3 March 2012, Saturday, 10.45 a.m. - the last I glanced at the wall clock in the Operating Theatre. After which, it was the beginning of a completely new chapter in my life.
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Since I was diagnosed with Non-Insulinoma Pancreatogenous Hypoglycaemia Syndrome (“NIPHS”) in March last year, my life had been nothing but frustrations, hopelessness and disappointments. All the specialists I consulted gave the similar lines, “well, it’s a rare condition alright. We do not really know what to do at this moment. The only advice we can offer is: try changing to high-fibre diet so that your blood sugar level can be kept constant.”
I was pretty excited when I found that some local reputable private hospitals’ websites had a patient-friendly feature whereby patients could drop a line or two to a specialist of the patient’s choice for query. And so I did. I chose a handful of specialists who were, according to the website, “highly recommended” to ask if he/she could help me with my condition. But to my dismay, no response at all has been received - even till now.
Finally, all thanks and praises to our Almighty Father in Heaven, I was connected to a Professor in the University Malaya Specialist Centre by chance. Initially, I really did not put much hope in him because of my experience of countless disappointments in the local specialists. But through his enthusiastic response to my initial introductory email about my condition and his further follow-up questions with me, I knew that he IS the one – the one specialist that I have been praying for – one who would do research and studies on NIPHS, and who would try to find ways to cure it instead of saying the dumb line, “I do not know what to do, really!” Praise the Lord!!
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