Hair For Hope

Pete volunteered to have his hair shaved for the annual Hair For Hope organised by the Children's Cancer Foundation. This is the 2nd time Pete is participating. I remembered the first time when Pete had his hair shaved to a bald look, we were not even married.

On sunday, Chloe & I went to cheer Pete on for his shaving session at Vivo City. Chloe was excited & kept saying that Papa is goin to spot a botak head. However, she grew tired while waiting & fell asleep 10 mins before papa is up on stage to have his hair shaved.

The event drew a much stronger support this year probably due to more awareness of childhood cancer.

Pete spotting a bald hairdo & receiving his certificate


Chloe having fun at the Teddy Bear Hospital



The final no. of participants who went for the big shave

I Want Eggs!

Chloe has made significant improvement yesterday. She no longer complains of pain in her mouth.

Gong Gong & Po Po paid us a visit & even got her bananas & cheese. I was hesistant to let her try rice with tofu for dinner but she ate them all & even remarked to me & said: Mummy, no more pain. See? I eating rice! I feel so relieved & glad my girl is ok now.

Chloe having her breakfast of eggs & luncheon meat this morning.

I Feel Her Pain

My poor Chloe, she is so hungry & requested me to buy her chocolate. But when she opened the wrapper, all she could do is feed me instead. It's too painful for her to eat. I tried to reciprocate by feeding her, all she could do is give me a faint smile & shook her head.

She opened the fridge to take a peek, closed the fridge door & walked away. She must be very hungry, if not she would not do this.

God, please give her the strength to fight the illness so she can be bubbly & smiling again.

Grounded at Home

HFMD - These 4 alphas spells trouble to me. Hand Foot Mouth disease is highly contagious.

Monday morning's routine temperature check @ Chloe's school detected a high temperature. Chloe was sent home immediately. Following that, I brought her to the doc to verify. Ulcers were found in her mouth. There were tiny dots on parts of her palms & toes. She was given a gel to apply & instructed to take paracetomol to bring down her fever. From then on, her condition got worse. She refused lunch & water & gradually her favourite milk. More dots were found on her limbs & she is very irritable & refused to open her mouth for us. Her condition was confirmed on Tuesday morning when I brought her for a review again.

It's exhausting for all of us at home, trying to separate the 2 kids. Chloe is whiny & will cry nonstop if we were to coax her to down anything down her throat. Icy cold watermelon, gummy, ice-cream, ribena, yogurt drink. We gave her everything we can think of. But she survived on merely 160ml of formula milk yesterday. The last thing I want is to hospitalise her if she is dyhydrated.

Luckily, I managed to give her 2 milk feeds comprising of about 120ml each since morning. Swallowing & eating is still an agonising task for her.

I really hope after the initial 2 days of severe discomfort, my poor girl's condition will improve gradually by tomorrow. I pray that all will be well at home.

My Hello Kitty Room

Remember we bought Chloe her own bed hoping that she will agree to sleep in her own room? Sigh, wrong. She still insists to sleep on mummy's bed. I have run out of ideas & hope with my persistence, she will eventually 'migrate' on her own.

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