The past two days have been rough. On Wednesday Shorty went to see the Doctor for a routine check-up on Fighter. It was the first check-up that I wasn’t able to have with her because Angela wanted to go see Fighter on the ultrasound and the only day both she and the Doctor could make it was Wednesday. That happened to be the day I couldn’t make it because I had a meeting.
Just when my meeting started, I saw some messages Shorty had sent me. I immediately stepped out to call her back and learned that she had high blood pressure and the doctor suspected she had a medical condition called preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is when the mother gets high blood pressure and the only way to cure it is to deliver the baby. Fighter however is only at 28 weeks, too early to be developed. So what the Doctor has to do is try to delay the delivery as long as she can. Each week we delay it is a higher chance for Fighter to come out a healthy baby.
So anyway these are a few conversations we had during these few rough days.
#239
Shorty is on the hospital bed with her food tray in front of her. The food has been there untouched for like 15 minutes or so. By the time Shorty decides to eat it….
Shorty: The food is cold already.
Me: Hmmm….
Shorty: You think I can ask them to heat it up again?
Me: Yeah sure.
Shorty: *presses button to call nurse*
The nurse walks in
Shorty: Hi do you think you can heat this up for me?
Nurse: Sure.
5 minutes later the nurse returns with the food.
Shorty: *starts eating*….. Fatty….
Me: Ya?
Shorty: Do you know when I said to heat up the food?
Me: Yeah?
Shorty: Well… they heated up the watermelon too.
Me: Eww… how does it taste?
Shorty: Weird. Wanna try?
Me: Not really.
#240
While in the hospital room.
Me: *farts*
Shorty: WOW… DAMN SMELLLYY!!
Me: Hehehehhe
Shorty: Fuck lahh….
Me: Do you think my fart increases or reduces your blood pressure?
Shorty: INCREASES LAH!
#241
Me: My mom scolded me today. She said we shouldn’t call our baby Fighter. See… now he really has to fight.
Shorty: Then call him what? Ah Weak ah? That’s what my family calls my brother.
#242
A few hours after Shorty was discharged from the hospital, she had to be readmitted into the hospital because of high blood pressure one night. While we were in the emergency room the nurse put a needle through the vein in her hand to allow for a drip. Shorty hates that not just because it hurts but because it’s uncomfortable. I hold Shorty hands tightly while she turns her face to look away from the needle.
Shorty: I’m sorry.
Me: What are you sorry for?
Shorty: I’m sorry I’m such a burden. *tears*
Me: You’re not a burden. Remember what I said at our wedding? Life is an adventure. We will have good adventures and bad adventures… this just happened to be a bad or difficult one.
Shorty: Yes but I just never thought things will turn so bad in just our first year.
Me: What do you mean things turn bad? What has turned bad? Nothing. We’re just having a bit of a bump on the road but that’s it. We are in this emergency room, we’ve got the best doctor in KL and I am here with you throughout. Our relationship is as strong as ever and if we get through this we’ll just get stronger. It’s not like our relationship started breaking down under this pressure.
Shorty: I guess.
Me: This isn’t the only difficult time we’re going to face. We’re going to have other tough times too. But the good news is that we’ll have lots of good times too.
Shorty: *sigh*
Me: I love you Shorty. I made a vow to be there for you always and here I am, and here I will always be.
Shorty: A few days time it’ll be our first wedding anniversary. I guess we might have to spend it in the hospital.
Me: Well we’ll decorate the hospital room up or something. We’ll think of a way to have fun 🙂
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space