Dropping by to say HEY! I'm still alive heheh :)

Paeds rotation is in its 4th week out of 8. Started pretty slow but enjoyed this week thoroughly. This week's with the Respiratory team and we got to see a few kids with Cystic Fibrosis, a kid with Gower's sign, and even witnessing a bronchoscopy done on a boy, and incidentally finding a ? "foreign body" located in one of the bronchioles of the lung. Very interesting week it has been!

3 weeks to Paeds exam and another 2 to the big Finals! Preparing preparing and the studying with Dom and Ian has been quite enjoyable!

In CF clinic, we saw a single Caucasian mother of 3 austistic kids, helping to take care of a kid with multiple problems including Bronchiectasis, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (neonatal period) and Autism. Different skin colour (She's caucasian and he's aboriginal). Having had 3 autistic kids at home, however "well-behaved" as they were, this mother has surely displayed pure altruism by taking care of yet another autistic kid. We call this kid a "nice rascal".

Thank God for His grace upon these many children. Right place at the right time to receive the right treatment. Jesus loves these little children.

A brother just shared this inspiring story via fb msg and it kinda reminded me of how we should look beyond the "handicaps" of the little children in RCH. With God and the right determination, nothing can stop them in pursuing their "little" dreams. Dream big, "little" ones :)

THE WILMA RUDOLPH STORYWilma Rudolph was born into a poor home in Tennessee. At age four, she had double pneumonia with scarlet fever, a deadly combination which left her paralyzed with polio. She had to wear a brace and the doctor said she would never put her foot on the earth. But her mother encouraged her; she told Wilma that with God-given ability, persistence and faith she could do anything she wanted. Wilma said, "I want to be the fastest woman on the track on this earth." At the age of nine, against the advice of the doctors, she removed the brace and took the first step the doctors had said she never would. At the age of 13, she entered her first race and came way, way last. And then she entered her second, and third and fourth and came way, way last until a day came when she came in first. At the age of 15 she went to Tennessee State University where she met a coach by the name of Ed Temple. She told him, "I want to be the fastest woman on the track on this earth." Temple said, "With your spirit nobody can stop you and besides, I will help you."

The day came when she was at the Olympics and at the Olympics you are matched with the best of the best. Wilma was matched against a woman named Jutta Heine who had never been beaten. The first event was the 100-meter race. Wilma beat Jutta Heine and won her first gold medal. The second event was the 200-meter race and Wilma beat Jutta a second time and won her second gold medal. The third event was the 400-meter relay and she was racing against Jutta one more time. In the relay, the fastest person always runs the last lap and they both anchored their teams. The first three people ran and changed the baton easily. When it came to Wilma's turn, she dropped the baton. But Wilma saw Jutta shoot up at the other end; she picked the baton, ran like a machine, beat Jutta a third time and won her third gold medal. It became history: That a paralytic woman became the fastest woman on this earth at the 1960 Olympics.*Adapted from Star Ledger, November 13, 1994.