Early bonus for the Doc

Know why i said that??

1 visit to GP (general practitioner) and 4 visits to PD (pediatrician) costs me almost $400+ from Nov and Dec. Why? My dear Eili has unfortunately caught a sticky cough bug which refused to go away. She had her cough for almost a month with a barrel of phlegm stucked inside her system, luckily not in her lungs which might cause bronchitis.

1 week later, she had middle ear infection which means mucus built up behind her ear drum and she had to complete 2nd round of antibiotic. Before we can recover from the tireless visits to the clinic, which we have to wait 2 hours for every visit (that's how popular that clinic), she caught another bad bug virus.

She had slight fever and complained of throbbing headache. At first we wasn't sure that she really mean it as we thought a 4.5 years old gal won't understand real definition of 'headache' till i found my answer at babycenter.com. She's at this age where she can complain of one and parents should never dismiss that as a bluff.

decisions...decisions..decisions....

That's one thing every parents faced, especially when their child is sick. How do we know when it's serious enough to send the child to hospital or clinic. Sometimes a bad decision can cause adverse effect and I don't want to even think about the consequences. Yet we can't be that kiasu or kancheong to send their kid to A&E for every single minor illness, this'll clot up the real emergency system in A&E.

I read in the new about a stepfather who sent his 12 yo son to a polyclinic when that boy had a 40deg fever!! 40deg is no joke you know, when didn't he send to A&E or a clinic which has faster waiting system than polyclinic?? For this we'll never find out and that boy who succumbed to an unknown illness (suspected of HFMD), his parents definitely have to live with that guilt. So who said parenting is easy??

I almost wanted to rush Eili to A&E after she vomitted 1/4 bucket of mixed cheese, veg and rice. Yucks!! And she kept complaining of headache but her fever was only 38deg highest. It was after an hour later (and sweating) that i noticed her fever went down and her bloatedness of her tummy before i can sleep at ease.

For now, she's going to miss 3 days of school as we wanted her to fully recovered before she can return to school on Monday and we pray hard that she won't catch any sticky bad virus again.