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  • Mother Of Baby With Congenital Heart Disease: Help Us Give My Little Angel Noor A Shot At Life

    Mother Of Baby With Congenital Heart Disease: Help Us Give My Little Angel Noor A Shot At Life

    Hello Everyone Out there

    I am Baby Noor’s Mummy Lena, Baby Noor Was born on the 1st of March 2016 @ NUH.

    These donations are going to help my family and I on our hospital bills/check-ups/pampers/medications for baby Noor.  Baby Noor Was Diagnosed with Tricuspid atresia is a form of congenital heart disease whereby there is a complete absence of the tricuspid valve. Therefore, there is an absence of right atrioventricular connection. This leads to a hypoplastic (undersized) or absent right ventricle when she was still in my tummy at 24 weeks. I was in shock. I did not know what to do. I was given the choice to keep the pregnancy or abort it. I was given 2 weeks to choose. I sat myself down got myself thinking what would be the best for my family and I. Will I be able to cope. Having 3 other kids whom one of them is an asthmatic. Can I handle this? will I give up? Am I emotionally prepared? Well I stuck to my Decision to Keep Her. When She was born via an emergency c sec the nurse brought her to me I kissed her forehead and she was wisped away to Neonatal ICU. On the 2nd day of my stay in hospital I pushed myself to get up and walk down to see her. I cried in happiness thinking if I were to abort her would I ever get to see this beautiful angel

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    On the 4th of March baby noor would go through her First major op to insert The Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt (commonly called the Blalock–Taussig shunt) is a surgical procedure used to increase pulmonary blood flow for palliation in duct dependent cyanotic heart defects like pulmonary atresia, which are common causes of blue baby syndrome. She took a month or so to recover and be discharged. She came home to us she has been living life to the fullest without any complications till yesterday 29/9/2016 she went for a ct scan as well as 2d scan to dertermine if she should go for another BT SHUNT or go for her 2nd stage major operation. The docs came and spoke to me about this they was talking about reconstructing the LEFT artery which was now small and giving problem. So they decided to do another shunt.

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    She is currently in ICU under sedation and morphine to ease her pain. As Well as she is on the breathing tube with abt 80% of oxygen helping her. My husband has given up his job. To help me out running up and down to the hospital as well as looking after our other 3 kids.

    I am appealing to the public to help us ease our financially tight situation. As well as help cover some of the coming bills and as well as for up coming appointments for baby noor. We are aiming for $5k. Once we have reached that amount we will stop the drive. We will also keep a close update on baby noor’s condition over here as well keep an update on bills and appointments over here. We Also need donations of Pampers as rations if anyone do have spare at home. Visiting for baby noor is welcome only during visiting hours and when we the parents are there.

    Baby noors face has been blured out to protect her. Do hope you guys understand for those whom wish to contact me do drop me an email @ [email protected]

    Your prayers are also greatly needed.

    if there are any donations to go directly or personally  please bank in to

    248-85690-4 POSB Savings
    Bank Holder Wan

    Source: https://give.asia

  • Students Overcome Personal Adversity To Pass PSLE

    Students Overcome Personal Adversity To Pass PSLE

    What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. For Safi Arinah Sa’ad, who survived a hit-and-run accident and brain surgery, that age-old saying is certainly true. And she has the stitches — all 29 of them — to prove it.

    During the June holidays, Safi Arinah and her family were on their way back from visiting her grandparents in Malaysia when the car they were travelling in was hit by a lorry.

    The impact of the accident flung Safi Arinah and her siblings out of the car, leaving her with a blood clot in her brain.

    One brain surgery, 29 stitches, a partially shaved head and several weeks later, Safi Arinah returned to school a week after the July term began, more determined than ever to give the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) her all.

    However, playing catch-up was an uphill struggle for the West Grove Primary School student, who suffered from lingering side effects brought on by the accident.

    “Sometimes I (get) headaches (when) I’m in school, so usually my teachers understand and … (let me) take a rest for a while.

    “If I’m at home, sometimes I cannot take it, so I will take painkillers,” said Safi Arinah, who has two CCAs in Art and Brownies.

    Still, Safi Arinah pushed through with resilience and determination, sacrificing recess to revise with her teachers and staying back after school to study with friends.

    Her efforts paid off and Safi Arinah scored 204 for her PSLE. Even though the score was lower than the 220 Safi Arinah was hoping for to enter the Express Stream in Hua Yi Secondary School, the Girl Guides enthusiast and her family are happy.

    “She’s healthy; that’s the main focus of my family … That she’s healthy and she went through PSLE so she doesn’t have to repeat one whole year just because of the accident,” said Safi Arinah’s mother, Madam Siti Habsah, who works as a management support officer at West Grove Primary School.

    Another student who has overcome the odds is Muhd Khairul Irzhan Rosli. Despite being forced to miss out on kindergarten due to financial difficulties, the Huamin Primary School hockey captain — who watched his father suffer a series of heart attacks, lose his job and the family home — managed to score 255 in his PSLE and enter Raffles Institution (RI) through the Direct School Admission.

    “I came in to Pri 1 a little bit later than all the others and I also skipped kindergarten, so I (was) a little bit bumpy in my studies,” said the Huamin Primary School student.

    “Throughout Pri 6, there were a lot of times when I wanted to give up. Sometimes when I obtained low scores, some of my friends … would make fun of me,” Khairul said.

    “It would take a few days or few weeks to toughen myself up because it really hurts (when) someone makes fun of you in front of a whole group of people,” he added.

    After his father suffered his first heart attack in 2010 and subsequently became unemployed, mortgage loan arrears forced the family to sell their Yishun flat near Huamin Primary School and move into a relative’s flat in Clementi earlier this year.

    Tired from the long commute between school and his relative’s home, Khairul said it also left him with little time to study.

    However, the determined young man has risen above the adversity, making his father proud.

    Khairul’s father, Mr Rosli Rashid, said he is happy with his son’s performance.

    “I’m very happy for him. As a father, I will try to do anything I can in order for me to support whatever (my children) want to (do). I really hope my health (allows) me to work more in order to support them in their education,” said Mr Rosli, who now works as a security executive.

    Excited about starting at RI in a few months’ time, Khairul said it has been his dream since he started playing hockey in Pri 2 to enrol in that school.

    “They have a rich … hockey background, so I believe over there, the teachers and students will help motivate me to continue,” Khairul said.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com