Hi All

I have not been updating my blog as usual being that my youngest son was warded due to high fever. Further checking, we found out that he has been attacked by virus called Streptococcus pneumoniae. He even had ear infection. He being warded for 6 days.

At the same time, we found out that my nieces are having hand, foot and mouth disease. So we quickly checked the elder two, and yes they are also having it. 

My life has been pretty messed at that time handling 2 kids at home and at the same time 1 baby in the hospital. So what I did was asking the doctor for home leave. During day I will be at home, cleaning up the kids ulcer, giving medicine and also persuade them to eat. At night I stayed at the hospital for the baby antibiotics.

I have even make a lots of ice cream for the kids. I had vitagen, dutch lady strawberry and milo ice cream for the kids to eat so that it will lessen the pain in their mouth.

Beside the kids, I have 1 house to rent and the tenant will be moving in on 9 December, and yet we have not moving out our things. Luckily, we rent it out at fully furnish.

Another trouble, we have already set out our house warming on 23 December, and we have not even finish painting the house. 

There are soo many things to do and I do not have extra leave since I have already took 5 days EL due to the kids illness...

So, whoever coming to the house warming, please do not expect much...I apologies in advance..

I really need a full body massage and a holiday in peace...but with the kids around..

owh ya...with all of the above happen, I did not go to any warehouse sales as planned..*sigh*..

Vaccination

 I always thought that it is good to take as many vaccine in order to prevent your loves one from getting sick. However, today while surfing the internet, I came across this blog.

http://drtenpenny.com/

There are a lot of stories written, but this is what I would like to share:-

When Parent Question Vaccination

As the use of vaccinations continues to grow, so do the controversies surrounding them. Numerous medical problems, including rising rates of autism, thimerosal/mercury toxicity, asthma, eczema, allergies, ADD/ADHD and even cancer, are being scrutinized as part of the vaccine-injury “spectrum.”

Research still is being performed to substantiate whatever connections may exist, but the problems with vaccines have caused enough concern to spark the formation of dozens of grassroots political organizations that promote the right of a parent to refuse inoculation for their children. In addition, The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was created via a cooperative effort of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS collects information about adverse-vaccine events and side effects.

Deciding whether to have a child vaccinated is one of the most important choices a parent will ever make. In the interest of informed consent, a pediatrician should present a full disclosure of the pros and cons of innoculation. Unfortunately, pediatricians rarely give parents the opportunity to learn about their option to not vaccinate. Often pediatricians or family doctors confront parents with strong opposition when merely questioned by parents about the potential risks of vaccination.

Parents should seek information on the pros and cons of vaccination on their own in order to make an educated, informed decision. A number of questions about vaccination follow. Each offers a statement commonly given by pediatricians and family doctors in support of vaccination. Information that rebuts this statement and supports the decision not to vaccinate follows.

1. Is vaccination necessary to prevent childhood disease?

Support of Vaccination:  Immunization has been repeatedly demonstrated to be one of the most effective medical interventions we have to prevent disease.

Rebuttal:  Most of the common childhood diseases were declining in terms of morbidity (complications) and mortality (death) prior to the introduction of vaccinations, according to information obtained directly from government sources.

2. How many lives does vaccination save?

Support of Vaccination:  It has been estimated that immunizations currently save three million lives per year throughout the world.

Rebuttal:  A negative cannot be proven. For example: how can you know that a vaccine saved a life? Do all people contract all infections? How do you know how many infections have been prevented by vaccines and how many infections have been prevented by other means?

3. Is vaccination cost-effective?

Support of Vaccination:  Immunization is one of the most cost-effective health interventions.

Rebuttal:  We do not know the actual cost of vaccination worldwide but a few costs are known:

The wholesale price for vaccines used in the U.S. pediatric schedule is more than $170 per child. Given that there are more than 77,000 live births per week in the U.S., that equals more than $13 million each week to prevent a few childhood infections.

More than $1.3 billion has been spent to eradicate polio from Third World countries.

The estimated lifetime cost of caring for one autistic (possibly vaccine-injured) child is more than $4.5 million.

4. Are vaccines safe?

Support of Vaccination:  Vaccines are safe and do not cause untoward effects on the immune system.

Rebuttal:  Safety studies have been too short, too small and too few in number to enable us to declare vaccines safe. In addition, the natural immune system of infants has not been studied and is not yet fully understood. The long-term consequences of vaccines on the immune systems of children under two years of age cannot be predicted. And as of yet, this information is not being tracked. If a child develops an autoimmune disorder, the cause is not studied; instead, a therapy/medication is developed to treat it.

5. Do vaccines contain toxic additives?

Support of Vaccination:  The additives in vaccines are in small concentrations and are non-toxic.

Rebuttal:  Vaccines contain a combination of at least 39 different toxic additives, preservatives and cell types introduced during the manufacturing process. The cumulative effect of these toxins, particularly the heavy metals, is hotly debated. Most vaccines are given in combination, and in doing so potentially create a cumulative effect of toxicity. In addition, vaccine contaminants have included bovine (cow), avian (chicken) and monkey viruses and bacteria such as streptococcus in the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine [Pediatrics, Vol. 75, No. 2, Feb 1985] and Serratia marcesens in the influenza vaccines [2004 influenza season].

For example, DTP, a common vaccine given to most newborns, is produced using formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, polysorbate 80 and gelatin. In some cases, thimerosal still is used. The polio vaccine is produced using three types of polio virus and can contain formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), sucrose (table sugar), neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B and VERO cells (a continuous line of monkey kidney cells).

It is also important to consider an infant’s developing filtering system for eliminating toxins. For example, aluminum is eliminated from the body primarily through the kidneys. Infant kidney function (glomerular filtration rate) is low at birth and does not reach full capacity until one to two years of age. [Simmer, K. Aluminium in Infancy. In: Zatta PF, Alfrey AC. (Eds) Aluminium Toxicity in Infants’ Health and Disease. 1997, World Scientific Publishing.]

6. What do vaccines protect against?

Support of Vaccination:  Vaccines provide high levels of protection against several diseases, as well as disability and death.

Rebuttal:  Vaccines vary in efficacy, and many who have been vaccinated still contract the disease. Therefore, vaccines do not necessarily protect against disability and death from disease. In addition, vaccines have been documented to cause certain disabilities, even death.

7. Are adverse side effects of vaccination common?

Support of Vaccination:  Serious adverse events following immunization are rare.

Rebuttal:  Between mid-1999 and Jan. 4, 2004 (for all vaccines and all reactions), 128,035 adverse reactions were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It is estimated that only 10% of all reactions are actually reported to VAERS. Therefore, this may actually represent between 1.28 million (10%) and 12.8 million (1%) of all vaccine-associated adverse reactions. In that same period, there were 2,093 deaths reported to VAERS. This may actually represent between 20,930 (10%) and 209,300 (1%) of the deaths thought to be associated with vaccines.

Even though this data does not prove an association to vaccine-related injury and death, the magnitude of the numbers certainly takes exception to the concept of a “rare” event. It is worth mentioning that more than $1 billion has been paid in settlements to victims of vaccine-related injuries and death through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) since the program’s inception in 1988.

The decision to vaccinate or not is important and complex. Parents must take on the responsibility to seek enough information to make an educated, informed decision. Armed with as much information as possible, parents then can make the choice in consultation with their own health-care providers.

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Go Away

Aqeel has Sports Day on Sunday!!

Diet oh diet!!

Frankly speaking, since I start working my weight has gain..Yes memang diet ku sudah masuk ke laut..I am so depressed..So nak tenangkan depressed I took a medicine..Nih gambar medicine...

Mase confinement I can be very disciplined. Of course since tak merewang sini sana so ended up I can get rid of sooo many kilos. But now since office pon kat sebelah shopping mall, I just can't close my eyes to those yummylicious foods. Sungguh nafsu time confinement membuak-buak..Now those kilos I get rid of happily get into me again..

I seriusly need to pack my lunch from home so that I can avoid getting into the mall and start buying all those evil food.

Tapi Friday dikecualikan since it is 2 hours lunch hour. Ape den nak buek kat office sorang-sorang 2 jam tuh..

Why is it so hard to get the body I wanted??

P/S: Do not believe if someone told u that by breastfeeding u can lower your weight, I have 1 tank of breastmilk and still my weight is the same or more...you have to work hard to get one..

Health Challenge

Do you want to be healthy?

Of course I want!. I have been dying to be in healthy weight since my first pregnancy. But least that I know, I am getting heavier from one pregnancy to another.

But i have promised myself to take care of myself after this pregnancy. Making sure that I dont get those easy to get disease like diabetics, high blood pressure and those disease relate to obese.

How much do you know about being healthy?

Taking good food ad exercise regularly. Having kids around should not be a problem since my kids are very active. Chasing them from one place to another is already good enough. The problem here is the word FOOD. I am a huge fan of food. Especially during my breastfeeding period. I can take double portion of rice during this time. Maybe i should be more discipline.
 

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Hemorrhoid Part 2

As promised, this is the continuance of my hemorrhoid story.

The next day after the surgery, he doctor checked and said that the cut he made is already close and the hemorrhoid is still there.  But the hemorrhoid does not look so tense. So he asked me to immerse that area in hot water mix with salt so that the hemorrhoid will shrink.

The next follow up will be this Friday, and if the hemorrhoid is still in the same condition, the surgeon advice me to do early delivery. So it's gonna be week 36. Hope everything went well.

In my case, the reason hemorrhoid exist is due to the pressure from the fetus on the abdomen and hormonal changes cause the hemorrhoidal vessels to enlarge. Delivery also leads to increased intra-abdominal pressures. Surgical treatment is rarely needed, as symptoms usually resolve post delivery.

The total bill is RM2k and alhamdulillah it was all covered by Maybank.

I have a family who support me in many ways. My dad offered to give me a ride and he even pull my wheelchair. He's been running here and there to pick up his granddaughters as well as taken care of me. My mom, in the other hand without hesitate offered to handle my two kids and sleep with them so that I can rest. She also worn me not to carry the kids as it will bring pressure to that area. My husband, beside the busy schedule he had in the office, he still be by my side. Knowing that i miss the kids very much, he will bring the kids up to the room very often.


Alhamdulillah, syukur that I have family who is concern about me. I love them very much too..

Hemorrhoid

Yes. I am having it right now during my 34 weeks of pregnancy. Some people might feel embarrass but for me heck no.

I started having it on Friday. The hemorrhoid is as large as 1 inch. So what i did was applied the cream called Neo Healer every now and then. It is a herbal cream and you will feel a bit of airy and cold. It is supposed to shrunken after a few times applied the cream. But in my case it is not. So i went to see mu gynae and she gave me a bullet medicine called Suppotory. I used the medicine for 3 days and on the Monday night after i put the medicine, blood coming out. So the next morning I went to see my gynae and she referred me to General Surgeon. 

Alhamdulillah the doctor is very nice and concern. Supposedly I cannot claim the medical chargers under insuance. However, upon registration, he wrote that this was not due to pregnancy. So hooraay!!..At least I don’t have to be worried about the money..

Subsequently, he checked through the hemorrhoid and found out that it is quite serious. There is already blood clot. He advice me to do minor surgery right then in his room.

I am pretty freaked out since he said its gonna be painful as he need to injected me with pain killer at the area. He gave 4 injections and he cut the hemorrhoid so that the blood clot can come out. He did not stitch because he afraid that the blood might stuck there again.

The pain is so damn painful. I was shaking badly as i have to be seated on the wheelchair and do the registration and admission all by myself. Of course the nurse is around to help me, but I don’t have the pleasure of lying on the bed and rest to avoid pressure at that area. Can you imagine, right after surgery you have to sit and put the pressure at your bottom for an hour before everything settled?

I must say that the pain is so much worse that the pain of delivering a baby. At least after i deliver, i lie down all the time and am given pain killer. But this time no pain killer was given as i will affect the baby. The only thing i can take is only panadol..

Why i have to do the registration and admission myself?
Because the husband had a meeting in the morning. I did not even thought that i gonna need a surgery. If not i would definitely asked him to cancelled everything. So i asked my dad to give a ride to the hospital. He waited with me to meet the surgeon and left me there to pick up my niece at Smart Reader Kids. So yup i am alone during the surgery. He reached hospital back when i was almost done with registration. So did my husband. I was crying at the registration thinking of the situation that i am facing and the pain that i have to bear. The staff at the counter just did not want to care of my condition even though the nurse accompanying me already informed her that i was in pain and just go through a surgery.

Readers, i will continue in part 2. The post is to long already and I'm in pain.