My Angels' World: March 2014

Monday, 31 March 2014

I Was Diagnosed Suspected Dengue Fever

On Monday (17 March) morning, I went to another clinic for consultation and told the doctor what had happened to me since Friday. She asked me to have a blood test immediately. I waited for about 10 minutes for the result. Dr informed me that my platelets (PLT) and white blood cells (WBC) had dropped from the normal range. My hematocrit (HCT) also gone up. Dr said she suspected it was a dengue fever but I had to come back tomorrow again for another blood test to see those three readings movement. She prescribed 4 different medicines to me and told me stop taking the previous medicines since there were not effective to help me recover. I was on medical leave again.

The medicines did not bring any good sign to my body. The temperature went up and down through out the day and night. I was suffering from the muscle aches and high temperature. My wife had to cancel her piano classes at night to look after our two princesses.

On Tuesday (18 Mar), I went back to the same clinic for another blood test. The result was not favored to me....my PLT and WBC continued to drop and HCT was going up. The doctor advised me to admit to a private hospital as government hospital would only let me to admit when my PLT dropped to 80 per micro liters. That time my PLT was 114 and the normal range should be between 150 to 400.

She wrote a referral letter to me to bring along to the hospital. I went home and informed my wife about this.

Next...

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Why Me ???

I started to feel uneasy on 14 March when I woke up in the morning but as usual, I left home to fetch Jing Xuan to nanny's house before headed to office. My body started to feel pain while in the office until I could not stand any longer after coming back from lunch. I went to company's panel clinic and told the doctor about my conditions. She prescribed me few medicines and let me on medical leave.

After taking the medicines, I slept through the whole afternoon but when I woke up later in the evening, body pain still did not subside. I continued taking the medicines, hoping that after one night, I would recover.Unfortunately, I did not have a good sleep through that night. My body temperature went up to 40 degree, I used an ice bag to cool down my body temperature.

Next morning (15 Mar), which was Saturday and also was my working day, I thought that since I only worked half-day, it was better to go as I could rest at home after work. I sent both daughters to nanny's house and went to office. Yet, my body conditions did not allow me to focus on my work, I left office about 9am and straight went back to the same clinic for consultation. It was a different doctor that morning. I told him my conditions and he measured my body temperature and the reading was 37.4 degree Celsius, which confirmed I was having fever. He prescribed me another different medicines, including antibiotics and advised me that if by Monday, my fever still did not subside, it was better for me to go for a blood test to check whether I was infected by dengue. He gave me a medical leave.

By afternoon on Saturday, my fever has gone down and the body pain was not that bad compared to morning. However, in the nigh time, the fever and body pain came back. It was a sleepless night for me. By Sunday morning, again the fever subsided but my body started to feel weak.

To continue....

Friday, 7 March 2014

Jing Han's Birthday

Time flies.....Jing Han is now 4 years old. When we asked her what cake she wanted for her birthday, she told us she wanted a Hello Kitty cake. So....we bought her what she likes...