I have a bad sinusitis for the past 5-7 years and there were a couple of occasions in the last 9 months, when I sneezed, I found traces of blood in my mucus. So somewhere in April, I got it checked-up with Dr Kuljit Singh, an ENT Specialist at Prince Court Medical Centre, KL.
During my first visit, he scoped my nostrils that were pretty tender in the inside and confirmed that my sinusitis was chronic. He ordered an Allergy Test and a Head CT Scan. Dr Kuljit is very relaxed, he would say, "Don't worry, if I'm not worried, you shouldn't be :)". Yes, with his big smile and bow tie! But I believe, he is also very experienced or he would not order the CT Scan on my first visit from where we later found out that I have an extra tissue/growth at the back of my nose. But still then, I wasn't worried because Dr Kuljit said, it could be some extra tissues that I had since small which caused the obstruction in my nose thus my chronic sinusitis.
As I said, he's an experienced doctor and I believe he took precaution when he decided to do a Biopsy on the tissue/growth whilst clearing up my sinus. So in early May, for the first time, I went under GA for the procedure. After the procedure, again Dr Kuljit said "Don't worry because it didn't look too nasty :)". So I didn't worry, in the next two weeks before the Biopsy result was out. Well actually, there was one morning that I went melancholy thinking, what if it is something terminal? But then again, it was probably my PMS too :P.
Anyways, two weeks passed and it was time to see Dr Kuljit. Hubs accompanied me. Being experienced and good thus makes Dr Kuljit a sought after as well as a busy doctor. What slightly disappoint hubs and me was, he didn't review my biopsy result prior to meeting us. So we entered his room, he greeted us with his big smile, recalled who we were while retrieving my Biopsy result from his computer. While the result was loading, he turned the screen to let us view it. The screen loaded, he read through it and so did we then his facial expression changed, no more smile. He was caught off-guard. We weren't, even though we were familiar but somehow didn't quite register "malignant" and "carcinoma" from the screen. Probably because Dr Kuljit said, the result had yet to conclude since they were doing further tests to rule it out as Lymphoma (another type of cancer). Basically, that preliminary result said, I have cancer but Dr Kuljit didn't utter it and managed to not worry us until it was time, yet again :).
He told us that he will personally get the result concluded and call us in the afternoon. So off we went to run some errands and have our lunch. After lunch, I received a call from Dr Kuljit's nurse, my heart stopped when I saw Prince Court's number on my BB screen. As I talked to Nurse Munira, I couldn't feel my hand. She told me, Dr Kuljit wanted to see me again the next morning for another Biopsy and for me to meet the Oncologist, Dr Azrif. I obviously knew the term "Oncologist"! So, that was how I found out I have cancer. Again, Dr Kuljit disappoint us in breaking the bad news. He's a good doctor nonetheless and thanks to him I found out about my cancer at an early stage. Alhamdulillah.
Since I froze during the phone call, I didn't asked why I needed to do another Biopsy and meet the Oncologist. Well, what is there to ask? But hubs wasn't satisfied and he managed to talk to Dr Kuljit later that afternoon to reconfirm the bitter truth. The rest of the day, death was the only thing in my mind and I wasn't ready to leave my loved ones :(.
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