During the past year.....

Wow, how time flies! I know that I have not been blogging for a long while. And when I visited this site and saw my last post, it was more than a year ago.



In 2 1/2 weeks time, my daughter, Dina will turn 2. She has basically found her legs and now she can't seem to walk. She'll be running. Everytime she runs, I'm scared that she will trip and hurt herself. But Alhamdulillah, thus far she's ok. She has asthma, as suspected by the GP in Muar. And she has had asthma attacks since she was about 8 months old. On October 30th 2008, she had a bad asthma attack. That was my thoughts. I took her to a GP in Desa Pandan twice, one in the morning and one later in the afternoon to take the nebulizer. Around 9 pm, her heavy and difficult breathing hadn't subsided and we took her to the same clinic again. One step into the doctor's room, the doctor said, "I am writing a referral letter to a hospital and you have to take her there." I was like, "Oh no, how bad is she."



Then, after conferring with my hubby, we decided to take her to Gleneagles Intan in Jalan Ampang, which is quite near to my sister-in-law's place. Luckily for her, when I took her to the Emergency Room in GIMC, there was an attending paedetrician there, Dato' Dr. Iean Hamzah. So, she was quickly put under the observation and care of Dato' Dr. Iean. The diagnosis was bronchiolitis. Dina was admitted for 4 nights. She was first admitted in the HDU and to a single room two days later. She was given the nebulizer every four hourly until Dato' is happy with her progress. After four days of nebulizer and antibiotics, Dina was given a home leave of a day prior to full discharge. We have to take her to GIMC the night of the home leave and the morning after. After her morning intake of antibiotics during the home leave, we met again with Dato' Dr. Iean. He then gave Dina a clean bill of health. Alhamdulillah. I can vouch for his professionalism and attentiveness. He advised us to give Dina Pneumococcal vaccine since she can be considered in high risk. We agreed to that and visited Dato' Dr. Iean twice for the japs.



After the GIMC episode, she still experience breathing problems occasionally. And on Prophet Muhammad's SAW birthdy this year, she was coughing quite profusely. I supposed from the smoke emitted from the burning of the grass at my mom-in-law's compound. So, before leaving for KL, I gave her medicine for cough, asthma and flu prescribed by the GP. She stays with her grandmother and auntie in Muar. With heavy heart, both me and hubby left for KL. During our stop at Senawang rest area, I received a message from my sis-in-law that Dina was getting worse. We turned around and head back to Muar. When we reached my mother-in-law's place, Dina was whimpering. Throughout the night, my hubby alternated with me to hold her at our chest as she would have problem breathing if she slept lying down. When the morning came, we took her to the clinic at 7.30 a.m. and after that at 10.30 a.m. After taking the nebuliser at 10.30 a.m., the doctor told me that I have to take her to the hospital. There were too much mucus in her lungs.



So, again we head to the hospital. This time around, we took her to the Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah. This is the second time that she was hospitalised in HPSF. The first time was when she was a week old. Admitted for jaundice. After she was brought to her bed, streams of doctors came to her bed and started to interview me and hubby to find out more about her asthma history. Just about we were to finish explaining, came another one and started another round of fact finding. Same questions were forwarded to us and we have to repeat the answers. We thought it stopped at that. Much to our dismay, another doctor came and started the interview and Q&A session all over again. If I didn't think of Dina being sick and she could travel, I would have taken her to KL and admitted her at GIMC. Even my sister-in-law who was with us was tired of the questionings. My thoughts at that time were like why don't all of the doctors came together (like what they always do in the mornings doing their rounds) and ask the questions in one go, rather than us having to answer the same questions many times over. I think they didnt have kids and never have to be awake all night taking care of the sick child. If they are in my position at that time, they would definitely appreciate if the doctorscould come together and have the session together. Because at that moment in time, we want the child to be fully rested and we need to have a short shut-eye. Finally after about an hour of Q&A, the doctors left. We started nebuliser on Dina and she managed to catch up with some sleep. Now, she was admitted for 4 days.