All About Your Child

I did a post on this wonderful father back in Dec 2007. I posted Dede’s story feeling only sad then.

But recently I saw part 2 to his story on Discovery Channel and I cried.

I saw how he lived, he moved, he walked and how he earned as a ‘scary performer‘ together with many other ‘extra-ordinary-looking’ people. The looks from the ‘normal-looking‘ people showed disgust, fear and resentment. It was horrible, not Dede, but the look on those faces watching the performance.

Yet, when Dede was interviewed, he said it didn’t bother him like it used to. Now whenever he performs, he focuses his mind on “I need to provide for my kids, I need to do this.”

In this part 2 of the story, the main aim was to find a doctor to diagnose his condition and find a cure. He cut out samples, causing Dede to bleed profusely, to bring it back to his lap for tests.

According to Dede’s family, his veins grew with the roots, hence even trimming off the tip of any part will cause him to bleed and obviously painful too. The worse part is, it will grow that much faster, so they left it alone.

At the end of the show, the doctor returned with a cure for his unusual condition of Warts. But Dede didn’t respond to his offer for a long time. Allan and I had the same thought, that it might be too expensive for him to go for the surgery. ‘Cos he had been waiting for a solution to his problem for years! He NEED IT TO CHANGE HIS LIFE and his children’s life, we could not think of another reason why was there a delay in his response.

Weeks after watching this ending, I found GREAT NEWS ON YOUTUBE today.

He was operated on! Just look at him now! Finally, there is a GOOD ENDING! Wishes do come true! :)

Ok, 2 days ago, you were informed of my new neighbours having a complete makeover for their house.

Now its a different kind of music from then. Rather its more like “Knock Knock, who’s there?” Knockings are more common than drillings for yesterday and today.

But since Monday, the dust from that house has been flying into mine, I am blaming it on the wind direction!!! For those of you who have read my 7months struggle with Keatkeat, would know that he has sinusitis. So the teeny weeny particles that have been flying around are REALLY HELPING the building up the intensity of his sneezes.

He missed school yesterday because he was still teary from all the  “Haaa-Cheee” throughout the night. Today he missed school again because of this: –

These were the blood which were  ‘sprayed‘ out from my 5year old’s nose. These stains were on his brother’s mattress. So you can imagine how BLOODY his OWN mattress was. I was too eager to change the mattress cover for Keatkeat, so I didn’t take any photographs.

When my boy sneezes continuously for more than 2 days, this is a likely scene. Why? He ever ruptured his tender skin inside his nose when his Bronchitis first struck him at the age of 2;  thus whenever he coughs or sneezes too much or too hard, his NOSE BLEED STARTS.

I couldn’t change Binbin’s mattress cover, cos the little rooster was sleeping. WHICH IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO AT 2.30AM IN THE MORNING!!!!

Yes, yes… things always happen to my Keatkeat at such weird timings. The last time you knew I was mopping his vomit at 3am while he sang his “mop mop mop, mop-pi-li-mop” song beside me. Now this.

Seriously, Keatkeat’s nose bleed is not a big deal to me anymore. Keatkeat just kept giving me opportunities to practise. So much so that I now consider myself an expert when it comes to stopping nose bleeds. See what I do in this post. So stopping the flow and keeping calm is not an issue at all.

I did clean up after the drilling on Monday, but I guess I need my Pro, who is coming tomorrow to give my house a real scrub-a-dub-dub. *wink*