See our little angel SAM, he is currently confined at the Philippine General Hospital for the past week due to pneumonia and is under observation for this disease.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is one of the neuromuscular diseases. Muscles weaken and waste away (atrophy) due to degeneration of motor neurones which are nerve cells in the spinal cord. Normally, these motor neurones relay signals, which they receive from the brain, to the muscle cells. When these neurones fail to function, the muscles deteriorate. The brain and the sensory nerves (that allow us to feel sensations such as touch, temperature, pain etc.) are not affected. Intelligence is normal.
From the description just given it can be seen why the condition is called Spinal Muscular Atrophy - the muscles atrophy because of a problem in the nerve cells in the spine.
Infantile spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffamann disease) is the most severe form of SMA. It usually becomes evident in the first six months of life. The child is unable to roll or sit unsupported, and the severe muscle weakness eventually causes feeing and breathing problems. These children usually do not live beyond about 18 months of age.
SOURCE: http://www.mda.org.au/specific/mdasma.html
Although this has yet to be confirmed pending the test results scheduled for this Tuesday 25 Oct 2005, we hope that you would join us in praying for a favorable result and for Sam and his family to remain strong amidst this big trial that we are facing.
They say that no one's truly happy in this world. There's a doctor who dreamed of being a singer. A lawyer who wanted to be an artist...a janitor who couldn't be an actor . A mother who couldn't be a diplomat... a pilot who couldn't marry his true love... Life doesn't always turn out the way you expect it, but you still have to live it.
've been quite down & depressed lately. i had this feeling that my life was going no where, that the choices that i make do not seem to lead me anywhere & that my existence is really not that significant.... today i ran an errand for my mom wherein i had to walk through the uplb campus, it was really refreshing that at the mere sight of biosci & the library, i suddenly felt happy. i remebered my college days when i was hungry but have no more money left except to get a ride home. i'll just go to our tambayan and exhibit the power of my 1 peso increase a hundreth fold and end up eating spaghetti, pizza, siopao, mangoes, the ever famous nilupak, chicaron, lumpia, and the list goes on & on... when i passed by the library i remember how my bestfriend, my sister leslie & i frequently went there to study for our econ exams, but always end up just chatting & laughing out loud and still ended up at having decent final grades of 1.17, 2.00 & 2.25, respectively. remembering all these made me realize, that no matter how complicated and difficult my daily living is, i already have a lot of happy memories enough to last me through this lifetime to make me appreciate the beauty of my wonderful life =) all i have to do is to turn ON the happy mode & as ruby always tells me: "create a happy disposition..."
See our little angel SAM, he is currently confined at the Philippine General Hospital for the past week due to pneumonia and is under observation for this disease.
