After a nerve-wracking and anxiety-filled day at the hospital with Cass yesterday and fasting along with her for 13 hours, I lost almost 1 kg, as shown on my scale this morning:
42.1 kg, which is by far my lowest weight! Cass is just 1kg away from catching up with me!
When we were at the Radiology Department ward, a chubby and cute 6-year old Malay girl with Cancer and her dad were next to Cass' bed. From the Day Care Ward right up to the Radiology ward, her dad had been trying to cajole her to guzzle down a red-colored sedation syrup from her milk bottle. But she just wouldn't drink it and was bawling away. At the Radiology ward, her dad was still trying to cajole her to drink the sedation syrup but she kept bawling whilst complaining that the syrup tasted bad, hurt her throat and she wanted to "muntah" (vomit). The girl kept calling out to her mummy. When her dad made a video call to her mummy, being able to see and talk to her mummy and baby brother cheered her up. When the video call ended, daddy again tried to coax her to drink the sedation syrup. About half an hour of coaxing later, the girl drank a pathetic amount of sedation syrup from her bottle only to puke out everything onto the bed! O.M.G.!! The frustration that overwhelmed her poor daddy! That scene looked really familiar and the experiences I had with Cass when she was a baby felt so raw. I wanted to help the man but the nurse quickly came to his rescue.
Shortly after the little girl threw up, daddy and a nurse tried cajoling her again to drink the red sedation syrup. The nurse did a great job and the little girl guzzled quite a bit of it but it ended with the same fate. This time she puked and retched till nothing was left. Finally, everyone gave up on the sedation syrup and brought the girl straight into the room for the CT Scan and within 15 minutes, all went well and she came out without a fuss! That's the reason why I made the decision for Cass not to be sedated for an MRI when she was 6 years old. From young, she's never been easy on drinking medicated syrup. There were countless of puke incidents resulting from force feeding her with medicated syrup. All I did was to explain to her why she had to remain still for the MRI and she obediently listened. She was also matured in her thinking for her age after going through umpteen invasive procedures since birth.
From the time Cass was a 6-week old infant till she was 13 months old, I have had a tough time feeding her prophylactic antibiotics on a daily basis. Those days were tough and bitter and I had to find novel ways of feeding her the antibiotics everyday! I remember hubs and I had to cajole Cass who was about 2 or 3 years old, to drink some sedation syrup before a MAG 3 scan of her kidneys. She was just like the 6-year old girl today and after an hour of coaxing her, we resorted to buying an ice-cream and rewarded her with a few licks of ice-cream before she knocked off for the scan.
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