Parent's Nightmare

30th May 2010, Sunday

One of the Parent's Nightmare is when child fall sick. After discharged, janelle was down with fever, running nose, throat infection and had some rashes on her limp. passed one week was hub and my nightmare.. Saturday she had rashes on her limp, i guessed was due to the dust at home as noone clears it. but sunday she was down with fever, hub is kind of reluctant to sent jx to hospital, but to calm me down, we went to kkh.. and it was confirmed not due to the new drugs we given to janelle and it was viral fever. and kkh diagnosed her as H1N1 .. yes, hub and me looked and each other puzzlingly.. according to the doctors at emergency dept, as now there are more than 50% chance of a child with flu, they will be treated as H1N1 and given timaflu. we took turns to wake up in the night to check her fever, feed her fever medicine to ensure her temp does not hit high. I didnt gave janelle timaflu as i dont think she had H1N1, and also because i worried the side effects of timaflu, furthermore janelle already on so many drugs why must add on more which we dont have a confirmed diagnosed that she had H1N1.

And after one week of leave accompaning Janelle in hospital, i have hundreds of emails at work to clear.. and a couple of UAT to work on that has tight timeline. haiz... to take care of sick janelle and work at the same time, it is really kind of hard. lucky i have a couple of good colleagues who helped me to cover my work.. helper who helps to look after janelle during day time.. hub to accompany janelle to fall asleep while i took a few hours each night to complete on the pending issues. so still manageable with a few hours lesser in sleep and it was a tough and long week for me.

MIL returned from her holiday from china on wednesday, and she called us at 1am telling us that she is coming over to sleep over... haiz... no choice, i need to wake my helper up at 1am to clear the bed for MIL, and woke hub up to pick her up from downstairs with all her bags.. she brought back some 拜拜 thingy for Janelle, and she asked me to do it for jx for 3 days... on friday when hub found out + cranky janelle due to her running nose, hub throw a big fuss over it.. and blamed MIL for bringing such things into the house. she was scolded by hub.. since then, MIL had not called to chat with jx. i was in a dilemma whether to continue the 拜拜 for the next 2 days.. after a deep thought, i did it when hub went out jogging... to me is, as long as it can bring good sign to jx, no matter how stupid it is, i will do it... giving a hope. silly me right??