Deetsie's Heroic Dailies

broadcasting my birthday greetings to a very special loved one

Asistuhtwo -  my very own sister Grace celebrating her Nth birthday today.  I wish I could come to her thanksgiving party but it’s way miles away.

Manang Grace and my daughter Ea (then 5 mos old)

Happy birthday manang! I love you!!!

Working while Barney or Hi-5 is on is a normal daily event for me.  My little Ea watches kids’ shows on a monitor extended from my laptop which is just about an inch away from my work station.  Sometimes the noise around the house takes my focus away.   It’s difficult to tinker on the keyboards using a single hand most especially when one or both of my little ones are on board.  Sometimes I would want to take a few minutes break and just do nothing, think about nothing and hear nothing.   But what I have really realized is that the benefits of staying home with the kids far outweigh the inconvenience of having to hear all their whinging.  Being there when my children needs me is the best gift I could ever give especially now when they are still on their formative years.  Here’s why:

• Learning is fun when kids have their parents as their teacher, playmate, dance partner and best friend.
• Having their mama’s arms around them when they’re sick speeds up recovery.   Even if there are medical professionals for almost every body concerns, nothing beats the warmth of a mother’s touch.

I could list more until the sun sets but let me just stick to the best ones right now.  Although things could get tough at home when you can’t seem to get things done, I’m still loving every moment of it.

As I speak, the neighbors are burning money in the form of fireworks and the neighborhood air is crisp with firecrackers scent.  I went outside earlier to see what sort of fun going outside.  The flashing lights of fountains and fireworks were beautiful and some, breathtaking.  I shrieked and jumped at every fire.  My husband made fun of my kuratikness.   This is Pasko sa CDO I suppose.   Wala man gud ni sa Davao LOL.

I’ve been wanting to call people who are sooo dear to me but I’ve been putting it off for one reason then another.  Perhaps tomorrow again..

Good news for me, my little one is finally home now.  Ea was hospitalized days ago.  Hours in the hospital felt like days and days felt like weeks.  Ea (and her dad) were very very uneasy and were both very eager to go home.  We only waited for the lab results and medications but as soon as we got it, we fled.

The reason turned out to be bacterial.  Ea had a series of dirty food intake the past week and her antibodies were not able to keep up.  She’s re-hydrated now and only needs to keep taking some anti-biotic meds to fully get rid of the bacteria.

I’m happy to say she’s feeling a lot better now.  My current quest is to get her weight back.  She lost around 2 kg.  My goal is to have her gain more that what she lost.  I hope her appetite will begin to pick up in the coming days.

This morning I rushed my daughter Ea to the ER for the very first time.  It was a sad and difficult but necessary choice to make.  She was having fever since Sunday evening.  The fever goes during the day and comes back at night.  It must have been caused by something she had eaten that Sunday morning.  During the first few days of her fever, I opted to just give her paracetamol and antihistamine thinking it was just an allergic reaction.   Last Thursday when she was yet strong enough to go out, I took her to her Pediatrician.   I wanted to be assured that she’ll be fine.  Ea was not at her best behavior during the check up.  What can we expect from a sick little girl.  She was so matamlay that the doc advised me to have her admitted to the hospital for further observation.  Ea is thin and has lost a lot of fluid the past days.  I was skeptical because I hate needles and IVs myself.  The thought of subjecting my own daughter to pain was mortifying enough for me.  So I bargained and the doc allowed us to go home but Ea should be under close observation.  The rule she gave me was that, if Ea does not take in more that 60 ml/cc of fluids that night, I should rush her to the emergency room right away.  At home, she only had a few sips of about 20ml juice for dinner.  Then she threw up just before bed time.  Had another 10ml of milk before she dozed off to sleep and nothing else until morning.

I was still looking for reasons to keep her home but she did not show any signs of progress.  After running a few searches over the Internet, I was left with no choice but to bring her to the hospital.  I feared Ea would be more stressed out there but I didn’t want to take any more chances either.

When I knew it was time to have her dextrose on, I took her for a little walk down the hospital garden.   We played with the plants and flowers for a bit.  To be honest, that little moment by the garden turned out to be — for my own peace of mind.  I was convincing myself that everything will be okay.  I practiced a scene mentally and told myself to stay strong and not burst into tears because my daughter needs me to be strong for her.  When we were both calm and I felt ready, I took her back to the ER.  Jeedo was there but I guess fathers have much stronger stance on crazy moments like this.  He was calm and assuring.

The ER scenario was not as bad as I thought.  I was triumphant in holding back my tears, LOL.  We had to wrap her with a blanket because she was screaming and moving furiously in pain.  But after a couple of minutes, she was calm.

We still don’t have the lab test results.  The doc hasn’t figured the real cause.  I hope it will be okay.  I left the hospital with her Papa and Lola looking after the little one.  My little big boy Jethro is at home waiting.  Here I am now, tinkering the keys at 4:00AM.  I guess I should go back to bed and get some sleep.  I need energy for another long day.  Very long day.

Touch brings healing.  I think it’s second nature for mothers to really hold their little ones with a cuddle.   It’s our very first mode of communication that gives so much love and security to that little new life.    As the child learns to move around the house, then comes colds, fever and tantrums.  Coddling does wonders in the child’s recovery.   Therapeutic touch claims to reduce pain and anxiety.  That is true for most of us.  Although some would prefer healing in a distance.  I know someone who freaks out and squeaks whenever someone touches her back as in a massage.  Let me classify her as an unwilling patient.  The fact holds that everyone needs to be touched.  Touch therapists claim that when they place their hands on a patient, they are able to detect and manipulate the patient’s “touch points” or putative energy field.   This therapy recognizes that the healee (patient) heals himself.  The healer (therapists) is acting mainly as a support system, to aid in recovery, until the patient’s body is robust enough to take over and continue the healing process.

The human mind and body, as created by God, is very much capable of regeneration and self healing.  But it needs a support system to get going with the process.  This is one of the concepts and cause of the brain specialist Dr. Daniel Amen.  Treatment is provided at the Amen Clinic for patients in need of proper health care.  These Treatments for Symptoms are configured to fit the patient’s needs.

So when kids (and hubby) ask for a rub on the back, I won’t even think twice.  If their body heals more quickly with a touch, I might as well give mine.

They say that in the world of Azeroth, any goblin would sell their best friend for a fistful of gold.  This is what brought the goblins to the The Lost Isles. When the cataclysm reawakened a volcano on their home island, one of the goblins’ trade princes, who owns a number of fleet ships took advantage and found that there was good money to be made in offering panicked goblins a ticket to safety on his ship.  He took their life savings of gold as the payment – and then planned to sell them into slavery. It could have been a clever plan until the ship fell apart in a naval crossfire between an Alliance fleet and a lone Horde ship. The shipwreck’s survivors washed ashore on the Lost Isles off the coast of Kalimdor.  This is where they discovered the island’s dense jungles harboring many mysteries and more than a few unpleasant surprises.   These little citizens are the best gold digger of all.  They excel in trading among all the races.  The truth is: only a few goblins blend shrewd business sense with a certain level of moral “flexibility”.  But they say that on this era, the goblins will finally decide which faction to join, to find where in the world they really belong.  I wonder if the class-wide character would ever change.  For sure, gold buying and selling gold coins for cash will always be their business.

Gold is an investment not just in the World of Warcraft.   The value appreciates each year because the source is no longer as abundant as it once was.  Did you know that Cash 4 Gold is in fact the original gold buyer? Don’t hesitate to sell gold online if you have plenty (or if you don’t need it anymore?).  You can’t bring it with you to the after life anyway.

I bought my very first site Eklaboo.com 3 years ago.  Back then (2006), blogging was unheard of, well, it was, but not as it is now.  As a media buyer in the days when there was not much publishers and bloggers, it was challenging to get leads for our advertisers.  Some bloggers who just blogged for the sake of blogging even suspected my emails as spam and my offers as fraud.  It was challenging but fun.  I spent a great deal of time hopping from one blog to another, surfing from blogroll to blogroll only to get a handful of interested publishers at the end of the day.  I was doing that for around 3 years until we had an advertising system running.  It was fun.   I loved doing it and to be honest, I miss doing it – the blog buying job, that is.

So why do I say blogging is hard?  I’m just speaking for myself.  Don’t get me wrong.  Blogging is fun, not very easy – challenging in fact.  But you get to earn while having fun.  It’s finding time to blog that is hard.  To most bloggers, blogging serves as their outlet from the daily grind.  To me, blogging IS my daily grind.  I can’t tell anymore how many blogrolls I’ve rolled, sidebars counted, Entrecard dropped, links hovered, pages visited.  At the end of my normal day, as much as I wanted to mind my own blog, looking at one more would just make me puke!

If you have time to spare, then blog!  Consider yourself lucky for having such commodity.  The Internet is opening windows and doors of opportunities as I speak.  Yes, the market is getting competitive but so are the things that we can do to earn.  Everything is growing exponentially.  If you want to jump aboard the online marketing world, now is your best chance.

hmmm… Do I hear a “How?”  I shall cover a series of the how to’s of blogging and affiliate marketing in the coming days

Announcing to all Mutizens. The Mu continent just opened its 4th season. Here’s a video created by Jeedo:

There are many new features with Season 4, but the first important one is the 3rd Class Change. The term is actually a blanket title as only four of the six classes actually have a third profession while the others only have two. The Blade Knight, Muse Elf, Soul Master and Bloody Summoner are those four while the Magic Gladiator and Dark Lord are the two exceptions. Maximum level is at 400.

As I was studying Internet Marketing, online visibility and eCommerce, I couldn’t agree more with Thomas Friedman’s view of globalization.  The world is now a leveled playing field because of technology.  The Internet, specifically, enabled some stay-at-home moms to earn as much as a top rank CEO would in year.   Browsing through the web, you will find websites of small time sellers looking as professional as the big guys.  Both attracting customers with unlimited markets.   Communication has never been this possible and affordable.  My sisters who are residing in Australia and Canada gets to chat with me everyday. I get to talk with them more often than I do with my neighbors next door. When I was working in a call center, we used predictive dialers to automatically make calls without having to key in phone numbers. One quick call after the other. So quick that I get to talk to around people 20 people in an hour. And they have no idea that the caller is continents away from them.  The world that was believed to be flat was known to be round and now perceived to be flat (again).  Magellan would definitely dispute this new perception.  But if he were alive today, I’m pretty sure he would have just browsed eBay or Amazon for spices and gold.