Jill Writes

Happy 2010 everyone! I know it’s 20 days past, and I haven’t updated this blog since a month ago. I will do my best to bring this blog up to date these few weeks and hopefully not fall behind (too much) again!

1. Thea has fully recovered from her bout of sickness a couple of days after the last post.
2. The in-laws were here for a month.
3. We moved house.
4. Yipp had his bout of feverS.
5. I’ve not crafted in a month.
6. My house is still in a mess.
7. We’re anticipating our new guests early February.

Will write more soon!

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I made this last week and tried to take a picture of it at night – poor lighting. I hate it when photos turn out like this.  Any tips, Andy?

This is a wedding congratulatory a friend has asked me to make. Something pretty, pink and sweet.

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Close up – Baby Pram on envelope

Close up – Baby footprints on white ribbon & Chipboard stickers

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This is an A4 size (closed) card – it’s a nice challenge having to make something almost 4 times the  size of my usual cards. My customer requested for a romantic birthday card with an antique twist to it. It got me thinking of some romantic warrior kind of love back in the old times.

My new stamp set from Technique Tuesday’s Loving Words by Ali Edwards. “Loving Life with you by my side”.

Heart lock charm to signify her heart

Black bling all over

Insides – “There is no doubt: I just love you.” Key charm hung on the card to unlock the lock aforementioned. Sweet pink vellum sticker to go with it.

I’ve enjoyed using up most of my new supplies – patterned papers, charms, vellum stickers, stamp set, bling and lots of brads for this project. LOVE IT!!!

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She had it removed this morning

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Went to the hospital to  have her meds administered intravenously. She fussed every now and then but was generally okay. Waved “bye bye” to the nurses and gave then flying kisses. Had a heavy lunch with lots of solids and fluids too. Pray that all’s well soon.

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Wordpress deleted my whole entry so I’m retyping this AGAIN!!!

Thank you for all your SMSes, comments and calls! I can’t be replying everyone on a personal basis and half the time trying to remember what I have updated to whom all the time, so I’d be updating from here instead. Sorry peeps!

We just got home from another 6 hours of being at the hospital. Thea is flat out and exhausted from the hours spent there.

Good news: She’s starting to take her milk, orange juice and milk this morning so they did not put her on saline drips today.

Bad news: She’s still having the runs.

More soiled diapers went to the lab today. Doc wanted to find out the cause in order to administer the right medication so as to not worsen her current condition. I like that. The worse is, I suppose, over. Apparently it’s not virus so they gave her a dose of antibiotics administered intravenously. Tomorrow she’ll be in for another dose of antibiotics + a dose of antidiarrheal. On Saturday she’ll see the doc again for the lab test results.

When she sees the doc, she covers her face with her one available hand. When she is brought anywhere near the examination bed she screams. Other than that, she’s still happily playing with the toys and wanting to befriend other ’sick’ kids at the waiting area. She waves ‘bye bye’ to the nurses with her bandaged arm, and tries to shake hands with others with it too. I’m so proud of her for being so strong and so good natured! *beams*

2 moms asked what was the matter with her arm, and whether she had a fall – I will show you a picture of it another day.

I’m tired! Laundry’s piling up! Piles and piles of clothes need ironing! X’mas pressies not done! House needs cleaning! In-laws coming!

H-E-L-P!!!

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With a high fever and a little girl who refused all meds and refused to be sponged, I was worried. Thankfully, the fever broke yesterday. Even then, she still refused the meds and refused all fluids too. By yesterday she’s been having diarrhea for 4 days and was crying a lot during the day. Concerned, I took her to the Paed again in the evening.

Immediately, she was put on drip It took 4 nurses to hold her down. She was screaming through the whole time from the moment she saw the doc till her papa arrived, which was probably slightly short of an hour. In her desperation she even screamed “mama” several times. If you don’t know this, she doesn’t ‘call’ me. She only calls “papa” and OCCASIONALLY, she’ll call ‘mem mee’ if you pester her enough to do  so. But no, never did she say ‘mama’ on her own, not till now. My heart broke. Her tears were streaming down her face and she was looking at me with a “HELP ME” expression, mixed with the “why did you bring me here for them to do this to me?!” face. My heart broke again.

In the whole 29 years of my life, I’ve never been put on a drip. Here’s my baby, short of 4 months to being 2, was lying there with a noodle poking up her palm. So pitiful.

So I held her in my arms while she screamed. The papa arrived and fed her with banana and a slice of cake. The papa entertained her and made her laugh while I held on to both her arms so she  wouldn’t trash and wouldn’t pull the needle or tube out. Slowly she was smiling and laughing. She poo’ed, and they took the diaper to the lab for tests. They added a dose of antibiotics into her body too.

After 6 hours we were finally home and she was finally asleep, tired out from all the exhaustion. At least she took 1.5 bottles of milk in the night. I had my first meal for the day.

It’s 9.08am now. We’ll be at the doc’s again at 11am for another dose of drip. I’ll be seeing the replay of last night’s trauma again. Say a little pray for her, will you?

Btw, she’s losing weight!!

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2 nights ago I felt that Thea’s body temperature was higher than usual. At midnight I felt her little body burning. The fever didn’t subside even after a dose of Adol. So at 4pm I rushed to the Paed’s without an appointment and was ready to brace the crowd. To my surprise, I managed to arrive before the others and didn’t need to wait at all! When we walked past the Paed’s room, I felt Thea’s grip clenched and immediately she wanted to cry. Yes, she remembers that scary room where people poke and prod her, forces her to open her mouth, etc.

The Paed diagnosed her as having something that sounded like Phlegmingitis – something to do with inflamed throat. I tried to google it but found nothing that made sense. I think he meant Streptococcal Pharyngitis. Pardon my stupidity.

Thea hardly stomached any food, refused to take the meds (either directly or indirectly) and hardly slept a wink throughout the night. I changed her diaper as she was (and still is) having diarrhea throughout the night. She moaned in discomfort and asked to be “bao bao” (cuddled) in the most pitiable voice even when I’m lying just beside her. Her body burned, but she refused to be sponged. Finally at 6-7am, she was ready to doze off. But whenever she’s just about to fall asleep, a sudden and violent jerk wakes her. Shocked, she cries real bad. This went on for about 10 times. She had fitful sleep for 1-2 hours and now she’s up and about again. She hardly slept for 3-4 hours altogether in the last  24 hours.

The poor girl is sick, tired, hot and I don’t really know what to do with her anymore. So I distract her by pulling her hair into pig tails and make her do funny faces for the camera. At least she looks less glum for a few minutes.

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Gone were the days (temporarily?) that I want more clothes, shoes, bags. Now all I could think of is a full set of ink pads from PTI/SU, a Tonic cutter, heat tool, embossing powders, stamp cleaners, etc!

Eeks!!!!!!

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