It has been crazy for the past 3 weeks. First my hubby had to go on a 1 week business trip to KL, then after that it was Ee's birthday celebration and then Ee was just hospitalized last week due to tummy problems. Sigh I am so physically drained now...

It had been a long time since we've brought the kids to the beach. When hubby was outstationed, sis and I brought the kids to the beach on one Saturday. They really enjoyed themselves very much and if it's not for the sudden downpour, they would have very much stayed at the beach for a long long time!

After the trip to the beach with sis and the kids, I urged hubby to bring them to the beach again. A part of me was quite sad that we might not be able to do so once the baby arrives and to me, every weekend is so so precious and I just wanna spend as much time with them as possible. When the baby comes along, we won't be as mobile for the first few months. They really had a good time with daddy on the beach!

Finally Ee is TWO!!! What a milestone for him and me :) I can still remember the day he was born and how he turned our lives upside down for the first few months, and then sticking to me for breastmilk and suddenly he was all grown up, fully weaned off and ready to go to school next year! Although his speech is a little slow, he can express himself quite clearly to me now (Erm, only I understand what he wants LOL). He especially enjoyed himself with the Karaoke system at the dinner restaurant and was singing along with the mic and all!

After Ee's birthday celebration, I was so much looking forward to my own birthday celebration on 4th Oct, and thought I could have a nice quiet dinner with hubby on that day and then patiently wait for the arrival of the baby anytime soon.

3rd Oct evening, I had a sudden onset of contractions from 6pm and lasted through to about 11pm at night. I thought the time had finally came and told hubby I needed to rest and laid in bed at night to ease and time the contractions. The last I timed was still about 10 mins apart and coming in not in very regular intervals. Anyway I managed to fall asleep at about 11pm+ after the kids were asleep.

At 4am in the morning Ee came into my room crying and I thought it was just another episode of night terror and didn't think much but carried him back to his bed and laid down on the mattress beside him. He didn't settle in to sleep immediately like he usually does, and instead continued to whine and toss and turn in pain and keeps crying. I sensed something wrong and sat up to take a closer look at him and was shocked to see that he was screaming in pain, cuddling himself on the bed and crunching down holding on to his tummy. I didn't know what to do as I couldn't carry him due to his weight and my big pregnant tummy and went to wake hubby up. Hubby came carried him and tried to calm him down but it didn't seemed to help one bit. Hao by this time was half awaken by all these commotion. I panicked and ask hubby what should we do as I've never seen my kids behaving this way and I am very sure something is very wrong with Ee. Hundreds of possibilities cross my mind but I was feeling helpless at the same time, didn't know what to do next. Hubby calmly told me that we should bring Ee to CGH and have a look and see what's happening to him and I quickly packed some things and hauled Hao out of bed, apologising to him and explaining that we need to bring his brother to see the doctor for his tummyache. Hao was very understanding and didn't fuss much and quickly climbed out of bed, asking if my baby was hurting me in my tummy and if I was the one who needed to see the doctor. I hurriedly told him again it was Ee and not mummy or baby and we should move fast.

We hurried into the car and rushed to CGH. Luckily for us, it was only a less than 5 mins drive and the A&E was almost empty when I carried Ee, half running, in there. Throughout the whole journey he continued to scream and kick and the nurses were quite alarmed when we ran into there. I quickly explained to the nurse what happened while she entered the details into the computer system and proceed to assign the doctors to see Ee. By then hubby had to take Ee over from me as I was not able to carry a screaming and kicking Ee for long and we hurried into the observation room for the doctor to examined him. It was unfortunate that Hao and I was not able to stayed with Ee throughout the examination as it the room is too crowded and they didn't want another child to be in the room experiencing the trauma of his own brother being examined. I had no choice but lead Hao out of the room to the waiting area and quickly called my dad at home, knowing that he won't be sleeping yet as he just got off work. I explained the situation to him and asked if he could come to CGH and pick up Hao over to his place to stay for the night just in case Ee needs to be admitted. He hurried over and took Hao over to his place so we could focus on Ee.

An X-ray was arranged for Ee and me being pregnant, was not able to be with him again and I could only wait and wait outside, crossing my fingers and praying that all will be fine. According to hubby, Ee behaved really well during the X-ray and didn't need to be pinned down the table and just let the nurse do her job. Results came out and doctor concluded that his tummy seemed a bit bloated and suspected it to be Intussusception, where the small intestine is being sucked into the big intestine causing spasm and pain in the tummy. He explained that there's no children specialist in CGH and told us to bring him to KKH and wrote us a referral letter to be transferred there immediately. By then Ee seemed to have calmed down and no longer in acute pain and was seemingly drifting off back to sleep after the 1 hour ordeal. Hubby and I decided that we should proceed to KKH and made our way there.

It was the same quietness in KKH and we quickly registered and explained to the nurse what happened and proceed to see the doc on duty. The doc examined Ee and then just coincidentally another episode of spasm and pain recurred and the doc managed to see Ee "in action" with the screaming and kicking in pain and she told us the same suspicions as the doc in CGH and told us that Ee should be admitted for ultrasound and observation. All tired out, we proceed to admit him into KKH and I called my parents to let them know of the progress so they won't be so worried.

After all the hassle, Ee seemed to have recovered and didn't showed a bit of pain after that while in the ward. The doc there explained that she will have to insert a needle into his veins in prepare for the drip for him. As they proceeded to the next room, with my hubby carrying Ee, for the insertion, I could hear the screaming and crying from Ee begging them not to do it as it's really painful. I could do nothing but sit there and cried, feeling so heartpain. All I wanted to do was to hug him and say it's going to be ok but I couldn't do anything of that. After the ordeal, he was totally tired out and drifted back to sleep in his little cot. After an hour or so, while he was sleeping soundly in his cot, we had to dragged him up from his sweet dreams and brought him to the ultrasound room. He behaved really well during the scan and only held on to my hand tightly, not wanting to let go. Ultrasound results came back ok and all we do is to wait and see if the pain will come again. Fortunately the pain didn't come back and he was given the all clear and was discharged the next day on 5th Oct. He was a little fighter and was so brave while undergoing the tests and examination and I am really proud of him.

After he came back, he had complained of tummyaches a couple of times and developed fever for a day but other than that, he's all well and active as ever. We'll never know if the pain will come on again but just have to monitor him and cross our fingers he didn't have to undergo the ordeal again, especially the needles and drip which cause so much pain to him in the hospital. Now we are just hoping to nurse him back to health and getting his appetite back. From the fact that he's starting to fight and quarrel with his older brother, I think he should be well back to his old self soon!