Day 8 ... A Week End to Stay at Home and Rest

1 July 2012

It's Sunday and it's a very quiet and slow Sunday.

The entire family is catching up on sleep, rest, recovering from the fever, finishing the antibiotic and drowsiness from flu and cough medicines.

We've earlier planned to go to cinema to watch Madagascar 3. Unfortunately, Hubby is having high fever and he has been sleeping almost the whole day and only woke up for his meals. He did not have the appetite to have dinner.

Day 7 ... Hubby Fallen Sick Too

30 Jun 12

Jared woke up and told me that he didn’t want to have his tuition as he didn’t want to spread the bacteria to his tuition teacher. I sent a sms to his teacher and told her to cancel the tuition for the day.

In the afternoon after my usual errands, I drove to KL to my favourite temple for prayer. A prayer that I was suppose to go a week ago.

I told the uncle who worked at the temple that Jaden was admitted to hospital and my whole family has fallen sick. He gave me flowers and rice. The flowers are for our bath and the rice is to be mixed with our home rice for daily intake.

At night, Hubby started not feeling well. He has finally lost to the bacteria battle too and fallen sick. With Hubby falling sick too, this strong bacteria had got the entire family to fall sick and had high fever.

Day 6 ... Oh No, Jared is Having High Fever

29 Jun 2012

I went back to work today. It's Friday, the last working day for the week and also the last working day for the month. My colleagues advised me to go back to work on Monday. Not sure if they care for me, wanting me to rest for another day and over the weekend or they were worried that my bacteria would spread to them. But knowing them, the later is likely the reason.

As I've rested for so many days and also it's the last working day of the month, being in Finance line, there are always a lot of work to be done before the month closes.

My boss reminded me to spray our house with Blu Oxy spray to kill bacteria in house surrounding. My friend called and asked me if I feed my family with the Cell Food that I bought from her. She advised me to drop a few drops of Cell Food into a glass of water for drinking. Honestly, I've forgotten that I have these 2 little bottles of savers at home.

 

Jared woke up with fever of 39.5C. We did not let him go for his tuition. In fact, we asked him not to go to school for the day. But he wanted and we were surprise! We thought he would be happy that he can miss class and all the homework.

Jared went to school. We packed his medicine for him and advised him on the medicine intake.

Jared called hubby at almost 4pm and asked him to pick him up from school. Hubby asked Jared to take the fever medicine in the canteen while waiting for hubby to pick him up.

Last week, he told us that he has been selected to represent his class in a competition where he would play keyboard.

According to Jared, he had school performance competition from 2.40pm to 3.40pm and Jared was the 26th contestants out of 58th contestants for his school standard. Jared told us that he won 1st place and will represent his standard in overall school competition.

No wonder he insisted in going to school. This boy has a very strong determination and we are proud of him.

Fei Yin suggested to give young coconut water to Jared to cool down his temperature. I am very lucky to have these caring friends surrounding me. On the way home, I stopped by a restaurant to buy young coconut for Jared.

Hubby went back to our GP to pick up fever suppository, in case we need it for Jared late at night.

And ... Moch started to have flu and cough.

Day 5 ... Still not Fit for School and Work

28 Jun 2012

Jaden was not ready to get back to his normal routine. He cried when we woke him early in the morning to get him ready for his kindergarten. As he was still having cough and need to take cough mixture that would make him sleepy, we decided to let him rest at home.

As for me, I had diarrhea and had been going to toilet a few times in a day. The diarrhea and the medicine made me feel drowsy and I was still not fit for work.

The bacteria was so strong that Jared was falling sick too. Together with Jared, we picked up homework for Jaden and then, went to see GP with Jared. According to the GP, Jared had the same bad throat infection.

As for me, the GP said the antibiotic that she prescribed earlier had cause the side effect of diarrhea to me. She changed and gave me another course of antibiotic and changed the cough mixture.

Day 4 ... Jaden Discharged from Hospital

27 Jun 2012

I woke up this morning with fever of 39.1C.

Hubby called in the early morning and informed that Jaden can be discharge from hospital after his antibiotic drip at 12pm. His body temperature was back to normal. It was such a relief to hear that.

Jaden was still asleep when we reached the hospital at almost 10am. He cried the night before, missing his brother and wanting to go home.

Hubby preparing breakfast for Jaden

When the pediatrician came to the room to check on Jaden, I finally made my complaint to her. Something that I wanted to complain since Day 1 in the hospital but didn't manage to see the pediatrician.

Jaden was admitted to hospital at 5am+. The nurses at the Emergency Unit could not draw his blood for blood test and the blood was extracted by the pediatrician at 10am+. The nurse at the ward interpreted the blood test result wrongly as Jaden had viral fever and no antibiotic was required. Finally, when the pediatrician came at 5pm+, she told Hubby that Jaden had bacteria fever and then only gave the first antibiotic to Jaden in the hospital. I questioned the pediatrician as to why it took the hospital 12 hours to feed Jaden the very first antibiotic, especially to a 5 years old boy who had high, bacteria fever. Don't the hospital knows that it is very important for sick kids to have proper medicine on time?

I cant turn back the clock but I wish the hospital improve on this and don't repeat the same incidence with other patients.

Happy to see him energetic again

Jaden at the hospital cashier settling the hospital bill

The hospital bill came up to RM2.6K+ and I am thankful to my employer who cover my family medical bills under ING too.

Let's Go Home

Home sweet home. Reading his favourite Kokko & May magazine

When we reached home, all of us had a shower to freshen up. Hubby went to sleep and slept till we woke him up for dinner. He was very tired. According to him, he could not sleep well the last few days that he was in the hospital with Jaden. Those nurses came in to check on Jaden every 2 hours to feed him medicine and check on his body temperature.

The medicine from hospital

Jaden had mild fever of 37.5C at midnight.

Day 3 ... Fever baton passed to me

26 Jun 2012

It was so difficult for me to wake up in the morning. I was feeling weak, drowsy and I knew I was in bad shape. I called Hubby and told him that I was not fit to take over from him to take care of Jaden in the hospital.

After medicine, I brought Jared and Moch to visit Jaden in the hospital. I’ve to drop clothes for YC in hospital as I was supposed to take care of Jaden in the hospital. It was so difficult to look for car park in the hospital and the public open space parking area.

Hubby informed that Jaden’s fever was up and down yesterday night between 37-39C and the pediatrician still want to monitor him in the hospital for another night.

Jared said "Stay in hospital so nice. No need to do homework. Can play iPad and PSP and watch TV the whole day".

In the evening, I picked up Auntie YC at 8pm from her office as she wanted to visit Jaden in the hospital too.

After we left the hospital, Jaden cried. He wanted to go home and missed his brother. Hubby let him talk to Jared on the phone. Jaden cried "I want you Kor Kor" and Jared said "Don’t cry, tomorrow you will come back".

Day 2 ... admitted to KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital

25 Jun 2012

Hubby drove to KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital while I was carrying Jaden on my lap and sponging him. Jaden cried saying he did not want to go to hospital and asked us to go home. I also called ING to inform them of Jaden's high fever and asked them to prepare letter of guarantee to KPJ Hospital.

We headed to the Emergency and Accident Unit. There was a few staff on duty. I carried Jaden down and told them "My son has high fever". There was no rushing and running, unlike those we watch on ER TV show. The staff direct me to a room, asked how old is Jaden, what's his weight, etc.  The nurse gave him fever suppository while I distracted Jaden. There was no cold show but the nurse started to sponge Jaden, more wet than the way I did.

After that, a doctor attended to Jaden. Two options were given to us:

1. Admit Jaden into the hospital for fever monitoring, blood test to find out the cause of the high fever and to be attended by pediatrician; or
2. To take Jaden home for own monitoring at home.

We chose Option 1 as we had never experience such a high fever of 40.3C and we would like Jaden to have the blood test to find out the cause of the high fever and to be treated and given the right medicine for his fever.

Thereafter, the hospital proceeded with admission procedures.

6.30am - Jaden was put on nebulizer to clear air way

6.40 am - The nurse attempted to draw blood from Jaden for blood test but failed causing pain in Jaden

Thereafter, the staff brought us up to 2nd floor, the admission ward. Jaden had a single bed room. Initially, Jaden refused to stay in hospital but luckily, there was a television with cartoon channel for him to watch.

I applied for emergency leave from work to take care of Jaden. We wrote down a list of things that we need to pack and bring to the hospital. The first thing came to our mind is iPad. Hubby went back to freshen up and organise things. Pediatrician came to see Jaden at about 10am and said Jaden had acute tonsillitis.

Hubby came back to the hospital with my mother in-law.  She offered to help us out during this period but I told her we should be fine. As the earlier blood draw for blood test was unsuccessful, the pediatrician drew the blood herself. She informed us the blood test result should be out by lunch time. Hubby left hospital to send his mother to Klang to visit her elder sister.

 Jaden's hand was put on bandage for the hospital to give him antibiotic drip.

11am - 2nd round of nebuliser to clear phlegm

There were constantly nurses coming in and out of the room to check Jaden's fever temperature, give him medicine, nebuliser, etc and hospital staff to bring in food and clean the room. I was trying to catch some sleep but it is almost impossible. The room was also very cold as the air-con was set at 20C to help to bring down Jaden's fever. Jaden and I were fighting over the iPad and I only got to use it after convinced Jaden to sleep.

At about 2pm, I asked the nurse who came in and feed Jaden medicine about the blood test result. The nurse said Jaden had viral infection and no antibiotic is required. We have to wait for doctor to inform us when can Jaden be discharged from the hospital.

Hubby came back to hospital and I left the hospital at about 4.30pm to freshen up and catch some rest at home while I would be back after dinner to take care of Jaden in the hospital, if he still needs to stay in the hospital.

Hubby called at about 5.30pm+ and told me the pediatrician advised Jaden has bacteria fever and they would give him antibiotic drip. We were confused with the different interpretation of the blood test result. The pediatrician also advised that Jaden needs to be monitored another night in the hospital as he still have fever of 38-39C.

I picked up Jared from school, came back for dinner and sent Jared to Kumon. By this time, I had not slept for almost 40 hours and I wasn't feeling good.  I went to see GP and the GP told me I had fever with bad throat infection and give me 2 days MC.

By the time I picked up Jared from Kumon and sent him home, it's almost 10pm. I was not fit to move any further. I told Hubby about it and he asked me to rest at home. The poor Hubby did not have his pajama or any fresh clothes to change.

After medicine, I went to sleep.