On 9/11/07, Metta's had fever and we gave her dose of medication and place cooler pad on her forehead but fever was still not able to subside even until 10/11/07. Her milk intake was also reducing and she became more tired.Papa was in camp and managed to return on Sat night.
We sent Metta to KKH around 8pm, we waited for her to pee till wee hours but was still not able to collect the sample, she was not drinking well. We did not suspect anything unusual, pd allowed us to go home around 2plus in the early morning. We reached home almost 3am, too tired for anything else. We were ask to bring back the urine sample within 2 hours once Metta pee.
Around late morning, we managed to collect the sample and went to KKH immediately. Unexpectedly the sample we collected were said to be contaminated, another sample is required. The long wait begin again. Metta was not drinking well and was feverish by then. Around 3pm, we managed to get another sample, sent to lab and then start "bathing" her to bring down her temperature.
At 4pm, pd confirm the result, there was high white cell count, meaning there were trace of bacteria in her (infection) which result in fever, Metta needs to be warded.
The looooooooooong day(s) begun...
Day and night and day... mummy and popo take turns take care and stay by her side (papa was serving reservist). Le Le came to hospital everyday as no one else could take cae of him at home.
Many days of tireness, stress, pains and laughters...
* Tireness - Not enough sleep Zzzz...
* Stress - What would be the bill, when can she be discharge?
* Pains - Metta was poke with needles here and there just to find the veins, both her little hands were poke numerous times. The needles fallen off on the 3rd day and the doctor had to poke her again on the other hand. The pain the child is suffering deeply hurts the parents' heart. How to tahan? Heartache..
* Laughters - Of course, Metta has the love and care from mummy, papa, popo, gugu, jiu-jiu, da-jiu and family including her cousin, En En. Not forgeting the parents we corresponded from the next bed, without them, we would really be bored to death.
On Sat morning, 17/11/07, Le Le was running a fever at 38.2 degree, mummy was shocked and quickly gave him medication. Mummy will collapse if Le Le would be the next victim of the bacteria...
Around late evening, mummy felt nausea, tummyache and follwed by fever. Begin to run toilet and vomitted several times. Mummy begin to suspect food-poisoning which causes the triggering of gastric pain. Mummy collapsed as the pain was unbearable due to past history of gastric problem. Went into 24 hours, took the medication and lie down awhile, it gets better into wee hours.
Le Le temperature went up to 39 degree. Papa managed to get the approval from his officer to be excused to come out to see to all these terrible episode. Papa immediately sent Le Le to Children Emergency, this lucky little boy was save from fever after several dosage of medication.
At this point of time, popo was vomitting and turned feverish also. These seems to be related to mummy as both had food poisoning. We did not want to suspect on what food we had eaten, we strongly believe that our bodies were much weaker due to so many days of ordeals...
Papa sent popo and Le Le home so that they can quickly get away from hospital. Mummy gets better and stay by Metta to attend to her. Papa then return to KKH with tired body, ended up papa himself need 2 doses of medicine.
Metta was finally discharge on 18/11/07 after 7 days of antibiotic through her veins. She is now recovering at home and is getting better each day. We were required to give her oral medication everyday till Dec...
May these not happen to our poor baby anymore...
