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April 15, 2019

Facing death with Chloe


On 29th March 2018, Chloe was at KK Hospital to receive her regular enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) when she developed a mild fever. We kept her there for a night and she was discharged on Good Friday evening.
 
On Saturday, I woke up as usual at 8am and my routine was to go marketing. But somehow I didn’t feel like it and chose to stay home instead.

At 11.30am I went to take a shower and when I came out, my helper told me that Chloe had desaturated to 84%. My helper had already done a round of cough assist. Chloe was still coughing, so I continued suctioning and that’s when things started to go horribly wrong…