Barely a month since Humblet’s discharge from the hospital
and Singlet gets warded for stomach tract infection. He never really recovered
from the cough he caught from her, and that worsened into a ten-day vomiting
episode. On day ten, he threw up eight times, water included, and we knew we
had to bring him in before he got dehydrated. As expected, the poor boy was put
on a drip and stomach rest ordered. Meaning he had to fast from milk and solids
completely so his gut could reboot.
Unlike his sister, who stayed in an air-conditioned
four-bedder B1-ward, Singlet stayed in the eight-bedder non-air-conditioned
C-ward because his heart condition does not allow him to have medical insurance
of any sort. In the waiting area, we overheard a wife say to a husband, “later
the nurse ask you, just choose A-ward. Subsidised ward a lot of bad influence.
The parents let the kids watch TV all day long. They give formula milk to their
babies and many of them don’t speak English properly.”
This post is really a response to her and all others who
feel the same way –