It was a normal day today....with me spending half a day with Elijah. I have a love and hate relationship with Monday. I hate my really pack time-table...8am to 1pm...pack back to back 3 1.5 hours lessons with only 0.5hour break. I hate it coz that day sucks and it is a very 'long' day. But love it coz I rather have a pack day than one with lots of breaks...I can hardly be productive during short breaks. Love it as I will force myself to leave by 1.30pm coz I can hardly think by then.....mentally and physically drained. Love it coz I will be able to spend half a day with Elijah once again.
It was a normal Monday. However, after dinner, on our way home, Elijah as usual wanted to see Yasmin jie jie's cat (our friendly neighbour). Elijah likes Yasmin lots so he will usually stop by at their gate and says jie jie's cat cat or alternatively he will shake his hand to signify that the cat is not there. Today he saw the cat....and the worst thing was he said 'open door'. Oh my goodness...he even demanded to enter to see cat cat. Uncle Selamat....of course whipped out the key and opened the door....invited us in as he initially invited a few neighbours as perhaps they wanted to drop by to see hello to them for Hari Raya. He asked if we could stay and have some tea since the rest would be coming any moment. We obliged and felt very embarrassed with Elijah's request.
We had a great time there...Elijah was trying to find the cat all the time while the cat was frantically trying to run away. The family adopted the cat not too long ago...it's a british blue. Very nice breed and very good nature but alittle timid as perhaps it had some bad experiences with the owner before this.
Apart from the great time, we had lovely food...thanks to Selamat and his family. The kids(Yasmin, Kathi, and Xinyi) had a lovely time running around and playing. They started with a bouncy rubber ball...and playing monkey with it....Elijah joined in the fun till he noticed the piano. He went and was interested in it. I think he was mesmorized with it after that. He was pressing the keys and enjoying himself. He wasn't the least bit interested with playing monkey and ball. He just kept pressing and pressing the keys for at least a good 10-15mins before he succumbed to the temptation of food.
Well....maybe you do have an interest in music...mummy will love for you to acquire some music skills eventually. Hope it is in tune with your interest. Your first experience with the piano has been a really positive one. Music rocks and piano rocks. :)
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
High Fever Episode
Friday Night
Elijah had been sick the past few days. Fever aint going away. Sighz. Decided to try Neurofen on him...the more powerful fever medication. He was totally exhausted by the time I tuck him into bed.
3+am. He fussed...I went to check on him. Gosh he was so hot even though I had administered the powerful fever medic. It wasn't working. I was lost about what to do but my first instinct was to give him more paracetamol. I gave him that and water. He was really thirsty. He gulped down his whole cup of water in 1 breath. He wanted more. I went downstairs to grab the thermometer first. The next thing...Elijah puked out his medic and water on me. Was calling out to Cheewan as I did not wish to dirty the place anymore than that. Daddy to the rescue. Daddy came to carry him while I clean myself up.
Mentioned to Cheewan we need to bring him to Dr tom morning. Although Elijah had really high fever, he kind of remembered Dr Ong. He immediately blurted out Dr Ong. At least I know he is very conscious even with his high fever. We measure his temp...to our horro the thermometer read 40.8degrees. Gosh...I froze there for a while while Cheewan said to administered suppository immediately. Alot of things was in my head...was my little boy really ok...what should we do...I shouldn't have fed him the paracetamol without measuring his temp,..was it ok to give both paracetamol and supp immediately. Anyway we decided to put in the suppository..gosh I have no idea how to do it....so with a wailing baby...i just tried and tried. It took my about 3 mins at least to insert it in. Phew....and now..we can only wait for his temp to go down.
While I pat him back to bed...Cheewan cleaned up the floor. Elijah..please get well. Really hurts me to see you so sick. Hope you will get well soon.
Saturday
Somehow the medic seems to be working fine...his fever went off completely on Sat Morning. However, we made our way to Dr Ong's clinic. Alas....he was closed due to Hari Raya...prob..his assistants can't be around. Called the emergency hotline to see if I can get advice on the fever portions and with a haywire dosage given previously..what to do as a followup.
No luck....Dr Ong was not in town. Ok...option 2 or option 3. To see lighthouse or to go try the new Toh Yi Clinic. I took option 3. We reached Toh Yi clinic at abt 9.45am. Ohmy....the no on the screen read 4. We were given no 42. My goodness. We went to Mum's house to hangout meanwhile waiting for our turn. Elijah's fever did not flare up after that episode. The only problem was his wheezing still sound pretty bad. The wait was terrible as we did not know whether to let him nap and let him have his lunch.
Eventually we managed to see the doc at 2pm. It was crazy...the shuttles of the clinic was shut already and we had to go in via the backdoor. Luckily our timing was perfect. Saw Dr Yap. He was cool. Very experienced and had his way with kids. Elijah hardly cried except when he was told to open his mouth. Dr Yap had so many toys in a basket in his room that he simply whipped out whenever Elijah got impatient.
Anyway verdict is we like Dr Yap lots. Think we will go back to him again. Yipppeeee.....
The good thing is due to our funny concoction of fever medicine. His fever disappeared. YIIIPPPEEE...and the thing i like abt Dr Yap is he doesn't seem to be keen to load medic on Elijah. I am quite confident if we went to Dr Ong. He would be neubilized but for Dr Yap he doesnt seem to see the need for that.
Elijah...you're doing great. Rest lots and get well fast yah.
Elijah had been sick the past few days. Fever aint going away. Sighz. Decided to try Neurofen on him...the more powerful fever medication. He was totally exhausted by the time I tuck him into bed.
3+am. He fussed...I went to check on him. Gosh he was so hot even though I had administered the powerful fever medic. It wasn't working. I was lost about what to do but my first instinct was to give him more paracetamol. I gave him that and water. He was really thirsty. He gulped down his whole cup of water in 1 breath. He wanted more. I went downstairs to grab the thermometer first. The next thing...Elijah puked out his medic and water on me. Was calling out to Cheewan as I did not wish to dirty the place anymore than that. Daddy to the rescue. Daddy came to carry him while I clean myself up.
Mentioned to Cheewan we need to bring him to Dr tom morning. Although Elijah had really high fever, he kind of remembered Dr Ong. He immediately blurted out Dr Ong. At least I know he is very conscious even with his high fever. We measure his temp...to our horro the thermometer read 40.8degrees. Gosh...I froze there for a while while Cheewan said to administered suppository immediately. Alot of things was in my head...was my little boy really ok...what should we do...I shouldn't have fed him the paracetamol without measuring his temp,..was it ok to give both paracetamol and supp immediately. Anyway we decided to put in the suppository..gosh I have no idea how to do it....so with a wailing baby...i just tried and tried. It took my about 3 mins at least to insert it in. Phew....and now..we can only wait for his temp to go down.
While I pat him back to bed...Cheewan cleaned up the floor. Elijah..please get well. Really hurts me to see you so sick. Hope you will get well soon.
Saturday
Somehow the medic seems to be working fine...his fever went off completely on Sat Morning. However, we made our way to Dr Ong's clinic. Alas....he was closed due to Hari Raya...prob..his assistants can't be around. Called the emergency hotline to see if I can get advice on the fever portions and with a haywire dosage given previously..what to do as a followup.
No luck....Dr Ong was not in town. Ok...option 2 or option 3. To see lighthouse or to go try the new Toh Yi Clinic. I took option 3. We reached Toh Yi clinic at abt 9.45am. Ohmy....the no on the screen read 4. We were given no 42. My goodness. We went to Mum's house to hangout meanwhile waiting for our turn. Elijah's fever did not flare up after that episode. The only problem was his wheezing still sound pretty bad. The wait was terrible as we did not know whether to let him nap and let him have his lunch.
Eventually we managed to see the doc at 2pm. It was crazy...the shuttles of the clinic was shut already and we had to go in via the backdoor. Luckily our timing was perfect. Saw Dr Yap. He was cool. Very experienced and had his way with kids. Elijah hardly cried except when he was told to open his mouth. Dr Yap had so many toys in a basket in his room that he simply whipped out whenever Elijah got impatient.
Anyway verdict is we like Dr Yap lots. Think we will go back to him again. Yipppeeee.....
The good thing is due to our funny concoction of fever medicine. His fever disappeared. YIIIPPPEEE...and the thing i like abt Dr Yap is he doesn't seem to be keen to load medic on Elijah. I am quite confident if we went to Dr Ong. He would be neubilized but for Dr Yap he doesnt seem to see the need for that.
Elijah...you're doing great. Rest lots and get well fast yah.
Friday, September 10, 2010
My little Prince is sick again!!!
Our initial plan was to bring Elijah to the Zoo during this long weekend. Alas...he fell sick again. Sighz...my little prince seems to be sick lots. Wish his immunity will get better as he grows older. Am truly worried about his health.
He was coughing randomly on Tues 7th Sept. Wed.....we were supposed to go shopping with Iris and Pat Yee Yee...but Elijah had fever on Tues night. So there goes our plan...poor him. Eversince...his fever is running high.....everytime hitting 39degrees celcius without fail.
Coughing and wheezing seems to be his biggest problem...so here it comes too. Am worried he would be on the neubilizer again....will that make him dependent on it. For once..I wanna try the oral ventolin and persist with it. If he doesn't get better by Mon...I'll bring him to the doc then.
Tonight Cheewan is out with his KL relatives.....so it's ME time. Appreciate the ME time..for once it came so early in the night....Elijah is sick so he was totally exhausted by 9.30pm...off to bed and without fussing...slept soundly except for the coughing parts. After some chores...washing up bottles etc....it's 10.30pm. Although I appreciate the ME time...but for once I became alittle lost. Lost about what to do....haven't been blogging coz of the tonns of work...even though it's hol....time just doesn't seem to be enough. Wish I had more than 24 hours a day and wish I needed even less sleep. Want to blog even more but camera is with Cheewan so all the photos are there...so guess I have to find something else to keep myself busy for once.
Elijah...please get well soon. Lots more places and adventures mummy wanna show you. Get well fast yah.
He was coughing randomly on Tues 7th Sept. Wed.....we were supposed to go shopping with Iris and Pat Yee Yee...but Elijah had fever on Tues night. So there goes our plan...poor him. Eversince...his fever is running high.....everytime hitting 39degrees celcius without fail.
Coughing and wheezing seems to be his biggest problem...so here it comes too. Am worried he would be on the neubilizer again....will that make him dependent on it. For once..I wanna try the oral ventolin and persist with it. If he doesn't get better by Mon...I'll bring him to the doc then.
Tonight Cheewan is out with his KL relatives.....so it's ME time. Appreciate the ME time..for once it came so early in the night....Elijah is sick so he was totally exhausted by 9.30pm...off to bed and without fussing...slept soundly except for the coughing parts. After some chores...washing up bottles etc....it's 10.30pm. Although I appreciate the ME time...but for once I became alittle lost. Lost about what to do....haven't been blogging coz of the tonns of work...even though it's hol....time just doesn't seem to be enough. Wish I had more than 24 hours a day and wish I needed even less sleep. Want to blog even more but camera is with Cheewan so all the photos are there...so guess I have to find something else to keep myself busy for once.
Elijah...please get well soon. Lots more places and adventures mummy wanna show you. Get well fast yah.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Mummy misses you badly....can't kiss you night night! HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY TO ME!!!
It's Teacher's Day dinner yesterday.....am happy to be able to attend Teacher's Day dinner unlike 2 years but am sad that I can't tuck Elijah to bed today. It's one of the rare days mummy can't give you a big hug. I haven't been able to see you...kiss you..hug you for more than 24 hours.
I so wanna see you in the afternoon...but I can't simply bring you home....I won't be able to change and get ready and daddy can't be home in time before I leave. I don't want you to fuss at grandma's place when I leave so I gotta be hard-hearted to not see you at all.
I had a fantastic lunch with Renee and Mengyin...it's been quite a while since we've sat down to chat non-stop. It was really nice. Since I can't see you...mummy decided to give myself a day out. I went for manicure...at long last...hmmm...when was the last time I did that...I can't really remember that perhaps 3 years ago. Hahhahaa I so wanna do it...so I sneak a session of that in between the shopping and the dinner at Hilton Hotel.
Dinner was nice coz of the company....but we were really famished..by 8.30pm...the party hasn't started. The party next door was way past the warming-up phase....it was happening when all the speeches over ourside were still on-going.
I had the chance to meet the babies again...Weixin...weien and Tingwan's girl. All were so sweet. Made me think of Elijah lots. But ME time did not stop there....it followed on with KTV session till 3am. I was exhausted...think age has caught up with me. Singing non-stop was fun but think I was zombified after that.
The consolation of missing you for more than 24hours was knowing that I'll be able to Teachers' Day with you. I'm so happy for that. Tis good to be a teacher....I LOVE TEACHING AND I LOVE ELIJAH AND CHEEWAN!!!! :)
I so wanna see you in the afternoon...but I can't simply bring you home....I won't be able to change and get ready and daddy can't be home in time before I leave. I don't want you to fuss at grandma's place when I leave so I gotta be hard-hearted to not see you at all.
I had a fantastic lunch with Renee and Mengyin...it's been quite a while since we've sat down to chat non-stop. It was really nice. Since I can't see you...mummy decided to give myself a day out. I went for manicure...at long last...hmmm...when was the last time I did that...I can't really remember that perhaps 3 years ago. Hahhahaa I so wanna do it...so I sneak a session of that in between the shopping and the dinner at Hilton Hotel.
Dinner was nice coz of the company....but we were really famished..by 8.30pm...the party hasn't started. The party next door was way past the warming-up phase....it was happening when all the speeches over ourside were still on-going.
I had the chance to meet the babies again...Weixin...weien and Tingwan's girl. All were so sweet. Made me think of Elijah lots. But ME time did not stop there....it followed on with KTV session till 3am. I was exhausted...think age has caught up with me. Singing non-stop was fun but think I was zombified after that.
The consolation of missing you for more than 24hours was knowing that I'll be able to Teachers' Day with you. I'm so happy for that. Tis good to be a teacher....I LOVE TEACHING AND I LOVE ELIJAH AND CHEEWAN!!!! :)
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