two cakes for turning two

its 10 past 11 on a friday nite, the last day of october.... THE WIFE is washing up number two, junior is spending the nite at his wai gongs place, i am just enjoying the peace.... yes... today, two years ago, junior came to be.... i have been a daddy for two years..... two years of dirty diapers, nite feeds, tantrums, baby pao tiao and of course, my favourite, papa carry you.......

junior is becoming more and more like a little person.... with his own likes and dislikes.... he chooses which grand pa to play with, what shoes to wear, what cartoons to watch and of course what to eat.... junior is quite particular about what he eats... depending on his mood, he would swing between chicken rice, noodles or nothing at all.... he can go all day with just bottle milk and nothing else.... which could explain why he still poo once or maybe twice a week... i guess if nothing goes in one end, nothing much will come out the other... hmmm.....

the good thing about spending time at both grand parents is, you get to have two cakes on your birthday..... and the thing with a big extended family is, you get to celebrate birthday quite often.... me mom and number two are in sept, me sis and junior are in october, me old man and me fil are both in november, me bro and cusion edbert is in december, cousin izzac is in january, THE WIFE is in march and mine is in april..... i guess with birthdays lined up like that, putting on weight should not be a problem for junior... hmmmm....

whole family in hospital

its 15 past 9 on a tuesday nite.... THE WIFE is in NUH with number two, junior is at me father in laws and i am at office, getting some work done... well sort of.... I am on leave today, i just thought i swing by get some work done so that i wont be buried by it tomorrow.....

yup, number two is in the hospital.... he was warded last tuesday for an infection... THE WIFE has been spending her nights keeping him company... i have been with them the last couple of nights... junior was admitted to the same hospital yesterday... he was discharged today and staying with his favorite grandpa.... yup... how lucky can a guy get? both of me kids warded in the same ward at the same time... on the bright side, i dont have to go to different hospital to see them both and i dont have to take too much time off...... hmmm.... frankly i hope it never happens again..... not many parents go through lives with all their kids in the hospital at the same time... at least none of the ones i know....

number two was having an infection on his scar he got during his operation.... the wound was sort of swelling and puss was flowing out of his tummy.... prof p said that we had to admit him for observations and have some procedures done to draw the puss out of his scar.... if not, the scar will not heal and the infection might spread..... so far, number two is barely two months old and he had already been warded into two different hospital, its rough... most folks i know, gets through life without spending much time in the hospital....

as for junior, he got into a little accident in the bath.... the motherinlaw was bathing him when he slipped, fell forward and hit his head against the toilet.... it was a pretty nasty cut, blood everywhere.... he was rushed to the polyclinic, which in turn referred him to nuh..... they stitched him up and warded him for the nite for observations...... well for the record, junior always bump his head when he falls and the last time it involved blood was when he hit his lips while climbing chairs at me dads.... so i guess its fair, the scar above his right eye is from his wai gong and the scar under his lip is from his ah gong..... hmmm

touch 4D ten times.....

its 15 past 11 on a sunday nite... the boys are in bed, as is THE WIFE.... number twos been cranky the last couple of days, we havent been having much sleep.... i guess a baby being a baby, he is just doing what he is program to do...... keeping mum and dad up... hmmm...

we were at nuh a couple of days back... we were refered to a professor queck, by the good dr simon, and he in turn referred us to a professor prabah... i guess they are must be pretty good in what they do to get referrals... hmmm... prof q is a pretty nice fella, looks like he is pushing 60... he did a once over with number two and referred us to prof p..... lets just say that its sort of comforting to see old profs, with so many years under their belts, they must have seen everything..... hmmm... and according to prof p, what number two has is something only 5% of babies with this particular condition gets.... when you worked it out, 5% of the 1 in 5000... that would make it 1 in 100,000..... considering that the chances of touching 4D is 1 in 10,000.... number two just touched 4D ten times... hmmmm......

according to prof p, he has only seen 2 or 3 such cases and most of them are girls.... he should be able to do the second operation when number two reaches 6-7 kgs.... that means we have to fatten up number two.... at around that weight, prof p should have enough of intestines to work on.... what prof p wants to do is to take the existing part of number twos intestines, fused to some of his other large intestines and hopefully have enough to make everything alright....

prof p arranged for us to meet the stoma nurse... as it turns out, i knew the nurse... we used to be classmates back in the old days... junior, number two, if you are reading this.... point to note here, be kind to all your friends, you never know when you will meet them again needing their help.... the last time i met her was 16 years ago.... i guess number two is in pretty good hands.......

1 in 5000

its 10 after 9 on a friday, 2 days after childrens day.... its the fourth friday since number two came to be.... THE WIFE is trying to feed number two soy milk formula... number twos been having diarrhoea lately.... junior is at me father in laws.... he should be sending him back home anytime soon..... me? i am just doing what i do best... nothing....... its been a while since i last did any nothing....

number twos been putting on weight steadily... he was 3.4 kgs when he came to be, he was slightly over 4 kgs yesterday when we went to the dr about his diarrhoea.... bearing in mind that he had a major operation not long after he was born, i think he is doing pretty well.... what number two has is a condition called hirschsprungs.... its where, for some unknown reasons, the cells in his intestines stop forming... this condition renders the part of the intestines without the cells, useless..... the usual treatment would be to find out where exactly the cells stop to grow and then remove it... hence the operation.... as to why he had to have the operation on the third day after he came to be?... according to the surgeon, his intestine has, in the words of the surgeon, perforated.... in words where normal people like you and i can understand, his intestine has burst and poo is leaking into his tummy... nasty when you think about it... the infection alone can killed anybody, not to mention newborns.....

if you think having a baby will cost you an arm and a leg, having a baby who needs an operation and spend almost two weeks in a NICU will leave you pretty much limbless... hmmmm...... the bill for THE WIFE was a little over $1200, the bill for number two came up to $20000... according to the dr, this condition happens in 1 out of every 5000 births.... considering the number of babies born every year... there should be more than a handful of kids out there just like number two.. i might even start a support group for folks with kids of the same condition...

this blog started out as a diary or sorts for me... now its more like a letter to the future for junior and number two... junior, if you are reading this, study hard, eat your greens, be good to your mother... number two, if you are reading this, it means what i fear most did not happen and study hard, keep healthy, yada yada yada, make loads of money and give them to your old man.... hmmm......