3 days ago on tues, Athena rolled off from our bed. Dun asked me how it happen, but it did. I was downstairs reading newspapers while hubby put her to sleep on our bed and cornered every possible lobangs with pillows and beddings and he went to his study room to surf the net. Before we knew it, we heard a loud "Thump!" and when we rushed into the room, she's on the floor!!!! She cried quite a while and fall back to sleep. Based on our previous experience, we checked for visible injuries, none and decided to monitor her for 72 hours for vomiting or other signs.
Got a call from my mum yesterday tt Athena is running a high fever. Was concerned and started calling up those PDs ard my place to make appt for that nite. Apparently, alot of clinics are closed in the afternoon. Sigh... then got a frantic call from my younger sis. She told me to rush home as Athena has vomited 5 times!!!!! My heart dropped and i panicked. Started calling hubby and decided to go and see Doc Ong in TMC. I figured tt even if Dr Ong is not available, i can still visit other clinics at TMC. My concern is more that the vomit can be related to the fall while hubby think she got it from her cousin, my niece, Angel who has high fever on wed.
In any case, i wasnt going to take any chances. i rushed to TMC and tried to get a q-number from Dr Ong's clinic. I told the nurse on duty that it might be an emergency and was advised to go KK-hospital A&E instead. She said tt if it's truly an emergency, KK will be able to provide the services such as X-ray or scan more promptly. So, i rushed to KK again, meanwhile, called hubby who was on his way to pick up our gal to go KK instead.
In the end, KK staff nurse concluded tt it's highly likely due to virus infection rather than the fall. So we ended up queuing up to see KK's docs for almost an hour. And cos' of her vomit, doc wanted to observe her for another hour. She was given 15ml of glucose water every 15 min to ensure she doesnt puke. After all the hassle, we are finally on our way home at 7pm+++
She's still feverish and was as high as 39 degree last nite. I was so worried tt i couldnt sleep and keep waking up to check her temperature. This morn she's better and i decided to work from home to take care of her.... Sigh... motherhood is not easy at all........hoping she will be better soon else will bring her to see another PD tonite.... sigh.....
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I can understand your panic, those were the signs you were told to look out for and they indeed surfaced. Geez.....Renee also fell off our bed several times and each time you think, stupid stupid stupid why did I let that happen.....but it still does even though you take the necessary precautions. Have to be that EXTRA careful in future!
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