He has a cold again!

Started with just a cough to clear his phlegm on Tuesday morning. I knew that might be an indication that he's caught a cold, but it was just once so maybe I was wrong.

Tuesday midnight, he woke trying to cough out the phlegm but was too difficult. He couldn't cough it out. Must have been scary for him to be unable to breathe from nose. Ended up repeatedly vomitting non-stop for a few minutes. Pacifying him by carrying & rocking him, putting on his sleeping music didnt work. His dinner & milk ended up on my pyjamas, bedroom floor, kitchen floor... Usually bringing him to the garden to see the moon or stars would stop him. But it didnt work this time. His vomitting was like going on auto-pilot.

The fail safe method was to take a drive. So we did. In the middle of the night. No particular destination in mind. Ended up in Sunway after 30mins. His eyes still wide open. Hmm...usually he'd be fast asleep within 30mins. Headed home. Still not asleep. Took wrong turn. Ended up on highway to Cheras. Turned off to Taman Desa, then to Old Klang Road, then home. Sigh. By then I was wide awake.

Got home after 1 hr driving. Put on his sleeping music & helper rocked him to sleep while I cleaned up a bit. Restless sleep the rest of the night. Decided must see his peaditrician.

This morning, waited TWO hours to see his Dr! Many patients, mostly already with appointments whereas I was a walk-in, so had to wait...and wait...and wait. Lots of young babies there waiting. Some new borns.

Dr says it's upper respiratory tract infection. Not wheezing like he was in July. Phew. I didnt want to take chances this time, so went early to start on nebuliser, cos fearful of H1N1 attack if turns into pneumonia. He's already in the high risk group, being under 5 yrs old. Dr gave anti-histamine & nose drops to dry up mucus. Started nebuliser, 2x daily. If worsen, 3x daily.

Praying it doesn't worsen. Praying for fast & complete recovery. Praying he doesnt catch new virus from hospital while there for nebuliser.

He didnt cry or fuss at A&E when doing the nebuliser. That's good la. His toy cars occupied him. We knew what to do based on experience, so had brought toy cars along.