What a lazy day it is today. Just been informed that the meeting with the Big Boss is postponed and could happen only tomorrow. Expected. So, I'll blog then. Muahahaha.
For those who have been reading and are anticipating, we'll get to the story of Alyssa's diarrhoea without any further a-dos.
I was praying hard that the infant care will take Baby the following Monday when we were on the way there. Although I didn't have to tell them that she was still passing motion 5-6 times a day, I felt obliged to because 1) she'll still need lots of care for her condition, 2) the infant care should know the truth and decide for themselves if they would take Alyssa. Afterall, there are many other babies around and I wouldn't want to harm them. So, I told the truth and they didn't want to take her in, unless the doctor could certify that she was not infectious. Desperate, I ran to my car to retrieve my phone (and this was caught by my colleague who also send his kid to the same childcare, and commented to me that I could run very well after I returned to the office after many days of leave) so I could call Bindu for help. Bindu, helpful as usual, gave me numbers so I could call the doc myself. However, despite paging for him and calling his clinic so many bloody darn times, he neither return nor answered any of my calls. Baby and I waited excruciatingly at the infant care for that Doctor's call and self-entertained in the meantime.
She is really quite a brave baby. Although she was sick for so long, she remained a happy baby most of the time.
In addition to the painful wait for the doctor's call, I had to endure the endless questions from the infant care regarding why Baby was still like that, e.g. why the last time she saw the doctor was last Monday, why I didn't bring her to the doctor again, why the doctor didn't change her antibiotics because antibiotics could induce diarrhoea etc. I swear I could have killed someone if the questioning persisted. 1) I brought already brought her to 2 doctors who both told me her diarrhoea will persist for about a week or so and she's already taking all the medicine she could be taking so what's the point of taking her to another doctor? Besides, her condition did improve, albeit rather slowly. 2) How the hell can anyone tell if her diarrhoea was antibiotics induced?! Her diarrhoea started BEFORE she took the antibiotics. Besides, if she didn't finish the course of antibiotics, how on earth would anyone know if the medicine would work on her?! Seriously, someone, please tell me what's wrong with these people.
Anyway after some 45 minutes, the doctor finally decided to return my call. He did not say Alyssa was fit to go to school, but something along this line, "She should get well by about a week, but no one can guarantee, sometimes they take longer. Since she's still like that, I suggest we take her stool for testing again to determine if she's still infectious." WTF?! If only he had told me that when I asked Bindu to enquire about her condition on Saturday. I wouldn't have brought her to infant care, right? Anyway, if she was still infectious, he would probably start her on another course of antibiotics and we'll have to take care of her at home for another week. Crazy!!!
Faced with such situation, I called Desmond and we both decided to send her to KKH again. She could have whatever testing she needed there. Most importantly, we, especially me, were pissed with the doctor who shirked all of his responsibility on this matter. I have been calling him every couple of days to check if Baby's condition was normal and he always said it's ok as long as she's drinking and now, he can't be sure if she's alright unless she takes a stool test again? What rubbish this is, indeed.
As it turned out, this would be the first time in Baby's life that she is hospitalised, besides the day she was born, of course.
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