Finally Down...

When you kid raise his/her thumb to signal good on the medication he/she took, this is not a good sign...Yes, Ching Ern is down with mild fever and vomit. When we gave her PCM just now, she showed us her 'good sign' and my heart sanked. She has not been taking any food/milk since 6pm last night. All she can take now is water and very diluted milk. That's why when we gave her the PCM, she signal good as the medicine is sweet to her. *sigh*

Ching Ern vomited all her milk out at 10+pm last night after her night feed. It was pretty bad that we need to shower her again and change our bed sheet. After then, we put her to sleep and she went into her sleep unusually quick. We knew she was tired and not feeling well.

Then at 4am this morning, she woke up asking for water. Even just 1+ oz of water, she vomited it out again. This time, she cried out loud because her vomit had frightened her. We quickly changed her to a new suit of pyjamas and rushed her to hospital.

Waited for 10mins before the PD arrived. It wasn't her usual PD but another PD on call. While waiting, she felt asleep and it was rather easy to us to let the PD to handle her. The first question he asked after we told him Ern's symptoms - Did she have diarrhea? When we told him none, he nodded his head and continue to examine her stomach via his stethoscope and hand pressing.

Immediately, Ern was given suppository to stop her vomit and we were told to feed her fluid via spoon instead of bottle. This is to avoid great amount of fluid goes into her stomach since her tummy is full of gas/air. Only when we were about to insert the suppository, Ching Ern woke up but she didn't cry or make any fuss. One of the nurses commented Ern was quiet. I don't know what she meant - quiet as in a "good girl" or "she is really sick!".

PD also pre-alert us to watch out not to let Ching Ern goes into dehydration. If she continues to vomit, we will need to bring her back to hospital as she needs to be on drip.

While waiting for daddy to collect medicine and make payment, a Sister on duty told us lately a lot of children had vomit + diarrhea cases. We were asked to be more hygiene in handling Ching Ern as the virus/bacteria can pass around and we, the adult may get it from our child.

This morning, she nap twice and each nap lasted more than 1 hour. She was crying and crying (with big tears flowing down type) and wanted us to carry her. She only stopped crying when she rested her head on our shoulder and hugged us tightly. When she did that, we knew she is REALLY sick! For those of you who have been following Ern's blog, you know Ern doesn't nap long and hardly cry when she is sick. Also, she is not active and want us to carry her all time.

Get well soon, Princess...