My sick boy

On Monday, he woke up from his afternoon nap with a fever. Temperature was hovering at 38C plus for the rest of the evening. I checked his medicine box and realized that his suppository wasn't there. Must have left it in KL during our recent CNY trip. No choice but to force him to take the medicine in liquid form. Of course he protested and spat out quite a lot. That was at 5pm. Called my dear friend, Elke to ask if she has suppository but she doesn't. She advised me to mix it into his milk. Since there's no other way, I followed her advice and mixed it into his bedtime milk which he had at 8ish pm.

The next day, his temperature was between 38-39C even though I diligently fed him water and medicine. Sponged him too but he wailed his lungs out. Decided to bring him to see his paed. He had no runny nose, but his throat was a tad red. Anyway, the doctor wanted to test for influenza. "To be on the safe side, although I don't think it's influenza." he said. Thank God the test was negative. Doctor then advised me to observe him for the next 3 days. He said it could be just a bad viral infection but told me that it could possibly be false measles (Roseola) or urinary tract infection.


Long story cut short, his temperature did not go down. On Tuesday night, he hardly slept. Kept on waking up every hour, from 10ish pm till 5ish am. He cried as though he was in pain. I was kinda scared seeing him like that. He has never been like that before, even when he had acute gastroentritis seven months ago. Moreover, hubby was away on business. Decided to bring him to KK Hospital. So I packed some clothes, his diaper, milk and called a cab.


We arrived before 6am. Saw the doctor half an hour later. This time, doctor said he has ulcer in his throat and she checked his hands and feet for blisters to rule out hand-foot and mouth disease (HFMD). She then proceeded to have his urine examined. Since he can't pee when asked to, the nurse had to attach a urine bag. I was told to check the bag every 10 minutes for urine. The time then was 6:40am. He dozed off in my arms aroung 7:10am for about half an hour. After his nap, he was up and about, roaming his "new territory". Except for the occassional crankiness, he seemed active as compared to the other kids there. Walked to the toilets, down to the pharmacy and we also went up to the hospital mall to get a bottle of water. He even went and knock on the doctor's room and ran away. Now, who taught him that?

A picture of cheeky, dozing off in mummy's arms.


Well, he finally peed at about 8:40am, that's like 2 hours later, even though I kept on feeding him water. Doctor then confirmed that there's no UTI and asked me to monitor for HFMD.

He got better after our hospital trip! Temperatured dropped to near normal and he was not feverish anymore the next day. He wasn't eating much from Monday evening till Thursday but today, his appetite is returning. He ate half a bowl of porridge for dinner; his usual is 1 full rice-bowl! But he is still extremely clingy and manja to me. Why ar? Still not well or he loved the extra attention that mummy showered on him when he was sick?