Poor Aidan

Monday, 5. January 2009, 02:53:29

December 2008 is a month that I do not wish to remember...

Aidan coughed for 1 whole month and despite using nebuliser, it didn't help at all and he took medicine for 1 month and developed a week fever after coughing for 3 weeks. so when we brought him for review after using the nebuliser on 26 Dec, Dr Chan suggested to admit him in Mt A for inpatient treatment. We were all not prepared but we guessed it might be better for Aidan. The 3D/2N stay was terrible for Aidan, he has to be on drip since he wasn't really eating and they have to administer an antibiotics to treat the phelgm via the drip. He was screaming and crying for me when they put the drip into him, I couldn't help but shed some tears while waiting outside the room. Then the Physiotherapist insert a tube and sucked out the phelgm from his throat and again he cried so badly. Dr Chan also ordered the nurses to perform nebuliser every 4 hourly even in the middle of the night but I must say that those that were done in the middle of the night were easier since we didn't have to pin him down to administer. It must have been the environment and all the trauma that he went through that caused him to resist the neb cos we didn't faced any problem doing it at home.

I stayed in the hospital with himeven though I just recovered from fever. I had to sleep on the bed with him to make him feel secure. But thank God that he didn't cough much or at least not phelgmy but the end of his stay and I asked Dr Chan whether he can be discharge on 28 Dec, so we all went home on 28 Dec but he has to be on neb for another 3 more days. His appetite also slowly recovered when he was back home but the aftermath of this ordeal was he woke up 4 consecutive nights crying for "Grandma" and he didn't want either Adrian or me to carry him, probably he remembered that we were the "bad guys" trying to make him go through the ordeal. so poor Grandma didn't have proper sleep for 4 nights cos the mintue she put him down, he will cry.

We are thankful that he is fully recovered and he no longer wakes up in the night crying. I really hope that we do not have to go through this anymore......