Midnight Trips

As the end of May drew near, Kevin had to rectify a medical condition with a relatively less major operation.

To avoid having to intubate him during the operation, the doctors decided that half body anaesthesia would be safer. So came the operation day, my mum and myself got everything in order and accompanied him for the operation. To start with, he started to cough more suddenly the night before and couldn't get much sleep. Hungry, due to fasting, and tired he headed for the procedure.

Just as I was about to hand over my credit-card for payment, he suddenly called to tell me that he had just vommitted. It did not help that he was extremely jittery about the whole thing. The surgeon was very kind and understanding.... she came out after completing a surgery to talk to him. As he was already feeling unwell, we decided to postpone the surgery till a later day.

The whole incident probably took a toll on him as he suddenly became down with high fever upon reaching home. His temperature was yoyo-ing between 37.9 to 38.8 degree celcius. To make matters worse, he had episodes of urine obstruction and there was a night when I had to "fly....according to my driving standards.." to SGH at 11pm and 4.30am at a go. Having a phobia of hospitals, he refused to be hospitalised so his oncologists had to work around monitoring via smses.

Well, we really thank The Lord once again for all the assistance the doctors rendered to us and his fever was subdued and there were no further complications other than the bout of viral infection.