My princess is sick.

So tired. I had only a few hours of sleep these few days, as Chloe is sick, having fever and cold and cough since Monday. Poor girl. Monday Mr was also down with cough as well and so I told him to go see a doc then at the same time bring Chloe to see one as well. During days when Chloe gets sick, she will become real cranky and always wanted to be carried, even when we carried her to sit down, she will make noise, she just wanna walk around. Then on tues, she caught a fever of 37.8, and vomit after food due to cough, so me and Mr after work went home to bring her back to Dr Quek again. Doc mentioned that she got viral infection. Tues night was the worst, practically unable to sleep cos she couldn't stop crying. No choice, we have to take care of her. Then ended up, I was too tired to go to work, and took childcare leave to take care of her and to have some rest. But of cos, not able to have much rest, morning went to IMM to get her some "koolfever stickers", and chest rub and buy lunch back. The "stickers" do have some use, after a few hours after sticking the "sticker" on her head, it became warm. At night when Mr came home, Chloe's fever went up but she was fine during day time. I guess night time is always the time window when illness gets serious.

I began to surf the web to bring down the fever besides on medication. What I have learnt,
1)Never to put cold towel or bathe cold bath due to a sudden drop of body temperature will be bad for babies, instead they have to be bathed in warm water which will make them comfortable.
2)Drink more fluids. Use encalyptus oil in hot bath for babies to breathe in the essence to clear conjestion in flu and cough.
3)Baby fever is consider to be serious only after 38.9 and to seek a doc.
4)Both ears when using the ear thermometer will be different.

But anyway, mum gets really worried about Chloe's fever, and suggest us to bring her to NUH to see a doc. That time was close to 11pm when I decided to bring her to NUH, though abit reluctant but also want to know what's wrong with her since her fever reached 38.3. So off we go to NUH children's emergency. For the first time, I stepped into emergency ward. Luckily the children's side wasn't crowded, very soon is our turn. The environment looks very comfy, with pooh stickers, mickey mouse on doors. Hehe. During the initial checkup before seeing the doc, needs to check on her heartbeat, and the nurse wanted to give her a sticker and I told her Chloe likes Pooh Bear. And she purposedly go find the sticker. So sweet of her. LOL.

The doc who attended to Chloe is quite young. And he did thorough check for her. He typed very fast to take down her condition. He was expecting her to cry when trying to check her throat. But she did not, and she even smile and try to pull the doc's stethoscope. Haha. Dad always say her very brave and little chilli padi cos she is not scared of any doctors at all. Not even a cry or shout. Doc just said she had viral infection due to be infected by anyone in the family who is sick. Initially, I got scared wonder is it cos I brought her to swim and she caught her a cold. So I verify with the doc, and he said no, is just infected by a sick person in the family. Lucky. Cos I felt so bad after she got sick after I brought her to swim.

Till today, her fever has subside but cough still persists. But I know she will get well soon to pay off our hard efforts to take care of her.

Now I really know the hardship of being parents especially when their child is sick, parents will have to give their 100% tendering loving care to the child to make the child happy so that the child gets well very soon. Parents usually have to sacifice one or another for the child. This morning mum said now then you know parents not easy to be. Lol.


The sticker I been talking about, and lucky yesterday she started to smile abit. This morning I found that she has become skinner especially her face shrinked!