"You are my strength, strength like no other. Reaches to me"

You know what kind of mum i'm guessing myself to be next time?
The ultra as-cool-as-a-cucumber kinda mum.
Especially when it comes to my child being sick.

"Aiyo, GE only la. Just rest and drink lots of water la"

"Aiyo, green colour stool, nevermind la, it's normal if got GE"

"A little bit of blood streak in stool? Nevermind, nevermind, just continue monitoring.. bloodstreak may be possible with the amount of purging, which traumatises child's anus.. nevermind, nevermind, monitor somemore"

"Aiyo, fever only la. Just take paracetamol every 4hourly or Ibuprufen if it's still very high"

"Aiyo, itchy only la. Just take Piriton three times daily"

"HFMD? As long as i hydrate my child, isolate, treat the fever.. can ready"

My ears would be so immune to my children's crying, that when they're just throwing a tantrum and crying all their stubborn heart's out so that mum will give them what they want, i will be able to shut it all out. *yay me!*
My ears are already immune to cries in fact.
All due to the screaming they have got to endure every single day, more so when we're doing procedures on these little kids.


And some parents tend to make repeated requests to nurses. For example, they go up to Nurse A. and make a request like "can you help me take new clothes for my child", Nurse A says "Ok, just give me awhile".. and maybe awhile later, the parent will ask Nurse B for the same thing.

Like today, was attending to my patient in the isolation room and his mum asked me to make a bottle of milk for him. Went out of the room, put back some other stuff and headed to the milk room to make his milk, 7 ounce of it and gave it to the mum.

Just 5 minutes later, i saw my colleague shaking a bottle filled with about 7 ounce of milk too, outside the room, pretty much ready to go in till i went
"RAAAGGGEEESSSSSSSS, I JUST GAVE HIM MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The look on Rages face was classic.

Rages: "THEN THIS?! (holding up the bottle) Can i give it to this patient?" (pointing to the other isolation room, also with a baby)

Me: "No. he's on total breastfeeding"

210mls of formula milk wasted just like that.
Apparently, when i left the room to make his milk, Rages went in 'cos his IV drip's infusion pump was beeping, and the child's mum asked her to make milk too.
Silly. Haha.

Then again, imagine if I did not happen to see Rages outside the room. The mum would have been pretty shocked to get 2 full bottles of milk, one right after the other.

Stuff like these happens alot, maybe just not like this instance, that's what you get with the combination of anxious parents and hardworking nurses (: