Five more days to go before I go under the knife. The clock is ticking away….
This will be my fourth surgery, of which three were C-section deliveries and one was a laproscopic ovarian drilling. The laproscopic myomectomy surgery that I am scheduled to go through will be performed at the same hospital that I gave birth to our 3 girls to. I have also requested the same anesthesiologist who is a family friend to administer the GA on me.
The past few days seem like a blood-chasing marathon for me again. I’ve been forcing myself to eat red meat at almost every meal, which is quite a torture for me as I am not quite a meat lover. Can everyone please pray for me that my total blood count goes up and shows a reading of at least 8? If it does, then I can avert a blood transfusion on the eve of the surgery.
My lunch today is beef + purple sweet potato porridge with our favorite ‘tau kok lup’.
My mid morning breakfast was 2 guinea fowl eggs with organic blackstrap molasses and pepper. Yesterday, a relative gave me a crate of guinea fowl eggs to ‘pou’ (nourish) my body.
Guinea fowls are relatives of pheasants and chickens. Guinea fowl hen eggs are smaller (weighing about 45 g), but richer in content of dry matter, lipid, vitamin “A” and carotenoids. The eggs are pear-shaped, smaller than chicken eggs, with thick and strong light brown shell, have large yolks and taste similar to chicken eggs. Guinea fowl eggs are very nutritious and the content of vitamin A, D3, E and group B exceed that of chicken eggs almost twice.
Guinea fowl
Dinner was beef porridge again. This time, my thoughtful mil minced the beef with a chopper as I commented that the meat was a tad tough 💗
Tonight’s homely dinner of minced beef purple sweet potato porridge, cooked with love.
Today has been a pretty good day for me. I felt a burst of energy and optimism during my pre-dawn exercise.
When Cass got back from school, she told me what all mothers love to hear most. She did well in her recent school exam with a top 10 position in the entire standard 3 😊💟
Later, my insurance agent Whatsapped me to inform that the insurance company will be approving my claim for the upcoming surgery and a Letter of Undertaking has been issued. That’s RM30,000 saved, praise the Lord!
In between, there are a couple of good news too. The stars have definitely aligned with the moon today. Drama Queen got up at 5:30 a.m. this morning and told me that she saw a big sparkling star next to a crescent moon on a very clear sky. What a pleasant sight to behold.
The batch of cinnamon, pandan, walnut and chocolate chip rolls that the mil baked today for the girls’ snacks box and breakfast tomorrow.
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