2nd Visit to Dr. Sim

Hubby and I took half day leave today to take Sze Yi for her 2nd visit to Dr. Sim at GMC. He didn’t have night clinic, and from the previous visit it was such a long wait that we decided to take the second half off. Her cough has improved, but she just caught a cold and might be having a flu anytime soon.

Our appointment was at 3pm, but we waited nearly 2 hours or so because Dr. Sim needed to attend to an emergency. It was not easy trying to keep Sze Yi in control, and during the wait, she’s finished 1 egg tart, half a cheese tart (it dropped on the floor when she was running around), as well as her 8-oz milk. Luckily the cartoons on the walls and also the children there kept her occupied for sometime.

One interesting this is that Sze Yi kept knocking on Dr. Sim’s door and wanted to go in. There were a few times when the nurse open the door, and she rushed in to play with the toys! I have to go and pull her out again. Haven’t seen her so eager to see the pediatric!

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Finally our turn came, and Sze Yi happily went to the play corner while we talked to Dr. Sim. I showed him all the medicines this time. He put aside those that we can stop giving Sze Yi, and asked us to continue with the Singulair (he gave us another 2 tablets FOC), Ventolin and Rhinathiol Promethazine. The Singulair must be completed, while the other two could stop when her cough stop. Since Sze Yi might be getting a flu soon, he asked us to give her Polaramine (we still have some left from Dr. Lim).

So, we thanked Dr. Sim and wanted to leave. But our little girl wouldn’t want to budge! In the end, Dr. Sim gave her some stickers to play with, and only then she agreed to say bye bye to him. My, my, my, I’ve never seen her so happy walking out from a doctor’s room before  

In Search of A Cure…

It’s about two weeks now since her last visit to Dr. Lim, but Sze Yi is still coughing. Only occasional and it’s not as bad as before, but the cough is still there. And the vomit-like symptom is our greatest worry. So since I’m on MC today (I’ve recently got a coughing attack too, and since I’m having a high fever, I got an MC to rest at home), I decided to bring Sze Yi to GMC to see Dr. Sim.

After a long wait (close to 3 hours), our turn came. It was worth the wait because Sze Yi let Dr. Sim put the stethoscope on her chest for quite long. Well, I was anxiously waiting for her to cry, and after it seemed like ages, she did But Dr. Sim already checked her, and could tell that she’s still having some phlegm. He wanted to listen to her ears, but she wouldn’t let him. So he didn’t insist. Sze Yi then saw all the toys at the corner and went down to play with them. The nurse helped to entertain her while I spoke to Dr. Sim. She tried to weigh her, but she wouldn’t let her. Then she used the toys as a bait and Sze Yi agreed. She’s still 11kg, no gain compared to last time.

Dr. Sim suspected that she’s having an allergy or something, and advised me not to give her coloured-sweets, oranges and strawberries. I told him MIL suspected that Sze Yi is allergy to eggs too so he advised me to keep away from that as well. He asked me if I remembered what type of medicine that she was prescribed before, I showed him my list. However, since I didn’t write down the exact dosage that she took, he asked me to bring the actual medicines with me when I come back to follow-up on Thursday. You see, we’ll be travelling to Singapore this coming Friday, so he wanted to see Sze Yi again on Thursday to make sure that she’s ok by then. He told me that what he’s giving was also an experiment, since he couldn’t tell for sure what’s wrong with Sze Yi.

Here’s what he prescribed:

1. Singulair 5mg tablet – 1 table to be taken daily, at night. This is to clear the phlegm, also an anti-allergy.

2. Ventolin 2mg/5ml syrup – 3.1ml to be taken 3 times daily. This is to clear the airways, similar to what Dr. Lim prescribed, just that the dosage is different (I went home to check later).

3. A red syrup (I forgot what’s the name, because I forgot to take it back during our 2nd visit. Dr. Sim put that aside, telling me that Sze Yi could stop that medicine during our 2nd visit).  That was at 5ml per dosage, 3 times daily.

4. Rhinathiol Promethazine – at 3.5ml, 3 times daily, for coughing. This is similar to what Dr. Lim prescribed – the one that would cause coma if overdose.

Well, I hope she would be better soon. At least the visit to the pediatric was not a bad experience to her this time.

A Blessing in Disguise

Yesterday, while I was getting ready to Church, Sze Yi woke up. She sensed that I was going out without her, so she started to cling to me. In the end, I agreed to bring her along. I quickly changed her and prepared her things in less than 10 minutes and off we went. Hubby dropped us first, while he went to have his breakfast. You see, initially it was only me going to Church, and I’ve taken my breakfast. But because Sze Yi wanted to follow along, hubby decided to drive us there. He just woke up by the way ;P

In Church, I carried Sze Yi in. I thot everything was going to be fine, but the moment she entered the Church, she started to point at the direction where we came, and asked me to go back out instead. She kept saying “pooh”, because my car has lots of the Winnie the Pooh bears, signalling that she wanted to go back to the car. I was persistent, as we were already late for Mass, and walked straight in, ignoring her protests. I did the sign of cross (also helped her with it) and knelt down to pray, all the while carrying her because she wouldn’t want to be let down. After I was done with my prayers, we sang the entrance hymn, which helped to quieten her down a bit. However, when the reading started, she began to make noises and I was forced to make a move or else she would disturb the rest of the parishioners.

I carried her to the benches at the back and tried to find a place to fit in. However, she wouldn’t let me sit down and insisted to go out. So I took her out for awhile, calling Daddy for rescue. However, Daddy couldn’t be reached because he didn’t turn on his handphone! So I have no choice but to bring Sze Yi around. I tried to bring her to the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, but she’s making too much noise so I took her out again. I then took her to see the Mother Mary Statue, and make a little prayer there. I helped her do the sign of cross as well. We then walked along the garden and I put her down at the swing, which she enjoyed very much. All the time, I kept calling hubby to try my luck, but he still haven’t turn on his handphone . Finally I left him an sms and decided to bring Sze Yi back into the Church.

This time, I tried to find a place at the back rows with a child about her age so that she would be interested. Finally I found a cute little girl, slightly older than her, but still a toddler and there’s a place for me to sit as well. I kept telling Sze Yi how good that girl was. Not too long later, Sze Yi was focussing on her childish antics, and I quickly use that precious time to catch up with the readings. By the way, I’ve missed all the readings and it was homily then.

After awhile, hubby came. He carried Sze Yi out so that I could concentrate. They never came back in. After Mass ended, I went out but they were nowhere in sight. So I called hubby, and was told that he brought Sze Yi to see 2nd Chik Chik since Sze Yi wanted to so much (he’s just staying nearby, very close to our church). No doubt Sze Yi was very attached to him, because he really doted on her. In fact, while we were staying with them last time, this 2nd Chik Chik of hers has been a great help  – he always relieved me by playing with Sze Yi so that I could do my things, like bathe, eat, etc.

All in all, I was very disappointed and angry with Sze Yi because I’ve missed more than half of the Mass, and in the end, she didn’t participate as well. If this happened a few years back, I would attend a 2nd Mass again if I even missed the first reading (hubby would be very worried too because he’d need to take me to another Church and check when is the next available Mass). However, now I can’t afford to do this after Sze Yi came along. I’ve always dreamt of having her with me during Mass, but I guess it’s not easy. She’s still small and could not understand, considering the fact that I only took her to Church once in a while, that is whenever hubby could accompany us.

That evening, I took MIL and Sze Yi to Queensbay Mall while hubby went for his badminton games. We felt hungry so we decided to have dinner in Kenny Rogers and tapau something back for hubby, instead of coming out for dinner again later. While we were waiting for our orders, Sze Yi started to do the sign of cross! MIL initially thought she was doing the “head and shoulder, knees and toes” dance, because she touched her forehead, skipped the sternum and straightaway touched her two shoulders. But I could tell it’s the sign of cross very well since she did the Amen sign as well. I told MIL, and she was very surprised because only this morning I took her to church, and she could learn that so fast! I was amazed too, and felt really happy about this.

Back home, Sze Yi demonstrated the sign of cross to Daddy. She started by signing on her forehead, skipped the middle part (….and of the Son…), and straight away did the ”and the Holy Spirit” sign, in the right sequence – left shoulder, followed by the right shoulder. And the highlight of the whole act is that she actually bent both her knees a little when putting her hands together for the Amen sign. I have no idea where she learnt that. It was so cute, even hubby was amazed and can’t help laughing when she did the little bent. I wish I could have that recorded and shared here, but it’s not easy.

Guess the whole morning incident was actually a blessing in disguise after all, and I felt really proud of my girl Praise the Lord!