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.