From fun to nightmare

After 3 days staying in Jakarta, the fun holiday turned out to be a nightmare.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Late morning after having fruit juice, Richie threw up the juices while taking morning nap. Mommy thought he's full of the juice. Then in the afternoon, when we went to buy some fruits in the supermart, he threw up again after eating mantou and a slice of cheese. Mommy started wondering if there's something wrong.
In the evening, Richie had loose stools, it's not watery yet.
Mommy decided to bring Richie to the PD 1 whom he saw last time. The PD 1 gave him mixture of cough medicine and orange Zinc for diarrhea.

At night around 9 pm, suddenly Richie developed high fever about 40 deg, mommy started to worry, luckily mommy brought panadol and brufen from Singapore. But after 1 hour, the fever didn't subside, it's around 38.5 - 39 deg until the next morning.


Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Mommy started panicking 'cos the panadol and brufen didn't really bring the fever down and wanted to see the PD 1 again in the morning. Unfortunately, the PD 1 was available in the hospital that's far away from oma's house therefore we decided to go to nearby hospital where there's a PD 2
What mommy expected was the PD gave mommy assurance that it's normal for fever to be up and down and gave some advises how to encourage Richie drank medicine and water. Richie didn't want to drink or eat, that's made a headache.

But turns out that the PD 2 just gave new medicine again with some antibiotics without checking further with mommy whether he has been in antibiotic before etc. When mommy asked the PD 2 further whether it's necessary to give antibiotics directly or waiting for few days to see the reactions of previous medicine. The PD 2 challenged mommy, by saying " Why are you so afraid with antibiotics? ". " I have studied overseas before too "," If you don't want the antibiotics, it's fine but there's a risk your baby will have seizure if the fever couldn't come down" ...OMG mommy didn't like him at that point of time.

At first, Mommy didn't want to buy the medicine prescribed by him, and prefer waiting for the PD 1 available in the evening. But mommy had no choice when people surrounding  persuaded to give the prescribed medicine. In the afternoon, mommy gave first dose of antibiotic, the fever still didn't come down and became diarrhea. The diarrhea was very bad until in the evening. Richie didn't want to drink and eat and he's very very weak, motionless I would say.
Mommy's heart broken into pieces looking at him.

Then, Oma Tine suggested to give him Holy water from Lourdes. Mommy remembered clearly. at 630pm, he had very bad diarrhea and high fever, then mommy gave him brufen to bring the fever down while oma tine gave him holy water
And we decided to go to emergency room in the hospital since Richie was motionless. Just before we went to hospital, Richie suddenly had energy, his fever was down. He felt very hungry and ate a lot.
It's the first miracle mommy experienced.

We still went to hospital to make sure everything alright. The doctor in hospital told mommy to stop the antibiotics and gave medicine for diarrhea instead including new antibiotics for the diarrhea.
After we went back home, mommy gave him antibiotics and medicine for diarrhea, and the fever subsided around 37.5.
At night, mommy was very tired 'cos lack of sleeping and rest, mommy prayed to Mother Mary to keep an eye on Richie and asked the fever either stabil or come down 'cos mommy was too tired to monitor the fever every hour while gave him holy water.

Around midnight, the fever started climbing up again slowly, mommy wanted to give him the paracetamol but Richie kept rejecting until around 1.30am, he finally took the medicine and the fever subsided until  now.
It's second miracle.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Richie was very cheerful, he woke up with some energy, even though he's still having diarrhea, but no fever and he wanted to eat and drink except milk.
He's full of energy, that's why mommy decided to go back to Singapore as soon as possible
Oma and Opa helped mommy to book the flight the next day.

At dawn, Richie suddenly woke up crying for 1 hour, we confused what's wrong with him. We suspected that he had tummyache.

Friday, 4 March 2011

Richie's still having diarrhea but no fever, we packed up and flight back to Singapore with oma