18 May 2008

Mummy, Daddy, Ashley !

It's been 3 days since Ash came home, and she's back to her boisterous self. So to keep her occupied, I told her to draw a picture of herself, with mummy and daddy, and I left her alone to do it. This is what she came up with.

17 May 2008

Ashley's stay at KKH

15 May 2008

Ash was supposed to have been discharged yesterday evening, but at around 5pm, her fever started rising again. So we decided to stay one more night, and rightfully so, as later that night, at around 10pm, her fever hit 38.6. And that was her last bout of fever.
We finally left KKH at 7pm, after Ash had her dinner. She had gone 21hrs without fever.

14 May 2008

Happy Mother's Day ??

11 May - Even with Brufen, her fever never went below 38 degrees, ie, Ash was having fever the entire day. By 5pm, we decided that somethng wasn't right and went to KKH again. By 6.30pm, her fever had reached 39.6 degrees. Doctor suggested admitting her because of her past hisotry of fits, we agreed. That night after admission, when I went home to collect a change of clothes for Viv and myself, her fever had reached 40 degrees and Viv had a hard time sponging her down. According to Viv, Ash kept crying "help, help, help me" while she as being sponged. It didn't seem funny then, but it was funny trying to visualise it after that.

14 May - Past 2 days have been tiring for both of us, having to "battle" to get Ash to down her multitude of medication; paracetamol, 4 hourly, Fluimucil, thrice a day, Ventolin puffs, 4 hourly, Flixotide puffs, twice a day, Singular, once a day. Have yet to include her meals and fluids. Ash is now constipated. She's not eating as well. Fluid intake has been averaging 1/2 litre daily. And her fever is still there though, no longer those over 39 degrees. Her blood and urine tests did not indicate bacterial infection, so it's viral and Dr. Kumudhni said it'll take 7-10 days to burn itself out. This is one powerful virus for her fever to last so long.

3:40pm - Ash will be discharged this evening and she lit up when we told her she was going hoem today. She's still having an on-off low grade fever, but at least it is controllable with paracetamol. Poor girl's voice has also become hoarse from all the crying over the past 2 days. She also had Microlax suppository inserted this afternoon as she had been straining to poo since Sunday. With that, she finally moved her bowel...a fairly hard lump. Noticed that after that, she became more cheerful. Coincidence ?

10 May 2008

Not again, fever !

Her fever started on Saturday morning. Ash woke us up at 2.30am with a 39.5 degree fever. Decided to use the Voren supporsitory as 39.5 was too high to wait for Brufen to take effect. In the morning, brought her to see Dr. Zainal who then said it was likely to be a viral fever. All was well until around 4.30pm when Ash complained she was cold. Took her temperature to find it was already 38.8. It continued to rise despite Brufen until finally at 5.30pm, we decided to bring her to KKH as her fever had already hit 39.5. Because it was a Saturday evening, we knew the CTE would be jammed packed and there was no way I was going to be able to get thru quickly enough, so we called for an ambulance. When we got to KKH, Ash was sponged to keep her temperature in check and she did not enjoy it. We were sent home with fever meds once her temperature had come down.

5 May 2008

Back to school !

Pat's re-opened today and they had a WELCOME BACK banner hung, to well, welcome back all the kids. Hope all goes well after this.
We were also informed this evening that SchoolHouse day on 16 May will be cancelled in view of the 10 day closure.

1 May 2008

A date with the Purple One

Well, it's done. This afternoon I bought tickets to the Barney's Let's Imagine Live show on the 8th June at the Suntec Convention Hall. We were thinking of giving it a miss, but then we thought, Ash is only young just once and such shows don't come round that often (or do they ?), so we'll just let her enjoy it, hopefully, it will remain a memorable part of her childhood memories.