Sunway Staycation p2

SE was looking forward to the water play pool.  We used to swim on a weekly basis, but she hadn't been in a swimsuit since December (i.e. over 3 months) when the doctor forbade her from swimming and other strenuous activities.  She put it on and said she looks good in a swimsuit.

First the playground...

Swinggg!!!

Cycle cycle

The girls tried out the various water features.

Water portal!

Sliding BACKWARDS is more fun

This is fun!!

I was mindful to limit pool activity time for SE.  She went back to the playground a while.

Some kind of climbing 'makcik'  haha

Sunway Staycation

Need to catch up on my March posts.  OK so we took a 3d 2n package at Sunway Resort hotel with breakfast and some food vouchers included.  It was value for money, the dates suited us and a staycation would be a perfect activity for the school holiday.

Driving there was a breeze of course heh heh.  Reached there in no time!

Checked in... and I was amused to notice SE had fed her piglets - technically one piglet, one moomin who'd stood in as a replacement pig when the piglet was lost and one moomin who'd never been a piglet (yes it's complicated).

Packet of sugar for each of you

Had to take a photo of the hotel backdrop matching JE's holey outfit hehe.

Mama is much amused by this

Love the colours

Used the RM75 voucher for this "CRAZYSHAKE" at Black Tap.  It had chocolate brownies, chocolate milkshake, loads of cream, choc chips, choc sauce... fun experience but to me, not worth its hefty price.  

Giant milkshake

More to come on what we did.

JE’s birthday 2024

JE is 14!  This year, our maid (who has started taking baking classes) made her birthday cake.  She got out the fondant one night earlier in our apartment - SE made blobby and the moomin, JE made the monkey.  So this year it was a very personalised and unique cake.  

Me, my cake and my pets!

SE made her sis a card.  It's a moomin on the front...

Outside

Which opens up to it yelling out "Happy B-day!"

Inside

JE chose Mcdonald's for lunch.  We didn't go out for dinner since we were going to be eating out the next few days.

Me and my fam

Happy birthday to my darling girl!

How bad

How bad was the problem with SE... well, bad.  Her bones were sticking out.  The veins on her arms were so obvious as there was insufficient flesh to cover them.  Her pants were hanging loose, the butt area hollow.  

Bones

More bones

'How' she managed to get to this condition is a mystery to me.  As is the 'why'.

Waiting

One month of forced absence ahead of the actual school holidays... seems such a long time.  It turned out that due to classrooms being required for SPM exams, JE was largely off school for the month as well.

I was very apprehensive how things would turn out, worried how SE was going to take it.  How was she going to fill her day?  We others had our daily routines and would not be able to spend all the time with her.  For once I wished she was addicted to iPad games!  

After the first day, fortunately the situation did improve.  Overall we were more relaxed - bedtime was later since there was no need to wake up for school (JE was in the afternoon session).  SE started reading the Harry Potter series.

My taugeh grew

Our objective was to get her weight up as much as possible in 2 months.  Then she would be able to start school with everyone else after the school holidays.

Aftermath

12 January 2024

The day after the doc visit was the last day of her school exams.  She went to school and completed the paper.  However, that night I had to tell her she would not be returning to school for the rest of the school year.  She was very upset.

The next morning, she didn't want to get out of bed.  She said there was no point as she would not be allowed to do anything she liked and would need to face new rules which she did not like.

Get up for what? 

No. Leave me here 

Poor child. :(
 

Weight drop

10 January 2024

After the relief when her weight finally went up substantially, the next visit 3 weeks later was a shock.  We had followed the diet plan and also the doc's instructions not to weigh her at home.  She took SE to the weighing machine... and came back with a grim expression.  SE's weight had dropped back to the original of 26kg.

Doubts returned.  How could this happen?  She was eating more, we made sure of that, also taking milk twice a day.  How was it possible for her weight to drop?  Even if she was dumping her lunch while at school, surely the other meals were sufficient for sustenance?  What could be wrong?

No choice now.  I agreed to meds to reduce anxiety and increase appetite which I'd earlier declined when doc suggested.  Also agreed to her advice to stop SE from schooling.

No good.  Too thin