This week has been a rather tough week for me. School is busy, as usual. Reuben had a little running nose but he recovered within two days. What caused me headache and heartache was Phoebe. She has been running a fever since Sunday night, after Reuben's first birthday party. Her temperature fluctuates, ranging from 38.9 to 38.3 degree Celsius. On top of that, she has a phlegmy and bad cough. Her stools is also runny. She has been out of school for the whole week. We brought her to 2 different GP but she did not get better.
Actually, the whole episode would have ended within 2-3 days if she is willing to eat her medicine. Phoebe has a phobia for medicine since she was a baby. We've tried coaxing her, reasoning, threatening and even wrestling just to get her to eat her medicine. We have to wrestle with her just to get 3ml of syrup into her mouth, out of which, 2ml will most probably be on our clothes and faces. To save us the trouble of fighting, we have always added her medicine into her milk. When she was younger, naively, she would finish all her milk. However, she has grown smarter by the day and can easily detect it from the taste of her milk. Hence, she will either refuse her milk or drink only half the amount. How to get better without medicine??!!
My parents thought that running a temperature for almost a week is too much a damage to a child's health. They suggested taking her to the paediatrician for a fever jab. I thought so too and if a jab can put the trouble away, why not? So last night, we brought Phoebe to KidsLink Children's Clinic in Compassvale Walk. Dr Vanessa Tan is a good paediatrician and I think she must be earning big bucks from us parents! I must psycho my children to study hard to be paediatricians next time!
Anyway, back to my recount, Dr Tan said that she does not administer fever jabs in her clinic. Only the hospitals do that. She gave Phoebe a new set of medicine. We wanted Phoebe to have her new set of medicine in the clinic before we go home. Once again, the taming of the 'shrew' starts! Everyone watches the show as we try to force feed Phoebe.
She kept saying, "No. Don't want. No need, thank you. Don't want, auntie. I don't want..."
I must have smelt like strawberry shortcake as Phoebe perfumed me using her mouth. Then one of the 'nurses' (or counter attendance? Whatever you call them) came to our rescue. She managed to coax Phoebe into eating her medicine, all FOUR TYPES! I was so happy that I would have hug her if no one was around! haha. So, according to Phoebe, her 4 bottles of medicine taste like orange, banana, peach and apple.
Actually, the whole episode would have ended within 2-3 days if she is willing to eat her medicine. Phoebe has a phobia for medicine since she was a baby. We've tried coaxing her, reasoning, threatening and even wrestling just to get her to eat her medicine. We have to wrestle with her just to get 3ml of syrup into her mouth, out of which, 2ml will most probably be on our clothes and faces. To save us the trouble of fighting, we have always added her medicine into her milk. When she was younger, naively, she would finish all her milk. However, she has grown smarter by the day and can easily detect it from the taste of her milk. Hence, she will either refuse her milk or drink only half the amount. How to get better without medicine??!!
My parents thought that running a temperature for almost a week is too much a damage to a child's health. They suggested taking her to the paediatrician for a fever jab. I thought so too and if a jab can put the trouble away, why not? So last night, we brought Phoebe to KidsLink Children's Clinic in Compassvale Walk. Dr Vanessa Tan is a good paediatrician and I think she must be earning big bucks from us parents! I must psycho my children to study hard to be paediatricians next time!
Anyway, back to my recount, Dr Tan said that she does not administer fever jabs in her clinic. Only the hospitals do that. She gave Phoebe a new set of medicine. We wanted Phoebe to have her new set of medicine in the clinic before we go home. Once again, the taming of the 'shrew' starts! Everyone watches the show as we try to force feed Phoebe.
She kept saying, "No. Don't want. No need, thank you. Don't want, auntie. I don't want..."
I must have smelt like strawberry shortcake as Phoebe perfumed me using her mouth. Then one of the 'nurses' (or counter attendance? Whatever you call them) came to our rescue. She managed to coax Phoebe into eating her medicine, all FOUR TYPES! I was so happy that I would have hug her if no one was around! haha. So, according to Phoebe, her 4 bottles of medicine taste like orange, banana, peach and apple.
Hopefully, tomorrow morning, she will eat her medicine more willingly. I will try the same method. Lots of prayer needed! :)
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Dash used to hate medicine too, until recently he saw his cousin drinking medicine like very nice like that, and he started to follow her saying "its time to drink honey..." and he just drank it directly. the cousin really saved us fr the troubles! hope phoebe will be able to overcome the fear for medicine too!
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