Celebrating Mooncake Festival at A&E

We celebrated this special occasion in a special way too.

1. Instead of holding a lantern, Ching Ern was holding the nabulizer as her 'lantern'.

2. Instead of "fire smoke", she gets to smell the "medicine smoke".

3. Instead of carrying the lantern at open space, she carries her 'lantern' inside a super bright "Accident & Emergency" (A&E) room.

After a long battle fighting of 1+ week, Ching Ern was down with mild flu and throat infection. She must have get it from me as I had a terrible flu 2 Sundays ago, which lasted almost ~ 1 week before I was fully recovered.

Before she caught the flu, her body temperature had been a little warmer than usual for 1-2 days. We didn't feed any medicine but just constantly gave her water and fruits, hoping in mind the vitamin C and additional fluid intake can prevent the virus outbreak. We already predicted the likelihood of Ern winning the battle is low because the flu I had was terribly bad.

The throat infection caused some breathing difficulty on Ern, especially after her sleep. She choked (not that real choke but trying to catch air type) and coughed a few times while she was asleep for several nights. Can't recall what is the medical term shared by her PD but basically, something had blocked the upper airway passages when the throat muscles relax at night and thus, prevent air from getting to her lungs. That's how Ern get choked middle of the night.

However, after a few coughs, she was ok and get continue to sleep. It didn't happen during day time at all. So day time, she is like healthy baby, night time choked once and coughed for few times to clear the throat. Of cause she didn't sleep well like usual, she turned her body here and there even she was in the sleep mode.

She has been giving medicine and nasal drop to smooth her nose and throat, while also need to go through nabulizer for 2 evenings. Yesterday was her last nab and she was able to sleep through the night without choking or coughing.

I was a little worried whether Ern can cope with the nab, with the sound and air coming from the cap. Thank god my lil girl had no problem with it. In fact, she thought the nab is a toy and wanted to play with it.



Guess she is almost there on her recovery journey. Although she was sick, I was very grateful to see the strong immune foundation I have set on her via breastfeeding. If it wasn't that, she could have been down with a terrible flu like her mummy.

The "hard work" of breastfeeding paid off!!! :-)