Ramadhan Mubarak!

Ahlan Wa Sahlan Ya Ramadhan!! Can't believe it is already one year ago i met Ramadhan and now the Holy Month has come again and how I am very much looking forward to it this year, Insya-Allah...last Ramadhan was quite a challenge for me as Ridhwan had his fits again and it was at it worst..still remember me worrying every minute about his fits coming and going at that time...but as in the Quran "Verily, with hardships come relief..." and I so believe in that...as relief was seen soon after that in the form of his progress....

Anyway, may this Ramadhan be more fruitful, blessed and filled with lots of Ibadah to get the blessings of Allah..amin..Insya-Allah...I hope this year too I will get to perform tarawikh congregation sometimes too as most of the time I have been doing at home only ever since having Ridhwan....as they say, we plan but Allah decides what is best for us kan...wallahualam...

To all family, friends and muslims out there, may this Ramadhan be a blessed Ramadhan for all of you this year and may all our ibadah be accepted by the Almighty..amin..Insya-Allah...WELCOME RAMADHAN!! WELCOME!

Freaked myself out!

In my earlier post I know how I kept telling everyone about how scared I am with this H1N1 thingy out there..and yes...it still does scares me...and bringing Ridhwan around in crowded areas is something I am trying my best not to....but then there was the question of...should I bring him to his new brain development class then? ...hmm..and since we've already paid for a term...which is 3 months...to just forgo it would be...oh my, gone with the wind the money then??!!...so then me and hubby started thinking...are we too freaking out with this H1N1 right now...are we actually being good parents in protecting Ridhwan as much as we can from any exposure of even any flu by home quaratine him...good question ya?...

So this morning, my hubby told me to call up the center to see if they made any screening..called..no one answered...so okay, think I have called them way too early...hehee... then decided, okay sms to the principal then...but since my grandmother was warded into the HDU in Damansara Specialist Hospital..that's another story here..we decided to send my mom first to DSH then go to TwiddleWink to check out IF they have any screening..and so we dropped off my mom...rushed to Jalan Abg. Hj. Openg...and then we saw the principal and her lovely kids...then one by one saw Ridhwan's classmates pulak..and said to ourselves..."So how? They saw us already...go in? leave?...they seemed okay...not sick or anything..." ...and somehow, without us realising...or we did...I took Ridhwan and brought him to class! Oh god, am I a hypocrit now?! :( ....so since I went into class now with Ridhwan, I told hubby to talk to the principal and ask her if she plans to do any screening on the kids and how is she curbing or doing whatever with this H1N1 thingy going out...

So, one hour came and went by...I had fun in class...I think Ridhwan did too! ;) ..and after the class I asked hubby what was the principal's opinion in what hubby was going to ask...which was the temperature screening tests on children...and so this is what she said...she has asked Dr. Musa one of the best paeds around and a doctor in DSH and other paeds around too, and most of them say, this screening test is not going to make any difference anymore...this H1N1 is now locally transmitted and there is no way in determining if one has it by doing any temperature screening on them...so in short...no point doing any temp screening on the kids or the adults....hmmm...quite true also cause as it is, we don't see any of these anymore in the hospitals as now only I recalled that our neuro paed mentioned they too decided it was a waste of time as its already pandemic and these temp screening would make no difference anyway...hmmm... then the principal continued to tell my hubby an interesting yet very true point to him....she believes, that they are promoting and hoping to instill in parents and especially children that a happy child will always be a healthy child..and by them being happy, with gods will, they too Insya-Allah will be healthy....gosh..that is so true kan..I mean, its logic too in a way...cause look at us ourseleves...if we are happy, we feel good, our whole body works well and our systems just works at its best...but when sometimes we feel sad, upset, angry..then comes the back ache lah...sore throat lah...runny nose suddenly comes..and many more...true right? ...So today i was reminded again...how one can sometimes forgets and panics so easily at times ya....that anything that happens is god 's will...and we as humans really can't do anything much...BUT ....doa...yes...doa...that's the one powerful tool we must believe in kan...how could I let myself worry so much ya...oh well, I'm only human right, I do have my weaknesses....or maybe its that time of the month..darn it...oops..hehee...

So, today lessoned learned....yes, I may have panicked, thanks to that I sort of cancelled an outing that was planned ages for tomorrow..but then other circumstances associated to it can't be avoided....and so, one must always...I repeat ...always turn to Allah at times of worrying and distress....I may have gone a bit worried, more than usual...plus seeing the situation at the hospital....I think indirectly seeing the list by my paed made me lost it too! Hahhaa...and I guess the fear...yes, the fear of thinking how awful it was to be in the hospital for nearly a month last year still haunts me till today...hmm, haunt? is that a right word here....anyway, the fear lead me to be even more scared and be over protective towards my one son...my dear darling son....also, with addition to my husband's fear of H1N1 stories from close friends and family members....oh well, all that must have added into it ya.!...you see, I thought when you've been in and out of the hospital a lot of times, it should prepare you for the worst, right...well...I guess I am only human, cause truthfully it doesn't...but then, its all about faith isn't it...have faith that your child will always be protected and most of all...have faith Allah is always there with you...Insya-Allah

But, despite the short term panic me and hubby had...yes...hubby too panicked and freaked out! Hahhaaa....I will still try to avoid crowded areas at least for Ridhwan....cause he still needs to be protected someway in another...as best as I can kan...so, for that, just carry that extra adult and child mask in your handbag ....and that hand sanitizer too...you never know when you need it...and as they say....prevention is better cure...and I pray may Allah protects us all in this pandemic time...Insya-Allah....wallahualam....

H1N1...social distancing...

I wanted to write about this influenza yesterday but decided not to...but when I hear more and more cases are being reported in Malaysia and the fact that our paed also looked so haggard as her patients in the ward has come to more than 20..yes more than that probably as she showed me the list at her clinic yesterday...I wanted to count actually but was just too shocked to see the list as it is....so all I did was just asked her about it instead....

My dear friends, I think for those with small children and staying with your elders, it is about time to do social distancing...and that goes for me too! I remembered my mom complaining that she read in the newspaper and said after all these cases slowly rising now only they say to do social distancing..when initially they kept saying, don't worry, its okay, our country is handling it well...banyak lah handling well, my foot!! sorry for my language...From what I heard from my paed yesterday...SDMC or formerly known as SJMC has been chosen by the ministry as one of the hospitals to accept H1N1 cases on 17th July onwards as Sungai Buloh hospital could not accommodate the amount of cases coming in anymore...not only that....IMR and Sungai Buloh too could not do the tests as much as they wanted to as to determine if a patient does have H1N1 cause they could only do a maximum of 180 test per day...soooo, because of that, now only the health ministry is planning to purchase more machines to do the testing not just in the Klang Valley but in Johor, Melaka and so forth..and when did they suddenly decide this...ummm, after we have already reached 1000 cases!!!! So, it seems that last weekend there was a dialogue between the public and the ministry in SDMC..hmm..tak dengar lah pulak about that kan...and our paed told us that many, many questions were being throwned at the minsitry..hmm..wonder what were the answers lah ya!...but not only that, it shows too many are having flu these days ...as our paed said, the ER is so packed these days that at one time, she saw people and only people in the ER as people are coming to get themselves checked....now, isn't that scrarry!

Anyway, this pandemic is somewhat scarring me a little...correction...a lot today ....as when I went yesterday to SDMC for Ridhwan's follow up check up and to get his medications...the sight of the hospitals has definitely changed....2 weeks ago, the nurses/reception people at the clinic was happily smilling and entertaining us without wearing any mask and practically touching every little cute kid that came to the clinic...yesterday? ...everyone...I mean, nearly ALL hospital staffs were wearing a mask!! Especially the ones working at clinics...even nurses who is only on stand by shift at the clinics did not forget to wear one...scarry tak? ...not only that, the majority of the little children who came to the clinic was either coughing and sneezing...and I heard the nurse telling our paed, 'Semua nie datang pasal tak sihat doctor....' god was I panicking at that time!!....so told hubby to place Ridhwan far far away from anyone who seems to be sick or with a flu and I will only call him and Ridhwan when it was our turn..and so I too took out my ever ready mask in my handbag and wore it...yes, call me paranoid but I have a stash of adult and child mask in my handbag along with Dettol's hand sanitizer....yup, when you're a mom, you're a mom....heheee...also, one must always be prepared for the worse right....heck since school I was always the one who had everything, tissue lah, stapler lah, staples lah, everything lah...hehee...now that I am a mom, lagi lah the handbag is packed with other things...now my hubby knows why in the world I want a big handbag aje yea ;) hehehe....

Well, back to the story of the hospital...and our paed...and so I asked her are these children in the wards having H1N1...she said not all..only severe ones, cause most of them who has H1N1 are asked to go home for home quarantine as they can't afford for non-H1N1 patients to contract that flu pulak while in the hospital...hmm...there's a logic in that isn't it...but one thing that is worrying her...are the childrens...too many are having the flu, not H1N1 that is, of course some are..and those with seizures are getting even worse seizures where they are having non-stop seizures in them!! Hah!! Nauzubillah...for a mother who has gone through an awful episode last year where her child had seizures for nearly 3 weeks that came and go..to hear that news...that scares her very much...as she realises also, that special needs children somehow has low immunity due to their condition...so in conclusion...Ridhwan is strictly staying at home from now on!!! Call me an over protectice mother...getting paranoid for no reason...but seeing that list of patients in the ward at SDMC..and mind you, that is only under our neuro paed...god knows, how other doctors in that hospitals have how many patients under them! ....for that I think it is best for me to share this info that I have learned yesterday and call out to all mothers and parents out there...despite what the news are telling us...or the media are telling I think it is no harm in taking extra extra precautions to ensure the safety of our children....I know, you have just gotta watch that movie, you promised them..you always wanted to eat in that restaurant with them all this while...you miss bringing them to the park and let them play their hearts out...but think...is their health...is their life means so little to us that we keep closing our eyes and do our normal routine and ignore the ongoing increase in the number of cases and the deaths that is somehow affecting more of the young ones....the children...

Thus, lets try to be patient ..and that goes to me too you know! ...and sort of home quarantine our child and probably us in these hard times for the benefit of our children and us too...when you have seen your child in and out of the hospital so often, trust me...no mother should endure that and should want to go that...these little children needs us to guide them and protect them...let us be those mothers and parents ya...Insya-Allah...