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Twice Blessed

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One of the goals we had while we were at the IMCU is for Noah to be well enough for him to be transferred to a regular room. It seems that a trip home was not in our cards yet and so with Jo, one of our IMCU nurses we planned for two goals: 1) For Noah's oxygen stats to go up to 98 2) For Noah to be transferred to a regular room in time for his birthday Nakakatatakot talaga. Noah's breathing was really labored and he was miserable. He was always crying and pulling off his cannula. He also … [Continue reading]

Kyrie Eleison

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Noah update: I'm writing this at the Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU) of St Luke's. Noah had to be transferred because his breathing is still labored, his oxygen saturation levels were still in the low 90s, he was just sleeping all throughout the day and his lungs still showed that he had phlegm even if he was already on antibiotics. His doc wanted him to be hooked up to a pulse oximeter machine to monitor his oxygen saturation. Normally a person at rest would have an O2 saturation of 96 and … [Continue reading]

Help for Baby Zane

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Mye De Leon is a talented digital artist who I knew online for a campaign she started for her youngest child and only boy Alphonse. Alphonse was born with Down syndrome and also had Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF). Simply put ToF is caused by a combination of four heart defects which cause oxygenated and deoxygenated blood to mix. Children with ToF are usually called "blue babies" because of the circulation of the oxygen- poor blood in their bodies. Mye raised the funds she needed through the … [Continue reading]

3rd time’s…the charm?

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3 times before turning two years old. Noah has been confined 3 times and his birthday is this Sunday na. The reason for all confinements are all the same: Pneumonia. His first time was a few months after he was discharged from the NICU. We went to the ER on Dec. 1 because Noah kept throwing up and his coughing got worse. The ER doctors heard something and saw a bit of fluid in his lungs so off we went to be admitted. The second one was just the same, a cough that got worse, a baby who … [Continue reading]

Fun Finds at Wellworth Fairview Terraces

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Growing up in QC, I have always heard jokes that Fairview is so far that it should be named FARview harharhar well guess what I was in Fairview last Saturday, Fairview Terraces to be exact! I was invited to tour the newly opened wellworth department store. I came full force with Dan, David, Noah, Yaya Ann, Yaya Linda, my mom, dad and my brother Gino. None of us has ever been to Fairview Terraces and the invite for me to tour wellworth along with other mom bloggers was the perfect excuse to go … [Continue reading]