, i wasnt mentally prepared to go through such a major op with such short notice...😅😅😅
all scans result only have a 6 months validity so i had to repeat my scans last November, closer to the planned surgery date in Jan this year... by a stroke of luck and blessings from all around, this second scan result was viewed by another doctor whom suggested an alternative procedure, embolization - injecting particles to block the arteries that have been feeding the growth, starving them to death, hopefully within 3 months... this procedure would be much less invasive (yeah!), much less risky (yeah! x2) and would put me on 2 week HL only (not so yeah!... 😅😅😅)
anyway, arrangement was made... first step, sent my 宝贝 小老太婆 to the chuas for her stayca with her favourite ah yee...
then admitted myself in a day after on 10 Feb
interesting but didnt use cos i had my own book and my phone with 200GB data... heee
had a high fever that night that resulted in me being quarantined and had to change ward for being a danger to the other two patients who were having their chemotherapy...
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