Oh oh!

Little D had a little incident recently. She injured her right index finger. Masa tu kat rumah sedara, tengah dok makan2 and main2 kat org tu punya garden. I don't know what happened but she cut her finger against this glass garden table. I was eating kat dalam rumah masa tu...baru nak menjamah nasik ayam (ok...after chicken wings, ketam, siput sedut) and then dengar bunyi budak menjerit yg pitchnya boleh pecah cermin punya. Tetengok anak diva ku tangannya dah berlumuran darah. Belum sempat maknya tengok my maid yg dok dgn dia kat luar tadi dah balut jarinya dgn tissue (it was her or someone else). Bila i selak je tissue tu, aiyaiyaiii....mak rasa cam nak pitam..tapi mesti maintain macho kan. If not i can never live it down...apa ni? Macam tak biasa tengok darah - well not on my own child i don't! Opah lawak - cher buh minyak gamat...minyak ajaib orang melayu (no, Esah, not minyak lintah hokay). Err... no opah, i do think she needs stitches. Nak pi sepital kat rumah jauh...so i pun pi la medical centre dekat2 situ. Thank god orang tak ramai. I tunjuk je jari budak tu and terus they whizzed us in without having to register first.

I wanted a paeds person but yg attend to us was an orthopaedic surgeon. Belasah je la kan..asalkan tau mensuture (jangan bagi i pathologist sudah). He gave me a choice whether to do it under general or local anaesthesia. Mengenangkan it was a weekend, berapa lama le pulak nak tunggu for anaesthetist to come kan? Eleh..lagi pun it was minor je...idak le terpotong kat leher ke, ada tulang terjojol keluar ke. But imagine ye, sepanjang2 tu Little D menjerit non-stop. So i told the dr, it's ok, please do it under LA, don't worry, i work with children all  the time (= i restraint je bebudak yg kerasukan camni. Lagi2 anak sendiri kan?).  Little D of course menjerit masa LA  (in fact before disogokkan youtube, semua aprt dia jerit). His nurses pun tolong pegang kaki Little D. One mistake they made was to tell her, 'dik, jangan takut, tak sakit!' . Sempat i bagi tutorial kat depa situ. No, you know it's going to hurt, so you have to prepare her and you must not lie. You can say, it is going to hurt tapi sakit macam gigit semut ke (semut api...species hutan for that matter!)...but only for 3 counts. Meaning, 1, 2, 3 pastu dah tak sakit pasal jari dah tidur. I told Little D jangan keriau2 nanti jari jaga dari tido and akan sakit semula. So it was a lot of talking, breathing exercise, youtube and mata jegil. After LA dia ok pasal dah kebas. Makcik kecik tu actually kena punished that weekend pasal bully adiknya - so no hp, no computer (boleh main dua benda ni masa weekend je). Tapi masa nak bagi LA dia dah negotiate dulu. I said, don't cry, and she said, ooooookkaaaaayyyyy......nak main henfon mummyyyyyyy....nak main kompiter mummyyyyyy (dgn aksi menangis2)...I said, ok la fine. Punishment tolak minggu depan - maknya masih tak nak kalah.

Anyway, within 30 mins siap berjahit. 4 stitches. Ada kulit hilang - aiyiyaii..terlekat kat meja tu ke? I mesti balik and cari kulit tu...tak sanggup i mengimagine kulit tu kena baham dgn miau2 tuan rumah. For 30 mins work, bilnya kena 600 inggit. Mak oii! Imagine kalau GA tadi. Should have asked for discount hehe - ye le..dia jahit je...i yg manage budak tu behaviourally. Physicians, dentists yg bukan paeds loathe working with kids. Imaginelah kan kalau budak tengah sakit, mesti macam kerasukan. Pastu dapat pulak parents yg lebih teruk behaviournya dari budak tu (sometimes worse then pocong kesetanan you know Esah), demand itu ini tapi anak baik sikit je dari Imotep tu (taknak le kata Aprit). We can't do miracles ye ibu bapa semua. Hmm...adakah bahan mentah dr itu tadi sampai 300 inggit and his tenaga 300 inggit? Hmmmm...(i still think i should get a discount of 100 inggit for my labour). Balik rumah sedara tu ingat nak sambung makan nasik ayam yg tergendala but lerrr...opah & co dah nak balik le pulak. I pi cari kulit tertanggal nak kebumikan tapi takde. Ish..takkan miau2 dah makan kut. Miau2 bandar ni biasa makan sekut je. Then baru i teringat, mesti terlekat kat tissue tu. Haiya! Moral of the story, kalau luka cenggitu, sila balut dgn clean hanky or kalau takde hanky tea towel ke apa2 asalkan bersih.

A few days later i bawak pi GP dekat rumah utk tukar dressing. Obviously Little D jerit cam kerasukan sekali lagi. Dr tu cakap, 'adik, dr belum sentuh jari pun lagi...cuba tanya mak. Masa mak beranakkan adik dulu lagi sakit'. Aiya..dr ni...cakap cam tu kat budak yg std 1 pun belum. Dia ingat dia keluar dari perut i bila i kentut. Pendekatan saikologi yg kurang bagus. I cakap kat dr, ' saya tak rasa sakit langsung. Dua2 GA je'. Sib baik tak tanya napa GA - because i'm just too posh to push boleh?? Yg ni kena 25 inggit. Maybe not that much (although lepas lunch 3 hari) but keriaunya si Little D tu...me don't know where to put me face.

2nd dressing mak nya buat sendiri kat rumah je. Jimat tenaga dan wang. Nanti bukak sutures nanti kita pi jumpa Uncle Baung or Uncle MSU ye?  Mak kau part tu lemah sikit ye (geli benang hitam). Ok, layan pictures.

After 6 days. Little D tengah tido masa i tukar dressing. Part yg masih merah tu is where some tissues have been lost.

(malas nak rotate picture. Imagine it rotated 90deg to the left). Hi Aunty Esah. Mummy suh buat finger sign kat Aunty. Tuhan tu maha kaya, jari yg berbalut tu tak boleh bengkok, so jadilah peace sign instead.....

Balutan agak kurang kemas pasal no practise...the area i usually work on tak yah pakai bandage.

Sekian.