All About Your Child

After school on Friday 3rd July 2009….

When I told my boys that I had to go to the hospital and they were NOT coming along….

Keatkeat: “Mommy, really very pain?” Stroking my tummy. “Doctor will look after you, don’t be scared.”

“Thank you Keatkeat. Be an obedient boy at MaMa’s (MIL) house ok?”

Binbin: Tears welled up, gave me a huge hug, “Mommy, don’t want! Don’t go hospital. At night I need you to sleep beside me, if not I cannot sleep.”

“Binbin, don’t worry, I should be back at night. I don’t think Mommy’s tummy pain is that serious. So I don’t think I’ll be sleeping in hospital.” (*sigh* In the end it was 5 days, 4 nights!)

According to my MIL, ZY-my elder niece put up a ‘fight‘ with her because she was not allowed to visit me in the hospital. Allan witnessed the scene and told me it was true. My heart sank.

Saturday 4th July 2009 at 10pm+, the kids called me because they were not allowed to visit me in the hospital. All thanks to H1N1. Only 8 registered visitors were allowed and no kids under 12years old, throughout the stay .

Binbin: “MOMMY…. *wailed* why *sob* are you not *sob sob* home yet? *wailed louder*….”

(Allan at the background “You wanna cry, then don’t talk to Mommy, like that you make Mommy very sad. Pass the phone to Gorgor (brother)”)

Keatkeat: “Mommy, I’m very happy today. Because BakBak (Allan’s eldest bro) bring us to the place we ride motorbike. But motorbike spoiled. So we ride bicycle. Then got see helicopter with Singapore flag fly pass and got very fast airplane fly past. Waaahhhh very noisy ah!…. Are you better now? Did the doctor CUT OPEN your tummy and take out the pain?”

“No dear. I am happy that you are happy. Any other thing you want to tell me?”

Keatkeat: “I love you Mommy. I miss you, but not like Binbin, cry cry cry. He missed you very much, you know?”

“Yes, me too. You go hug him ok? Tell him Mommy will come back soon. I love you too, Baby”

Allan took over the phone and told me that he will NOT be passing it back to Binbin, who is cooling down, and so ended the only phone call from them during my stay.

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Finally completed posting 6 posts of my hospitalisation. If you don’t have time for all 6. At least read Day 3, my most painful and dramatic day of all.

Click on the titles below to read the posts:-
Why was I in hospital?
Hospitalised Day 1
Hospitalised Day 2
Hospitalised Day 3 (I can’t believe I actually survived)
Hospitalised Day 4
Hospitalised Day 5

This June holiday has been a bed of roses for my boys. There were soooooo many places we went and things we did that I have yet to blog. I need to. I have to. Cos’ they are precious moments to be treasured, hence worth recording.

*Palm to chest* Seriously, I am exhausted! So glad that the Ministry of Education did not go ahead with the one week extension to the school holidays in view of the seriousness of H1N1 in Singapore currently.

Then again, reports on newspaper has been writing headlines “Will parents lie so as to let their children go back to school, like what they did during SARS?”

Keatkeat’s and Binbin’s teacher had asked, “For the past one week, did your family leave Singapore? Or have your family been in close contact with someone who had gone overseas during the last 7 days?”

My answer was “No.” And that’s the truth.

Yet, there are parents who ‘may‘ lie about it so that their kids can join their classmates when school reopens on the day after tomorrow; So as NOT to be quarantined at home for another one week, resulting in lots of school work to catch up.

Is social responsibility more important or self-satisfaction more important?

Anyhow, I just can’t wait for Monday to come! I have so much to blog and 700+ posts to catch up on my Google Reader.

Dear friends, I may not be able to read all your posts which I had missed, but I’ll definitely be paying you a visit once school reopens and that my momentum is back to where it was before June began.