July 21st 2008 02:04 pm
Life got shorten
Give me one sick kid and my life will be shorten for at least a year. Give me one that is grumpy with fever, I will definitely woke up with panda eyes. Yes, little Mer is sick with fever and he prefer to have sweet syrup rather than the tablet or Chinese medicine, give him those and he’ll surely spit them out no matter how hard we press him to swallow them.
This morning I brought him to see Chinese doctor in Luyang, as expected the doctor warned about bitter medicine. However she gave me one remedy so that little kid can take the medicine in more ease. “Just rub on some honey on their mouth before giving them the medicine and they’ll be ok.” I bet Mer will remember that remedy and ask for it even when he doesn’t need to take any medicine.
The doctor also warned that I don’t give him any seasonal local fruits like rambutan, longan, mango and especially durian. Lychee is another one since it is the season now which daddy brought back days ago. Little kids stomach cannot diguest them properly and they are consider “heaty” for the body. She also said that not to let him take egg, poultry, crackers and any spicy or fried food. She kept on reminding little Mer to “Drink lots of water!”
He is one sweet little boy when the doctor told him to drink more water and take his medicine, he just nod with pitiful eyes. With the Coxsackie cases in West Malaysia, it is dreadful to know if Mer has got it, fortunately the doctor confirm that he is free of that and we’ll just have to be careful and take this seriously, making sure that he washes his hands frequently and drinks lots of water.
Seeing here is little Mer laying there quietly last night on the sofa (so kesian huh). It was a quiet night last night and I can even watch “Desperate housewife” in a roll for the first time! How nice if I can have a home theater seating that I can relax on. After that, I have to read two stories for sweet little Cal for waiting for mommy the whole night without attending to him. While I was watching TV and checking little Mer, he flip through the story book to look for one short story with interesting picture. We are now going through the “365 bed time stories” which he always insisted in reading every night before bed. A very good practice, but there are times that I was too tired and now I realise that no matter how I say no to him, he’ll keep on bugging me and whine and refuse to sleep. So I’ve given up for not reading to him.
As for hubby, he has responded in the comment area of the previous post telling the whole story of what had happened in Singapore lately. Am glad that he is fine and got himself a new handphone.
1 Comment »
Jewelle on 21 Jul 2008 at 4:18 pm #
I’ll keep in mind the honey before medicine tip too. I like those short stories books too cos I’m lazy to read long stories! But I do try to read every night lah..unless if they did something wrong then I can take chance to punish them but not having stories, ha!
Hope Mer gets better soon.
Me too, first time hearing that. Honey is also good if they got sore lips!
About reading, ya, short one is more suitable now as they have shorter attention span too.
I’m hoping that he gets well soon, so far no call from babysitter, so I presume he is getting better.