Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Lousy weekend
We had a lousy lousy lousy weekend.
On Friday, I bought home a dripping nose from school. I had a slight fever too in the wee hours of the night. I refused to eat my meals (which is irritatingly happening more and more often nowadays). But that wasn't very worrying yet, as I continued to breastfeed, and was active as per usual.
On Saturday, mama and papa decided to leave me at Bukit Batok and get a short break away from me, as they have been tending to my needs day in day out for the past three weeks. They quietly left the house when I was taking my afternoon snooze. When I woke up and discovered what had happened, I was unconsolable! I repeatedly pointed to uncle Lewis to retrieve my carrier, which was hanging high above me with the wet laundry. Then in por por's words, I took my carrier and "stood at the door, crying non stop ... big fat drops of tears". I was whimpering by her side when mama called to check on me at 6pm. By 8pm though, por por had given up cos she couldn't get me to drink a single drop of milk, eat a single grain of rice, or even stomach a mouthful of banana. She decided to send me home to Dover. Poof goes mama and papa's day off!
On Sunday, I managed a few pathethic mouthfuls of
mee tai mak (my first real meal over many many days) for breakfast, and then period. That was how much I ate for the day. Because I ate so little, I couldn't get to nap properly, and because I couldn't nap properly, I was cranky the entire day. Mama fell sick on Sunday first, and then had to nap the day away. She got well by the wee hours of the night, but by then it was papa's turn to succumb to the bug. Mama was so happy when Monday came cos it was back to a work/school routine where it was now up to the teachers to worry about having to get me to nap, eat, bathe etc. Poor papa is still sick though. He hasn't been to work for the second day in a row already.