poor little wormy... fell sick last week (long post ahead)

it all started on last tuesday night when i was breastfeeding wormy. suddenly i felt that he feels hot to my touch, esp the part where the nape of his neck resting on the inside of my elbow.
using the pigeon themometer we bought last time, i proceeded to measure baby's temperature. *anyway, i hate pigeon themometer! it takes like FOREVER to measure the temperature! not helping at all! bah!*

imagine my horror when the reading said 37.67 degree celcius! still, the instructions behind the pigeon box states that a fever exists only if temperature hits above 37.8. so, a flustered me went to look for hubbi for advise. he's sleeping in another room for he's recovering from a flu+fever (yesh, he's most likely to be the main culprit for passing the virus to wormy!! grr...!). as usual, nonchalent him stated there is no basis for alarm for it didnt exceed the stated temperature of 37.8 & my MIL (mother-in-law) assured me that baby's body temperature is naturally higher than that of adults. ignorant me went with their comments as i didnt want to be a drama queen and rush wormy to the clinic late at night. what a mistake. :( i should have trusted my mummy's instinct. :( no way am i gonna let people dissuade me from what i think best for my baby next time. :(

ANYWAY, come next day and i didnt follow up much as baby seems to be his usual self. fussy for milk and all. but that evening when i was holding wormy, i distinctly felt that he was really hot and so i measured his temperature again even though the rest kept on assuring me that he cant be having fever.. and horrors of all horrors, the reading said 38.2 this time!!
hubbi and i quickly brought him to a GP for consultation which the GP prescribed some fever medicine and advised that if the fever didnt subsided by night, we should bring him to hospital for further check up given that he's still under 1 mth.

so we gave the 1st dose at 6pm and the fever seemed to go down ard 10+ but comes midnight for the second dose, the fever went up again. so we waited no more and rushed wormy to thomson medical for further check up. everything happened in a blur from then on. we were told that he has to be admitted based on the advice of my PD (who's rushing down to the hospital then to check on wormy). and worse, there's no wards available except for 4 bedded room for baby. PD came and checked on wormy and said there's no conclusive diagnosis and that they've to take blood & urine tests of wormy to see what's the cause of the fever.

and they took him to a room and asked us to wait outside while they take the blood sample. i was so upset when i started hearing wormy's screaming in the room and the whole thing continued for a good ten minutes. by the time i was allowed into the room, wormy had gone all quiet and had a daze look. i was so sad seeing him like this. :( apparantly, they had drew the blood amount they required from his feet and taped this plastic thingy round his privates to collect his next urine. i was instructed to check every hour urine output and call for nurse when that happen. and they actually had wormy hand on driP!! for antibiotics purpose. sobz, im so sad he had to go through this at so young an age! and dripping antibiotics hurt like hell!!
then hubbi & my in-laws left as only 1 parent is allowed to stay and there;s no point in hubbi staying for he's down with illness too. :(

so, imagine my lonliness in the 4 bedded ward, cold and with my sick wormy who was lerthagic from all the pain & medication. :( luckily we changed to a 2 bedded ward the very next day which is the same as a single since the other bed is not occupied.

wormy actually stayed 2 more nights (thursday + friday) as the fever comes n go and we need to monitor it. luckily, the blood + urine tests came back okie & PD concluded he just got throat infection which leads to the fever. so poor little wormy has to consume cold, cough + fever oral medicine, nasal drops 3 times a day + put on antibiotics drip once a day for the whole hospitalisation duration.

the whole time, i was totally tired out, esp at night. he was irritable and refused to sleep and i've to feed him at approx. every 2 hours interval & change his nappies for him etc. i thought i was going to fall sick as well! and the darn hospital is so godamn cold!

on fri, his fever seemed to subside so PD said to stop his fever medicine to see if the fever comes back so we gave the last dose of medicine at 4pm. and he was well untill midnight when the fever shoots to 37.7 again. :( so he gave him one more dose at 1am. sat morn comes and PD checked and informed that he seems okie (no fever) and we just got to continue with the cold+cough medicine will do. so i requested for discharge even though PD advised one more night for observation. but i thought the cold air-con was actually making it worse for wormy so i stuck to my decision.

when back home, i was like on tenterhooks! i took wormy's temperature like every 2 hours intervals to check if the fever is coming back. alas, the fever came back on sat evening ard 7pm (18 hours after his last fever medication dose). i panicked and immediately administered fever medication to him as per PD's advice. and inwardly, i started to regret my decision to discharge so fast. :(

but there's nothing i can do but continue to monoitor. LUCKILY, till the next check up at the PD's clinic yest morn (mon), wormy's fever didnt come back and PD gave him the clearance too. :)))

the whole episode has been a terrible ordeal for me. now i hope for nothing but the best for his well-being.

anyway, we are now back in redhill but we wont be receiving guests so soon given wormy's just recovered state. hope you guys understand!

okie, got to go catch up on some rest before he wakey up for his next feed!