Today we had to take her back to the hospital, and thankfully the paediatrician was there. After we told him what the last few days had been like he glanced over her and admitted her for tonight.
It was then I had to go through the most horrible thing. They needed to put an intravenous (IV) line in to her small hand. We you can only imagine the commotion, screaming blue murder and Jason and Noot save me echoed out again and again.
She did settle down pretty quickly after the IV was in and the bandage on. Then there was a dose of medicine to settle her stomach and she nodded off to sleep for a quick nap.
It is amazing how much she has perked up in the last 6 hours, she is more active, talkative and just looking so much better. She still doesn’t want to eat, when her dinner came in and we tried to feed her, she kept spitting it out. She keeps asking for all the food she cannot have.
She is pretty happy as she has all her favourite cartons, Tom and Jerry Kids, Scooby Doo, Casper, Pluto to just name a few. I hope that she continues to make leaps and bounds and is home tomorrow and back to herself again.
I am home as I have a little bit to do, there has been things going on at school that involves me, some unhappy hierarchy who don’t seem to like people standing up for their rights. Asian culture expect people to be “yes” people and just conform no matter it being right or wrong, and being a foreigner it is virtually impossible to do this. Especially when you used to fight for the right of others for a union. I will go into this a lot more on a day soon to come, but now is not the time. To me it is a lot of smoke and some people seem to have a bee in their bonnet.
Anyway, life goes on and the most important thing now is my little girl. So I will be off as I am going back to the hospital to relieve Noot and she is coming home to get ready for 3 days of practice. She has to practice for 3 days on how to take her degree of a very important person. Why 3 days I have no idea as the ceremony is so impersonal and just like an assembly line but it is the way it is done here.
So until another day..
Brunty
P.S – Thanks to all the kind words from the people who dropped by, it is really appreciated.
8 comments:
hi Brunty. i have to ask, where are Ja's parents?
perhaps you should explain the process of receiving a degree in Thailand; otherwise it might be hard to understand what "how to take her degree of a very important person" means.
glad to see Ja is doing better. hope she is out of there soon.
Blessings to Nong Ja.
Hey Brunty,
This is Jon from Hawaii up here in Nakhon Phanom. I hear you about Thai people being only "yes" people and the hierarchy bull..... their different ways of thinking from Westerners. I was just talking about that with my friend and coworker here who is also a foreign teacher here.
Anyway, Ill be praying for your girls speedy recovery and congratulations on Noots graduation. Please keep us informed on the progress of your girl in the hospital.
Take Care,
Jon
The poor lass! Hope she is well enough to go home soon!
Brunty,
All my hopes for a quick recovery. Make sure she is able to take in fluids and solid food before they remove the IV.
Good to know that pediatricians are scarce in Isaan. Did not know that.
Mike
aloha brunty, had the same iv experience with my little daughter 3 years ago (kapiolani children's hospital in honolulu). her crying and screaming literally broke my heart. BUT she did get better and is fine now. all best to you and your little girl. pili mcgrath, maui
Cute girl, I hope she will be better soon.
Hi to all and thanks for dropping by and the kind words. She is virtually 100% and back to driving me crazy :) I am so happy.
MJ, I will email you privately as soon as I have time i the next few days and explain more my friend.
Ja's parents, one is here in Ubon working odd hours, her mum is in Singapore working.
Anon thanks very much
Jon, Yes, people are what Asian culture expects as the boss should always be right no matter what!
Thanks Jon for he kind words and she is so much better.
Smorg it was sad to see her so down, but she has hit back quickly so thanks for dropping by and the kind words.
Mike, they do exist but finding one that I can trust or consider reliable is hard. It doesn't help when they are dealing with teh most precious commodity on the earth.
Pili, the crying kills you, it must be so scary for such a young mind to comprehend what is going on and not really being able to express everything and communicate makes it worse.
Sewa, thanks for the kind words.
To all I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being so kind and though many of us have never met I consider you friends.
Take care to you all and again many thanks.
Brunty
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