Will be flying off tomorrow for a 5 days vacation trip. My most worry and fear is the kids fall ill anytime prior to the trip. I have been extremely careful with their diet for the past one week, in fact I even thought of quarantine JS at home from school for this week, but it’s not so practical.
Been given her supplements , make sure she doesnt take heaty food, watching her diet careful, make sure she’s warm and doesn’t catch cold, but on Wednesday, I spotted JS having slight flu. Yesterday was holiday, she stayed home, flu got worst. Brought her to doc last night and skipped her music concert. 
Asked for a stronger medicine and today got her to rest at home. But the flu seems to get worst. I’m really worried, coz each time after flu sure follow by cough and asthma. Just a sound of cough now sent me off the chair and put me on high alert.
I dont know why her immune system is so low despite given her all the supplements. It has been like that since WH’s hospitalization and JS insist of spending a few nights there with us and ever since then she became weak.
I hate to see her suffers. I don’t mind taking care of her if she falls sick during weekdays , away from in-laws spying eyes. But the worst is she tends to fall sick during weekends , or when we want to get away for a trip. My MIL and SIL always think that I’m not a good mother and doesn’t know how to take care of my kids. They blame me when my kids fall ills. Of course I don’t feel good and I blame JS for causing me being blamed. This is the part I hated most.
One more thing is I dont know if it’s “pantang”, each time we let JS knows in advance that we are travelling, she would fall sick a day or two prior to the trip. The last trip, she fells ill on the day itself, the next day, we spent whole day resting in hotel and seeing her suffer from asthma and visited the doc twice in a day for nebulizer. It’s really no fun at all.
I try not to tell her earlier about this trip, but somehow she saw daddy packing and enquires about it. Since she knew we are travelling, she fell sick straight away. Coincidence???
I hope she gets well tomorrow. I’m extremely worried now and hope she won’t get cough or asthma tomorrow. Putting my finger cross and I’m praying hard that WH won’t get the flu bug
April 27, 2007 at 10:49 am |
My Alycia is also like this. The chinese sinseh who ‘read her pulse’ said that she is ‘thai poa’ (too much nutrients in her body) coz i used to feed her Scotts Emulsion, multi-vit & Vit C everyday. On top of that, I also cook them nutritious soup and food everyday. Maybe their lil’ body cannot accept such ‘poa’ food. I also blame myself for being too clean and for giving them too much organic food. Well, our paed said their immune system (IS) is not fully developed yet and asked me not to blame myself. The IS will only be fully developed by age 4 or 5, depending on the individual child. Now, I only feed my gals their vitamins every other day and in a reduced amount. I am also trying out Manuka Honey. So far so good. I’m waiting to see if Alycia’s IS will be better when I send her bk to preschool in June 07.
it’s like that, once they go to school, the germs and sick bug is passing around like musical chair, it’s worst if it’s in air conditioned classroom.
November 21, 2009 at 1:00 am |
I decided to surf the web now because it’s been 4 – 5 proven times that each time before I go on business travelling, my daughter will fall ill. It’s usually fever and such which worries me because if not watched carefully temperature will rise in the morning…
Everytime my heart is cut when I leave my house with luggages while little stays home with daddy. It always make me wonder why are I working and not home caring for her full time?
Just 2 days ago I accidentally mentioned over the phone to my MIL that I will be travelling the following week while little was in my cuddle. You know what? She woke up with fever the next morning. Temeperature rose very fast and high so we sent her to doctor immediately. It’s Hand-Foot-Mouth disease which we found out pretty early.
However, her temperature rose to 39 degrees at night so we decided to insert suppository to bring down the temperature.
Today all were good. On the phone with little couple of times during the day, then MIL fetched her from babysitter’s. During late afternoon, MIL called to say little’s temperature rose to 38.9 degrees, I almost freaked out while I was at work.
Ordered MIL to quickly insert suppository, temperature came down a while after. 30 minutes later, little pass motion, and 4 hours later the fever came back to 38.9. At that point I just got back from work, I panicked and sent her to hospital immediately.
Doctor gave her an antibiotic jab and insert suppository. Because the ulcers in her mouth became so painful, she could not eat even when she wanted to. And she can’t really drink too….
The worse nightmare came when doctor mentioned if fever comes back the next day after jab, then little will have to be admitted for drip because there is hardly any food and liquid intake..
Now I have to consider cancelling my business trip as I am scheduled to be away for a week. Anything can happen during the 7 days, and as a mother, I do not know how not to be around for her…
There is just something about this that puzzled me…I think she knew I am going away, that’s why she fell sick.
I could not recall over 3 different occasions, my husband was ill together with little before my departure, oh well, there must be a theory behind this.