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Viral fever vs Dengue Fever – how to tell the difference?
So, after burning for a week on somewhat very high body temperatures (38+, 39+ degrees), slipping in and out of sleep cycles and losing out a lot on food (i barely ate!) and losing some kilos, i finally rid the fever and came back to work today. still sick, still alive but not really kicking. my throat still hurts big time, i talk with a coarse voice, i spit fresh blood-stained phlegm and swallowing is a real pain. and i also found out this morning, that one of my colleague thought i died…because of this news article that she saw. because i was having non-stop high fever. because i stayed…
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i am so darn hot (pun intended). I’m running a viral fever!
my viral fever temperature just recorded its highest in the last 5 days (or is it 6th day now). an hour ago, I recorded like 39.5 degrees celsius. the husband has been icing me with ice and cold packs (and his can of beer) for the past hour and more and I really cannot feel more loved. I just need to know why this stinking fever refused to leave me alone. and the freaking reason that caused me to BURN (luckily not in hell yet). thought I put down some random thoughts in case my brain really gets fried and I can’t think straight. I really…
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hands free, fuss free. I like.
good morning. at 430am in the morning, here’s what I have been up to all week. nebulizing my kid. of cos, it hasn’t been so smooth sailing every single time but I have been much blessed that jerry doesnt struggle against it at all. even when he’s awake.. he’ll sit and stare and try get comfortable. the most difficult is when he is actively awake and move around much. else its been pretty easy and it gets better with experience. now you know why I have been looking like a panda and very sleep deprived. next up, getting that cough and runny nose medication down his throat!…
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its madness.
i was estactic when i heard the news about jerry being able to be discharged. back home, i am struggling with sleep deprivation so bad.. i kinda wish i had the help of the nurses from the hospital and it isnt that tough. it’s been madness since jerry’s home coming. he has loads and loads of medication and they are driving me nuts. coupled that with no one else to help, i think i was a little on my wits’ end today. for the record, here’s how the daily schedule is like for now. 4.30am – Nebuliser 5am – Medication for cough & running nose 8am – tablet for his…
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YAY
is when the husband called this morning and said the doc gave the clearance for jerry to discharge! all that patting and loosening of the phlegm helped! its the best thing to beat the Monday blues. I can’t be happier. p.s. the above picture is taken at sunday morning at 6am. just before he fell and hit his head. Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
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high on drugs.
literally. check out jerry’s damn high face. and ignore that huge bruise because he fell face down from the sofa couple of days ago. p.s. the picture above is a case of bad timing. my little brave trooper has been really brave, taking in all the nebulizing sessions in his stride every 2hrly. ok. except the first one in the morning when he was really sick and cranky. he probably realise the good of it thereafter. Meanwhile, it seems like baby is on the mend while mummy here is suffering from intense sleep deprivation and I’m currently on watch over duty tonight (or yesterday since I wrote the…
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my Saturday morning..
is spent scrambling out in bed at 7am and off we went to the paedratician. jerry has been battling with the flu virus since mid week and it developed into a full blown cough and now, fever. its been a morning it has been. we have just been told that jerry is suffering from an asthma attack and has to be admitted for observation and be constantly nebulized every 2hrs. I think its every parent’s fear of hearing that statement from the doctor. the hospitalization part that is. doc says he needs to be warded for 3 days. the timing can’t be worse. Der is scheduled for…
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about my hearing loss.
or discovery of it. or rather, the confirmation of it. i always felt like i had an ear infection all my life. sometimes, it bothered me, sometimes, not. and i had this vague memory of being put through a hearing test when i was a kid, when i was in this sound proof room and asked to put on ear phones. But i can’t recall why, and my mum says she has absolutely no recollection of it at all. and obviously, i didn’t know what was wrong. or that, i wasn’t really ‘normal’. till one fine day, when der was showing off his newly bought automatic watch and asked me…
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Quick update.
I have been silent for almost 2 weeks now. It’s been madness here, juggling with a almost-deadly virus that rendered a whole household sick, a out of whack schedule for baby, a majorly sleep deprived mother with loads of stress at work with pressing deadlines (colleague was on 1.5 weeks leave and there were tons to be done) and many visits to the pediatrician on top of round-the-clock administration of medicine for jerry. I almost couldn’t hang in there. It’s slightly better now, but im still sick, and still superbly sleep deprived. What seemed to be a flu for jerry turns out to be a really nasty virus that warranted…
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The past week..
I think I am beginning to adore my son. For those of you who kept telling me things will get better and that I one day would find everything worthwhile, I think I am almost here. Thank you for all that encouragement then. I think I am beginning to feel like everything is worth it.. or maybe it is postpartum amnesia and I don’t quite recall how bad things used to be. Ahh.. Maybe this is part of god’s grand plans.. Postpartum memory loss is for women to cope better and forget all those frustrations, struggles, hardship so that they’ll go on and have more kids. I’m pretty sure it…
