Hospital

What a week that was. Serenity got an ear infection that grew and grew.. We were in the pool a few times a day practising under water crayfish removal techniques for our eventual return to NZ. It looks like some pool water had got lodged in her ear and started the infection.This then lead to a sore ear and more seriously a swollen neck and painful jaw.

We did the late night trip to the hospital at Tunjung Bungah. They gave us the option of admitting her and putting a line in or taking her home with oral antibiotics. We choose to take her home. It was a very rough night. I slept in her room and she was moaning with pain for a large part of the night.

The second day we took her back to hospital as did not want her to have another night like that. We bounced between ENT specialist and paediatrician. The hospital then admitted her and attempted to put a line into her arm. It took a lot of time but they eventually got it secured. It looked like plain sailing but she found it to painful when the meds were injected in the line. They then went back to oral antibiotics. Glynis stayed with her that night for a grand total of three sleepless nights.