Went to AH yesterday to collect my report and see the doctor. I was a little displeased with the fact that the doctor told me that another doctor will be in a better position to give me advice on what to do and told me to go back again today. Although I was angry, I still let them arrange an appointment for me today, not knowing that the appointment is in the morning. Anyway, I have no choice but to see him in the morning.
So I took a half day leave to see the doctor and he told me that I had a 3-5mm stone in my left salivary gland. There can be many reasons how it was formed but he was unsure about it. From the scan, there seemed to be another smaller one next to this. So well, he advised me to get rid of it before it grows bigger and causes even more problems.
He told me he will first insert a scope into my duct to try to fish the stone out. However, if it is unsuccessful, he will have to operate on my neck to remove the stones together with the salivary gland. Sounds pretty scary as he mentioned it is close to my nerves and may affect my mouth. After hearing all these, I was pretty scared. Plus he had with him 4 trainee doctors. They each took turn to feel the lump in my throat. I guess, they will also follow him into the operating theatre when I'm having the surgery.
I left AH and went back to school to teach my form class. After school, went to NUH to sign the documents as I will be having my surgery there instead of AH. What a hassle! My surgery will be during the PSLE marking days. So I guess my lessons will not be affected much unless I take more than a week to recover.
So Christians out there, please pray for me that everything will go smoothly, that I do not have to be operated on. And also the whole process will not be painful and I will recover in a week. From now till then, I have more than a month. I pray that there will not be pain and a miracle will happen.
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