While Waiting to Discharge…

This morning I woke up early as Alvin would bring Issac over to hospital and we had breakfast together at Bandar Puteri McDonalds. After our breakfast, then we came back to hospital and takeaway a big breakfast for Annabelle.

When both siblings met, they have endless conversations! The doctor came around 10.00am to check Annabelle’s condition and he allowed her to stop the drip. And to continue observation till the afternoon check up again.

After the drip had been taken away, Annabelle was full energetic again! She was walking up and down and swap her bed with her brother. And has a good appetite in eating her lunch.

Both Issac and me seeing her comfortably having her lunch on bed, we too went to the ground floor cafeteria having our lunch. I ordered the daily special set of ayam percik with pandan rice which come together with sambal brinjal, fish ball soup and mango drinks.

Both of us never expected such a huge portion of the meal, and we were delighted! It was so worth it with the price of RM15.90++ for the big portion that we had. I never imagine that we can have such a tasty and satisfying meal in a hospital. Issac and I were super happy with our lunch.

After we went up to Annabelle’s room, we were reading, playing games then till the doctor come again it is almost 3.30pm. The doctor allowed for discharge after checking on her condition. We thanked the doctor for his consultation. Then we waited for the bills and the insurance company for the discharge authorization letter for the final bills.

It have take sometime till I finally settled with the hospital. The total bill is about RM1,500.00. The Prudential medical card that we hold have to pay minimum RM300 or 10% co-insurance. In the end we just need to pay RM306.00 and the rest is taken care of by the medical insurance. We reached home around 6.30pm and we had dinner together with Alvin after he came back from work.

I feel as the medical cost still is bearable and fortunately we have the medical card. I could not imagine if we do not have the medical card and we need to queue at the Serdang Hospital for these few days. Probably we would end up very tire and still being worry.

It is a good solution for us to go to the Columbia Asia Hospital Puchong because Annabelle has a good care in the hospital, and we have the least headache and worries about her condition. Everything is end up in the Lord’s good hand. We are blessed and grateful!

Annabelle Admitted to Hospital

Annabelle confirmed contracted with dengue fever yesterday. Last Thursday I was bringing her to Clinic Mediviron because she had the fever since Wednesday afternoon at school. Doctor did mention that have to monitor her closely as now is the season of influenza and dengue. No antibiotic was given but paracetamol only to reduce the fever.

Her fever was never fully subside until yesterday Alvin felt that have to take her to see doctor again, then at Klink Mediviron the doctor said have to bring her to hospital immediately to take the blood test to confirm as her hands and arms were starting to show some red rashes.

We were so worried and quickly took her to the nearest Columbia Asia Hospital Puchong to take the blood test. We went straight to the emergency. After taken the blood, we waited for almost an hour for the result. And, it was confirmed by the ER doctor that she was contracted with dengue with the Full Blood Count 177.

The doctor was asking if we would want to admit her to hospital straight away. Alvin was thinking that we took her home and observe her for a night then see how is her condition. During Annabelle was in the car, she sounds as she was having difficulties and pains, made us so worried and took her to Serdang Hospital.

There were a lot of patients queuing till the front door and the officer mentioned that with the blood count of 177 is not so serious yet. Seeing the situation at the Serdang Hospital, we just turned back to home.

I cooked barley drink to let her drink and cool her body temperature down and the whole family were having porridge yesterday. We forced her to drink a lot of water.

This morning, she is doing ok. We asked Issac and Annabelle to stay at home, so that Issac can help to monitor her on eating the porridge and drinking the water.

After half day in the office, Alvin and I were decided to admit her to the hospital because it is kind of difficult for us to monitor her with the blood test. Finally we brought her back to Columbia Asia Hospital Puchong.

It was kind of running through the whole yesterday routine check up again and it was really tired for all of us to wait at the hospital for the whole afternoon. From the blood test, results, admission, waiting for insurance company guarantee letter and waiting for the bed. From 1.30pm to almost 6.30pm then the hospital managed to get a bed for us.

Annabelle stayed in a 4 bedded room and shared bathroom. Once we entered to the room, the environment is not too bad. She got a bed nearest to the entrance door. There are 2 storage cabinets and an arm chair there. I can stay with her for the night.

The dinner was already served there. When I saw Annabelle’s reactions, I really wanted to laugh out loud because she suddenly was so happy with her bed as she is staying in the hotel and a very delicious room service dinner.

After seeing her happy staying in the room, we left the hospital back to Alvin’s job site to thumb print his attendance. Then, we drove home and I took my bath before I went back to hospital and accompany my lovely and naughty daughter!

She was already very tired. The doctor instructed to give her the drip, I guess the needle made her not comfortable and she soon fell to sleep during I reached back to the hospital about 10.30pm.  Everyone was very tired today.

I feel blessed and thank to the Lord because I know that He is watching over Annabelle and our family. Later then I know, Alvin did give Annabelle a blessing this morning. That is why she is doing fine and her reaction towards the dengue is mild according to the doctor.

I feel blessed because our family has a priesthood in the house and Annabelle would be doing fine tomorrow. Hopefully she can be discharged by tomorrow.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Puchong Branch Open House

Today is our Puchong branch open house. I woke up early in the morning to prepare the necessary exhibits for Relief Society Room. We were asked to exhibit something that about Motherhood and Personal Development.

It was quite a last minute that we have to gather sisters testimonies throughout the week over the phone. Sister Annie and Sister Amy helped me to coordinate and gather as much as possible for me to type it and print it out. I managed to laminate it before I went to church.

We have planned to share the testimonies of the sisters and separate it to 4 sections: Motherhood and Family, Self-Reliance, Mission and Gospel Living and Personal Development. We invite the sisters to share their testimony about these 3 areas that the Church or the gospel have change their life.

At the Motherhood and Family section, Sister Annie helped to invite the sisters to send me their profile photo, photo together with the children, couple photo with their husband and a family group photo. I bought some cheap decorative wall stickers from Mr. DIY shop and modified the frame photos with the sisters’ photos. It turned out quite nice!

At the Self-Reliance section, Sister Amy helped to gather the testimonies of the sisters whom had attended Personal Finances for Self-Reliance class which Church organised.

At the Personal Development section, we invited the sisters whom attended the Harmon Grant Keyboard to share about their testimonies after learning the new skill and serve in the Church.

There is a corner of a display rack that we displayed all the art pieces or art work by the sisters. Sister Annie contributed a lot. She loves anything related to the art. She brought a lot of artwork and indeed lighten up the empty space!

We did prepare some bookmarks for the visitors to take away as well. And a corner displaying our past Relief Society activities.

Other than Relief Society Room, there was Elders Quorum Room where the theme was Fatherhood and balancing responsibilities. There were about the Priesthood duties and Sacrament Meeting and the Missionary work.

President Augustin together with Brother Lim were explaining to a visitor about Family Proclamation.

As for the Primary Room, Sister Jennifer prepared the works and testimonies of our Primary children as well. Friends magazines, and introducing our Primary Come Follow Me program to the visitors as well.

As for the Youth and Young Adults, they were very creative and innovative in organizing their room in such a short time.

There were about Young Men, Young Women and Young Single Adults organizations, not forgetting about the Seminary and Institute Program. They were promoting the FSY Conference also at the same time!

The Family History Room were filled up all sorts of family trees and information about how we can help to do family history works and the importance of it to the Church. Temples photos were displayed also at the same time.

Last but not least the ‘International Food’ at the kitchen! There were all sorts of food, from Malaysia, Vietnamese, Philippines, Italian and so on! I was too late to snap the photos of the food!

Overall today open house manage to invite about 15 visitors and ended up with good spirits!

Mecaje 2019 Year End Concert

This year the theme of the Mecaje Year End Concert is Everyone is Gifted. And that is how the musical, drama and dancing came on stage.

This year Issac does not have much roles in the drama, a very small role only. Instead he has joined in the band and played with the keyboard. He has been practiced all the while in the school for this show.

It is quite different for us as parents see him play other musical other than the church hymns song. We are very proud of him too.

Issac joined the rest of the Mecaje students in group singing as well.

Whereby this year Annabelle have a portion of the solo singing as well within the group. She also be the narator of the drama.

She is involves in the dancing as well. Well, she is very happy with her own participation in the concert itself.

There is one thing need to mention here is Annabelle is 12 years old this year, meaning she is graduating from her Primary and next year she will be joining to Secondary. Thus, there was a small graduation ceremony for all the 12 years old Primary students in Mecaje.

Surprisingly Annabelle is the best student in academic in the Primary. She is so happy to get the award! We are surprise as well!

Finally, all the Mecaje students sung ‘A Million Dreams’ and ended the night. It is an enjoyable evening for the students, parents and the teachers. They have prepared for months just for tonight 2 hours presentation or concert. Bravo to the students and teachers!