Salam everyone...
Alhamdulillah, tahun ni insyaAllah will be an interesting year. Amenn... Amenn.. Selepas 6 bulan "berpisah" dengan cik abe sayang now we're back staying togather. US and Malaysia is sssooo faaarrr awaaayyyy~ so bila dah duduk sama ni baru lah hati berasa tenang. But, yup! A lot of things that I need to sacrifice. But entry ni I tak nak cakap pasal tu. Nanti sedih. I nak cakap pasal benda happy. I'm having a baby!! Syukur alhamdulillah.. Duduk sini terus lekat u ols. LOL!
Last week I did my fist antenal check up. I buat dekat Brooklyn Hospital. Kat sini lain sikit. There is no such thing macam kat Malaysia which ade goverment hospital, ade private hospital. No no no. Sini medical expenses you kene bayar sendiri. Either you pay by your own cash or by insurance. Alhamdulillah since Im not working at the moment, I'm eligible untuk apply Medicaid. Lebih kurang macam insurance, tapi no monthly fees. Dia akan cover all antenatal check up, delivery, postnatal check up sampai baby umur 3 tahun. Bagus kan? Syukur dapat rezeki macam tu.
And then, mase my first antenal check up tu, yang jumpa I is not a doctor tapi midwife. Midwife yang sama ni la yang akan tengok I everyfollow up sampai lah I deliver. My midwife nama die Yvette Byer. Nice black lady. I like her. What I did during my first antenatal check up? I would say its quite different from what we have in Malaysia.
First sekali mase I datang tu die amik my urine for FEME. Basically die nak tgk I ade urinary infection ke tak. Then amik my vitals sume tu lah. Lepas tu I masuk bilik Yvette. She did some interview. Ask a few personal questions then examine. Hebat midwife sana bole buat full examination. Die check thyroid, breast, abdomen. Part paling mantap die buat bimanual examination and pap smear. Kat Malaysia selalu tak buat pap smear lagi-lagi masa pregnant. Tapi sini buat. Mungkin dia tak nak terlepas orang dari buat screening for cervical ca kot. Ye la cuba kalau bagi appointment untuk pap smear je, out of 10 maybe 3 will be dafaulted. Alasan : takut sakit. It is sakit, but just for awhile mase masuk speculum tu. Pastu ok je. ( cececehh... Dah lepas cakap la ok. Haha )
And then, after I dah settle dengan Yvette, phlebotomist pulak jumpa I untuk amik darah. Im not very sure darah apa dia amik other than yang routine macam Malaysia sebab macam banyak gile tube die amik.
Lepas tu, I kene jumpa nutritionist, health worker and mental heath worker. Semua semua ni bilik die sebelah-sebelah or just around the corner je. At the same area. And then, siap ade check list for each and everyone yang you pegi jumpa ni. Boleh nampak tak macam mana dieorg really take care pasal women and child health ni. I bet you, kalau la kita kena pegi benda-benda ni dengan kesedaran sendiri memang tak la kan. And then, they are really systematic and pandai to minimize defaulter. They make it a point untuk letak all these personale at one place so that patient senang nak pegi jumpa and tak payah nak naik turun building untuk jumpa different different person. And each personale akan bawak you pergi jumpa next personale by themselves, and make sure that people is around and available. Basically, zero waiting time. How good is that? Ok, bukan I puji dieorang ni lebih-lebih. Look at the brightside. Its a good thing and kita actually boleh buat macam ni. For sure our medical service will be much much better.
Ok selesai checking and interviewing, i kena scan pulak. Ni pun lain jugak. In regular basis kat sini, scan takkan buat mase first antenatal check up. Biasa dieorang akan bagi a different date for dating scan. Macam I cakap tadi yang jumpa I midwife kan, bukan doctor, so I dont think makcik Yvette ni boleh buat scan pun. So, yang akan buat scan I adalah sonographer. There is a special place macam xray department tu, tapi untuk buat sonography or other pregnancy related ultrasound guidance procedures. And, case I special sikit. I dapat appointment untuk scan on the same day, sebabnye mase Yvette buat bimanual examination kat I, die detect macam ade pelvic mass over the left side. Most probably fibroid. So kononnya urgent la benda ni, jadi I pun dapat la 'urgent' appointment untuk scan. And yup, it turned out that I memang ade fibroid. Ada 2, but not so big. So hopefully ok je :) insyaAllah... Terima kasih makcik Yvette sebab buat bimanual dengan jayanya. I memang tak tahu pun I ade fibroid sebab memang tak penah ade problem dengan my menstrual cycle and ofcourse tak penah buat scan diri sendiri before this.
So, itulah yang berlaku dihari pertama. Lama jugak benda tu. Almost the whole day kat situ. Ikmal dari plan nak amik halfday terus amik cuti. Since it was on Friday pun. My next follow up will on this Friday. They wanted to review all the results and ultrasound report. Moga-moga semuanya ok saja and anak ini akan lahir sihat, cukup sifat and baka menjadi khalifah Allah yang soleh / solehah. Cant wait to see you baby. Muah!
