This is What Feyruz Called FUN

Playing in the bathroom!
Me.. no fun sitting on the toilet bowl. It felt like hours…

First Snow of the Season

It’s 2 months late! Aiseyyy…

18 months old Feyruz

Feyruz gained some weight after he started drinking the special energy milk, and also I think because he ate meat everyday. I tried to capture his cubby face, but not quite get it huhu..

Feyruz just started running really fast around the house. Everyday he wants me & Amin to run with him. As my belly getting heavier, I think Feyruz runs faster than I do

Yesterday Amin brought Feyruz to the swimming pool. It was the first time since we went back to Malaysia. Feyruz apparently still remember the swimming pool. He was so excited to get in. And he wasn’t afraid of the water at all. Slipped once and he didn’t cry. Amin been teaching him to pull his head up while he is in the water so that he won’t swallow the chlorine water. But Feyruz didn’t really get it yet, or he just like to drink the pool water

P/S: Do you guys think Feyruz is chubbier now?

Amin’s 28th Birthday

Made an avocado cheesecake for him this time. My first try. Looked ugly but tasted yummy LOL

Happy Birthday my dear hunny bunny!

Geng Makan Satay

We had satay for dinner last Sunday night. I have been craving to eat satay since last week actually. Yosh! Finally got some  

I prepared the satay while Amin & Feyruz grilled them. Well more like Amin had to guard the satay from Feyruz touching them while it was cooking haha.

Feyruz shouldn’t eat the chicken satay, but he wanted to. So lets him have it! His first satay  

P/S: Feyruz is 18 months old today. Sweet 18 months!

Feyruz in Action

So here’s the story. After we saw the dietician & nurse at the Growth Clinic, Feyruz was prescribed with high calories soy drink & some supplements. We gave him 2 cans of the soy drink, and then he got rashes all over his body again. So now we concluded that he’s allergic to soy.

Then, the dietician wanted him to try a special energy drink that have all the carb, protein, vitamins & minerals. So far Feyruz doesn’t show any reaction to the drink. So if he stays with this new diet, then we should see some improvement soon

We are also trying to improve his meal, from eating simple cereal & chips to something that is more variety. Like having dips or sauce or jam on the food. It is hard because he is quite reluctant to try new food. So yesterday for breakfast, we try a different strategy, trying to associate new food with something he’s familiar with. Amin showed him to dip his KIX in the blackberry jam. He did it pretty slow and took a long time to finish the cereal. But he finished it anyways! Great!

Some Highlights of 2011

We officially moved to our new house on the day before Thanksgiving. Ayah and Luqman came to help us out. The next four days were hectic. Feyruz were so excited exploring the new house. Couldn’t stop playing with the stairs. In 2 days, he already did the superman slide on the stairs. Ish ish ish… finally Amin put on the gate. Now he threw his toys (a bunch of them!) down the stairs and watched them felt at the bottom *sigh*

Ayah brought & cooked turkey for us. Had a really great & fun Thanksgiving Day! Thanks so much..

Spending some time playing fish & throwing balls with Tok Ayah.

The weekend before we went back to Msia, we went to Wichita to see Irfan. Hadn’t seen them since Raya I think.

Finally we saw them playing together. So cute!

Us @ Plaza, KC. A few days before we went back to Msia. Still no snow at all here..

Feyruz Favorite Song

This video was taken a few days before Feyruz got the asthma attack. He loves this song so much. Always ask me to play it again and again :)

Feyruz’ Asthma Episodes

It started on Sunday morning when Feyruz woke up. He got a bit of runny nose and he was coughing here and there. The temperature here dropped 20 degree since the last few days, and I thought that it was just our body getting used to the changes. I gave Feyruz more juice/water that day thinking that his throat might hurt since he was consistently coughing throughout the day. As of that day, we were busy packing up our stuff, and cleaning up the living room and bedroom, vacuum the carpet etc. getting our stuff ready for the moving day (next weekend). Feyruz was around, playing with our stuffs. I called him Abah’s little sidekick because anything Amin touched/picked, he would want to do it too. And he’s been toddling Amin front to back and back to front again. Cute!

Well, that night, he couldn’t sleep well. Amin said at 2am he started wheezing and woke up crying over and over again. He refused to lay down on the bed, so Amin had to put him upright on the shoulder. I took turn after 5am taking care of Feyruz. After Subuh, while poking and looking at him all over, I realized that he was breathing really hard. The bottom of his ribs shrunk when he breathed. I told Amin he sounded like having asthma. Not sure that was true, I decided to wait until 9am to call Feyruz doctor. It was a long wait. Feyruz was so weak and sleepy. I gave him a few sip of milk and some baby cereal so that his tummy won’t be empty.

At 10.30am, we got to the doctor office. The nurse examined him and did the pulse checking and O2. His heart rate was so fast and his O2 level was at 75%. Crap… The nurse immediately called the doctor and they immediately put Feyruz on breathing machine, O2 tank and steroid shot.

The treatments were repeated 3x, and after each one, the nurse checked for his heart rate & O2 level. His heart rate still fast but his O2 level improved to 80-90%. After 1 1/2 hour, the nurse took off the breathing machine and let Feyruz breathed by himself for a while. When the doctor examined him again, his O2 level dropped back. And he was still breathing hard. This was when the doctor decided to call the ambulance to take Feyruz to the hospital. His doctor said that Feyruz had acute asthma attack, and he needed further treatment at the hospital, because this was not going to be a quick fix.

I felt totally devastated. Feyruz been thru a lot since he got the eczema.. A few months ago I found out that he is allergic to dairy and peanut after he threw up a lot. And now… the asthma.

The EMTs who took care of Feyruz to transport him to the hospital. IV was given.

At Children Mercy Hospital. On the way to see the doctor and nurses.

The doctor gave him another steroid shot, more breathing treatments every 4 hours. Feyruz getting some rest. We all slept at the hospital. Amin & I took turn taking care of him at night.

In the morning, Feyruz sounded better. I didn’t hear anymore wheezing, just coughing and runny nose. His heart rate and O2 intake had been normal since the night before. The nurse said that if it stayed like this when the doctor checked him, he should be able to go home.

At 8.30am, I was told to go to the Asthma class to get more info about the home treatment. It was a really good thing that the Asthma therapist taught us parents about the symptoms, the cause and how to take care of our kids when having asthma attack.

In Feyruz situation, I believe the fact that he was coughing, sneezing and had runny nose at the same time, and the fact that we were cleaning the house, triggered the asthma attack. Other triggers that we need to be concern of are any strong chemicals smell, cigarette smoke, and pet dander.

One thing I am relieved to hear from the therapist that people who has asthma is supposed to able to do all the things that normal people does (without getting sick). So toddlers like Feyruz who enjoy playing or soon, running around, should be able to do that without any breathing problem. If not, that means they are not well treated. As long as we avoid/prevent the triggers (dust, cigarette smoke, strong smells etc), Feyruz should be fine.

The day he was discharged. Busy playing the red car I bought at the gift shop.

Bye bye to the nurses. Hope he won’t come back to the hospital again.