Sick weekend

Poor Gwendolyn was sick from Thursday onwards...

28 September 2006, Thursday: First sign of sickness

When Mama pick Lyn Lyn up from school, Miss Angeline told Mama that Lyn Lyn is having unusual amount of discharge in the eye, which makes her eye all sticky and gluey after waking up from her nap. Mama wasn't too worried, but knew that her eyes have been having quite a bit of discharge and lump up her eyelashes into causing difficulty in opening her eyes...thinking that it was due to the length of her lashes in trapping all the mucus from her tears...since Mama is rushing on work and needs to meet a deadline tomorrow, she's left Lyn Lyn with grandma and went off to Jurong Point McDonalds to continue working. When picking Lyn Lyn up at 10:45pm, grandma was telling Mama that Lyn Lyn's been grumpy and upset during bathing time and didn't eat much. She slept quite early too. Whilst bringing her home, Mama was thinking of bringing Lyn Lyn to see Dr John before sending her to school...but once arrived home, Mama continued to work until the wee hours.

29 September 2006, Friday: Development of a fever

Morning! Wake up...Lyn Lyn was all jolly and singing after waking up. Thinking that she's fine with such a good mood, Mama threw away the idea of calling Dr John, but send Lyn Lyn straight to school. Then Mama just kept working through lunch, etc...until she received a call from the school that Lyn Lyn is running a high fever of 38.5 degrees celsius! Though work is very urgent, Mama quickly gathered help from other team members, settled with backup arrangement and set off for school to pick Lyn Lyn. Poor girl, when Mama saw her in the office, she was stoned and was sitting in front of the computer, watching her favourite Hi-5 show! Even though Lyn Lyn loves running around in Dr John's clinic most of the times, this time, she was very clingy on Mama and refused to be touched by anyone...Dr John quickly diagnosed her with an infection in the eye, gave her anti-biotics, even invited her to play his new piano, but Lyn Lyn insisted on playing the old one and kept crying at irregular intervals. When Lyn Lyn is home, Mama quickly feed her medicine and gave her a fever "ice-pack" on her forehead. She's even told me that she's "same same" as the baby on the "ice-pack" box which she's holding.

Once she's home, she's much better, watching tv and playing with her "ice-pack"...she's even asked for ABC pasta with sausages! Since Papa is coming home tonight and Lyn Lyn's been waiting, even though she's already very tired. Mama kept attending to all her demands until Papa reaches home! Lyn Lyn was so happy that she ran over and gave Papa a very big hug...not even that. Throughout the night before she finally slept, she'll initiate to open her arms wide and keep hugging Papa...so sweet....

30 September 2006, Saturday: Diarrhea...pain pain

This morning, Gwendolyn woke up fresh and was fine all morning! She's asked Mama to cook ABC pasta with 10 sausages, but only ate 2 mouthfuls. Before we set off for our usual weekend grocery shopping, she's asked for "sh sh", which is uncommon at home. Instead of "sh sh", she meant she's poo-ed in her pampers...it didn't look anything alarming at all, until she woke up from her nap and is about to go out to feed the fish with Papa, which she's asked to "sh sh" again...this time, it's more watery and she doesn't feel comfortable at all! This time, Papa and Mama suspected that it's diarrhea...until dinner time, where Mama cooked whilst Papa and Lyn Lyn went to feed the fish...she only wanted soup, with no rice, not even her favourite broccoli! She drank a lot of soup and asked to sleep rather early! Before she sleep, she poo-ed for a 3rd time...when she's asleep, Mama called Dr John to consult his view and he said that this is normal, as the anti-biotic is taking effect...her eyes doesn't have any more discharge and her fever subsided! The only thing is about the diarrhea which is making her uncomfortable. Mama quickly went to Dr John's clinic to collect some medicine, just in case her diarrhea continues on Sunday! As expected, she poo-ed again in the middle of the night and refused to be changed, as her backside is painful...poor gal...it took Mama quite some time to settle this and fed her milk too before she fall asleep again!

1 October 2006, Sunday: Children's Day

Lyn Lyn woke up at 9:15am, and was talking to herself in her room! When Mama went over to see her, she was all cheery and bubbly! Mama thought she's fine with no more diarrhea...Mama brought her over to see Papa and let her drink milk at the same time! She ended up playing hide and seek behind the curtains! She seemed ok...until we're about to go to West Coast Park McDonald's again, for her favourite breakfast...she asked for "sh sh" again! This time, when Mama started wiping her backside, she was screaming and shouting out of pain! Poor gal...Mama decided not to wipe her, but to wash her directly off the shower to minimise the pain! It's just so undesirable to see her suffering from the diarrhea...Mama pacified her by telling her that we're going to fly a kite and she got distracted into thinking of her kite...

Whilst eating our breakfast, Lyn Lyn saw other kids having balloon and wanted to ask for one as well. Mama asked the "gor gor" there and Lyn Lyn asked for 2...1 blue and 1 yellow! She's so happy with her 2 balloons!

After breakfast, Papa brought her to the grass patch to fly her new kite! She sat patiently with Papa to prepare for the flying session. She was really enthusiastic in the beginning in trying to pull, etc, hoping to see her "butterfly" fly in the air! However, after many rounds of trial, the kite refused to fly and she was disappointed and began to feel tired! She told Mama that she doesn't want to fly the kite and wanted to go home! Well, nevermind, maybe she's sick and she's impatient...we can try again when she's recovered!

After that, we went home for a short while, hoping Lyn Lyn would take a short nap, but she was all excited, with grandma's maid coming home with us...asking her to play her toyw with her! Since she refused to sleep after drinking her milk, we've decided to go out shopping...in the end, she fell asleep in the car and the shopping trip was abandoned! She napped for almost 3 hours and woke up fresh again! Even though she poo-ed again, she was not as grumpy as this morning, with terrible shouts! This time, Mama lured her by telling her that she can play her new Hello Kitty fishing toy after washing her backside...she jolly well cleaned up and started trying out her new fishing game! She mastered the game quite quickly, but in the end discovered that it's faster using her fingers instead of the "kitty scoop"!

Dinner tonight is angel hair with chicken and sausages + chicken wings, which Lyn Lyn used to like! However, her appetite wasn't very good and only had a bit of chicken wing and a few mouthfuls of angel hair...she asked for biscuit later in the night, as she was hungry! The good thing about her is that she'll always ask for water whenever she feels thirsty...and lessened Mama's worry about her probable dehydration from her diarrhea! See, she even posed for Mama with her favourite water bottle bought from Disneyland HK!

Look at her feet...she is showing off her modelling qualities at such a tender age!

Mama changed her for the last time with slight poo before she finally fell asleep...poor gal, diarrhea-ed for 2 days...it's so painful to see her screaming and shouting in pain, where Mama cannot help her at all. All the Mama can do was to give her big hugs whenever she screams in pain...she only wants Mama and no one else...hope that her diarrhea will stop tomorrow, as she's stopped her anti-biotics after the last dose this morning...she happily threw the box away, as she dreads drinking that bottle!