The Year That Was..Goodbye 2009**

2009 proved to be a really challenging year for us.

It started with Abah falling down the stairs in January. Mufasa‘s passing on in April was followed by Mama’s cancer diagnosis and subsequent surgery in May. Then Anja was diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure and passed on in June at home in my arms. We then moved to our new home in July and Awan appeared at our doorsteps in August! Things settled down for a few months then Mama’s situation got worst causing her to be hospitalised in November and yet again in December, a few days after Mama and Abah celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary. Mama’s condition has improved tremendously from the day she returned from the hospital but there is still so much road to cover for her total recovery.

On the financial front, all is good. My online business doing blog makeover and graphics work is doing very well and I even have a loyal client that is giving me work on a permanent basis.

Oh before I forget, I also turned 40 in 2009 which wasn’t a big deal but still just an end of an era for sure!

So that’s my 2009 for you. Am looking forward to a better and brighter 2010 with lots of love, prosperity, happiness and health! So Goodbye 2009 and hello 2010!

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Mama's Hospital Bed **

Since mama is much stronger and able to move small steps now, Azwaj and his siblings have come up with a routine that have me and Azwaj coming in the morning with breakfast for abah and mama, and then a sister would come by around noon with lunch and we would go home and then that sister would return home around 5pm to be taken over by another sister with dinner. The system works and everyone is happy especially the patient 🙂

Anyway, we were home yesterday evening after returning from our morning “shift” with mama when abah called to see if we were able to come again to the house and helped out with moving some stuff around. It seems mama’s cousin had come over and offered a hospital bed that she had in her storeroom. She, a nurse herself, bought it when her own late mother was ill.

So now, mama is on this fantastic hospital bed that makes her so much comfortable and so much easier for us as well since now whenever she wants to sit up, we just crank her up 🙂

Thank you to Chu Nani for this favor. You have our gratitude!

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Music Monday: Christmas Is All Around (Love Actually)**

Another Christmas song from the Love Actually soundtrack sung by Billy Mack. Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Music Monday!

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She's Sitting On Her Own *

Usual routine in the morning is for Azwaj to carry mama from her bed, do a slight “tango” movement where he would position mama just nice for the wheelchair to come into position. This morning though, Azwaj was in the garden sweeping some dead leaves and abah said he would carry mama. I was on standby. Since mama is now strong enough, abah pulled her up from her lying position and then suddenly she was sitting up without support! Though wobbly, it was definitely a great achievement for mama. I rushed to call Azwaj in and we all had tears in our eyes watching the great moment.

We left the house in the afternoon and return later that night to Abah saying that mama has been sitting and trying to stand and that she has requested a walker for her to hold on to when she stands. I don’t think she is strong enough but since she is confident and wanting to be supportive, we went ahead to buy her a walker. Unfortunately the pharmacy are all closed due to the holiday so we will try again tomorrow.

All in all, a fantastic day indeed.. oh by the way.. Merry Christmas to all my friends and blog buddies who are celebrating this joyous day!

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I Can't Resist

Nothing beats year-end shopping and even though I already shopped in Singapore on my trip back, I can’t help but shopped more when I so called accompanied my mommy shopping when she was here last two weeks.

Mommy spent almost RM600 (I swear if she was not worried about the heavy luggage that she had to lug back, she’d be buying electrical supplies too) while me, a modest RM300! lol.. Modest indeed eh? I can’t helped myself, everything was going at a sale. Who can resist 70% discount right?

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Music Monday: Keep On Loving You (REO Speedwagon) **

Another song that my neighbour was blasting away a long time ago.. Enjoy and Happy Music Monday Everyone.. Thanks for listening and joining!

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Slow and Steady

Mama is getting better with each day. From not being able to move her arms, she is now able to lift them up, slow but she is able to. Sitting up is still difficult and she needed to be propped up by pillows. She still needs to be fed as her co-ordination is still bad.

Her radiotherapy session is over and doctors wants her to rest off it for two months. Right now she is primarily on steroids to try to shrink the tumor. They would evaluate again in that time before deciding further course of action.

Expenses have been high. From medication to diapers to potentially a live-in-nurse, should mama’s condition becomes worse, what Abah really needs now is a Medicare supplement insurance. Unfortunately in Malaysia, even the term of medical insurance is something that people are still getting use. Even I don’t have one 🙁

Slow and steady… that’s what we’re all hoping for!

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My Hidden Talent..**

Have you ever wonder what you hidden talent is? Well according to Blogthings quiz.. mine is…

Your Hidden Talent is Your Imagination

You are both very knowledgeable and creative. (knowledgeable, perhaps but creative? hmm) You tend to be full of new ideas and potential – big potential. (really? I should really voice out those ideas eh?) Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them. (wow!) As long as you don’t stop working on your dreams, you’ll get there. (God Willing)

What’s Your Hidden Talent?

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Music Monday: For The First Time (Kenny Loggins)**

Loving the nolstagia…..Have a Great Music Monday everyone!

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Mama's Coming Home *

Mama is being discharged today though on trial basis to see how she would cope without the sodium chloride drip. She is currently still bed ridden but since there is no radiotherapy treatment over the weekend, Abah thought it would be nice if she spend some time at home with the family.

Abah also paid up for the hospital bed till Monday, just in case she needs to be re-admitted again during the weekend.

Yeay.. Mama’s coming home!

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Getting Better*

I didn’t visit mama today as my mother was too tired to go and I didn’t want to leave her home alone. However, Azwaj told me that mama is getting much better. After a second round of radiotherapy, she is now able to lift her right hand (she wasn’t able before). She can even talk much clearer and managed to eat much more porridge than yesterday.

Yes.. thing are looking up for Mama!

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Hope is Burning Bright for Mama

Hope is burning bright… as bright as Murray Feiss lighting for my Mama. We went to visit her today and she is much stronger even after just one session of the radiotherapy which she had this morning.

Mama is even able to move her right leg and when the food arrived at 6pm, she had a few spoonful of porridge. After two days of no food, you can imagine how relieved we felt when she was able to swallow her food again. Yesterday, whatever we fed her would come out again as she was not able to swallow. Doctors were even thinking of feeding her from the tube if she couldn’t eat today. So yes, we were relieved.

Hopefully with more radiotherapy treatment, she would be strong again and be allowed to go home soon.

Today, everyone left with a smile on our faces 🙂

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Mama's Hospital Stay

Mama’s CAT scan of the tumor in her brain came through last Thursday. It was stage 4 and her doctor wanted her to go to radiotherapy immediately. When we visited her on Friday, also Abah’s and Mama’s wedding anniversary, she was fine and was still strong. However, over the weekend, her condition deteriorated and she was not even able to move. She also can’t eat or drink and was badly dehydrated.

Today, during her examination before her radiotherapy treatment, the doctor found that she was too weak and so decided to admit her for observation instead. She was place on a medical equipment immediately. I believed the solution was sodium chloride as she was really in need of hydration. When I visited her with my mom in the evening, Mama was barely conscious and drifting in and out of sleep. She was not able to speak and movement was limited to her right hand only. I was literally fighting back tears when I first saw her because I know I needed to be strong for Azwaj and Abah.

Mama keeps touching her chest as if to complain about the pain there and then she would drift off again. We left that night with heavy heart and since she was in the third class at the general hospital (can you believe the first class was on going through refurbishment and all first class patients were being pushed to second class which also means they were lacking in beds), we were not able to stay with her.

We’re hoping for a better day tomorrow…

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Music Monday: Say You Love Me (Simply Red)**

Say You Love LJ people.. lol!! Happy Music Monday Everyone!

Lyrics | Simply Red lyrics – Say You Love Me lyrics

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Both are Home Sweet Home

One thing I love about having two homes, one in Singapore, where my mommy is and which is also my homeland, and the other in Malaysia which is the my country of residence with Azwaj and our five fur kids, is that at both homes, I know someone is awaiting either my arrival or my return. So if I’m Malaysia, I know my mom gets very excited and happy when I return so she plans our outings, shopping sprees and cook up a storm so much so I wish I was already on phentermine diet pills before I arrived. Then when I’m in Singapore, I know that Azwaj and the fur kids would miss me and welcome me home with open arms!

I love my two homes and I love that I’m loved by members in both and that I can call both my”Home Sweet Home”

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