Asthmatic Adam

The flu & cough virus are on the loose lately. My kids got them one at a time, taking turns one after another. Adam got it last, which eventually landed him in room 312 in DEMC last week.

Adam got the coughing bug the previous Sunday, afterwhich we had to bring him for many rounds of nebulizer. Normally, he'd recover after two days, but on Thursday his condition remained that the GP requested for a chest x-ray. True enough, his chest was filled with phlegm, and infected with bacteria. Eventually, he was diagnosed to have pneumonia, and needed to be admitted for the intraveneous antibiotic.

It was the day of my big presentation with a client, and in the middle of it, Papa smsed that he needed the insurance number and stuff like that. I had to call him during break time, and frantically sorted out the details. After that, my mind was not at the presentation at all, and had to get myself excused at 3:30pm.

First day at the hospital. Not a happy lad at all, especially when Mama is not around. Generally, he's ok, it's just that he needed to be on the nebulizer every 3 hours, and antibiotic 3 times a day.

Cheerful a bit, when Mama popped in at 4pm on the first day. Every half an hour, he'll go round the paediatric ward, talked to the nurses, go down the lobby and made himself at home.

Resah, gelisah, bila lah Abang boleh balik nih... 4 days at the hospital is agony.

Waiting for the discharge papers...

So it was a three-night-four-day stay for Adam in the hospital. We took turn to accompany him, Mama, Aina & Amir in the day, Atam & Acik popped by in the afternoons, and Papa stayed the nights. Of course he's upset because Mama couldn't sleep over, but since Amir is also showing some signs of flu & cough, Mama had to sleep at home.

In the end, Adam now is equipped with an inhaler, which he needs to use three times a day, for 3 months. He was pronounced as asthmatic, but not the frequent type. The inhaler is supposed to help strengthen the lungs and treat the asthma. Hopefully this illness is not for long.

Now we are monitoring Amir.