15 April 2021
Hallelujah! Praise be to God! He works in marvellous and mysterious ways indeed. Despite my good friend, Angeline, suggesting that I could get someone to help me trace my histopathology result ahead of my surgical follow-up, I had no intention of doing so. But this afternoon, I whatsapped my friend, Su Yuen, to enquire about her biopsy result. She had a minor surgery done on a suspicious mole, on the same day I underwent my total thyroidectomy. She reported that hers is normal and kindly offered to help me trace my result.
It was a mere 15-minute wait before she texted back with my results. But it was an agonizing duration, with my heart pounding and my hands turning icy cold. I could only sit still and pray the Rosary.
Su Yuen took two blurry snapshots of my histopathology report from the computer screen. To a layman like me, most of it is Greek. But Su Yuen pointed out the all-important sentence : "No evidence of malignancy seen". Praise God indeed! As I carefully attempted to read through the report (and tried to make sense of the Greek), I spotted another sentence : "No nuclear features of papillary thyroid carcinoma". Sounds good!
As Su Yuen has always been a cautious person, she added that it all "sounds OK though I am not an expert in this field". To play it safe, I forwarded her images, without saying anything, to five other doctors for their interpretation. Yee Yan, my physician, was the first to reply, "That's a benign lesion."
The sun has come out to shine again! And today's exactly 2 weeks after I bade goodbye to my butterfly. You are gone, but I embrace New Life again!
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