Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Of bugs, fungus and roaches...

Ayah and Hasya were feeling better on Monday night and throughout half of Tuesday. However, by the time they came back from work and school respectively yesterday, both were having slight fever again, and aching joints. The bug seems to be making its comeback every other day it seems. And this time around, Hanna pun dah start demam.

She looked pretty pale and was not her usual perky self when she got back from her tuition last night. Gave her a couple of PCM (which she had difficulty swallowing, as usual :) Hilman and Hasya are much better at taking pills whole compared to their Kak Long actually :) Anyway, after having her supper, she went straight to bed. I told her that she should not go to school if her fever were to get worse, but she insisted that she had to go to school as they were having the inter-class choral speaking competition today and she was the conductor for 2H.

You can read her version here :)

Hmmm...all three of our kids are like that! They never want to miss school even if they're sick! It's good I guess...But, that would mean that they can be guilty of spreading all the bugs to their friends at school! Sigh...

They follow their Ayah. Cannot stop working. Throughout his waking hours, he would be working, working, working.

That brings us to the next thing. Ayah had to work on a presentation which he's scheduled to give tomorrow, and he was also supposed to work on his 2-weekly article for Me*ro Ah*d last night, but, he just had to take a short nap before he started tapping on the keyboard. He had been working on an article for Ma*ay Ma*l the last few days which was sent to the Editor just yesterday, and he really needed a break. And his fever was not helping at all.

Just as he was about to lie down on the bed, Hilman came in, grinning. We knew that he was hoping to be allowed to sleep with us because apparently there was a BIG cockroach on the wall outside his room when we got back from my MIL's last night, and before we knew it, it was gone. And Hilman was pretty sure that it had gone into his room. And because of that, he was so not going to sleep in there :)

Seeing Hilman entering our room, Ayah asked him :-

Ayah : Chiman, urut kaki Ayah, boleh? Please?

Hilman : Okay! (without hesitating at all and he went straight to Ayah's feet), but I want to check if your feet got fungus or not first...

Ayah : Fungus??! (And Ayah and I tergolek-golek tergelak!) HAHAHAHA!

Just then, Hasya came in, asking me to feel her forehead. I had also just given her some PCM before that for her fever, and she just wanted me to check if it had started to work on her or not. And Hilman said -

Hilman : Kak Ngah, are you demam?

Hasya : Yeah...

Hilman : You can sleep with Ayah and Mommy tonight. I sleep with them when I demam, too, you know?

Hasya : Naaahh...I want to sleep in my room, but, I just can't sleep.

Hilman : I always relax here first, you know. Everytime before I go to my room. I relax here until I feel sleepy. But, sometimes I would fall asleep terus. You can relax here first, too, Kak Ngah.

(That's Hilman - offering OUR bedroom to his Kak Ngah. Hehehe!)

Hasya : Naaahh...I think I'll go up now. If I still can't sleep, I'll come down. Okay, Mommy?

Me : Okay, darling. (Kiss kiss, Hug hug). Get well soon! You come down if you cannot tidur, okay?

Hilman : So Kak Ngah. You're not sleeping here tonight? (Just making sure :))

Hasya : Naaahh...

Hilman : Okay then. I can sleep with Mommy and Ayah then.

And he jumped straight onto the bed!

And yup! He ended up sleeping with us sampai pagi.

But, not before he was satisfied that Ayah's feet didn't have fungus on them, and not before he urut his Ayah's feet until Ayah pun tertidur... :)

17 comments:

ms hart said...

ha ha ha Hilman, Hilman...dia lagi besar pangkat dari doktor...dia pulak nak check doktor, yaaa...:)

Mrs.A said...

So funny... Where did he get the idea about the fungus?

Hilman I sampai sekarang mintak tidur dalam bilik I. Up to when he was in Standard 4 it was every Friday. Last year he would drag his tilam and say " I bring the tilam first Mummy, then kalau Abah tak kasi, I bawak la tilam ni balik".. as if la the dad nak cakap no. Tahun ni, I put a stop to it unless dia demam. I would have 2 in my room till Adeena is 6, thereafter until the baby is 6. (that's 2015 !!)

IBU said...

Bagusnyer Chiman.

Kalau Idin, massage sekejap jer. Then he will say, "you should use the reflexology machine ibu. this is child labour!"

Mana dia belajar tuh?!!!

MAMAMIA said...

Anak I yg dah 15 y.o tu pun takut cockroach. For a week now she's been sleeping dlm bilik adik dia, sebab she saw one cockroach in her room last week.

bella said...

Hilman Hilman...hehehehhe sooo soo funny as usual....

Dalam Dakapan Ibu said...

Good boy your Hilman, siap tolong offer your room to sis Hasya dulu..hahaha...

Kids.. so hard to turn them down!

wanshana said...

ms hart,

Hehehe! Ada tokoh jadi Menteri Kesihatan kot?

(Errrr, NOT the CSL type, okay?!)

wanshana said...

MrsA,

Hehehe...Hilman IS funny. He must have read about the fungus thingy from one of the many encyclopaedias we bought him :)

Sometimes serba salah when the kids ask to sleep with us, kan? Because before we knew it, they wouldn't even want to be seen in the same room with us...Sigh...

wanshana said...

Ibu,

Errr..."Mana dia belajar tuh?!!!"?

Child labor issues would be part and parcel of what HR people would have to deal with, nooo?! Agak-agaknya lah kan, siapa lah gamaknya who deals with HR day in day out, and who might have brought work home sometimes, which could have exposed him to all that, eh? ;)

Hmmmmmm?

wanshana said...

Mamamia,

Jangankan anak yang 15y.o. ajer yang takut dengan lipas...

Ni haaaa - MAK BUDAK yang dah nak masuk 41 tahun ni pun takut ya amat, tau...

wanshana said...

Bella,

Hehehe...He IS one of our major sources of entertainment at home. Kekadang tu, tengok dia tido pun we all boleh tergelak :)

wanshana said...

Ja,

A true gentleman la tu...(konon!) Hehehe!

Yes, kids are so hard to turn down, kan? Especially when they give us that certain look with those big adorable eyes :)

Kmar said...

Very funny!!.. ha.ha.ha.. he is so sweet. Dalam nak buat baik (urut kaki ayahnya).. dia pun ambil ´advantage´... squeezing himself in your bed.. very smart!!

I rasa your bed must be a king-size ... or else macam ´sardin´ la tidurnya.. tak boleh nak pusing-pusing.. he.he..

wanshana said...

Kmar,

Hilman memang pantang dapat kesempatan. Kalau his Ayah is away, he would offer himself to tidur with me so that I tak lonely...Hehehe!

Errr...Kmar, memang macam sardin coz' our bed is just the ordinary Queen sized one! :)

tireless mom said...

Dear Shana

I think Hilman ni opportunist in his own way. Never mind, jaga hati kakak dulu, although he may already know that the Kakak will not accpet the offer.

Daphne Ling said...

Hi Kak Shana,

Hmmm...Kalau I sakit, I usually go to school too, and the reason is, if you miss one day, usually habis la when you try and catch up the next day!

If I really give up and not go in to class etc, means very sakit di...

And since I'm just being exposed to the dratted thing called the flu here, my response is hyperly sensitive, mak oi!

Orang cough-cough and slight fever, I terus masuk hospital...Sampai the physician joked with the paramedics asking "I wonder if we tried to scare her, this fever could possibly go any higher" (Fever 41C and naik-ing)...

Drama betul, and ONLY the FLU! Ish...Stupid flu-shot, didn't work at all...

So I can understand why 'Ayah' tak nak miss kerja (not that I'm a doc!)...Cos kalau miss, habis la the kerja bertimbun-timbun...Lagi pening nanti!

*Bleh*

Harap everybody sihat oredi!

wanshana said...

Oh Daph,

I hope you're okay now!

It must have been so tak best feeling sick, with temperature that high, aching joints, and all!

Flu jab didn't work, huh? Maybe it's a different strain - Canadian strain lagi power kot?!

Hope you didn't miss too much of your classes. Even if you did, do take your time to "qadha" them ;) Hehehe!

Take care, dear!

(The blooms must be starting to come out now. Enjoy!!!)