Daddy update again

Daddy’s back home and the surgery went fine. A little bit of the tumor could not be removed because it was in a sensitive area. Heard that there was fluid under the skin where the wound was and was removed using a syringe. We’re hoping that the wound would heal fine. Other than that, everything’s good! Hehe. Parents should be returning to Shanghai again a month later.

Daddy update

Parents are back in Singapore for my dad’s medical checkup. And unfortunately there is tumor growth (again) and my parents have scheduled my dad for his 4th brain surgery. Thankfully, according to what my mum told me, the growth is only on the surface (what surface? I have no idea). I think his surgery is on 1st Oct, again I’m not sure whether is it the 1st or the 10th because my mother typed the date out in her email as ‘1Oct’, so it’s like, did she think the ‘O‘ was a zero or what, while looking at her screen. But I shall assume my mother isn’t that blur and that she meant 1st and only forgot to tap the spacebar between the one and the ‘O‘. So anyway, his doctor is concerned with healing of the wound and stuff because this is after all his fourth surgery.

At the moment, the plan is that my parents will return to Shanghai after my dad’s surgery and followup, which would mean that they’ll be in Singapore for about a month or so. We’ll see how things go.

Thanks for all the prayers.

Short Daddy update

Just got to speak to the parents on the phone! All’s well and Daddy is fine. He just went to see the doctor today and Dad might have to go for radiotherapy. But Dad sounds fine and energetic on the phone, I was whining about how quiet it can be here at Adelaide. Haha, he was busy laughing at me. Tsk. What parents I have.

I’ve finally got out of my hole (& Daddy update 2)

Ok, so recently I’ve holed myself up in almost complete isolation in a bid to finish the Twilight series of books. And, I’m glad to say that I’ve succeeded. I really wanted to update my blog right after I was done with my books, but due to some internet/phone bill issue thing our internet had to be cut off for a couple of days. Gah, just when I decided to tear my eyes away from Edward and Bella for a while.

Anyway, I took about a week or slightly more than a week to complete reading all 4 books (time to buy all four books included as well) of the Twilight series. So I’ve been pretty much immersing myself in the make-believe world of Twilight. The lines written are so sweet, I could feel myself swooning. I’ve been so engrossed that I’d read the books late into the night, as a result, I’ve been appearing at work with horrible dark circles under the eyes. My colleagues were shocked, think I gave them a scare or something. They couldn’t stop commenting. Sigh.

One morning, I found a note on my workstation when I arrived at work.

Daddy update

Daddy is admitting on Saturday and going for his operation on Monday.

just random rants

For those who have been dropping by here every now and then to keep yourself posted about my dad, he is still alive and kicking. And kicking too much probably. Basically he is fine and all is well.

He just came back from a checkup on Monday and the doctors found out that the tumor grew yet again. But the amazing thing is that, he isn’t showing any negative symptoms (thank God)! Which is a good sign and it has left the doctors puzzled. But then again the growing tumor isn’t really that good, I’m not sure what treatment he’ll be going through yet. Either going through a surgery again or chemotherapy (which may or may not work). This will only be decided upon one month later when my dad goes for another scan. Anyway, thanks for all your prayers.

Going on from here are just my rants. Proceed with caution. Heh.

Not just Cats & Dogs

It’s pouring cats and dogs, no wait, it should be cows and horses. The rain was so heavy my shoes got soaked through and my pants got wet knees down. When I finally reached home, my toes were all wrinkly and my umbrella finally conked out. I need a new brolly now. Sigh.

I had a horrible dream last night. Dreamt that my dad lost the battle against cancer and my mum sent a message to me from Shanghai saying that my dad had passed on. I woke up fighting back tears and my back wet from my own sweat. I felt so lost and shaken, I literally felt myself crumbling in my dream. I was so, so relieved to wake up to find it all a dream.

Thank God it was only a dream or else I wouldn’t know what to do. The thought of losing a parent scares me.

Shiver.