All About Your Child

First, it was Keatkeat with Bronchitis, then both boys were down with Hives…. and as I was taking care of my hives babies when it first struck them in April, I got so sick that I was bedridden with Glandular fever.

Now this!!?

Could this have been prevented? No! How sad. The cause of atopic eczema is not fully known. However, it was known that genes play an important part as atopic eczema often runs in families. But no one from Allan’s nor my family or our ancestors had this! It could also be due to food allergies, but he did a test before and it was proven that he is NOT allergic to any food…

So who was the lucky one this time? BINBIN! Yes, my 3year old has mild Atopic Eczema.

Its been a year…I’ve kept my silence. Went to polyclinic twice. But I wasn’t comfortable being shoved off with just a tube of $0.80 Aqueous Cream Moisturizer every time.

I don’t want to accept that. I needed a second opinion and I demanded for a referral letter to National Skin Centre. Yes, the expensive one, the specialised one, the one employer which my Dad last took his salary (as a Pharmacist) from before he passed away.

With the referral letter, instead of paying $60+, I paid $20+. Its a great place, you are offered free packet drinks almost at every counter, very comforting with nice landscape structures except for certain levels where its FORBIDDEN because it was the leprosy units.

Yes, it was one year ago, it started with the wrist area. Sometimes it peels off like a snake shedding its skin. Sometimes its just tiny pieces of skin standing up, waiting for its chance to fall off. Is it itchy? According to my 3 year old, sometimes. I noticed that he HARDLY scratch unless he is ‘sweating like sweat-ducks’ (Keatkeat’s style of description).

From the wrist, it ‘peeled’ to the finger tips. Now the affected areas have increased. It has gone to the elbow and the inner-side of the elbow. Instead of on the left and its on the right too.

It peels and reveals the pinkish baby skin, leaving unsightly patches, as it contrast with the tan colour of the unpeeled areas of the active boy.

This time, Binbin was given the Aqueous Cream again but no longer in tube, its a container! On top of that, Desonwen Lotion, the stronger medicine, was given too, the damage for both were $20.15.

Spending almost $50 today and yet the verdict is still the same as those General Practitioners have said in the Polyclinic, where I just need to spend less than $10 for EVERYTHING. Paying $40 more with the same conclusion was painful….but then again, at least I got ONE additional medicine which the Polyclinic didn’t give during my previous 2 visits…that’s the only thing that make my heart feels good now….*sigh*

Unbelievably exciting weekend…

I was so eager to tell you about how I felt before the Working Mothers Forum, I forgot to talk about what happened during the forum, luckily I’ve got Malmal’s mom to remind me (see her comments for yesterday’s post).

So registration opens at 1pm with refreshments and people get to tour around the many booths that satisfy different needs of mothers or family.

Unbelievably natural-me photos…

Q, a very pretty and soft-spoken lady, one of the coordinator of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide attached some photos of me in action when I was on stage….(go see her comments for yesterday’s post and click on the links provided by her)

I reckoned that I have a ‘big’ mouth (as in physical size), not the ‘big’ mouth, as in going around spreading people’s secrets…*laugh*… and the professional photographer did captured ‘that part’ of me really well *huge laugh*

Go see the photos if you are interested to see my different expressions throughout the event….*wink*

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Unbelievably sick Sunday….

I woke up on Sunday morning like a pirate. My right eye was swollen with yellowish-greenish pus. *Ewwww*

As if moving around with one eye wasn’t bad enough, I was having a terrible runny nose. Never had that for a very very long time now.

I was practically lying down the whole time. Squeezing my eyes every other minute hoping the pus would be drained out that much faster….

As I type now, my eyes are better, my nose is better, just that I’m feeling a little groggy now, maybe due to too much rest….

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Unbelievably down on luck….

To me, being sick is normal, so I would not consider that as down-on-luck. But when you have got 3 electrical stuff down at the SAME time! That’s truly an unlucky day!

1) How many of you CANNOT ‘live’ without your mobile phone?! I would be in deep trouble because I hardly remember the numbers of ALL my contacts…and lo and behold, my mobile phone can’t be charged, can’t be switched on at all!

2) It was super warm last night and we needed the fan badly but its ‘spine’ was fractured because of the kids’ mischief (who else?).

In the end, we had to support it by tying a wooden stick to it to hold it up!

(see picture)

3) Allan needed to print his flyers urgently for his upcoming Open house for his client and yet the printer is down after a few prints…

*Urgghhh*

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Unbelievably cooperative kids…

But God is fair. Though I’m so sick, and nothing seemed to work well in the house, the kids were unbelievably cooperative.

Many of you have your hubby with you during weekend, I don’t, because of the nature of Allan’s job.

But coincidentally, Allan was free this weekend and hence was able to go to the forum on Saturday with me (giving me the moral support I needed badly) and being at home on Sunday to take care of the kids when 90% of the time I’m lying around, either on the sofa or the bed.

The kids hardly fight (physically) yesterday and today. They do have their arguments, but were resolved without our (adult) interference – amazingly rare. Then they played together harmoniously with their hot wheels.

When that didn’t excite them much, they cut papers and used markers to colour those tiny pieces and ‘decorated’ their cars by sticking them with scotchtape.

My house is in an unimaginable mess right now, but that’s alright…since there isn’t any guest coming over…sometimes when your kids are so damn obedient, even the mess they create looks pleasant to the eyes….*wink*