Huhuhuhuuuuuuuu.........
She was slightly warm when I got back from work on Friday, so I gave her panadol syrup and gave her lots of fluids.
At 4am, she woke up, and she was hot to the touch so hubby decided we should take her to hospital (it was 4am, all clinics were closed and the 24-hour ones near our house SUCKED big time!)
It took us half an hour to get to SJMC (hubby's panel) and since it was Saturday morning, there was no one there. Aina was attended to almost immediately.
Doc's diagnose was viral fever, prescribed paracetamol and the suppository meds in case her fever escalated, and sent us home.
She was fine the rest of the day, only just slightly warm. In the evening, she was hot again, so i gave her the supp meds.
She slept through the nite, and Sunday morning she was OK.
We went our roti telur breakfast, which Aina had with Milo, and we went home. We'd no plans as hubby had to work.
That afternoon, her fever came back.
I had taken to putting an ice cold towel on her head to help cool her down, and even though she was fine in the beginning, she grew irritated by it and flung the towel across the room!
By the time hubby got back from work, she was already reaching 40'C.
We immediately left for SJMC (since her meds were on record there) and as soon as the nurse took her temperature, Aina had to strip and be sponge bathed. Her temp was 40.3'C!!
Her lips were swollen and cheeks all red.... poor thing.
I knew she was really sick because Aina NEVER complaints, but this time she was whiny and crying so I know she must have been really uncomfortable.....
The hospital was cold, so she cried the whole time she was sponge bathed, and kept pointing to her clothes saying "Naakk...nakkk......." and sobbing the whole time. Poor baby............!!
Finally, when it was done, I dressed her and the nurse inserted the supp meds and I was told to wait another half hour to see if her fever went down.
Half and hour later, her temp was around 38'C. Still high.
We went in to see the doctor and he asked if we were ok to have Aina's blood taken. By all means, please! At least we'll know if there's another reason, right??
NOW, this is where we got
REALLY, ROYALLY pissed!!!
It took the lab tech HALF AN HOUR to get from the North Tower to the A&E!!!
HULLO!!! we came all the way from PUCHONG in that amount of time ok!!!!
Aina was really brave, not a squeak out of her during the process. The lab tech was impressed :-D
Anyway, after another 15 mins. of waiting, the doc told us that there was no signs of dengue fever, no 'other' flu (i refuse to say it out loud!). Just that her white blood count was slightly higher, which according to the doc, was a sign of infection.
Aina was given antibiotics, which she had to complete in three days, and also some meds for sore throat/cough. Her throat was slightly inflamed, which explained why she refused to eat anything since morning, and won't even take her formula....
We reached home at 3am.
I obviously did not go to work on Monday.
Aina is all better now, alhamdulillah.............. and she's back to her cheeky self, in fact even more now!!!
This weekend, we'll be in TokMi's on Saturday so we'll see what mischief she'll be up to :-D
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and when she saw me taking a pic of it, she ran to the little couch and posed for me :-P LOL
