Descending into Deliverance

19th August 2008

We were ready for the Op in 2 days time. Leave was applied for and approved. Mom offered to take leave is Daphne couldn't recover fast enough next week. Pa/Ma offered the spare room in Bedok or to send lunch over if needed. BFC folks were ready to take leave and come down to pray for us on the morning of the Op. Truly, God has blessed us with people who love us so much and are willing to make life easier for us in our time of need.

Dad was also really nice today. He picked us up from home and drove us to KK. So we plopped down to Specialist Clinic A while Dad went to send Popo to the polyclinic, and while we waited, we browsed over the newly announced baby bonuses in the newspapers. $1k more cash, 4 days more childcare leave, 1 month more maternity leave... not bad, too bad no paternity leave hehe.

Ok I digress. When we went into the consultation room for the scan. I was puzzled when the normally confident Dr Tee squinted at the screen and drew a myriad of circles with the ultrasound probe on Daphne's tummy. He murmured that he couldn't find the cyst, and I bet Daphne's heart missed a beat when he said that. Only after another minute of searching did he find the cyst. Measuring in at a now miniature 3.4 cm, the cyst had unexplainably shrunk by 60%! Praise God!

Dr Tee later said that the cyst should be a Corpus Luteum Cyst instead of a Dermoid Cyst, cos only a Corpus Luteum cyst shrinks by itself. He printed out an article on it and explained that it should disappear by itself in a few weeks, and Daphne didn't need to undergo the operation after all! Of course our first sight of Little Leong's head and tiny little body, measuring 3.2 cm in length meant that he/she's really growing well, and that we need not worry about his/her health.

It was spam spam spam all the way, as we messaged everyone the good news, and called our parents in turn to share our happiness and relief.

We celebrated by spending our Taka vouchers on nice Italian food at Ambush, before I had to go back to work. Finally, I can blog and announce everything about our Little Leong without risk of a tragic memory, but instead look forward to this journey, as God guides us in this wonderful challenge of parenthood.

God is good amen? :D