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Friday, October 19, 2007

My brave boy

Not sure what Randall has been eating, but he suddenly let out a pathetic and painful cry in his car seat last night while we were on our way home. After a good 5 minute of showing distress, he then said he was "ok already". We thought he might have bitten his tongue or something but we couldn't find out the reason. And then in the middle of his sleep, he woke up a few times, crying and also trying to vomit but nothing came out. We were so worried we had to rush him to Mount Alvernia 24-hour clinic. The doctor diagnosed that he might be suffering from indigestion or wind in his tummy as it looked bloated. When the nurse told us she had to insert a bullet-size medication up Randall's ass for quick relieve of wind in his tummy, we were pretty worried. I recalled the first time he had that, he was barely a year old and he was suffering from constipation. It was a bad experience as he was really wailing and practically crying the clinic down. Before the insertion, the nurse asked if he'd cry, and I was equally doubtful. I sat him on the patient's bed, and tried to explain to him what was coming up. “Randall, the nurse is going to put the medicine up your butt butt ok? So your tummy won’t be pain pain after that, ok?” Then the nurse showed him the bullet-size medicine. After that, we waited awhile for his response but he didn't seem to have any reaction. So I thought we would just get it over and done with. I turned around to ask the nurse how I should position him for the insertion. Before I could finish my question, Randall just got himself into position! He went on his fours and then, titled his bum towards the ceiling! Hahah… How did he what to do, we wondered. And throughout the insertion process, he didn't even utter a word. He just kept still in the position til the whole thing was over and we told him that it's done. The nurses were so amazed and at the same time amused they kept praising him for being the most cooperative patient ever! Actually, I was amazed by his behaviour too.. ;) The nurse asked him if it was painful, after the insertion. He replied bravely, “No!” Haha… so proud of him.. :D Well, after the medication, he slept through the night from 2am to 7+am. Then this morning, we brought him to see his pedae but his pedae diagnosed that he was having sore throat.. Oh well...

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