My lovely daughter & my hard drive were sick together! part 1

These days, don't know what's wrong with me.

Last Sunday night, my daughter was feeling unwell.
We just thought that it was normal.
So we didn't give her any medicines and let her sleep.
But my wife woke me up and told me that my daughter's fever is getting higher in the middle of the night.
So we gave her paracetamol liquid which was given by Poly clinics.
It was around 2,3 am when my daughter fall asleep, .

Morning came as usual but the difference was my daughter still got fever. And what worse is it was high.

She started threw up while she was lying between me and my wife looking at me.
She threw up a lot. IT seemed like she threw up all the milk she had drunk through out the night. And she poohed poohed. The smell was horrible. We felt something's wrong with her tummy.
It was horrible experience for us and she did scare us.

We were shocked and decided to see the doctor right away because we have never seen her threw up since she was born. She may throw up some milk when she was very young but not seriously.
And then we headed to the clinics after I have mailed my boss to request an Urgent Child care leave.

We went to the nearer clinics though my wife wanted to go to the farther clinics.
When we got there, there are only a few people so we thought that we could see the doctor in a short time.
But when we found out that our que no is 10, the doctor just started seeing the no 1 patient.
We cannot wait. so we said sorry to the clinics staff and went to the further clinics.

The second clinics was a bit far and we got to go through our old place. We could see some old memories.

When we got there, we check with the clinics staff.
One of the staffs came out and got my baby's temperature and she was shocked.
It was high, round about 39 'C. Normal room temperature is 35 to 36.

So the staffs re-arrange the que and we could see the doctor just after we arrived. That's why we went there :D

The doctor checked with us about what's wrong with our daughter. We explained about what happened to our baby, what she threw up, what she poohed poohed. What color of her pooh pooh was.

And then the doctor examined my daughter's body.

Finally he said it might be a gastric flu, some kind of virus make her sick, pooh pooh and threw up.

The doctor said we got to sprang her if the fever is very high.

We got to give one of the medicines she would be given us when the fever is still very high.

Because he was afraid that the sickness is disguised by H1N1 although the symptoms were different.

We could not feed her any normal food except my wife's breast milk and some  gravy of porridge. (my wife is still nursing her though she is 1.5 years old)

Then we came back from the clinics. My daughter looks horribly weak.

For the whole day, what she could do was drink water, milk, and throw up and keep poohing.

Although we tried to feed her some gravy of porridge, she threw up from the first spoon feed.

She was so weak and couldn't move. When she was lying, she couldn't get up. Normally she is a kind of girl who runs back and forth in the house. And everyone who knows her agrees that her voice is very loud. But today our house was so silent.

But in the evening, my wife was breast feeding my daughter when I came into the room with my dinner in hand. My daughter saw me and started saying (mum mum which means rice in baby language of our language) so I quickly got out of the room.

but later she followed me crying and kept mumbling mum mum.

And I sensed that she re-gained her appetite and I could try porridge.

Then I let her sit on the chair and started feeding porridge.

She was happily eating the porridge and there was no sign of vomiting.

So I fed her as long as she wished. We relieved that that was a good sign of her recovery.

And her body temperature was down also.

then we went to bed and she seemed to be ok except poohing poohing.

my wife woke me up in the middle of the night and told me that my daughter's temperature was high again and she had poohed poohed.

So we got to get up, sponged her to cool down and changed her clothes, changed her daipers. (so far she has used almost 20 diapers during 2 days.)

and she seems to be hungry. So we fed her some porridge and she ate it. Good. And her body temperature was a bit cool down. One thing that i noticed is that our room is quite hot and outside is quite cooler than ours.

So I think room temperature contributed to my daughter's fever. So what I do was closed the windows, switched on the air-con and set the temperature at 28 'C.

Once room temperature was cool down, my baby started cool down and fall asleep. Of course she fell asleep while my wife was breast feeding her. Great!

Another morning came, I was waken up by the sound which my baby was slapping my wife's lap while she was drinking milk.

She looks quite ok. It was late to go to work. So I got to email my boss again to take a child care leave.

Through out the day, her body temperature was a not stable. But she could shout, she could sing, she could walk and she could get angry :P. Good that's what we want.

No threw up although still pooh pooh (green colour) strage ah!

She ate well today. One funny thing is the pipe we used to feed her medicine scared her.

She tried to turn her head or close her mouth tight when she saw that pipe.

But we got no choice, we gotta make her take the medicines.

Now my daughter's condition is stable and can see the improvement a lot.

If anyone wonders why I posted this post in English, because my hard drive is dead i think. (I am using Linux Live CD to go online.)

I will continue about my hard drive in next post.

Tired now. Good night.


Best,
Aung Din

Posted by THI HA at 11:04 PM

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