Hello mummies...
Haven't post the past few days.
Been a hellish few days for me.
Isaac has gastroenteritis.
Started on the 3rd day of CNY. He vomitted out his porridge dinner and bedtime milk feed at 12am... we rushed him to KK A&E. Doc told us to monitor and prescribed paracetamol and lactefol. She said that diarrheoa and fever may developed. So true enough, the next day, Isaac had high fever and vomitted another 4 times. Whatever fluids he took (wich wasn't much in the first place), he vomitted. When his fever hit 39.8 degrees, me and HB rushed down to KK again. Isaac was given a suppository and sponge bath immediately. After that, A&E doc gave us a choice, either wait outside and try giving him fluids in 15 mins interval to see if he can retain the fluids for the next 1 to 2 hours or admit him into a ward for overnight observation. HB thought might as well admit him since we wouldn't know what to do and no point waiting outside the A&E. So Issac was admitted. But in the end, we discharged him at about 11+ pm cos his fever was gone and he could retain the milk which we fed him in he evening. And he couldn't sleep well on the hospital cot. Ok... so we went home. He was fine in the night. Then yesterday, the diarrheoa came. He easily pooed at least 15 times. Today he's still having diarrheoa. Very tiring and anxious few days for me and HB. Isaac was very lethargic, especially on the 2nd day, super sticky. Wants me to carry the whole day. While me HB has to do all the background work like washing all the soiled baby clothes and our bedsheets due his poo and vomit. And we are always questioning ourselves whether we need to bring him back to the hospital for the 3rd time etc cos whenever we thought his condition is improving, he'll vomit or poo a lot or his fever will come again. And then we are constantly worried whether he will be dehydrated from all the water loss and whether he is taking enough food for sustainence. Within 3 days, his weight has dropped from 9+ kg to less than 8.5kg now.
RE. KK
Me and HB were extremely dissatisfied with their service. When Isaac was in his ward and the medical officer came around to check on him, he does not have Isaac's medical records with him at all and had to ask us to repeat the story again as well as Isaac's past medical history. THat's one. Another thing is Isaac was unfortunate enough to be in the same ward (we didn't manage to get an A1 ward cos the class is full) as a monkey malay boy who along with his parents think that they are staying in an A1 ward and making a lot of noise till 10pm! I had to stand OUTSIDE the ward and pat Isaac to sleep. My HB complained to the nurses to ask them to quieten down and requested to change a ward. They promised that they wlll arrange for it once a patient in the opposide ward checks out later. But they eventually did nothing. So my HB got fed up and wanted to discharge Isaac (by then Isaac's fever has gone down and he could retain his milk and he cou;dn't sleep well on the hospital cot anyway) and requested to see the senior doctor for discharge. We had to wait another 1and a half hours for the doctors to turn up. Actually, this is the 2nd bad experience we had with KK. When Isaac was admitted for jaundice at 7 days old, upon discharge, the doctor found out that they had forgotten to do a blood test and did one at the last minute. We had to wait 3 hours at that time for the test results to come out before taking Isaac home.
Sorry for the LONGGGGG story.
Just feel like letting the out the past few days' pent up stress.