Throughout the 7D6N stays in hospital, Ern has 4 roommates, 1 boy & 3 girls.
Roommate # 1: Baby Hung
Baby Hung is a 2+ year old baby boy. Admitted few days before Ern due to severe cough. Towards the end, mild flu kicked in as well.
Coincidental, the mother is actually my classmate in high school. Baby Hung actually started cough 1 month ago. His mother only brought him to see normal GP and eat Chinese medicine. After 4 weeks, the cough has worsen as it spread to the lung. According to the grandma, reason for not taking baby Hung to see paed: PARENTS TOO BUSY! :-(
Baby Hung is afraid of nurse (all of them) and physiotherapist. Whenever he is naughty, the grandma/mummy will say "Misi..misi (nurse in hokkien), come...come..." Immediately, he will be an obedient boy. He doesn't want the nurse to come close to her. He even demand the nurse to get out of the room. It was so funny and everyone (the adults) just laughed!
What puzzled me is:
1) Is the work schedule really that TIGHT that the parents can't squeeze 1 hour to bring the baby to see paed?
2) What is more important than the health of your own child?
Then, I started to ask myself:
1) Am I that kiasu that everything must see paed?
2) Is Chinese medicine really work for baby since there were many fraud cases reported?
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