All well once again!

The Lunar New Year is just round the corner, in fact just this coming week, are you all ready to welcome the new year of the Rabbit? I hope we are...

It has been a hectic, tiring and heart-wrenching 2 weeks for us. Alvis baby had slight diarrhea and fever earlier the week before. He went to the PD on Tuesday (18th) and diarrhea stopped on Wednesday. As we thought he had recovered, his fever came back on Friday evening. We brought him back to Dr Low on Saturday morning and was told that he had Tonsillitis, sort of a throat/ear infection. Given some antibiotics and fever medicine, we came home. That very night, his high fever came back and we rushed down to Mount Elizabeth A&E and we were all ready to admit to hospital with our bags all packed, but was told that it was Tonsillitis and there was no need to worry. Sunday he was fine, fever was under control and didn't shoot up until Monday morning at about 5am.

Worried, we brought him to the PD again. This time, I suggested to do the blood test right away. At Paragon, Alvis baby had his first ever blood test. Not just a prick of his finger but a needle that went through his flesh and drew out a syringe of flesh blood. My boy was much braver than I expected. I thought he would struggle, whine or weep, but he did none of the mentioned. He was calm, didn't move a single inch at all, I was the one who didn't dare to look, with my heart aching in me.

The blood test at the clinic came out to a result of high bacterial infection, which was probably why his Tonsillitis was so serious that caused his fever to fluctuate. The result also show a weak positivity in dengue infection, and the PD said that it shouldn't be dengue since his blood platelet is normal with high white blood count. We admitted to Mount Alvernia Hospital to get his infection treated.

At the hospital, they had to poke a needle through his hand so as to inject antibiotics into his body throughout his stay. He was in this room alone with 2 nurses and a doctor. We waited outside, trying to peer and listen to what was going on inside the room, actually to hear if he cry, but I heard nothing. A minute seemed like an hour. Just as I was about to knock on the door, the door opened and I found my calm baby laying obediently on the bed. He didnt cried at all, even without us by his side, I wanted to cry. They did nose swab test for him, which he cried a little because he hates anything to do with his nose.

We comforted him and went back to our ward. That evening, Dr Low came by and said that the blood test did at the hospital showed to be dengue positive. My heart sank. Even with all the anti-dengue campaigns that NEA always educate us, I know nothing about dengue fever, how to look after a dengue patient etc. I was in a loss, sad. PD assured that since he's already in the hospital, he should be fine and well-monitored. There is no medicine for dengue, all they had to do was monitor his platelet count, making sure that it don't drop to too low. My poor little boy was down with 2 scary infections at the same time, we were worried sick.

For dengue fever, usually the blood platelet will decrease and it is very important to not let it fall below a certain range but thank God that Alvis' blood platelet was constant throughout the hospital stay. They did another blood test on him and result was normal before we were discharged. How much we've missed home.

Now he's recuperating at home, I need to build his immunity stronger than before. Dedicated care and rest is all he needs now, together with nutritious food. So, yup, don't worry about us, we're all fine now. :)

Chinese New Year is just a few days away, are all your new year shopping and spring cleaning done? We've spent nights at the hospital, kinda delayed our spring cleaning plan. But we have been pretty efficient and hardworking, these few nights we've been cleaning and throwing away things. Our storeroom is much much neater and has so much more space for many things. Love our crib spanking clean. Our study is also neater and hubby has more space for his gaming pleasure. My wonderful hubby even worked OT to get the kitchen stove-top, table-top, cabinets all cleaned and scrubbed. Couldn't be more thankful, very touched indeed.

That's all CNY is all about. A clean new home to welcome the new year.
久的不去，新的不来。垃圾不丢，好运不来。Hur hur...

Will be back with some backdated pictures, and will definitely blog soon! Take care everybody during this flu epidemic, down loads of water and vitamins!!

Happy preparing for CNY!

Happy New Year 2011

Happy New Year 2011 to all my readers!!
Sorry that this came late, still wishing you all a smooth great year ahead!

Make time for love, care and laughter. I wish for world peace!

Stay tune for update as I really hope to keep my blog up to date!

Cheers!!