I just got the news

Both the girls are immune and have not been infected by HBV.

I can’t begin to describe to you the relief I feel now. There is no more sickening feeling than living with the guilt of having somehow infected your own children with a disease. My mother, the poor woman, called last night and in tears, told me it was her fault for having given me a virus. Now I cannot wait to tell her that the Trail of the Rampaging HBV is ending with my sister and me.

Since Monday, which was when the girls got their blood taken, I’d been biting my nails to the flesh thinking the worst. And then just 15 minutes ago, my paeditrician called, the dear lady, and informed me that Rae and Sky are both clear and that the immunizations and neutralisers given to both of them at birth and after had all worked. After thanking her profusely for the news, I hung up and proceeded to fall apart with joy.

All I can say is that it feels facking good to know that once and for all, this virus, which had been passed along from my mom’s family for God knows how many generations, is going to the grave with my sis and me. I hope that whatever children my sister decides to have in the future will be saved from it as well.

For the first time in weeks after I’d learnt of my condition, I am more than hopeful. I am positive that at least now all I have to deal with, as far as this disease is concerned, is myself.

And that is fine with me.

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  1. Kelantan Gal

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

    Feb 07, 2007 @ 11:57 am


  2. julie

    So glad you’ve been given that wonderful news!

    Feb 07, 2007 @ 12:49 pm


  3. sweetisu

    Very glad to learn this news. Now all you have to worry about with the girls is chasing their boyfriends away when they’re teens (and 20′s and possibly even early 30′s if Lokes have his say, right?)

    Feb 07, 2007 @ 12:50 pm


  4. She Speaks

    YAY!!!!

    Feb 07, 2007 @ 4:13 pm


  5. pelf

    YaY! Good news! :) No more sleepless nights thinking about whether you’d infected your kids :)

    Feb 07, 2007 @ 6:14 pm


  6. Lia

    oh whew!!!!1 great news hun :D :D

    Feb 07, 2007 @ 10:57 pm


  7. Barbara Ng

    Yippee! great to hear that :D

    Feb 08, 2007 @ 2:52 am


  8. a&a'smom

    That’s such a wonderful news!!

    Feb 08, 2007 @ 7:06 am


  9. Vien

    Phew! What a relief, eh?

    Feb 08, 2007 @ 4:25 pm


  10. simmie

    this is great news. I was worried for your girls

    Feb 11, 2007 @ 10:46 pm


  11. loquterz

    thank frackin’ god 4 that… give your mom a humungo guilt trip n milk her for all the money in the world! or at least make sure you get a bigger take of the will… lol

    Eunice dun need it la… single and free.

    Feb 14, 2007 @ 12:33 am


  12. jennemede

    Terrible la you! It’s not her fault. Vacc for Hep b wasnt invented until 80s. Can u imagine?

    Feb 14, 2007 @ 7:51 am

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