Final day of our staycation, SE checked out the kiddy club. It caters for younger kids though there was a big video game screen which would have been fun. We didn't have time to do much before check out.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Sunway Staycation p3
Sunday, April 21, 2024
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...
I was mindful to limit pool activity time for SE. She went back to the playground a while.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Sunway Staycation
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
JE’s birthday 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
How bad
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Waiting
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.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Aftermath
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Weight drop
Saturday, March 23, 2024
'Duck'
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Weight up!
Friday, March 15, 2024
Evidence
Somehow, even with me or our maid monitoring SE closely at meal times, we regularly find evidence that she had managed to get rid of some food.
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Tough
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Her year
Dragon is SE's year, she turns 12 this year. And she is facing such big problems.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Peace
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Day 2 CNY
Day 2, we headed over to Midvalley to take some photos. I like the persimmon theme!
Day1 CNY
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
CNY eve
Thankful to celebrate CNY eve this year! To recap, our maid (and also my sister's) caught Covid in end January. Maid was parked in our apartment while we stayed over at my parents' place. She recovered in 5 days, but my father then got Covid. This time we stayed at our apartment instead of going back and forth to my parents' place. My father also recovered in 5 days and we looked forward to life back to normal. Unfortunately a few days later he had bad vomiting/diarrhoea and ended up being admitted to hospital for 3 days. Finally got discharged a day before CNY eve, phew! That's how we ended up NOT fully prepared for reunion dinner this year haha. My mother was at the hospital too most of the time.
Anyway with some last minute buying and work.... dinner was on!
Happy Dragon year to all!
Monday, February 12, 2024
CNY already
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Diet plan
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Hate
Monday, January 29, 2024
JE
Monday, January 22, 2024
DON'TS And DO
One more post - really cannot dwell on this topic long, too painful.
We returned with a list of DON'Ts:
1. Cannot keep exercising - SE had been obsessively doing jumping jacks, yoga, stretching at every opportunity. As a family, our opinions were divided... of course exercise is normally good and should help give her a healthier appetite. But she was exercising non-stop, even getting up in the middle of the night to exercise in the toilet. It broke my heart to see her already-skeletal leg being lifted up and down on our shared bed when I woke up at night.
2. Cannot go swimming - I mentioned to the doc SE is very determined and would swim multiple lengths. She was shocked and said swimming shouldn't be allowed in her condition.
3. Cannot go on the walk to get JE from school - same reason
4. Cannot help with cooking - SE was starting to like helping with food preparation. Doc says this wasn't advisable as we don't want her to be focused on food.
SE was miserable that basically ALL the things she liked doing was now prohibited.
The DO: Follow a diet plan of 3 daily meals and 3 snacks, and send pictures of every meal to the dietitian.
Lunch/dinner was to be 90g of protein and 100g of rice with vegetables. The first time, we were surprised to find that 90g of meat was considerably more than her usual amount. Since then we have realised some styles of cooking makes the food look more substantial than others.
SE hated everything.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Specialist #2
Doc chatted with her for some time, asked her what book she was reading, things like that. Quite nice compared to the usual way of asking what the problem was. Eventually she asked SE to go with the nurse to take her weight. And immediately told me SE's condition was not good. She said that overseas, people like SE would be hospitalised already. She advised to stop school, not to have any physical activities. She said she would need to work with a dietitian on this so we later went to consult the dietitian.
Friday, January 12, 2024
AC hotel trip
We had a good time. Thanks bro! I'm now thinking staycations are actually a very good idea. :)