Hi all,
Last month, my baby was sick and the doctor confirmed it was RSV virus. He was admitted at PCMC after his third visit as outpatient and at the same time my baby started to have difficulties in breathing. To me and hubs, that was the scariest moment seeing our little one crying, turning into blue and of course the high fever of more than 40deg.
What is RSV?
I also have no idea how severe this RSV thing is. The doctor mentioned that this virus can easily spread through airborne. I believe someone must had sneeze or cough near him. Doctor even mentioned that us, the parents probably will get infected too since we're spending the whole 24hr taking care of him. To cure, will take roughly at least a month. And today, my little one is 90% recovered.
It started with a fever. I was feeling a bit unwell that night and thought that it was just a fever and realize my that my baby has a high fever too. Since we're at a convocation fest a week before, so gave me a thought maybe we are just tired. We went to hospital the next day and doctor decided to do blood test to mommy first. Well they probably thought too if I may having dengue fever, but the result came out negative. Took the medicine home and thinking that we both will be okay.
Funny, my little one only fall sick once when he was around 3 months old and he recovers from it on the second day. But this time around, my baby started to have cough and flu. Well, now we don't have any medication for that,so went again to the hospital. Took nabulizer and back home with another bag of medicine.
A day before Raya Hajj, my baby started to have difficulties in breathing. Oh god. We took him to the hospital immediately. The Malay doctor suggested to do blood test and nose swab test. After an hour there, and it's almost midnight the doctor called my husband in and explain to him about our baby condition. He mentioned that he got infected by this RSV and need further care in the hospital as his temperature started to go hiking up plus on top of that he has cough and flu too that causing him to difficulties in breathing.
No Raya Hajj for our little family.
His paed was on leave for international vacation. And only be back a day after.
My mom flew all the way from Sabah after seeing a picture of my baby. It was one of toughest night me and my husband went thru. And of course the scariest one. He's turning blue and we started to put ice pack at his back to reduce his temperature. At the hospital, my baby had few session physio to loosen up his phlegm.He also had every 6 hours session of nabulizer and of course a pack of drip that didn't seems to work out on him.
After 5 days in hospital, we finally discharged. Yay! But with lotsa advice from the doctor. We still need to monitor for at least one month until my baby is fully recover. Yup, it's real truth!
Total cost at PCMC is around RM4k. And we only pay RM70 for non-claimable item such as extra tissue boxes, tempat muntah, new padding for my baby bed and bed sheet. All thanks to our insurance.
P/S: mommy started to fall sick after that and warded at the extend where I started to lose my hearing. To be continue till next post!
xx
mommy nfs
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