Monthly Archives: September 2011

令孩子乖乖吃藥水方法

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晴晴濕疹好轉了很多,最近已經很少復發,偶有輕微的小疹子,但只要噴多幾次泉水就會消失.

上周六到奶奶家,在吃午飯前為她換片,竟發現她的手和腳,出了很多像被蚊叮的紅腫小點.老公,老爺和奶奶前來查看,估計是皮膚敏感,奶奶又問晴晴打了水痘針沒有.我查看記錄,她剛在兩個月前打了水痘針,所以即使是出水痘,希望也不會太嚴重.但我一直在想,她和姐姐只會在星期四才會和我與嫲嫲外出食午飯,周六或日才會到嫲嫲家,又不會與其他小朋友接觸,怎會感染到?我就只有今個周四買冷球的時候,第一次沒有放自家造的購物車保護套就讓她坐上去,不是這樣"幸運"吧!而且看著嘉嘉,她一點也沒有,兩姐妹也沒有發燒,所以機會應該不大.
由於剛過了診所的診症時間,唯有小心觀察,待周一帶她會診.但我心裡一直希望,小紅點過一會兒消失.可惜小紅點一直沒有消失,我待回家後就為她噴了幾次泉水,晚上好像好了一點,但早上又好像嚴重了.這次我也可以9成肯定,晴晴是敏感,但我們不知道她到底對甚麼敏感.可能是塵埃,又可能是奶奶給她的芝士餅(唯一的新食物),因為我們還未開始食午飯,所以排除了很多因素.
我以前也患過"風難",奇怪的是我一點也不覺得痕癢,只有風吹到紅腫的地方,令紅點變成大紅斑才會痕癢,所以我知道不要被她吹到風.幸好的是,她好像也沒有痕癢的情況出現,沒有見到她在紅點的地方抓,不然被抓出血就麻煩了.
周日一早,老公就到藥房買過敏藥,但找了兩間也沒有適合2歲以下適用的.於是我致電on-call醫生,希望確定一下她真的患了"風難",又問一下可以用那種藥物.誰知又一次沒有回電,真的很過分.我下個月帶她去見醫生,一定要投訴.這已經不是第一次,老公和我也有心理準備醫生不會回電,於是老公一直在網上找資料,幸好找到醫院網站有相關資
料.原來還是上次的藥物回收,到現今也沒有新藥物上架,難怪找不到.幸好有藥物成份和幼兒應服用的份量,老公於是再次到藥房,為晴晴買到抗敏感藥.
當我們為終於買到藥而高興,希望囡囡服後會盡快痊癒.誰知藥水的味道太濃,晴晴吃了全吐出來,爸爸扮喝了她的藥,裝出很高興的樣子,然後她也喝掉所有藥.直至今早凌晨一時,是第二次服藥時間,已準備了要用點辦法才可以令她喝藥水,誰知她怎樣也不肯,灌進去的都被吐出來.爸爸最後混了些少提子汁,希望她會喝.她只喝了兩口,又怎樣也不肯再開口.我裝著喝得很高興,希望她會相信(媽媽很天真),卻真的喝了一口.完全明白為甚麼她這麼固執了,喝時很甜,但一秒後藥味停在口腔內不散,真的很難吃.
我告訴老公,於是他回到廚房去,將藥水由果汁盒的飲管口注入,混合在內的大半盒提子汁,放回原盒飲管拿回來.這是她最愛的果汁牌子,一見到爸爸帶了果汁來,她就笑著用手接,立即把飲管送到口中,一口氣將全盒果汁喝掉,爸爸和我很高興,堅持了45分鐘,終於找到令她乖乖吃藥的良方了.今天我們不再嘗試迫她用藥杯喝,混了藥水的果汁盒令她開心又吃到藥,她肯吃藥就好了.果汁混藥的方法是上一次醫生教的,但用杯她還能聞到藥味,加入果汁盒用飲管喝,就解決了視覺,嗅覺和味覺的問題,老公好叻仔.

永遠被懷念的Dozer

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Dozer於9/19/2011去世,狗齡9歲,死於食道癌.我們將永遠懷念你.

9月16日(星期五)

Dozer突然不再進食,又不斷的流口水,於是老爺奶奶立即帶牠見獸醫,照X光後發現牠有肺積水,食道亦腫脹至差不多完全閉塞,於是要留院觀察,等待驗血結果.

當時獸醫指出,Dozer有可能是食道發炎,細菌感染或者是癌症.大家都很擔心,於是我告訴很期待明天到祖父母家玩的囡囡,因為狗仔病了,我們明天很可能不能去探嫲嫲,讓爺爺嫲嫲可以隨時到獸醫診所接走狗仔.幸好她們明白,亦希望狗仔快點康復;我又告訴她們,若我們不能到嫲嫲家,我會帶她們外出,她們很滿意,沒有再嚷著到嫲嫲家玩.

9月18日(星期日)

老爺奶奶傍晚到訪我家,帶來了前一日準備好的蛋糕給孫女們.老爺告訴我們,獸醫診所今晚沒有人上班,他們今早帶牠到另一間獸醫急症室留醫,等待明天到動物醫院進行詳細檢查.好消息是Dozer終於可以進食,因為職員們幫助牠坐起來吃,還吩咐老爺要買一張專用椅,方便餵牠進食.老爺上網找到圖片,計劃為牠親自建造一張專用椅,大家還笑說牠一定會很討厭要坐著食.

9月19日(星期一)

老爺一清早向公司請假,和奶奶陪同Dozer到達動物醫院作詳細檢查.早上10時半,老公致電回家,告訴我獸醫剛證實牠患了食道癌,要進行安樂死.我的心一沉,昨天大家才為牠能再次進食和好轉過來而高興,不足24小時,卻說我們要永別,很難以置信.老公說,老爺的聲意很難過,他從未聽過他這樣難過.一小時後,老公告訴我,Dozer已經離世,獸醫針才打進去,她就入睡了.

永別了,Dozer.我們永遠愛你.

如何令孩子不偏吃

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今天外出用膳的時候,我們後面坐了一家四口,兩個男孩大約一歲半和4歲左右,父母一人陪著一個小孩坐,母親由坐下的一刻開始不斷的打量著我和晴晴….完全不明白她在盯著甚麼.

午餐吃了一半,嘉嘉要上洗手間.我帶她回到餐枱時,老公告訴我,我們不在的時候,他協助晴晴進食,那後桌的母親詢問他如何令到晴晴吃得這樣好.她說已經觀察了一段時間,我們的兩個女孩任何食物都吃,還很有規矩;她的兩個兒子卻甚麼也不吃,又跪又求也不能令他們吃食物.老公回答說,她們一直都是這樣,甚麼也吃.
這令我想起上周,姨母和我通電話時,也問我如何令她們吃得這樣好,任何食物也吃.因為表弟由小至今也很偏吃.我很直接了當的告訴她,因為你容讓他偏吃.我還記得未夠十歲的我,見到表弟揀飲擇食的程度,令我很好奇為何他會這樣,又很好奇姨母為何會容讓他這麼樣.最經典的例子是到美心快餐,點了炸雞脾飯,要走汁轉豉油,豉油要同白飯分開,雞脾亦要分開放,這是唯一他在家以外會吃的食物,因為他只會吃姨母煮的東西,還要是他喜愛的才會吃.
姨母聽到我的答案,很驚訝又很快的回復過來,知道我一矢中的.她明白這是她縱容他,才令他這麼偏吃.我告訴她,由兩女進食固體以來,我們甚麼也讓她們試,每天吃甚麼都是父母決定,她們從來都不偏吃,即使有時會對新食物有懷疑,但我們也要她們最少試一點點,試了不喜歡可以告訴我們,但進了口就要吃到肚子裡.若然她們真的不喜歡,我會讓她們那餐不用再吃新食物,待一段日子後,用新煮法煮同樣的食物再讓她們試.
直至目前為止,只有雞蛋黃要用不同的方法煮,因為醫生說6個月開始要讓她們吃蛋黃,一歲才可以吃蛋白.烚蛋太乾,她們只會吃一半就停吃,最後老公建議用些少水炒蛋黃,她們就全部吃掉,還要求多一點.
我亦告訴姨母,假若她們不喜歡我們提供的食物,她們大可選擇不吃.但我告訴她們,如果現在不吃,將不會有小食,她們要等到下一餐.即使她們哭著說肚子餓,要求一點小食,我也絕不心軟.幸好,這只出現過一次,嘉嘉亦完全明白媽媽是認真的,從此以後也沒有再胡鬧了.看似很狠心,但為了她們的健康著想,從小養成不偏吃的習慣是必需的.

Labor day weekend

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Three days long weekend has been spending on playing with the girls and cleaning the house up. Finally we could play outside with them since the Tropical Depression was hitting the State next to us. It brought us some clouds and cooler temperature so we can go out without melting. 

Grandpa sent the girls some bubble mowers last week. Now they could try it out in the front yard. It was so much fun for them to run in the yard and look at the roses. The only problem was the mowers needed to be going really really fast to generate bubbles. So the girls weren't really able to make it happened by themselves. Alexis was quite upset about the fact nearly no bubble came out when she pushed it herself. Eric told her the machine was kind of broken and she thought it was her fault. Silly thing, I had to explain to her what the real problem was and there was nothing to do with her. So, we ended up brought out the Elmo Bubble Machine to play with them. They had a much better time chasing and dancing with the bubbles, looking at Elmo blew the bubbles and poked at the bubbles until they popped.

After a fun day yesterday, Eric and I talked until 3am this morning trying to figure out how to rearrange the furniture again so they will have more room to play. I couldn't believe we talked for 3 hours since mid-night to discuss rearranging the house for the 10th times (at least). 

Having kids and all the furniture from the condo were not helping things. I got the house just right after moved in for a year. Then, my first little angle came along and things needed to be moved around. Her stuff was like a major explosion in a short month, it got much worse after her 1st Christmas. After that, I got it almost right again when she was 1. A few months later, my second little angle came to join the explosion party her sister already started (It was actually grandparent and daddy excessively buying stuff for them). With two kids, everything had to moved around again because we needed baby and toddler stuff at the same time.

A few months later, parent-in-law was planning to sell the condo where we lived before. So almost all the furniture were moved to our house (their house was so full). This wasn't really a problem, I though I would have more than enough room for all of them. They stored in the house without a problem, but not really blended in with the rest of the house. I tried very hard to arrange them to make it work. But Eric keep changing his mind on how he wanted his office and the game room to be used. Including this time, we has been making his office a temporary storage room for the 4 times. 

With all the toys and activity table, my living room started to look like crazy again and they are not playing with most of the toys. I started to remember there were some big size toys upstairs didn't even been play for a year which Alexis loved. Now Lily is bigger and more mobile, it's time to move things around so they can play them again. And I would love to used the game room more. So, after our long talk last night (early this morning), we moved things around a little while they played upstairs. Hopefully it will be done tomorrow so I can pull out the crawling tunnels and roller coaster for them to play. Lily should have a good time with it and Alexis will definitely be thrilled.  

Apart from the inside of the house, we did some cleaning up at the back yard too. It was nice out and windy, a good day to get some outside work done. Eric cleaned up the planting beds and the weeds in between the beds. I rolled up the bird net and scooped up all the dogs poo. He was planned to mow the yard too but it was getting late. We have to let the dogs out and go for a late lunch. Good choice picking the salad bar, the girls loved it and got compliments from a school teacher sat nearby. I am so proud of them and like the culture of giving compliments to people you don't know while they did something good. That is just a nice thing to do and Hong Kong people should really learn from it. There was so much complaints and people always take everything for granted. So rude and so mean.