Isabelle's "Trigger Thumb"

This is Isabelle's first surgery and hope it's the last ofcourse. We "check-in" to the hospital and waited in the room for a couple of hours before we were called into the Operation Theater.

Nurser trying to give Belle a pre-checkup before the operation.



Here's a pic of her in the room waiting patiently. We were both so bored in the room, lucky that I bought some of her toys and puzzles along to keep her entertained.

Her operation was scheduled to be at 1:30pm. At 1:15, we were asked to be prepared to walk to the OT. Belle didn't want to be pushed sitting on the bed so I had to carry her. I was also asked to changed and followed the nurse and doctor into the OT because they knew Belle wouldn't just go in without her mommy. They put the anesthetic mask over Belle noise so she can breath in and within less than a minute, she's sleeping like a baby.  Operation only took 30 minutes and its done!

Belle cried so badly right after she's awake. She didn't like the bandage on both her hands and she got very frustrated and keep wanting to pull off the bandage. The nurse tried so hard to calm her down, gave her a glove balloon and it didn't work. It took quite a while before we could calm her down and we walked back to our room.

After a while, i gave her some water and then milk. She felt much better after taking her milk. I guess she was very very hungry as well cause she has been fasting since 7:30am in the morning until after her operation completed. Poor girl.


After the operation

Bandage on her Right hand

Daddy bought some balloons to make her feel better

Next day morning. So bored in the room waiting for doc to visit

Yay! Finally Doc is here. Doc changing the dressing on Belle's hand after which we can be release and discharge to go home.

Belle had Urinary Tract Infections

At age 2, Isabelle tested with Urinary Tract Infections. When I first found out, it was when she tells me "mommy, pain" when you pass urine. Not just once but a few times. I was quite worried as I have UTI before and I know very well how much pain it was for me more so for a 2 years old.

I took Isabelle to see doc and told doc everything. We took Belle's urine sample for a test and true enough that in her test results, there was some bacteria trace found and there were some other traces on her white and red blood cells as well. Thank god that after 5 weeks giving Belle her antibiotic medicine, she has recovered from UTI. Upon next visit at doc again for another urine test, the red and white blood cells readings were back to normal and there were only slight traces of bacteria found. Doc says that might just be caused by contamination when I collected Belle's urine.

We have to be very careful in managing Belle's hygiene cause as doc says, if Belle were to get UTI again the second time, he will have to do some serious test on belle which includes putting in a tube into her ureter to take some tissue and samples cells. This sounded so serious.

The disadvantage of being a female :P