my little patient

it's almost 6pm as i write this, and i can now look at my little patient with a smile who looks so peaceful in the hospital bed, getting that much-needed sleep and rest. the doctor said he can go home tomorrow morning. thank God! overnight his fever didn't recur anymore and various tests revealed positive results. i mean negative for dengue, typhoid etc. whatever viral illness had hit him that lowered his immune system, haay basta viral daw and uso sa kids these days.

it was just yesterday when he had the most difficult time as the pediatric resident doctors tried to extract blood from him for the third time, the last one was thursday night, when he was first given a CBC test. grabe the retaliation he showed! doctors said he has the making of a good lawyer. no one can beat his verbal delaying tactics and no amount of pambobola can convince him. one of the resident doctors told him she would just apply a magic ointment in his arm, and he kept saying: "i want to see it first" so i told the doctor to just show him something parang props lang. haay grabe! still it didn't work. and he kept screaming, "mom i'm scared, let's go home!" everytime, i'd say "di ba you're a brave boy?" he'd go: "no, not anymore!" hehe whose kid isn't afraid of injection? and that time, they had to extract at least 20 cc of blood because of multiple tests that had to be done.

haay my heart was bleeding, if only i could just be the one to undergo all those stuffs. i'd take all needles for him. thanks to ninong jillmer who visited just in time for this "ordeal." raph requested: "ninong will hold my hand and mommy will hug me"...until the whole process is over! afterwhich, raph said that he doesn't want to be a doctor anymore because he's afraid of blood. he's contemplating on becoming a lawyer after hearing it from the doctors hehe...

this is the first time he was ever confined in the hospital. first he had fever and next thing he was already vomitting. it happened after we watched HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL ON ICE last sunday, but in the previous days he had already on & off fever that's why i brought him already to the ER last thursday as out-patient. he was immediately sent home after his fever has subsided and CBC test showed negative for dengue. grabe i was so worried! especially that his dadu was still in cebu that time. and scary talaga 'cause dengue is fatal.

but yesterday...haay, kakatuwa! when i stayed beside him the whole day and didn't attend my taping anymore, he said happily: "sarap talaga ng may mommy, look gumagaling nako!" aaaaawww! sweet! and he would request for occasional kisses and hugs from me.

now that his health has improved...we're finally heading home after 4 days here at st.luke's...and hope not to be back here again for whatever illness. yes he has a health card but it's not something you would wish to use even if you pay a large sum for it.