Category Archive: Me

For 6 days, I’ve been feeling really sluggish… with fever, lots of phlegm, cough, a throbbing head and a runny nose. Despite having finished my antibiotics and meds, I am still feeling under the weather. My skin is also very dry and the skin round my mouth and nose is red, dry and painful…. caused by too much of nose-blowing, being in an air-conditioned place 24 hours a day and from wearing a face-mask 24 hours a day for 6 days. My appetite is no longer ravenous and my milk supply has dwindled so much. Dwindled because I have been too weak and tired to express my milk and I’ve not been expressing regularly. My boops have also shrunk, gosh!

For 6 days, I’ve been eating bread and hospital food…. food that is bland and strictly no heaty stuff. I dare not even lay my hands on the snacks/junkies that I’ve brought along with me. Hubby went shopping 2 days ago and bought me some healthy snacks :

Cherry tomatoes on vine, pine nuts, raw almonds, fresh milk, a big bag of fruits and some multi-seeds buns.

Yesterday, hubby went to Lorong Selamat with his friends to savour Penang hawkers food. He bought me a pack of loh bak, popiah and char koay teow, which I shared with my maid.   Today he packed back prawn noodles but I’ve yet to try it.  Will share the prawn noodles with my maid again later.

….by the urut lady (Malay masseuse) yesterday. Yesterday, the urut lady who used to urut me after the birth of Baby C last year came to urut me. I was enjoying the good massage when suddenly, I felt some pain at my lower abdomen. She told me that my uterus had ‘jatuh ke bawah’ (fallen down) as I have been coughing very badly for the past 2 weeks. This urut lady has over 18 years of urut experience and she seemed very knowledgeable. No wonder I kept feeling pain in my tummy whenever I jogged for the past 1 week when I was coughing badly. I thought it was just gas in my tummy. Today, the pain vanished when I worked out on the tread mill at the gym! I have to call this urut lady back again and give me another good massage. RM80 for a 1-hour session is really damn worth the money spent!

After coughing like a TB sufferer for almost a week, my right ribs hurt as if someone had just given me a good punch on the ribcage.  It’s so painful that I have to hold my right ribcage and cringe each time I cough. Jogging has also been torturous for me as my ribcage would hurt.  I didn’t know that coughing badly would also cause my tummy to feel gassy.  My tummy would also hurt (as in pain caused by gas) when I run.  I had to run very lightly and stop at intervals and hold my ribcage when the pain was unbearable.  It even hurts when I carry Baby C.  I hope I’ll get better by tomorrow.

My throat still hurts and I am coughing like someone who has TB.  My phlegm is still greenish yellowish and my eyes are really red.  Each time I have a really bad bout of upper respiratory infection, my eyes would get red and swollen too.  According to hubby’s uncle who is a surgeon, I have Conjunctivitis.  Hubby got me some anti-bacterial eye drops and I’ve been applying it onto my eyes, though I just hate the bitter feeling in my throat seconds later.  I’ve been sucking on Difflam lozenges for sore throat and cough but that does not seem to help much.  Normally it did help in settling the sore throat but I guess this time, the bug that bit me is a real virulent bug.  If I still don’t get any better tomorrow, I will see the GP and get some antibiotics and cough syrup.  I hope the GP has meds that are safe for nursing moms.  I don’t mind not taking any meds and let my body heal naturally but I am worried sick that Baby C might get bitten by the virulent buy too.  I better go to bed now.  I know not getting sufficient sleep is the main reason why it takes so long for my body to heal.