a spoonful of sugar
3 03 2007it’s been a trying week for me personally.. counting down the number of days til i hv to get back to the humdrum of working life (it’s now week 4 of my confinement).. ack!!! that alone already caused a mild case of depression..
then kakak got the case of ketumbit (what’s the english term for this arh?)… so the doc prescribed her some antibiotics and ointment for her affected eye.
the day after her visit to the gp’s, she came home from school with high fever.. apparently she had ulcers in her throat and also a mild case of sniffles … so the doc added on to the prescription another 3 more medicine and ointment.
so i got me my first experience of actually handling 2 kids - amir was on graveyard duty at that time - alhamdulillah all was ok… kakak responded well to her medication and anaqi was on his bestest behavior.
then i ended up with my own case of sore throat and what felt like the beginning of a fever… aiyahhh… was tempted to just self-medicate and down the paracetamol already available and also get me some strepsils.. only stopped myself when i remembered i was breastfeeding and shouldn’t be so reckless.
so for the past week, every mealtime i keep the line ‘just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down… the medicine go down… the medicine go down…’ kept playing in my head as it is quite a challenge to convince kakak to take her medication.
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