happy mother's day

i spent mother's day alone, caring for my sick children in damansara specialist hospital... i was rather sad to see both my children, not feeling well... my son was diagnosed with pneumonia, lungs infection while my daughter was getting the same bug, the doctor suspected, from her brother. i was so relieved that i was at the hospital where health care was within reach rather than me being at home, worried and helpless. the sad part was that their paediatrician had left to US and was not there to treat them from the beginning. however, he was back on time to observe their recovery and discharge them. my children are fine now and i am so thankful to those who treated them and to almighty god.

with this episode, i can now finally believe that my instincts about my children are for real. i knew something was really wrong with my son since he was coughing so bad and his sister was slowly getting worse too. i took them to the hospital midnight, well prepared to admit them. the doctor (MO) dismissed it as throat infection, so, i treated them at home with the antibiotics and nebuliser, i even came home during lunchtime for that. i had called their paediatrician (not knowing that he was on his way to US) and smsed him to enquire about how to treat my children. the next day, i felt something was really wrong and brought him to the same doctor. by this time, i was gasping for air. it could be god's way of telling me that my son was feeling the same. i was again dismissed on the basis that i should treat them with neubuliser at home.

it was saturday...my daughter started having high grade fever..... oh, i was so right!!! it was really bad!!! when you start having fever, there is virus in the air!!! i knew exactly what to do. i made the third trip to the hospital, i told the doctor to admit my children and asked him to get the on-call paediatrician to review them. there, i stayed for a week, getting sick in the process!!!

i told myself, like how i had the instinct to deliver them (not absolutely by the force of nature), i knew that something was really wrong and i have to admit them to get appropriate treatment for a day or two. if nothing else, for my own satisfaction that the children were under medical observation.

auntie nuff came for a visit after taking her children to lake gardens, hoping that i would have gone to lake gardens as well.




nadia nasira and jaseena when they were babies....

oh well, happy mother's day to me and to all the mothers out there who are blessed to taste the bittersweet of motherhood.