Fever

On one bright morning, my son was extremely quiet and sat alone on a sofa. We thought that he was having difficulty in passing motion again. He will normally do it quietly without any disturbance from others.


Later, we headed out to MIL's house without noticing that he wasn't feel well. In the car, he slept and wasn't active as usual. In my MIL's hse, he was playing with his cousins. Then, we went to our new house and pumped petrol. He was again fell asleep in the car. He also followed us to check out the new house. When we went back to the car, my SIL felt that he wasn't feeling well and his body was warm. We quickly went back to my MIL's hse and finished the pot of Bakuteh before heading home without noticing his fever was already past 39 C.


It was a public holiday. We searched around Cheras and Kepong to look for child's clinic but to no avail. We ended-up at a normal clinic at Metro Prima. The doctor wasn't v convincing and we decided to send him to Pantai Hospital and his fever was 39.5C.


As I needed to breastfeed my baby girl, my husband and my SIL sent my son to Pantai in the evening. The doctor quickly took off all his shirts and wiped his body to cool off his body in an air-conditioned room. She also inserted a fever pill into his buttock. Soon, the fever subsided. It was already around 9pm. When they were about to leave, my son got rashes all over his body and his eyes were swollen. Went to the doctor. Allergic to the pill (Volren, Voltron). He was also short of breath temporarily. A paeditrician was called to come-in and inspect him.


When my husband informed me about that. My FIL felt panic and he wanted to visit my son. As my FIL couldn't handle my baby girl, he got to drive and I carried my baby girl. He was seriously short of breath when he was panic. I was so worried if he could drive us safely to the hospital. I told him to calm down and took a deep breath before leaving the house. Along the way, I was the navigator but his eyesight was bad at nite. He almost missed some of the turning and drove on the wrong lane sometimes. Our life was at risk. Despite the danger ride, we arrived safely at Pantai.


I visited my son. He hardly ate anything and only wanted to eat bread and biscuits. Then, I decided to stay overnite to take care of him together with my SIL. I expressed milk in the hospital and my baby girl went home with my husband. They inserted a tube on his hand to make it easier for jab but he was bleeding when the nurse gave him a jab simply the tube wasn't in the right place. He cried. I was v sad to see him suffering at this young age.


Next day, the paed visited him and let him discharged. After going home, his fever came back again. We took off his shirt and use wet cold clothes to cool him down. We measure his temperature every hour so that it always below 38. Then, my BIL brought my MIL and his daughter to visit him. They tried to use various methods (made a flour dough and rolled on his chest and back) to see if he got "Ju Mo Dan" and rolled hot boiled egg to cool off his body. I was so nervous if the would make his fever worse. PENGSAN!!!


Next day, we brought him back to Pantai to see another Paed. He gave him some fever syrup and antibiotic. His fever was only suppressed by the the fever syrup. On the third day, my MIL asked me to buy goat horn (ling yang sai kok) to get rid of the fever. Since we can't mix chinese medicine with western one, we have to stop the western medicine first. However, his fever was getting worse when he refused to take the chinese medicine. I made a choice to feed him back the fever syrup.

At nite, I found out from friends/relatives that he could be getting dengue with rashes appeared on his body. We went back to Pantai on new year eve midnite. It was so lucky to bump into the same doctor treated him when he was admitted. She checked the rashes and confirmed that it was not dengue but it was just mild viral infection. The doctor advised us to finish off the antibiotic first and monitor his condition. When the clock strucked at 12 midnite, the doctor wished my son a happy new year. Thank God!!! My son was OK!!! What a precious NY gift?