Happy Birthday Miss CoCo!

Haha... A little belated, but never mind lah hor! Miss CoCo's birthday was on the 12th September. No, there weren’t any fancy celebrations or cool parties, but it was a nice day anyway. In fact, I started collecting presents one week before the actual birthday! During Char's housewarming party on the 6 Sep, Mao, Zinc, Suv, char passed me my birthday presents.



So nice hor, go to other people's housewarming can receive gifts too! Haha... Thanks for the gifts gals~ I love it...

On the night before my birthday Cobby and I were watching TV. It was just after midnight and I was criticizing how cruel the Janice Dickenson is on her models when suddenly Cobby asked me to switch off the TV. When I did, he sat down on the sofa and started singing me my birthday song! Awww... After the song he showed me what he was hiding behind his back. A jewellery box!



A gorgeous Brilliant Rose diamond ring! He even engraved words on the inside of the ring - So sweet! I was SO HAPPY!!!





Honestly I didn't expect this, I was expecting probably a nice meal and maybe a handphone or wallet or something, so that was a really nice surprise... Thank you Cobby! I love the present!

At around 9 plus the next morning, I was awoken by my handphone ringing away happily in the study room. So I quickly jumped out of bed, found the phone, and the next thing I knew a bunch of screaming and giggling voices greeted me over the phone. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" Zinc screamed, followed by a chorus of girls singing me a birthday song.

While they sang away happily I dropped back into bed. The singing was so loud that even Cobby heard it when I lifted the phone slightly away from my face. Haha... I think the main mastermind must be Zinc while Marl and Suv became the poor accomplice. Haha...

But that was really very sweet of them. Thank you ladies, it was a very nice way to wake up. :)

It was a very simple day, we had roti prata for breakfast and dim sum for lunch. Cobby was very happy when I wore the ring out, he likes it as much as I do! After lunch we hung around Causeway Point and I bought myself some presents too!



Cobby had classes that night so we didn't really go anywhere else, but no matter what I wanna go out on Saturday, so, looking forward to it! It was a simple day, spending time with my dear hubby and receiving all the birthday wishes from friends and family. I felt really happy and blessed. Thank you everybody!

Medical Scare

We went for an OSCAR scan on the 7 August, which was a scan to see what the chances of our baby having Down syndrome are. I wasn't too worried as there wasn't any family history, but we went for the check anyway - just in case. So they drew one giant tube of my blood, which I totally hate, and gave baby a high resolution scan.

On the 4 September we went back to Dr Kee for the test results, so I asked for the earliest timing available, which was 9.45am. CRAP! We waited for almost TWO HOURS to see him! I was SO PISSED and FUSTRATED. What's the point of making an appointment right?? Later Cobby asked what's causing the delay and found out that Dr Kee came in an hour late that morning, so all the appointments were delayed. HMPH! ANGRY!

When we finally get to see him, we got some good news and bad news:

Good news: VERY LOW chances of getting Down syndrome *yeah (^^)Y *

Bad news: My blood test showed signs of Thalassemia

I was like, "huh? What’s that?" Before I had time to register, Dr Kee said that he had to draw some blood from me NOW to test for Thalassemia. On one side I was quite shocked at his urgency - So kan cheong till must draw blood himself on the spot? (usually the nurses do it)

On the other hand, I sort of panicked because I absolutely hated to draw blood. My stupid veins are very fine and drawing blood has always been a painful and difficult process for me as well as whoever was doing the drawing. :P

True enough, when Dr Kee saw my arms and my near invisible veins, he said "wah! did they have trouble drawing blood the other time?" So embarrassing..! So he wasted no time and decided to draw the blood from the back of my hand!!!

VERY PAINFUL OK...

FYI got blue-black the next few days...

Dr Kee said that my case is probably Thalassemia minor, which is not so bad, see, I grew up so big and healthy! Since it's inheritary, chances of baby getting it are quite high.

BUT! If Cobby has it too then baby could get Thalassemia Major, which is like, SUPER BAD. Baby would probably need MONTHLY BLOOD TRANSFUSION and would probably have a VERY SHORT LIFE SPAN. So Dr Kee asked Cobby to fax him his recent blood test result so that he can take a look. *CoCo going pale with scary news and blood lost*

How Thalassemia is inherited

When we left sis called me and I told her about the condition. I was still a confused what the hell is that and was a little freaking out. Then she told me not to worry as apparently she and Mom has it too! I feel a little better that I'm not the only one having it, but I was still worried cuz we dunno if Cobby has it or not.

Cobby knew I was super worried, so he quickly found his blood test results when we got home. Looks like his blood test results is normal! YEAH! PHEW~! So we quickly faxed over the report to Dr Kee. Suddenly I can breath better... Sigh~

As we surfed the web for more information, I realised that we should inform my brother of this inheritary blood disorder! It also dawned on me the importance of pre-marital checkups. I was advised to do so by someone, but I always thought that these checkups were for things like, HIV, AIDS, STD, etc. so I thought it's not necessary. I never thought of the possibility that either of us could have inheritary disorders that we didn't know of!

Thankfully Cobby doesn't have the same blood disorder as me. But what if he does? Does that mean I would have to abort my baby and never have a child? I can't imagine the horror... I guess these checkups are a good way to prevent possible pain and suffering of an innocent child.

So, planning to marry Mr Right and having kids? Better go check if the both of you are as compatible biologically as you are emotionally!

Anyway, Dr Kee came back with the results, but this time I was prepared for the news. Surprisingly, he said that the Thalassemia trait was so minimal in my system that they can't really determine if I have Thalassemia minor or I'm just a little anaemic (low blood). So, he prescribed me multi-vitamins with iron in it, then see how lah~

Oh man, the kid is not even out yet and is already causing me so much stress! But we're really glad he/she would be OK. Next check up in October - we'll check if baby is developing normally physically. We'll also find out if baby is a little prince or princess! Exciting!!!!