There and Back Again

My parents on the ferry to Bintan. This is a late post - we visited Bintan on the first Sunday of the March school holidays, came back and school has reopened. Yet I am only writing the post today! It has been a tiring March holidays for me. As you know, my son was hospitalised for the most part of the last week of Term 1. We had booked a holiday to Bintan way in advance and we held our breaths as we waited for the antibiotics to take effect. Fortunately, the antibiotics won and he was discharged on Friday. He had one day of additional rest and off it was to Bintan. There was only one problem. He enjoys swimming... but can he swim? I specifically asked the doctor what sort of water stuff he could do. I was told specifically that there was to be no swimming, but wading around was fine. Actually my mother was even not keen for him to go into water, but relented when I told her about the doctor's instructions. Actually, based on my own research, there is a lot of evidence th...

Keeping my son company in Mt. Alvernia As I am writing this post, my son is lying beside me with a needle stuck in his left hand and a breathing apparatus over his mouth. He has been attacked by pneumonia and it looks like it is a serious case. The entire thing started innocently enough. A fever was started on Tuesday night, resulting in a two day medical leave from school. On Friday, his fever subsided and we sent him back to school thinking that everything was alright. When he came back from school, a fever had developed again. We went to see a paediatrician and he was given antibiotics. We also started using Young Living essential oils as alternate medication. By Monday afternoon, it seemed promising. The fever had subsided. By Monday evening, it started peaking again and we decided that it was too crazy and went to to the 24 clinic in Mt. Alvernia hospital.  The doctor in the hospital has decided that since oral antibiotics were not working well, then antibiotics n...