Day 10: AN is down

We were expecting ourselves to fall sick last week, right after arriving Singapore. Most, if not all of Mr Liow's colleagues who came back would be down with fever or be sick with something.

AN had already been coughing since the girls came over to Tucson on 12th May but because it was common then (people were coughing everywhere due to allergies), Dr Bean assured us it was nothing to worry about.

She is still coughing now and that means she's been coughing for more than 4 weeks. And finally since we came back from my MIL's place on Tues, her body temperaure went up.

She shivered in her sleep last night and her temperature went up to 39.1C and that worried us a lot. I had my first Gynae appointment this morning with Dr Henry Cheng and thought we would bring her to a baby doctor after that. Was glad to see one baby and kids' clinic few stores away from Dr Henry's clinic so while I waited to see my doctor, Mr Liow took AN to hers.

We chose convenience over Dr Terrence Tan. For common toddler ailments, any GP SHOULD be able to help, let alone a PD. Not such a good idea. According to Mr Liow, when the Dr needed AN to open her mouth to check her throat, he got a nurse and Mr Liow to hold AN's limb and forced her teeth apart with a stick!! That scared her to tears of course! Even my dad's first reaction when he heard that was:" Didnt she cry?" She did. Who wouldn't?

Dr Bean never fails to get AN to open her mouth willingly. The Florida Dr we took AN to when she had spots due to allergies, also got her to do it by herself. I am very super duper confident Dr Terrence Tan would have also try to gain AN's trust before getting her to show him her throat on her own. And there should be toys to distract the kiddos in a baby and kids' clinic, should there not? Mr Liow said there was none.

She was given FIVE medicines to take!!!! HUH?? Antibiotics for throat infection, fever, runny nose, phlegm and cough. I thought phlegm and cough should be a mixture into one syrup so that we do not scare the young ones into having to take FIVE medicines at a time?

Anyway, I will only be givin her the antibiotics to clear the infection and the cough syrup. She's not having runny nose so I will not be giving her that. Fever is going to help fight the infection so I'll only feed her the fever medicine at night. Effectively, we paid $75 for 2 medicines out of 5 and consultation for specialist but got not expertise as charged. Hmm..

Now back to Gyna appointment, we were happy to see Dr Henry today. He's so nice and warm like before. We got many pictures of our boy today, and measurements in a file. Will have to bring my Gyna records from previous visits in the States for him at our next visit so that he can check the boy's growth. As of today, boy is in Breech position but Dr Henry assured us that in most cases, because foetuses are "top heavy", they should turn head down to prepare for birth. He described the experience as feeling lots of movements all of a sudden as if something major is going on inside my tummy when boy turns upside down. That's new to me coz I had never felt AN turn like he described. Hehe.

I asked about boys being lower in the womb and he said it wasn't true. I thought I felt this pregnancy was different because I feel the weight lower than when I was expecting a girl. Dr Henry said second and subsquent pregnancies will also feel lower than first because all our muscles and loosened, regardless of baby's gender. Ok, so I had a goof guess about baby boy this time, not because he is indeed lower than AN used to be.

Part 3 of today, we went to meet Edwin. AN was better this afternoon after a nap so I took her to Fernvale where Mr Liow was in a discussion with Edwin. I shouldn't have because she should be resting. Now, she's super tired and her fever went back up again. Her face is all red and flushed and hot and her eyes were red and Geary before she fell asleep short while ago.

Anyway, because we had no time to lose and Edwin has too much on hand to care for, he decided not to take up our Reno but promised to help us out of goodwill. That means we will have to do our own coordination but he will help advise us on designs and colours etc. We feel bad that he will not be charging us anything even though he will still be helping us. Only difference is, his commitment level to our Reno will be minimum. He could have washed his hands off and leave us to call some contacts he gave us but he went with us to select tiles and will go around with us to choose accessories when he can, next week.

So we will be doing our own coordination. Mr Liow will be working from Monday and for a start (possibly for as long as he's with RSAF), he'll be busy. I pray that I will be able to help coordinate so that he need not feel stressed up with catching up at work and rushing to get our home ready in time for the arrival of our cartons.

BM will be home tomorrow. We miss them. AN misses them for sure coz she assumes we are going to bring them back on most days we go out this past week. She would tell my parents before we leave: "We're going to bring BAILEYS AND MAEN HOME!"

We finally are going to do that tomorrow. I will stay at home with AN tomorrow so that she can rst. Mr Liow will be meeting a contactor recommended by Edwin to discuss about tiling and some other works. That will be after he checks the furkids out of Sembawang Chalet.

Poor AN looked so sick just now that I couldn't help blame myself for bringing her out bfore she even recovered. Her body temperature felt sooooooo hit against ke as I Carrie her just now while selecting tiles. And she even missed dinner because we were rushing. I should have gone home with her while the guys went for tiles selection.. :( Bad mummy..

I pray that AN will feel better tomorrow. I think she will brighten up when she sees the furkids. Hehe. They will definitely need to be showered tomorrow. Hope I'll have time to freshen them up (I will have to by hook or by crook..I'm sure they will njoy feeling clean again).

Sorry Sunflower, I really could go down to the quarantine centre to see how it's like. Been so busy with things..but I'll update on how clean or dirty they look, if they come back with ticks (hopefully NOT!!) or if they have bad skin conditions that they did not alreaDy have.