Trip to Bukit Tinggi

We went for a 2 days 1 night stay at Colmar Tropicale Bukit Tinggi Resort during the last Hari Raya holiday. It took us about 6 hours to reach there. Nothing much about the resort... We just visited the Botanical Garden and the Japanese Tea House. We missed out the Rabbit Farm as we were rushing to KL to see doctor (Samuel was having fever).

Samuel looked so tired in the last picture, and he got sick the next day.

It was not a very pleasant trip...

Hospitalized

Samuel was hospitalized for 5 days due to urinary tract infection. It was a painful experience...

It was Hari Raya holiday and we went to Bukit Tinggi, Colma Tropicale Resort to stay for 2 days 1 night (19 Sep-20 Sep). We then went to KL on 20 Sep to visit my uncle in Klang. We planned to go Setiawan with him the next day and headed home to Kulim after staying one night in Setiawan. But when we were on our way to Klang, Samuel had a mild fever, around 38 degree. My uncle brought us to a clinic nearby his house to see doctor as soon as we reached Klang. As it was Sunday, and also the first day of Hari Raya, most of the specialist clinics were closed. The doctor said it was only mild fever, so he gave us some medicine for the fever, some antibiotics and flu medicine.

Samuel's fever come and go... but got worse around 1am (39.5 degree) and he started vomiting. I could not feed him milk and the medicine. We brought him to see doctor again around 2am. The doctor said Samuel need to be admitted to the hospital. As we were not familiar with Klang area, we decided to went home to ask for my uncle's help. We all thought that maybe because he didn't take medicine, that's why his fever never went down. My aunt helped me to feed Samuel the medicine and wipe Samuel's hands and legs with wet cloth. His temperature went down after 1 hour and he went back to sleep, that was about 5am. We thought he was fine and went back to sleep.

Samuel's had fever again at 9am as we were getting ready to drive back to Kulim. We brought him to the same doctor first before we headed home. The nurse inserted the medicine from Samuel's backside. Samuel's temperature went back to normal after 30minuted and we quickly drove back to Kulim. We reached home around 3pm, and we managed to give him medicine during the way back so his temperature was normal when we reached home. At around 6pm, Samuel poo poo in his diaper. As I opened his diaper, Hubby and I saw red color in his diaper. Hubby was pretty sure it was blood. I was scare and could not say a thing... We immediately got up, changed our clothes and drove to Bagan Specialist Center in Butterworth. We reached there around 7pm and admitted to the ward around 7:30pm. The nurse said the on call doctor would only come around 9pm. So we waited... But we waited until 10:30pm and the doctor still never show up. We were really angry and discharged from the hospital. We went home as we saw that Samuel's diaper was clear with no blood stain and his fever had gone. However, when Hubby called his colleagues and asked them which hospital in Penang is better as we planned to bring Samuel to the hospital the next morning.

At 1am, 22 Sep... I woke up to check on Samuel and he was REALLY warm... I took his temperature and it was 40degree. We rushed him to the Island Hospital in Penang. He was admitted to the hospital, under Dr. Koh Chung Tuan. Doctor did the urine test and blood test on Samuel... As Samuel kept vomiting and never take milk, he was on drip. Bacteria was found in Samuel's urine and it was infection. He was given antibiotics immediately that morning. Doctor said he need to be warded for 5 days, 1 antibiotics each day...

Samuel had no more fever after day 2 but he was on drip for 2 days. They removed the drip on the 3rd day but they kept the needle head, that's where they injected the antibiotics into Samuel's blood stream. I will never forget how Samuel screamed in pain whenever the nurse gave him injection... It was so heart breaking.... Changing diapers for Samuel during that time was so difficult for me. I was so scared to open his diaper... The red color blood on the diapers made me felt uncomfortable... I kept asking the nurse when his urine would turn clear, as he already started taking antibiotics. No exact answer on when... they just asked me to be patient... No one know how I felt that time... I was so helpless...

It was not easy and I nearly collapsed... Luckily my sister, Christine was here to help me. She flew from Kuching to Penang the second day. Hubby had to go back to work on 24 Sep. If not Christine, I had to take care of Samuel alone in the hospital... and I was very sure that I was unable to do that. Thank you, my dear sister...

Samuel's urine turned clean on the 4th day and he had his ultra sound scan to check on his kidneys. His left kidney a bit swollen due to the infection. He's back home now. No more fever and his urine is clear now but still on medication. We need to bring him back on Wednesday for check up.

Please pray for my little baby Samuel, so that he recover soon...

Here are some informations about infant urinary tract infection:

(Adopted from Baby Center)

a) Symptoms

• Crying or another indication that urination is painful

• Odd-smelling urine

• Cloudy or bloody urine

• Unexplained, persistent irritability

• Vomiting

• Fever

• Refusal to eat

b) Prevention

• Be sure your baby gets plenty of fluids. Drinking more make your baby urinate more frequently, flushing out her urinary tract.

• If your baby has started solids, offer her plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

• If you're breastfeeding, continue until your baby is at least 7 months old, if possible. Studies have shown that nursing for this long may protect against UTIs — and that the benefit persists, even after weaning, for up to two years.

• If your baby is a girl, avoid irritating her genitals with harsh soaps and bubble baths. And wipe from front to back when you change her diaper, to minimize the bacteria in the area.

10 months old

Oh! Mummy's little prince is 10 months old la... haha...

Samuel is such a cutey and honey pie to Daddy and Mummy. Everyday, no matter how tired and frustrated Daddy was at work, but when he sees Samuel when he comes home, he will forget all about it... Samuel on the other hand, will greet Daddy with his widest smile, showing out his 4 and a half teeth, whenever he sees Daddy stepping in from the main door.

"Samuel honey, you are always be Daddy and Mummy's little sunshine."

Samuel calling ma ma

Samuel going to be 10 months old in 9 more days... Two days ago, I heard him called "Ma Ma" for the first time. I could not explain how I fell that time... happy.... excited... proud??!!

He was in the play pen, playing on his own and I was washing something in the bathroom. Then I heard him yelling, or more like complaining. Maybe he was tired and bored already and wanna got out from the play pen. I came out from the bathroom and when he saw me he called," Ma Ma... Ma Ma... " I was so touches and grabbed him out from the playpen, hugged him in my arms and answered him back," Yes, my little baby? Ma Ma is here."

I'm not sure he knows the meaning of "Ma Ma" or not, or maybe he just simply make some sound. Anyway, I am still happy and whenever he calls, I will response to him. He soon will know, "Ma Ma" mean mother... right? :)

It's the greatest sound on earth I ever heard...

Trip to Cameron Highlands

We went for a 2D1N trip to Cameron Highlands last week. It was quite last minute as Hubby didn't know that last Monday was a holiday (National Day), until his colleague told him. Luckily we manage to book a hotel 2 days before the trip. We searched online for some information about places of interest and "must-eat" food in Cameron before we went. The most important is to get the map downloaded to Hubby's GPS. We left home on Saturday 6:30am in the morning. Samuel was still sleeping when I put him into the car. He woke up around 9am, but he still look sleepy...

The winding road to Cameron really made me sick. I felt like throwing out but there was nothing for me to throw out, as we didn't have breakfast. We reached Brinchang Town around 10am. We went to the hotel first to check in, but we could not check in until 1pm. So we went for breakfast at KFC. haha... cos we thought that was the fastest as we were starving. Samuel was really excited when we put him onto the baby chair at KFC... he was staring out to the window and making all kind of sound.

We stayed in Bala's Holiday Chalet, as it's super peak season, the room rate is RM300 per night. The room was ok, but we had to climb up lots of stair case in order to come to the room, it was really tiring... However we like the environment, quiet and peaceful. When I first went into the room, I found no air-con and the room was quite stuffy at first. We didn't want to open the window as there's no mosquito net. I was scared that bugs would fly into our room at night. But we did open the window and sleep that night, no bug came in and it was super cold!

We went to the local market on the first day. The vegetables, strawberry and flowers were so cheap over there. We just bought some strawberry on the first day (2 big packet for RM10 and get 1 small packet for free). We came back here again the next day to get some vegetables and roses before went home. I bought more than 13 packs of vege (11 types) for RM20 and Hubby bought some roses for me, I didn't count how many of them, but I heard the florist colling our," 100 for RM20".... Hubby said he didn't want to get 100 for me as there was no more place in the car... what a lousy excuse!

We visited the Boh Tea Plantation on the second day. The view was really magnificent. We sat at the tea house, had a cup of tea and an apple pie. Hubby had a cup of Jasmine Boh Tea and I had the Passion Fruit Orange flavoured Boh tea. Looking at the green green scenery, with a cup of warm tea in your hands and feeling the cold breeze at the same time... oooo.... it was so relaxing...

Before we went for dinner, we went to this cafe, Strawberry Moment for some strawberry treat. The cafe was highly recommended by Hubby's colleague. We simply ordered a few to try and there were all very delicious!! The strawberries were really fresh and sweet!

 We had steam boat for dinner! RM16 per person, including drinks, quite cheap. It was really cold when we were having our dinner as it was raining. So it was quite comforting having steamboat when the weather is cold... :)

We checked out around 9am the next morning. We went to the market to get some vege, went for breakfast, then we headed back home around 12 noon and reached home around 5:30pm. We had "char kueh teaw" for dinner. We were tired, so did Samuel... but it was sure a great weekend... :)

Draron-i Restaurant

Restaurant Name: Dragon-i , 笼的传人

Serving: Ramen (拉面) and other great Chinese food

Location: Quessnbay Mall, Penang

Date: 16 Aug 2009

People: Hubby, Samuel, Christabel and me

Remark: The food that we ordered was REAAAAAAAALY GOOOOOOOOD! Plan to go there again this coming weekend... Still a lot of different types of ramen that we haven't try... :)