I’ve got a sick child

Last night was the 3rd night that little Mer had fever that runs up to 37.8 degree Celsius. I was worried sick for him. All sort of bad news run through my head during the night.

I have brought him to see the pediatrician in SMC yesterday, sending him home with peace in my mind knowing that it is no big deal, just normal fever. But one call and one alert suggestion from my mom send me to worry-land during lunch hour. Her question was simple “Could it be Dengue?”

Yes, I have thought about that but I forgot to ask the doctor the possibility of it. It turns out that Dengue has other symptoms like rashes, vomiting, diarrhea and fatigue. Thank God Mervin doesn’t have any of those symptoms. But still, his fever came back on last night.

When a child is sick, I believe the parents also got tired at the same time for having to attend to it and having to wake up as often as possible to check on the child. In my case, it was all me who did that: checking, rechecking and checking again and again last night. In between those time, he complain of his discomfort, he said it is not comfortable to sleep on certain area of the bed, and he changed his position and probaly had fallen back to sleep again after that ‘cos he has been quite. But later came back up again and complain about things that happened during day time.

I prayed silently at first, then I prayed with him and I’m still praying God will lay His healing hands on him. There were some point that I was worry he’s got H1N1, but I shake off that possibility as the paediatrician said he won’t be active even if he’s got Influenza A, and he won’t be taking his milk or food even. Which in Mervin’s case, though his appetite is lower but at least he is still eating and drinking milk.

He woke up this morning with a normal temperature. But my mom was saying he got slight fever just now *sigh*. I hope to see a happy face when I got home tonight.