Afiq's hospital stay..

First of all, my family and I would like to thank all my blogging friends, my silent blog readers and everybody out there who pray and concern about our beloved afiq's health. He was admitted to the hospital on 2nd of March 2008 for pneumonia (Lung infection) and was discharged 4 days later. During his hospital stay, he was treated with intravenous antibiotcs, antipyretics and the most important was intravenous fluids. He was severely dehydrated during the admission and 1 litre of 1/5 dextrose saline solution was given intravenously throughout the admission. Currently he has completed his antibiotics which was switched from IV to oral antibiotics when he was discharged. He still has mild cough but he feeds well. We are very thankful to Allah S.W.T that he is recovering very well.

This is his chest radiograph which was taken before his admission. This is also the pic that we sent to a Paediatrician via MMS. If you can see there were patchy opacities over both sides of his lungs. Ops! Do I have to explain that the centre white thing is his heart and both lungs supposed to be black with whitish line across them which are the ribs? So the patchy opacities between the ribs are the area of infections. Yes, like what my hubby wrote in his post prior to this, to treat someone else's child is easy but when it comes to your own..very difficult even with a clear cut pneumonia..(pssssst:that's why we have to send that MMS to a paediatrician!..I tried to say that it was not pneumonia features but my hubby said most probably it is..but now we realised that it was all because denial that we cannot make the diagnosis of pneumonia even though it was right in front of us!..LOL)

Afiq during his second day in the ward..

Faces of him during the stay...

Can you see that yellow thing over his left hand? That is the stopper to stop the blood from coming out from the site where the branulla (intravenous access line) was inserted...initially it was left just like that with the stopper taken out and connects the branulla tip to the intravenous tubing..but later...

We have to do this..cover his hand with his pampers! because he kept trying to pull the IV tubing off! Hahhhahhaa Afiq.. I really hope that you'll be able to see this when you grown up. Naughty boy huh...Muahahaaaahaa

Most of us prefer to be admitted to private hospital instead of government hospital. I guess that also applies to me...but since my house is just 5 minutes drive from this gov hospital and we personally know most of the staff... besides, they used to work under my hubby and most important was Afiq's condition is not that bad...then we decided to admit him there.Kesian Afiq..hehehhee jimat duit.

Again, to end this posting I would like to thank all of you for the support...THANK YOU VERY MUCH!