For those of you who’s in my Facebook network, as you all know my dear Bb Julia’s sick. She’s been having this cough and cold thing for over a week now. Paranoid as ever, as guilty as a bee, not to think if her got worst because of the swim we did last week – huhu! I’m a selfish Mom! We brought her up in the emergency last Friday night coz she’s like just crying out loud without reasons. She’s having a hard time breathing in/out thru her nose. I guess because her nose is blocked and the thing is that whenever she cough, she’s so red that you feel like there’s something stuck in between her throat and you could like pull it out if you can just to make her feel okay. But anyway, we went to the Children’s Hospital – a 10 minute drive from our place to have her checked up.
The first thing the nurse in the reception asked us was “Have you been out of Doha recently?”. Yes, the AH1N1 aka Swine flu alert is in the Middle East. Most of the people inside the emergency were like there because of not that really on an emergency but barely because of worrying of this disease. Most of the babies are not really in hurt, I mean to say not that sick or something (I hope you can picture it on your mind what I’m trying to say here, hehe!) – the thing is, all parents are like in a worried state of mind. All couples were like looking blankly to each other asking “What have we done wrong?” or like “Why our baby is sick?” – these 2 questions were running thru my mind while in the waiting area. This is the first time Julia got sick for such a long time. As a first time Mom – these was the worst time ever. Wished that my Mom was still here to look on us, sigh!
Julia was like all stunned because of so many babies around her. Some were crying, some were sleeping and some were like her too – staring at some babies as well. Anyway, our number was called and the doctor checked on Julia. Good thing about her case is that she doesn’t have even a slight fever, so definitely it’s not swine – hehe! The doctor left and said that the nurse will teach me on how to use the respi-chamber. What was that for? Hubby came in with the medicines and he was holding a tube thing. So the nurse taught us both on how to use the chamber. I then realized that it’s for the Ventolin. I said to myself “Shucks! Aside from the eyebrows Julia got from me, she also inherited my Mom’s major sickness – asthma!” Huh!
We had to count 15 seconds in between the puff. We had a hard time doing it at first. Me and Hubby were like “Mama… Julia… Wait… 1..2..3…” and we have to entertain her with a music to make her stay still. Sigh!
Mommy said that sometimes this happens specially for Julia’s case since she’s still young and can’t rely spitting out, the phlegm stays behind. Though she recommends not to abuse using the Ventolin. But I told her that Julia’s sleep is much better after the puff.
Anyway, thank you for all those people who left a comment on my status the other night on FB and for dear friend Bernie and Khaty who texted me asking her situation. In times like this, I really really feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends I can rely on during emergencies. HUGS AND KISSES FROM ME AND MY FAMILY!