Experience with Dengue fever as a mom

Hi folks!

Dengue is on the rise, I personally had been admitted to hospital for 6 days due to dengue fever many years ago.

Recently my own daughter was admitted to hospital due to dengue just a week before her ballet dance competition. It has been a heartbreaking news to her when doctor shared she might able to discharge but wouldn't be her best form to participate.

I can totally feel her pain and disappointment after preparing for the event for months… I just told her to focus on recovery and leave the rest to God. I prayed and I did all I know to be there along her recovery. It hasn't been easy as I had to also look after my dad who's not feeling well every weekend. So I have been running here and there .. and thankfully my younger sis took over one of the weekend so that I can be with my daughter as her reading wasn't looking too well.

Her platelet went down to 25 on 3rd day after she was admitted. From 81>67>51 and then 25….and doc said she would need to moved to ICU if it's going lower. Luckily, the next test results shows it remained at 25.

So we did all we can, taking papaya leaf (bottled and raw ones from friends who had papaya tree near their house), coconut water, small bitter gourd juice, lots of Ningxia Red (2-3 sachets a day), oiling her with thieves and other protocol shared by the aromatherapist…

On the 5th day, doctor said is moving up to 30, but not at a comfortable level to be discharged… so we asked what would be the reading that can be discharged and doc said at least 50..

So we load up again on the bitter papaya leaf twice a day, Ningxia Red and oiling her..at the end of the 5th day, at 7.35pm, her reading shows 50, the minimum number that allowed her to be discharged but still needs to go back up to the normal range of 150-400 to be on the safe side.

Indeed we are counting our blessings and grateful that she can finally be discharged and rest at home as for anyone who has stayed in hospital before, it's not easy to rest well.. all the constant "visits" by nurses to give you medication, change the drip, draw your blood for tests and measure your temperature and BP, not to mention all the beeping sounds makes it almost impossible to really have a good sleep which is the very thing our body needs to do its healing and recovery.

We brought along diffuser and diffuse oils like Joy, Believe and Orange to cheer her up and it helped a lot. Even the nurses who enters the room find it really nice scent and vibes.. everyone is happy to step into the room.

There's so much lessons to be learned at each encounter and journey in our life… let me share more in another blog post as part of my journal and record of my life as a parent, a mom..

….to be continued ….

Cheers and stay safe and well folks!