24 September 2009

Last night was probably the worst suffering I experienced from my chicken pox. I left the hospital around 8.30 arrived in Pasir Mas half an hour later to spend the night there. But first I got to find a barber's shop that's open. My head is so itchy, I just can't take it anymore especially with my long hair. It took me 8 months to grow my hair this long but tonight it has got to go. Besides, I can always grow my hair back next year.

Finding a barber's shop that's open at night in a small town like Pasir Mas is no easy fit. But thankfully I found one along Jalan Hospital. It was a small but air-conditioned shop run by a one man show, probably a bachelor from the look of things. He greeted me warmly and had no qualms about giving my head a shave in spite of my illness. Yes it hurts like hell when he accidentally shaved over my wounds but I just gritted my teeth and let him finish. Half an hour and 6 ringgit later I was as bald as I was last year.

At home I took a cold and long shower (no water heater here) and my grandma helped to rub some calamine lotion all over my body. Then I quickly went to bed. That's when my suffering started.

1 o'clock I woke up because my head and my back felt so terribly itchy. I went down, took my pain killers and went to bed again. 2 o'clock I got up again and my body is burning hot. So I took my last 2 tablets of paracetamols that I had and tried to sleep again but I simply can't. The room felt so cold but my body felt like an oven. And the itchiness just add more to my sufferings. I managed to get some shut eye around 4 o'clock but woke up an hour later for the same reason as above. In the end I just sit there writhing painfully alone in my bed with no one to help. I wanted so much to scratch my skin but I know it will only make matters worse. Only after 6 o'clock I managed to get my grandma to rub some lotion all over my body again.

I tell you ar, this chicken pox disease is right up there with cancer, accident and H1N1 in the pain department. I wish I don't have to suffer like this ever again.

Adam is no better than me and today he had a really high temperature and the pox marks had spread all over his body. How I wish this illness would end soon.

And I just found out the calamine lotion won't do much help to reduce the pox marks but it will help to create a cool, soothing effect around the affected area. I guess a little soothing placebo effect is better than nothing.

23 September 2009

Yesterday took Adam to a clinic in Pasir Mas, some 30 kilometers away from Tanah Merah to get his chicken pox condition checked. All the but one CIMB & PMCare panel clinics in Tanah Merah refused to admit Adam for some strange reason and the only one that's available, the doctor is away. So we had no choice but to travel all the way to Pasir Mas to find a lousy panel clinic.

We went to Nik Azam clinic, this one quite well known for their dermatology expert. They gave Adam some medications to take and rub and then we went home. Last night though, Adam had this serious allergy like reaction with his skin. He kept on scratching and coughing like crazy until he threw up everything that he ate yesterday.

So today we brought Adam to that panel clinic again in Pasir Mas and got a referral letter for Adam to be admitted to a hospital. 2 hours later Adam was admitted to the KPJ Perdana Specialist Hospital in Kota Bharu. His body was so itchy and he had a really high temperature.

Linda and her mom will be keeping Adam company tonight. I returned to Pasir Mas to spent the night at my grandma's place. My chicken pox had already spread to my entire body and I look absolutely hideous. My face looks like the surface of the moon. And my head is so itchy, I had to shave my head just now so that I can rub some lotion on it.

21 September 2009

I thought I just had a regular headache and fever from fatigue. And then suddenly I see little boils all over my body. After my wife it looks like I also got the dreaded CHICKEN POX! I suspect I got it from Mia because I hardly touched my wife these past few days. Headache, fever and my joints and muscles hurt so bad. And all the clinics in this state won't open until tomorrow.

More bad news. My eldest, Adam Farihin got it too. It's gonna be a long-long holiday this Raya.

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20 September 2009

This Eid-ul Fitr, I lost 5 kilos from fasting, grew hair and looked really good in my Raya dress. My body however has started to suffer from yesterday long and tiring journey. We started off around 3:30 AM and didn't arrive until 11 hours later. My body aches all over so does my head. Even after sleeping early last night and another round of sleep later this afternoon I am feeling so very tired. Next year, I simply cannot do this again. Go back a day before Raya.

All last week my daughter Mia suffered from a serious chicken pox breakout. She was even warded for 5 days at the hospital because of it. Thankfully the scars on her face was not very visible by Hari Raya. What most people doesn't know is, it is my wife's turn to be contracted by the disease. She started to show signs of the illness yesterday and today it's all but confirmed that she has chicken pox also. Poor thing. I hope neither Adam or me get the disease as well.

12 September 2009

They put her in an isolation room on the 5th floor of the KPJ Kajang Specialist hospital. This room costs a cool 200 ringgit per day and Linda's health benefits will only cover up to RM160 so we had to top up the remaining cost. Now would be a really good time to get a bonus from my employer.

My Mom came to visit Mia later this afternoon. Adam and I spent the night at her place last night because there was a water cut at my area yesterday.

Mia is still her unusual self. She's so quiet and passive and she always make her mother carry her around and refuses to lay on the bed. They put her on IV drip because she's so weak from not eating much these past few days.

I have an assignment to finish and 4 papers to sit for my mid term exam tomorrow. I barely read anything because Mia kept us awake all last week And I've got like this evening to finish them all. Sigh.