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Today last year I was in KL celebrating this little boy’s birthday, my nephew, my sister’s youngest boy.  It was also my honey’s birthday.  They are both Pearl Harbor babies.   

Last year I didn’t celebrate DB’s birthday with him but today I did although we didn’t do anything special.  He said it’s just another day, a day older and another day crankier!   No, he is actually not, I just added that to spice things up.  The best gift he ever received was this special girl:

And look at her now…at 6 months old.  Isn’t she adorable??

Yeah, Ally is the best gift he received this year, the precious little pumpkin.

Today, Malaysian time, September 6, is my Dad’s birthday. He is 79 years old.  The  below picture is my dad and myself taken last year December on the night I left Malaysia to Singapore enroute to Minneapolis.  It’s almost a year since I last saw my family. 

Dad, loving wishes for you on your special day.  May love, happiness and good health be with you at all times.  Love you very much, Dad.

DB and i went out to the store and pharmacy yesterday afternoon.  Yes, DB is pretty much a last minute kinda guy.  He needed to get a procedure done for today, he only called the clinic nurse to ask about combining his prescriptions and what he needs to take for the procedure.  He also had to read the other instructions from his doctor and whatever others that were given to him in the packet. 

We went to the store pharmacy and guess what he had to get for today’s procedure?  Anyone know what the below Rx was for?  It’s a concoction.

After he got his Rx, we got some stuff for his meal for the rest of the day.  Taking this Rx for this procedure his last main meal has to be 2 pm and after he down the stuff of the Rx, he cannot take any solid food except for clear liquids and jello.

We got some cartons of Swanson’s chicken broth and for his last treat of the day before he starts his concoction.  As usual he wants some good old ice-cream and we found some Haagen-Dazs scream since they are 2 for $6.  He got a Banana Split and I got a Green Tea scream. 

This was my first time Green Tea scream and I really like it.  Even DB liked it too.  I ate a quarter of the scream and how much did DB eat????  He ate the entire contents of that little carton.  That was a lot.  After and hour plus or around 2 hours eating the scream, my stomach was just aching like when you have diarrhea.  Yep, it was a really bad stomach ache.  Think I overloaded on ice-cream.  Whatever scream I had were all gone and DB started on his concoction in the evening.

Did y’all figure out what that concoction was for?  That prep that he had to take, according to him tasted like chemicals.  It was very nasty to a point where he almost puked drinking it.  His mother and BF took the prep before and they puked, too.  The concoction was for his today’s colonoscopy procedure, where his guts and whatever else needed to be cleaned out.  That guy was in and out of the bathroom for quite some time.  He had no food in him the whole evening and night and was fasting this morning till after the procedure which was all completed and out of the hospital at 11:45 a.m.  I was his designated driver coz he was sedated for this procedure.  He is now back to his normal self and eating his solids.   

He don’t have to get another colonoscopy done for the next 5 years.  Some of his family members already had theirs done due to one of them had a polyp in their rectum.  Scary thing which might lead to colon cancer.  Yikes. 

Sometimes I wonder does the medical check requirements are the same in Malaysia, like this colonoscopy has to be done when a person reaches 50 or earlier if family members have polyps found during their procedure.  DB said it does not hurt and was watching the whole thing on a screen.  He felt something in his body and that was it.  He was very groggy when I went in to see him after the procedure but after 3 BP checks, he was good to go home.  His BP was good.  Thank God!

Thanks, sis, for the cards. 

Today is my sis‘ birthday.  A Taurus to the T.  You know, like a bull….. but a very compassionate person.  I made her a card, the one above, forgot to take a picture of the inside.  Actually I think it was not the best looking card that was why I didn’t take a picture of it.  But anyhoo, it’s the thought that counts.  So, there you go.  I remembered your birthday.  Happy birthday and hope you have a good one, too.  So, people, go greet my sister a:

“Happy Birthday.
Sang yat fei lok
Nin nin yau kam yatt
suei suei yau kam chew
Kong hei lei,kong hei lei
Chuk lei cheong mang pak suei.”