Second Operation on 29 May, Wednesday

Dear caring friends,

Thank you for all blessings for these past months.

After 6 months of recovering period, Adelyn had achieved very big improvement on her right eye. She is able to see big object like building and cars, as far as within 15 - 20 metres.

She is now putting on a spectacles with some degrees to help her to get a clearer picture of her surrounding. According to Adelyn, although her vision on the object is not very sharp, but is much more better than before.

I estimated she should be gaining her vision about at least 20% from her past.

Adelyn will be going for her next operation on her left eye on 29th May 2013, Wednesday @ Mount Elizabeth Novena @ 5pm.

Again, I am here to seek all caring friends here to pray together with me

Adeyln, her sisters and me are looking forward for this exciting day to arrive. We hope everyone here, including all caring friends around the world, could pray together with us for this exciting moment that we had been looking forward to. Kindly forward this message to your friends around.

Once again, thank you for all supports and blessings.


Warmest regards,
Mary & Children

Singapore Chinese Orchestra on 11 May 2013

 

 Singapore Chinese Orchestra

新加坡华乐团

SCO Mother’s Day Concert – To Mom, With Love

Conductor Quek Ling Kiong                       Piano Adelyn Koh                Erhu Stephanie Ow

10 May 2013 (Fri)                 Sold out

11 May 2013 (Sat)        @ 8pm                 @ SCO Concert Hall

 

18 April Next operation update

Dear all caring friends,

To keep everyone update, Adelyn most probably will be going for the left eye operation in early June this year.

We had been thru so far to await for the next operation.

The first operation on the right eye was indeed a successful one. Adelyn is able to see her surrounding as far as about 5 metres away. According to her, although the image is not very clear, but is much more better than in those days.

I hereby hope everyone here could once again pray for Adelyn for her next coming operation on the left eye.

I will update again when the time come nearer.

All the best to all of you.

Warmest regards,
Mary & children

19th March update on Today online

Singapore 19th March 2013

Cornea surgery by S’porean specialist a groundbreaking success

Assoc Prof Leonard Ang successfully restored Adelyn Koh’s vision last November through a highly specialised eye reconstruction operation. Photo: Parkway Pantai Group

SINGAPORE — A Singapore eye specialist has performed groundbreaking surgery to restore vision in two children with cornea diseases. It was the first time the operation — which has better long-term success than conventional cornea transplants — had been done in South-east Asia.

The children, 23-month-old Hoang Binh Minh and 11-year-old Adelyn Koh — the former developed blindness in his right eye, while the latter was born blind — had their sight successfully restored last November through a highly specialised and complex eye reconstruction operation known as the Paediatric Boston Keratoprosthesis (KPro) surgery.

The operations were performed by Associate Professor Leonard Ang, Medical Director and Senior Consultant of the Lang Eye Centre. He is the first local surgeon and one of only a few surgeons in the world specially trained to do so.

Corneal blindness is the second most common treatable cause of blindness in the world, with over 20 million cases recorded globally. Cornea transplants had been the conventional but less effective option for restoring vision before the improved surgery was introduced, with more than 80 per cent of paediatric cornea transplants failing within three years.

The KPro surgery “has a much lower rate of graft rejection and is associated with better long-term success”, said Assoc Prof Ang at a press conference yesterday.

He hopes to restore up to 30 per cent of Adelyn’s vision, compared to zero before the surgery, and up to 70 per cent of Binh Minh’s, from less than 5 per cent previously.

Said Adelyn: “Last time, when I climbed steps, all I saw were countless things mounting up. I wouldn’t know how many steps there were. Now I can count up to a maximum of five steps.

“Every time I see something (I couldn’t see before), I get excited, like the colour of MRT seats,” she added.

The procedure is also less costly than cornea transplants. Most patients undergo three or four transplants, each costing S$15,000 to S$20,000, while the KPro surgery costs about S$30,000 and needs to be performed only once.

Other advantages include much faster visual rehabilitation and recovery, the elimination of the need for body-harming immunosuppressants and medication and better quality of vision.

Fewer than eight KPro surgical operations have been performed in Asia.

 

16 Feb Updates

Dear all caring friends,

This is a very special new year for Adelyn and me.

Adelyn had said a few things that had touched my heart.

1) Once, she stood in the middle of our living room and said "Mummy, so this is how the living room look like. This is the place I had been staying for 10 years, and finally I can see how it look like!"

2) A plate of simple instant noodles was brought infront of her. She said "Mummy, I can see how my favorite noodles' colors! Wow, my plate of noodles so colourful ( different veggie and carrot added).

3) Her two little sisters walking infront of her. She able to tell who is Angelyn & Amelyn based on their height.

4) She able to let go my hand and walked behind me in a arm length.

ALL the above are just a minor, simple and usual things that all of us able to do it. But for Adelyn, she had been through 10 years of blindness and finally able to see these SIMPLE AND USUAL things around her. She maybe just feel happy and surprise, but I am feeling very touch, happy and sad.

We really have to appreciate what we have. Things might be simple and natural to many of us, but remember to appreciate it cos we do not know when we will lose it. Believe in MIRACLES !

Warmest regards,
Mary Lim

11 Feb update

Dear all caring friends,

A very happy new year 2013!

Just a quick update of Adelyn's condition.

Adelyn is able to see better now, like; able to see up or down staircases. Plants/grass/flowers infront of her. Various objects surrounded her. Although the objects not very clear to her yet, but is indeed a great improvement.

Will keep you update again. Thank you

Regards,
Mary

27 Dec update on Adelyn's progress

All caring friends,

Thank you for all the supports and blessing.

Adelyn is able to see better now. She is able to see as far as about 3 metres away. Although she is still unable to figure out the object clearly, but she is able to see the outline of the objects.

Please continue to pray together with me for a better improvement.

I wish everyone here have a very fruitful coming 2013. Happy New Year to you and your family.

Warmest regards,
Mary & Children