even better than best

its 5 past midnight on a tuesday morning.... THE WIFE is in bed, junior is at his wai gongs place and number two is in nuh at the pediatrics icu..... we admitted number two to the hospital on sunday as planned... THE WIFE and i spent the night at the hospital and number two was wheeled into the operating theater the next day..... i didnt sleep much the night before, somewhere between the crying baby in the next bed and the yacking by the doctors nearby, i reckon i got about three hours of sleep..... considering that a hospital is where people go to to get better, good luck trying to get some decent sleep there.........

number two was wheeled into the theater at 10.30 that morning... the nurse estimated that he would be done in three hours time... THE WIFE and i went for some breakfast and a little shopping for my up coming trip.... we got back to the hospital at 3 but it was about 4 in the afternoon that we received a call from operating theater that prof p needs to see us urgently..... believe me whenever a surgeon wants to see the next of kin after an operation urgently, nasty ideas would rush into the head.....

we got into the operating theater holding area in double quick time, prof p was still in his scrubs...
me: hows everything?
prof p: i got good news and not so good news.....
me: okay.... whats the good news?
prof p: your son does not have hersprung.... we did a test to confirm the condition before removing the intestines because i want to be really sure, we were about to remove a very long portion....
me: okay...
prof p: then the results came back, theres ganglion cells.... we did five tests near the end of his small intestine and one more at his large intestine, they are all normal....
me: okay, thats a good news.... the bad news?
prof p: well, the test would take about 30 to 45 minutes, we cant possibly be standing around doing nothing.... so we prep a portion of his large intestine......
me: and?
prof p: when the result for the large intestine came back, and it was positive, we have already stop the blood supply to that portion of the large intestine.... that part is dead, we have to remove it and joint whatever is left together....
me: and?
prof p: well, the removed portion would not affect him too much, whats more important is that we have save the valve at the end of the small intestine and the section near his anus.... he will be able to control his bowels like normal....
me: why is it that mount alvernia tested negative and you tested positive here?
prof p: i am not too sure, we have send more samples for testing and should get the full results in 3 days time... i cant remove the stoma yet because, the size of the intestines are different, one is the size of a earthworm and the other is too big... we have to joined his intestine and still leave a stoma, so that some of his poo can come out through his tummy, some can come out through his large intestine thereby stretching it.... in three months time, when the earthworm gets to the size of the other intestine, we would only need to do a minor surgery to remove the stoma and he will be fine......

believe me, this is wonderful news... junior does not have some birth defect.... he will be able to poo and function like all kids..... up till yesterday, the best that could happen was for number twos operation to go smoothly and that everything would go as planned.... but the best did not happen... something better than best did....