After a month in the hospital, Shorty finally got discharged today. I gotta say it’s been a tough month and now that half the battle is over (with Shorty getting well enough to get discharged), I feel relieved but also exhausted. Exhausted that it’s been a really tiring one month… almost feel like I need a holiday after juggling this ordeal and work.
Still it was nice to see Shorty finally out and looking more like herself today, after losing some… I don’t know.. 10 KG or so in a week.
Fighter is still in the NICU. Shorty felt a bit heavy hearted having the leave the hospital with Fighter still in intensive care but we promised Fighter that we would go back see him every day. Today he gave us a bit of a scare. While I was at the National Registrar getting Fighter registered and his birth certificate done, Shorty suddenly messaged me and told me that Fighter was suddenly breathing very heavily and he was beginning to turn blue. The alarms in the devices that monitor him was also going off.
The nurses told Shorty to leave the NICU while they checked him. Shorty waited outside for what must’ve been the longest 5 minutes ever. Finally Shorty couldn’t take it and went back in and found Fighter breathing normally again and colour coming back to his skin.
The Doctor did a chest x-ray and a blood test to make sure everything was okay and it turned out it was. The cause of it was Fighter breathed in a little bit of milk.
The nurse later told us that something like that happened to another baby before. The mother was discharged and was saying bye to the baby and the baby went into some temporary condition as well.. almost as if to get the mother’s attention and to get the mother to stay. We told Fighter not to worry.. and that we will be back to see him many more times.
I can’t wait for Fighter to grow out of his incubator. But I’m thankful that things seem to be okay so far. Thank you God and thank you everyone for your prayers.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space