Sunday, April 26, 2015

Nellie's Hospitalization

As the title says it all, Nellie was admitted to the hospital for the first time due to an illness.

This experience was really not for the faint hearted.

She was down with a fever since 14 Mar, but this fever only will rise when she is sleeping, and during the day, she is still as active, however she was also having quite a bit of dry cough. So it didnt occurred to me to send her to see a doc, and not to mention, she just seen a doc about 10 days ago, concerning her bronchitis, which already cost us a bomb.

So we or rather I was trying to be the doctor at home and tried to self medicate her. However, after taking few days of cough syrup, completing 1 bottle, she was not improving, in fact it was kind of worsening. So came Mon, we kept her at home, and she skip school!

Tue came, her fever was not going away, she was coughing more regularly. We were then deciding to send her back to the same PD, go to a new GP (bearing in mind that the PD visit already blow us away), or just head down to Mount A and admit her since she was not recovering.

After much consideration, we decide to head down to Mount A. And we went somewhere in the evening after dinner. Nellie was still as active. We saw the doc at the 24hrs clinic and he told me, it was nothing serious, just a mere upper respiratory infection, it doesn't warrant an admission, nonetheless, i insist and so she was admitted. I thank God we admitted her and sought a 2nd opinion. The PD came, and we were told that she was actually having a chest infection and requires her to be on antibiotics, as well as to conduct Xrays and blood test to further confirm what was exactly bothering her. It was closed to 10pm when we were sent to the ward, and close to 12am after all the procedures. My heart was so wretched when we heard her loud cries when the doctor inserted the cannula.We were seriously worn out.

During the night, as much as i guess that she probably not going to sleep well, at 2am, a patient that finished operation was wheeled in, lo and behold, the porter actually bumped unto our bed. And i was up. Shortly not long later, someone in the next bed, woke up crying, and so does my poor princess.

Next morning came, we were sent down to complete the xrays. And that afternoon, the results were back. The films showed that my poor princess' lungs were somehow filled with phlegm. And she is requires to stay for at least 4 days to complete her treatment. That was only a Tuesday.

And fast forward, we were finally discharged on Sat. And the princess gets to go home to her toys and i get to go back to my bed! Like finally!



But the story doesn't just there.

On Mon, when we went back for review, the poor girl caught a new virus, and there we go again, back to the hospital.

Shortly after settling down in the hospital, she began to start running high fever. There goes her appetite. And there goes my sleep.

She was once again, given the drips and various treatments, but as we were about to discharge, she was down with stomach flu.

All in all, she was warded for 11 days. or even more. I lost count.

Definitely not for faint hearted parents!


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