ubat..oh ubat..

Kids n sickness..hmm..u cant get away from it.. i am lucky though.. my sister in law, Mehveş aka Meşe is a doctor..so if anyone in the family gets sick...yup! she is the one we go to. In fact in my archive..in the first month of my blogging activity, i did write an entry about her (This lady) though i dunno how to link previous entry to present entry (if anyone knows..can u teach me please?). A very close lady doctor at hand...and this is some of the medicines we have in the house (pls take note..some..NOT all)...these r the ones we put in the fridge..there r also others in the medicine cabinet..and for who do they belong to? Yup! u've guessed it... the kids!!

We try to have our medicine cabinet well stocked just in case of emergencies..i mean if in the middle of the night one of the kids need to use a medicine....i mean come on...u will need to find the open pharmacy to buy the medicine.. at least if our medicine stock is full...the only thing we will need to do is to deal with the sick child..We r lucky though.. if we dont have a certain type of medicine, the rest of the siblings who live very close to us..most definitely will have whatever we r lacking..

I remember my last trip to Malaysia..The kids' first trip to Malaysia..I went to Malaysia on my own at that time. Halil stayed back and only joined us 2 months later as he needed to complete his Ph.D thesis in *peace*..The journey home itself was a nightmare..i will tell u about it later.. and when i was in Malaysia...Pheww..

The kids had the shock of their lives..Not only they lost the environment they were used to, their baba was not there. furthermore, everyone spoke a totally different language and they hang on to me for their dear lives..They ate very little..and my baddin who went to Malaysia as a sumo boy, returned to turkey as a slim boy...They were depressed..n frankly speaking..looking at them like that..i was too.. we were all missing halil terribly..Sickness?? Boy!! they were sick all the time..And the worst thing of all..i was and am used to the system of medicine here. If anyone gets sick..we call meşe... she will consult or check the kids when the needs arise.. she will tell which medicine to use..But in Malaysia...i had none to do so. All i could do was to sms meŞe to consult the sickness..etc... There are doctors in clinics of course..but they were giving medicines..with no name..i mean like in turkey, if u r sick with something, u buy the medicine from the pharmacy. Clinics dont give out medicines.There is a specific name for each type of medicine. But in Malaysia,clinics give out medicines.. the names are not written..n if there are names...they r not the same as the one i am used to though the functions may be the same..i went haywire then..i was mentally ..mental hehehehe Of course we did bring medicines from turkey then..but the selection was not enough..n silly me..i thought the medicines we have in turkey would be the same as the ones in Malaysia...

And this...is my other best friend in need...the vapour machine..the technical name...nebuliser..

U cannot imagine how our lives r made easier by this machine..After we came back from Malaysia..there was one day, baddin had difficulty to breathe. Halil n meşe brought him to the hospital while i stayed back with hatice at home....it was that bad that halil even asked meşe..*is my son gonna die?* after breathing using pulmicort n ventolin vapour..he was better..we had to bring him to the hospital quite many times after that for the nebuliser breathing..He was using the inhaler n taking singulair for quite some time after that..Then halil's compulsory military service came and i was left alone with the kids n my younger sister to accompany me..Baddin was one time having difficulty to breathe again..again..several trips to the hospital for the vapour machine. And I...I got really FED up with the need to go to the hospital for the nebuliser..I asked several pharmacy nearby my apt..and i found one nebuliser for a very reasonable price n bought it...it has been my best friend ever since...if the kids' nose r stuck from flu..with the normal vapour (non medicine) with the help of vapour rub..the kids' breathing become more relaxed...coughing..the same thing...it helps to release the discomfort..the technical explanation..we will have to ask those doctor bloggers to explain... i mean with this machine...i sleep much much more peacefully..a lot more better..becoz at least i know, when the needs arise...i will have at least something in hand...n pulmicort n ventolin liquid for the vapour r always nearby...Alhamdulillah, baddin seems ok now..i stopped using the inhaler for lmost 6 months now...hopefully, the need for him to use any of it will not arise in the future.