Anyway, I would like to share my story with you and therefore I need to go back to when I was in my 28 th week of development and begin from there. It all started one day during a routine ante-natel ultrasound scan with just me, mum and my big sister present. I remember the nurse making some comment during the scan, to the effect that There s definitely a problem . The chief radiologist came and confirmed that there certainly was something very unusual with the scan images they were all looking at. At the thought of this return visit Mum started feeling sick, worried beyond belief and began to sink into a state of complete helplessness.
Shocks are difficult to deal with and sometimes there is no easy way of breaking bad news.
Mum phoned dad at work and just about managed to convey the awfulness of what the chief radiologist had said. The radiologist wanted to dust off some old text books to see if there was anything in them that might point him in the right direction and help him offer some form of diagnosis because by his own admittance he didn t know what the ultra-sound was showing him. More scans, more disappointments. The two specialists took more ultra-sound scans but were very reluctant to offer any form of explanation until, as they put it, The Professor was fully briefed. Well can you imagine the state mum and dad and my two sisters were in by this time.