the little menace once contracted spreads like wildfire and there seems to be no way at all to contain it. what seemed to be a harmless tiny speck of a problem later turned out to be so troublesome and irritating till one just had to catch it to feel the magnitude of it .
yes i am talking about the flu, cough, headache and fever mania going around nowadays.
monday, 7th september..
it all started with a minor cough from my first-born. of which of course he got it from his morning sickness and an endless supply of cold water, chocolate milk, ice-cream and swimming. so he underwent a course of anti-biotics and several cough and flu medicine. however he developed fever almost the day after and it barely touched 39 degrees. i panicked, so i decided to keep vigil the whole day. mind you no sleep. i nursed him back to health and with a total of nearly 10 freaking times of going in and out of the good doctor's lair, finally the last one decided that i have him tested for the you-know-what.jeng jeng jeng.
thursday, 10th september..
he had to skip school as i was worried he would infect the others. so around 3pm we went to the nearest private hospital in puchong and waited for the doc to attend to us. before that the nurse took his heart beat rate and scribbled some notes on her pad. then we waited again. finally we went in to see the doc whom he himself was coughing badly and had a mask on. his eyes were red and he seemed a bit disorientated. he jotted a few things that i said and went on to fumble with his stethoscope. at one point he was listening intensely to son's left lung. finally he said that he heard a faded sound that was very liquid-ish in his lungs. apart from the test he ordered an x-ray as well as blood test for him. he was pretty excited at first, until he underwent the swab test. the nasal test was horrifying. it was actually very painful and he cried non-stop after that. it was a downhill thereafter. the blood test, the x-ray, the throat swabbing (of which he vehemently refused)! after all that we waited again, and when they called us back in, it was a negative! yay...
friday, 11th september
that night i came down with a fever because of the lack of sleep and slight flu. i took some panadol and slept earlier. thank God baby was behaving and he slept throughout the night.
saturday and sunday, 12th and 13th september
baby came down with fever most probably due to the jab he had on friday. you guessed it. 2 more sleepless nights for me. he was also curiously putting his hands in his mouth and drooled a lot. i think since Susan's baby is teething, my baby might be too. sigh..
saturday, 19th september
it has been a week. hubby is here and i do hope to God that he would not get sick. it appears that whenever they are sick i will be the nurse. and when i get sick, i will be the nurse as well, plus a little help from hubby and son. i still remember son said to me while patting my back, "you go to sleep with the baby. i will be watching tv outside and will not disturb you." awww... so sweet.
yes i am talking about the flu, cough, headache and fever mania going around nowadays.
monday, 7th september..
it all started with a minor cough from my first-born. of which of course he got it from his morning sickness and an endless supply of cold water, chocolate milk, ice-cream and swimming. so he underwent a course of anti-biotics and several cough and flu medicine. however he developed fever almost the day after and it barely touched 39 degrees. i panicked, so i decided to keep vigil the whole day. mind you no sleep. i nursed him back to health and with a total of nearly 10 freaking times of going in and out of the good doctor's lair, finally the last one decided that i have him tested for the you-know-what.jeng jeng jeng.
thursday, 10th september..
he had to skip school as i was worried he would infect the others. so around 3pm we went to the nearest private hospital in puchong and waited for the doc to attend to us. before that the nurse took his heart beat rate and scribbled some notes on her pad. then we waited again. finally we went in to see the doc whom he himself was coughing badly and had a mask on. his eyes were red and he seemed a bit disorientated. he jotted a few things that i said and went on to fumble with his stethoscope. at one point he was listening intensely to son's left lung. finally he said that he heard a faded sound that was very liquid-ish in his lungs. apart from the test he ordered an x-ray as well as blood test for him. he was pretty excited at first, until he underwent the swab test. the nasal test was horrifying. it was actually very painful and he cried non-stop after that. it was a downhill thereafter. the blood test, the x-ray, the throat swabbing (of which he vehemently refused)! after all that we waited again, and when they called us back in, it was a negative! yay...
friday, 11th september
that night i came down with a fever because of the lack of sleep and slight flu. i took some panadol and slept earlier. thank God baby was behaving and he slept throughout the night.
saturday and sunday, 12th and 13th september
baby came down with fever most probably due to the jab he had on friday. you guessed it. 2 more sleepless nights for me. he was also curiously putting his hands in his mouth and drooled a lot. i think since Susan's baby is teething, my baby might be too. sigh..
saturday, 19th september
it has been a week. hubby is here and i do hope to God that he would not get sick. it appears that whenever they are sick i will be the nurse. and when i get sick, i will be the nurse as well, plus a little help from hubby and son. i still remember son said to me while patting my back, "you go to sleep with the baby. i will be watching tv outside and will not disturb you." awww... so sweet.
hi ed! hope everyone is ok now. how are you? take care, and go pamper yourself ah..
hey zan. everyone is ok except for tht irritation in his throat that angelus is having. other than that ok saja. but really la dont know how to get rid of that darn cough of his!