Life Choices

Feels good having made a call knowing that it is the right one. I have informed my bosses about my decision to go on part-time scheme so as to handle Chloe's schedule. It was a tough call given that career has always been a more pressing focus for me all along. But after the US trip, B-cube and hearing about my colleague's son who is fighting leukeamia, judgement was much swifter. Am hoping for a similar efficiency at getting Chloe back on track as that at work.

Brave Mama?

For I am not after seeing what my best pal has gone through, is going through and will go through for her beloved baby, whom I shall now term B-cube (Brave BB).

Conception, a process that MY ONE & I took for granted, was already trying for my pal to begin with. Pills and operation aside, she was bed-bound for the most part of the short pregnancy. Amidst alarms of down-syndrome, she persevered. Still, her body took the better of the pregnancy when B-cube has to be delivered so as to save both their lives at 24 weeks. My pal was lapsing into a stroke due to the preeclampsia condition. And B-cube was a tiny 400g.

Visiting my pal was trying as I am always at a lost of words and could only cry. I know words of comfort and concern for her health meant little, if any, neither am I in a position to say I understand as that would have been hypocrisy at its best. All I could do is to pray and offer some kind words via sms. Her most recent being that the doctors could no longer find veins on B-cube for blood transfusion such that they have to do that via those in her brain now. This was telling compared to her previous ones on B-cube not being to poo etc.

Can someone unveil the puzzle for my pal and B-cube soon?