So last weekend was spent in the hospital with Asia-Faith.
(This was also posted in our other blog, so sorry if you are reading it twice)....
On Thursday evening (or rather 3am Friday morning), I noticed her breathing was very fast - she woke up and came to our bed, which she doesn't normally do - she usually goes down at night and sleeps right through, so I knew something was not right. I woke Jason up and said to take her to the hospital to get her checked out (the other kids were sleeping and I don't drive, well I ride a scooter, but don't drive cars...), so Jason and Willow-River (who had woken up), took her to the hospital and when I called about an hour later Jason said they were on their way home - turns out another hour had passed and he still wasn't home, so I called again and was told they were admitting her and he was comming to pick me and the other boys up to take us to the hospital. I was so nervous because I didn't know what was wrong, and none of my kids have been in hospital (well, Willow-River had his tonsils out, but he was only in hospital for the morning).
Anyway, we arrived at the hospital and Asia-Faith had been given stickers and clips for her hair and was really the centre of attraction at 5am in the emergency room! She had an IV drip in and was being admitted to the hospital. The doctor had done chest xrays and taken blood and it turns out her white blood count was higher than normal, and his diagnosis was Bronchial Pneumonia.
We had to stay in the hospital for 3 days! It was quite a different experience to South African hospitals in that you have to take your own food and drinks, none are supplied by the hospital, visiting hours seem to be anytime, no limit to visitors or the number of people staying in a bed! Our first night there the bed next to me was a lady and she had 3 kids sleeping in bed with her - don't know which of them was sick, and in the bed next to her was obviously a friend who had another child with her! They left that day, and I was not on my own for long, because soon the 2 beds were occupied again. There was no tv and I couldn't even talk to the moms in the room with me as they didn't speak English and I can't speak Chinese, so Asia-Faith and I played a bit and I tried to catch up on a bit of sleep, but not all that possible when you have the fellow bedmates having their kids with them all day (not the sick ones, but the siblings), so sometimes in our room we would have up to 9 kids (if mine were there too)!
On the Friday night the boys all stayed with Kim (Jason was working till 9pm), so the boys went with Kim before lunch and stayed the night. It was Keanu-Storm's first sleepover and I was really worried he wouldn't make it through the night, and when Kim called me and said he would be fine, that it was me who would struggle the most, well, I just burst into tears! My little boy and his first sleepover! And he DID manage fine and was ok - all of them were - My Boys!!!
On Saturday when the doctor came he said Asia-Faith would probably need to stay until Monday!
Then on Sunday morning the doctor came and checked Asia-Faith over and said we could go home! (They were having a political rally opposite the hospital so it was very noisy and the doctor said it would be quieter at home for her, so I mentioned that I have 3 boys at home - it is not much quieter! LOL) . But I was just so glad to be going home! And the total bill for the hospital and medication NT$170 (about R34)....Because Asia-Faith is aborigine she has free health insurance as long as she is living in Taiwan!
Today (Friday), Jason took her to the clinic for a checkup and the doctor is happy with her, and has given a few more meds to take and she is on the mend!
I had my dance show last Saturday. Kim offered to look after Asia-Faith so we could all go to my show! Thanks Kim;O) It was such great fun! They had done the hall so beautifully and it was really well presented. Willow-River (mostly) was the photographer for the evening, and he did a GREAT job!
Great fun was had by all!!!
Today I went out for lunch to a seafood restaurant with my dance group and it was really great! I tried a lot of new foods, which included the root of the lotus flower, aloe, male fish reproductive organs (uuuggghhh), sashimi (raw tuna - eeewwww), as well as crab, baby lobster, fish (which still had its head including eyes and teeth), shrimp, pork and lamb (or maybe it was goat? LOL). It was an interesting experience and I at least tried a bit of everything....
Tomorrow I am heading to Costco with Kim to do our monthly grocery shop, but we will also be doing a bit of Christmas shopping and since Kim has now decided to also start scrapbooking, we will maybe try and find a few scrapbooking stores too! Should be fun!!!
So I hope you all have a great weekend, and I will keep you all updated as to how the Homestudy goes!!!
~* Peace and Love *~
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