Restful Sunday

Just rested the whole day, but squeezed in some time to check my plants and say hello to all our cats. I guess even Brimsley was worried. She sniffed me a lot.

Most of my plants were in good shape, but my avocado trees were quite sad since it didn't get watered last Saturday. I hope they'll recover. 

Have a blessed Sunday everyone.

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I'm Home!

I really have a strange body. My doctors were baffled about my test results and they were on the fence about discharging me.

I was eventually discharged at 7 in the evening. Whew! I had pneumonia and acute gastroenteritis. I'll continue antibiotics at home. I will also be able to rest more at home since I won't get frequent visits from nurses to check my vital signs.

I'm grateful for the care and would like to thank my doctors, the nurses, phlebotomists, medtechs, housekeepers who took care of me. Of course, I'm thankful for Sweetie and Miggy for taking care of me everyday. And thank you to everyone who prayed for me.

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Last Night at the Hospital?

It may be my last night at the hospital. It still depends on a test I have to do tomorrow. Hopefully, I get cleared to go home. 

Sweetie saw this unique view from outside my hospital room window. Can you guess what's the building outlined in yellow?

Here's a closer view -

The lights were only turned on tonight. Maybe because it's a Friday? A holiday? It's pretty though.

Sweetie said I'm getting back to my makulit self. That means I'm recovering well :)

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ER! Food Poisoning

After leaving my doctor's clinic and I suddenly had an asthma attack. When we got home I strangely had a tummy issue, vomitted thrice and had high fever by evening.

The boys had me do an e-consult. I got hold of a doctor by ten in the evening. I was advised to go to the emergency room.

We originally thought I just had regular food poisoning. After a chest x-ray I was told I probably had pneumonia. We were surprised since I wasn't coughing and my breathing was okay.

My primary doctors had me confined. It takes an average of 7 to 8 hours when you go to the ER before you're brought to the room. It's gruesome, but I just thought that I got lucky for having food poisoning. It saved me from having really bad pneumonia. 

It's been 48 hours now since I went to the ER. I've just been sleeping a lot and getting the medication I need. The doctors are still investigating what got me.

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Biopsy Results

I woke up yesterday a bit under the weather. I was looking forward to seeing the results of the biopsy, so I pulled myself together. 

After some delay we finally headed to the hospital and passed by pathology for the results. I cried with relief when I got the results. No malignancy the report said.

We had lunch and then went to see my doctor. She was happy with the results and said we'll talk about excision in a few months. I didn't need to do that back in 2021 because the second biopsy took it all away. 

We happily left my doctor's office and I thought about how we'd celebrate. A few steps away I suddenly had an asthma attack...

To be continued...

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Keyboard Quilt for My Piano

I finished this project a few weeks ago. I just didn't have time to take photos, haha.

It's a redundant keyboard quilt for my piano. I missed using my rainbow colored fabric, so that's what I used to make a colorful piece.

It was tedious to make, but I wanted to try making it for about 5 years now. At least I tried :)

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What We're Going to Do with My Childhood Home

My Mom kept telling me she wanted us to go back to the childhood home. The decision to go back was made on Dad's birthday after she passed away. It was bittersweet and it took me months to start on sunsetting the house. Emptying the house took two long years. 

We took time to really plan what to do with the house. Tito Bert built the house to last, but at some point you really need to redo the electrical and plumbing system. We had the house reviewed by a structural engineer and several architects and engineers. The recommendation was the same for everyone. Demolish the house and build a new one. 

We eventually decided to follow the professional recommendations and started to think about what we wanted in our forever home. The funny thing is our current home is similar to my childhood home. I started a wishlist to detail our goals.

Here are our goals for our future house:

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  The house needs to be PWD friendly :) 

• Provide appropriate space for our needs and lifestyle. 

• Proper ventilation to keep heat out and be protected from bad air quality. Assume all rooms will have air conditioning and air filters. We are fine to have a loft for storage. All rooms have air purifiers.

• Preserve Mom’s garden. Ensure structural integrity of garden and where house will be built. Be able to collect rainwater.

• Proper drainage system and keep out flood water. Build house higher than current height from road. 

• Follow property line and ensure security*.

• Solar energy and future proofed

Listing our goals helped communicate what we wanted out of the house. We gave this and our room wishlist to the architects we consulted. It took awhile before we chose one. I'm glad we followed our instincts and chose the one that closely aligned with our values and expectations. 

Next week I'll write about how we finally chose our architect.

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