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After further reflection, I decided to not get them tested at such a young age. I wanted my children to wait until they are eighteen, so that they make their own choices.
At the time, I was working as an executive coach at a telecoms company and was not fond of the rigid routine. I am a free spirit, I had always wanted to run my own business and work for myself. My dad used to always tell me that we've got one shot at life, there are no dress rehearsals. That really stuck with me. So, a few months later, I decided to leave my job when I had the chance to take redundancy. That's when I began working for myself, as an executive coach.
Over the years, I would often get ill due to kidney infections, and would have to take antibiotics. Given that my daughters, who were 10 and 8 by that time, saw this, I decided to tell them about my disease. Rather than having a serious, scary conversation with them, I gently told them that they may become sick sometimes too, in the future, if they have poor kidneys like myself.But I began to have more conversations with my eldest daughter, when she turned eighteen in 2021.
I'm thankful to the doctor who pressured me to get an ultrasound. Sometime later, I asked her why she told me to have one, and she said that she had a gut feeling that I needed to be tested. I am grateful that she followed her intuition and truly supported me, regardless of how I may have felt about the situation.
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