Filling in the Gaps & Fever

Almost a month has gone by since the last blog. Hmmm...

Dylan had his speech therapy session on Wed 3 Oct and Mr Vasu gave a lot of "homework" on oral motor activities - to massage his facial muscles, brushing inside his cheeks & gums, biting block etc. He also recommends the use of echoe mic. Stage 1- hold mic to his mouth, he makes a sound, I immediately imitate the sound. Stage 2- I make a sound eg. "Ahhhh", then quickly hold to his mouth hoping he'll imitate. Well, after frequent practice with our helper & I, he's more consistently verbalising (though not the same sound but rather indistinct sounds) even with stage 2.

I was on course-Landmark Education Advanced Course, which I find amazing in how free and empowering life can be lived. But it does take me away from Dylan 3 full days (10am-12 midnite) Fri-Sun 5-7 Oct when I only saw him in the morning. Unfortunately for Dylan, even though Daddy was ready to take him swimming, it rained so it didn't happen.

Then the following Saturday we went for an ambitious tree top walk at McRitchie Reservoir which is 10km return. Dylan did pretty well, walking several kilometres, but encouragement & physical assistance to push him a bit wasn't enough after about 3km & I resorted to luring /bribing him with bits of sweets. When even that didn't work, it was time Dad carried him. Unfortunately for us, shortly after crossing the (one-way) tree top canopy bridge which Dylan clearly enjoyed, it started raining pretty heavily, and we only had 1 umbrella & no raincoat for Dylan.

Sick (hi fever, listless, no appetite, drft in & out of sleep day & night) for 7 days. Started with fever on Sat night, throwing up all lunch & dinner & milk 6 times that night. Even Sun morning, couldn't keep even juice.

Wednesday, just as I thought the worst is over, in the evening, the temp shot up again.

Thursday brought for blood test- thankfully it's not dengue.

Lost 2kg- temp dropped from 18 to 16 kg.

Finally, after drinking the lin yang herbal drink brewed by my mom mixed in his rice milk on Thur night, Dylan broke into profuse sweat past 2am & in the morning, fever's gone. Thank God!