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Close call

Last week, Danielle had a episode of vomiting. When we received the call from my helper in the late morning about this our heart sank. We had to quickly rush back home from work. As we are staying together with my parent, they were around to help to make the phone to us while my helper attain to Danielle. Thank God, my helper able to be calm in this situation and perform suctioning first. It clear the mouth blockage and allow Danielle sat level to gain back to above 95%. Arriving first at home is my wife to access the situation. As it turn out to be only a mild vomiting that did not lead to any blockage to the airway. But we realised that her stomach was bloated, indigestion. So the next few hours danielle was on water only. By evening time she was back to normal but her heart rate still a bit high than normal (125) 140. When she asleep, her heart rate maintained at 110 instead of 90-98. The previous episode happen early this year during the Chinese new year season where Danielle had a...

Sleep Test result

Last week, we finally got to know the sleep test result and we more or less expected the outcome of the result. Danielle has to continue depending on the bipap. There good news out of this sleep test is our respiratory doctor was comfortable to allow Danielle to be off from the mask for 1 hour a day. But this 1 hours off from the mask must be carry out in the hospital and monitor. Anyway, we have already process taking the mask off from Danielle every day for aleast 30 mins. The setting of the Bipap still remain the same without any changes. Ipap 10, Epap 5 and the bpm 25.

Children Day

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On the children day, a mummy gave both our kids each a hair pin. It's feature in the Danielle photo. For Beth, she was all dress up to watch a ballet performance title 'The sleeping beauty' at the Esplanade.