All About Your Child

This morning at 10.30am, my FIL was shivering very badly, almost into a fit.

The doctors from Tan Tock Seng Hospital decided to do an ultra sonic scan for him and will be transferring him to the ICU.

Yet after waiting for 6 hours, the doctors came back and said they couldn’t fulfill whatever they had promised earlier because there isn’t a ‘spare’ bed for my FIL in the ICU. *Urrrrrgggghhhh*

And because they do not have sufficient supply of the Platelets, they could not put the scope into my FIL. They were worried that any rupture internally may cause profuse bleeding. So they are waiting for more supply of the Platelets from Singapore General Hospital. *Double Urrrrrgggghhhh*

Anyhow, my FIL is having oxygen assistance right now. He seems better when we left at 6pm but he is definitely getting more yellowish…..*sigh*

Many DIL may not feel much for their FIL but for someone like me, who hardly had father’s love, my FIL is like my ‘real‘ dad and to see him lying there, breathing heavily is really an unbearable sight….*heart sank*

We went over to my in-law house this morning for the usual Sunday Family Gathering. But today is different….

My father-in-law, who is hardly ill, has been vomiting, having high fever and feeling breathless since Friday. When we were there, he turned slightly yellowish. My mom-in-law was worried that this sudden attack may have been the result of not going for the quarterly check-up after the removal of his gall stones 3 years ago.

I realized people of that generation dislike to go to the doctor till things really become out-of-hand. My dad was like that too. Either because of pride or refuse to spend that kind of money or they simply hate the faces of doctors, I have no idea….

My 2nd Bro-in-law brought my parents-in-law to the hospital around 3pm. 3 hours later, my FIL was admitted because of a possible liver failure and his low Platelets count. Platelets (also called thrombocytes) are tiny oval-shaped cells made in the bone marrow. They help in the clotting process, read here to know more.

The doctors will be doing a thorough check with X-rays and Scans tomorrow morning. So we’ll be visiting him again tomorrow at Tan Tock Seng Hospital to know the outcome….as children, what could be worse than seeing their parents lying on the sick-bed….*sigh*