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Hugs,
Mel

What The Hell?

Gak bisa masuk blog sendiri, udah 3 hari. Anehnya, masuk ke Dashboardnya bisa...
Kalau begini mulu, gue pindah ke blogsome neh..

Please oh please

Malam ke 4. Masih belum bisa tidur.
Rupanya obat yang membuat reaksi alergi ini belum bisa juga tersapu bersih dari sistem tubuh saya.
Malam ini sekujur tubuh saya masih penuh dengan rashes dan membengkak sampai di seluruh permukaan kulit kepala.
Rasanya? Jangan ditanya.

Obat antihistamin dari dokter sudah diminum, masih bukan main rasanya.

Saya hanya berharap besok ini sudah mereda.
Saya harus pergi menemui suami saya di seberang lautan sana.
Saya tidak ingin mengecewakan anak-anak yang sudah rindu Ayahnya.

Tolong Tuhan.
Bukankah aku adalah umat-Mu yang selama ini tidak banyak meminta?
Bolehkan kuminta Kau memberikanku kesehatan agar wajah-wajah mungil itu tidak dihiasi air mata?
Bukan untukku Tuhan, tapi untuk mereka, anak-anakku tercinta.
Boleh kan?

The Doctor's (NOT) Always Right

Sewaktu saya menulis entry ini, sekujur tubuh saya sedang dipenuhi bercak merah membengkak yang mirip dengan yang disebut orang Sunda sebagai Kaligata, atau orang Jawa lebih suka menyebutnya dengan Biduren.

Tidak terlalu mirip karena Kaligata atau Biduren biasanya tidak merah membara seperti ini.
Bekasnya pun setelah mengempis menjadi kehitaman.

Ini adalah malam ketiga saya tidak bisa tidur karena rasa gatal dan tidak nyaman yang sangat mengganggu.
Dan yang membuat saya sangat jengkel adalah malam ini seharusnya tidak perlu begini rasanya andaikan saja dokter saya mendengarkan kata-kata saya dengan seksama dan meluangkan waktu untuk berpikir dan lebih menganggap serius kondisi saya.

Saya mengalami reaksi alergi terhadap obat atau bahasa kerennya Drug Allergy.

Malam pertama saya menggunakan obat tersebut, saya salah menyimpulkan. Karena sebelumnya saya pernah memakai obat dengan komposisi dan merek yang sama, saya datang ke dokter dan mengeluhkan reaksi alergi di kulit dengan menyalahkan obat jenis lain yang kebetulan saya minum pada saat yang bersamaan.
Dokter yang saya datangi kali ini cukup mendengarkan saya, dan memberikan suntikan netralisir dan menyarankan saya untuk menyetop pemakaian obat yang diduga menyebabkan alergi tersebut.

Obat yang satunya (yang sudah pernah saya pakai) diperbolehkan untuk dilanjutkan.

Malam kedua, serangan datang jam 2 malam, walaupun obat yang diduga awal sebagai penyebab alergi sudah dihentikan. Bercak merah yang membengkak mulai muncul sekitar 3 jam setelah pemakaian obat.
Saya menahan diri untuk tidak pergi ke dokter walaupun sekujur tubuh saya sudah bengkak merata.
Saya pikir sebaiknya saya datang langsung ke spesialisnya, untuk pendapat kedua.
Setelah 6 jam pemakaian, bengkaknya mereda. Hari hampir pagi.

Hari ke 3.
Saya memutuskan untuk meminta pendapat kedua dari dokter spesialis (dokter sebelumnya adalah dokter umum).
Malam ke 3 saya datang ke prakteknya dan menceritakan secara kronologis tentang keluhan saya.
Waktu saya menyampaikan dugaan saya bahwa saya kemungkinan alergi terhadap obat yang memang biasa dikonsumsi oleh saya tersebut, dia tidak mempedulikan pendapat saya.
Dengan ngotot diberikannya lagi obat tersebut dalam resepnya (walaupun jelas2 saya bilang saya sudah punya obatnya di rumah dengan jenis yang persis sama, hanya beda nama paten).
Obat ini harganya cukup premium. Untung saya mengenali nama obat yang ditulis cakar ayam olehnya di dalam resep tersebut dan saya bertanya kepada apotekernya.
Confirm.
Saya diberikan obat yang sama yang saya katakan kemungkinan merupakan penyebab reaksi alergi saya!


Saya batalkan pembelian obat tsb, dan saya hanya menebus obat tambahan lain yang diberikan dokter tersebut.

Oleh karena saya memang penasaran dan keras kepala dan seringkali mengabaikan intuisi saya sendiri, malam ini saya gunakan lagi obat yang saya duga menyebabkan alergi tersebut, sesuai dengan saran dokter spesialis yang sama keras kepalanya dengan saya.

Ternyata intuisi saya yang benar. Padahal saya tahu persis secara genetik memang saya dan keluarga saya punya reaksi alergi yang unpredictable. Tapi saya abaikan intuisi saya.

Dan saya harus menanggung kebodohan saya dan ketidakpedulian dokter dengan 1 malam lagi tidak tidur.

Sudahlah, Mel.
Nikmati saja upah kengototanmu.

Jadi ingat kata Abang, "Dulu kan juga kamu gak alergi udang, terus tiba2 out of the blue kamu alergi dengan udang." "Mungkin ini kasus yang sama, dulu kamu gak alergi dengan obat itu, sekarang alergi."

Abang adalah Engineer, bukan Doctor. Itu mengapa tidak terlalu saya percayai "second opinion" nya.

Apakah ini berarti saya harus mulai berobat kepada Engineer?

Instead of mushy emails, he send me a "TRAVELLING WITH KIDS TO DALIAN-CHINA FOR DUMMIES " By Ambar Hidayat :)) (Isn't he lovely?) :))

Departure from Singapore

1. DO NOT FORGET TO BRING A PEN
2. DO NOT FORGET TO BRING THE PASSPORTS
3. DO NOT PUT ANY SHARP OBJECT IN YOUR HAND LUGGAGE.
4. SUGGESTION: Bring 1 / 2 back pack with you (including camera bag) and 1 backpack for every kid.
5. DO NOT FORGET TO BRING JACKETS. Ask the children to wear their jacket or put their jacket in their back pack.
6. The limit of luggage is 20 kg per person
7. Try to arrive in Changi airport 2 hours before departure time to give a spare time to do something else.
8. At the moment you arrived in airport, go straight to check in counter. Remember, normally the queue is quite long and take about 30 minutes to check in (normal service time), but some time it can take more 60 minutes when they have problem.
9. Try to put as many as possible thing in your luggage so you do not need to bring a heavy and many things with you. It is better and helpful if you have as minimum as possible thing with you, because you need walk long way when you're arrived in Beijing.
10. After you have finished the check in process, save your Passport and Boarding pass. Then do preparation as follow as minimum.
1. Ask the children to go to Toilet
2. Serve them and yourself a breakfast (If not taken yet, it is a must)
3. Bring along the simple meals for lunch.
4. Bring along a small bottle of non soda drink for every body, if possible DO NOT OPEN THE SEAL BEFORE YOU BOARD.
5. Bring some tidbits for the kids. But DO NOT BRING TOO MUCH OF IT. It will be trouble some when you have to do X-Ray Scan.
6. Put the lunch meal, drink, and tidbits for them self in the back pack.
11. DOUBLE CHECK YOUR HAND LUGGAGES.
1. Make your hand luggage compact, light and minimum number.
2. If you put the jackets in the back pack, put it on the top.
3. Put your hand phone in the hand bag.
4. Ensure your passport and boarding pass in place.
12. Proceed to Immigration desk. Prepare all your passport and boarding pass in hand.
13. After passed through Immigration Desk, proceed to boarding gate and wait for the flight there. At the gate, the airport staff will give you 2 form for every body, they are Health Statement Form and Custom Form. Keep the forms in your hand/back pack.

Be aware that you need x-ray scan all your hand luggage and jackets. If the alarm is beeping, just relax and go to the officer who calls you. Normally they will ask you to lift your arm while scanning your body manually.

At the moment before boarding, allow yourself and the kids to go to toilet again.

14. BOARDING. Once you boarded, do preparation as follow.
1. Put all of your luggage in the luggage rack. And take a sit first. Arrange your seat so the youngest kid will be close to yourself.
2. When there is no boarding crowd anymore, take out the jackets, drink and tidbits from the bags. Put them nicely in the pocket in front of your seats. You can do this arrangement before you put your luggage in the rack if it is possible.
3. Please remind the kids about safety equipment again. If the flight attendant forgot to give you the kid's life jacket, ask them.

15. ENJOY THE FLIGHT :) :) :) <<<----aseeeeeemmmmm!!!! udah tau gue takut terbang :P
16. At one moment on flight the flight attendant will distribute the China Entry Form. You need to take it, one for every body.
17. When you have chance, fill all of the forms. Health Statement Form, Custom Form and Chine Entry Form. YOU HAVE TO FILL THE FORM BEFORE LANDING. Put the forms together with the passports.
18. During journey, you have to allow yourself and the kids to walk around for every 1 hour at least. This is to allow your blood circulation keep going in good way.

Arriving in Beijing

If you are arriving into Beijing, you will be arriving into the main International Terminal.

1. Follow the signs/or people at the same flight to Immigration Desk. Prepare your passport and forms. You have to prepare to walk a long distance, on the way there is a stroller you can ride on.
2. The first desk you will get is Health Statement Desk. Prepare your health statement form and hand over to the staff while you pass through the gate.
3. Come through the Immigration Desk. The foreigner booths are on your right. Prepare your passport and China Entry Form. The officer will check your passport and take the China Entry Form.
4. Proceed to collect your luggage on the conveyor. While waiting for the luggage, search for the sign “LUGGAGE TRANSFER” or some kind of it. If I’m not wrong the path is behind the luggage conveyor.
5. After collecting the luggage, DO NOT proceed to EXIT Door, but proceed to Luggage Transfer Desk. Follow the sign to go to there.
6. The Transfer Luggage Transfer Desk is similar to Check-in desk complete with weighing conveyor. Once you get there, transfer the luggage. Hand over your Beijing-Dalian Boarding Pass and luggage coupons. They will not give you anything, you just need to hand over the luggage to them and they will do something to their computer to record your luggage and that’s all. Ensure all your luggage coupons still in place.

BE AWARE. Normally at your Beijing-Dalian Boarding pass, there is no departure gate yet. ASK THE OFFICER YOUR DEPARTURE GATE.

7. After that you can exit. When you exit, do not go to another terminal. KEEP IN SAME TERMINAL.

Be aware that there’s a domestic departures terminal area at the end of the main Terminal which is where most of the local airlines are located. Again beware, that with limited sign, there is an overhead walkway to another Terminal. This Terminal is for Domestic Departure, which is where China Southern Airlines flies from. This is a 10 minute stroll.

DO NOT GO TO THERE, your domestic departure terminal is at the same building as your international arrival terminal.

8. At the underground floor, there is KFC where you and the kids can have your dinner.
9. Beware, the Domestic Departures is not well signposted at the international arrival area, so its turn right and then go up to second floor. Left entry is domestic Departure Terminal, and right entry is International Departure Terminal.

Departure From Beijing

1. Proceed to Domestic Departure Terminal about 2 hours before departure time. The terminal at the second floor, left entry.
2. Again, do some preparation as before as you proceed to departure terminal.
3. Go to Security Check Desk. Normally, the queues are very long. Prepare your passports and boarding pass to be check by security officer.
4. Follow the queue at the X-ray scanning area. Remember to all your stuff including your wallet in the bag, otherwise the officer will ask you to take them out from your pocket and put them into a basket/tray. Prepare to takeoff your jacket to be scanned as well.
5. If alarm is beeping while you pass through the scanning gate, just relax and go to the officer who call you. Again, normally they will ask you to open/lift your arm while scanning your body manually.
6. After you passed the security check, collect you hand luggage and proceed to departure gate. Just follow the signs to go to your designated gate.
7. For some flight, we need to take provided bus to board. If you need to do so, keep the children secured close to you because there is no seat provided.
8. Please be aware, in the flight Beijing Dalian, there is no meal provided, but anyhow, the flight is only for about 1 hour 5 minutes.

Arriving in Dalian

1. When you are arrived in Dalian Airport, just follow the signs to luggage conveyor to collect it.
2. If you are wiling to pay more for taxi fare for convenient and safety, there are some transportation service in airport. Usually their staff will ask you while you waiting the luggage. The fare is vary, depends on the destination. To Shangri-La Hotel, the fare is about 60 RMB only.
3. It is recommended to take this service, as you bring the children. But you still can take the normal taxi with fare about 30-40 RMB. But, NEVER TAKE an UNOFFICIAL TAXI.
4. When you passing through the airport gate, prepare your luggage coupons. The airport staff will check your luggage against the coupon.
5. WELL DONE, YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN DALIAN :) :)

Abang : Hehehehe, makasih, Beib..
Nulis full instruction panjang lebar dalam Bahasa Inggris kayaknya masih mending daripada disuruh bikin surat cinta ya? :))
I know this is your way to show you love me, and I love how you love me ;)

The Boy With A Beautiful Heart

Tadi pagi

Me : Adek, after gym today I'll go to Oom Reky's Salon ya..

Adam : Oh, what for?

Me : I need to cut my hair.

Adam : Why?

Me : You see this, all curly and wild, it's ugly.

Adam : But I like the curls, Mak.. You look beautiful with that curls.

Me : Baby, I'm just okay, I'm not beautiful.

Adam : You always beautiful for me, Mak. And I like the curls. Don't cut it!

Me : *nawar* A lil bit?

Adam : Okay.. But I like you with curls. And your hair smells nice and very soft.

Me : (dalam hati) smooth talker... mudah2an sudah besar tidak jadi playboy kamu, Nak.


:))

My Miracle Baby

Selamat Ulang Tahun ke 5, Cinta..
Setiap hari senyummu menghangatkan sukmaku..

Duh Nak, sisakan sedikit hatiku untuk Bapakmu.

:)

Pressure Cooker

Di telepon

Aku : Hey, keur naon?

Dia : Hehehe ieu keur nyobaan Pressure Cooker anyar.

Aku : Meni gaya! Meuli pressure cooker sagala!

Dia : Hahahaha ieu mah gratis, nyaan!

Aku : Ma enya teuing! Ti mana???

Dia : Langganan majalah Women's Weekly sataun! Beunang pressure cooker!

Aku : Eh enya bener! Urang ge nempo iklanna! Langganan ah!

Dia : Pipilueun!!

Aku : Bae!!



Esoknya. Di rumah Dia.

Aku : Beak!! Beak!!! Kamana-mana beak, euweuh stock ceunah!!

Dia : Hahahahahahahahahaha

Aku : Ningali, mana pressure cookerna?

Dia : Tah aya di dapur.

Aku : HUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA leutik leutik teuing pressure cooker teh!!
Ieu mah keur ngagoreng lumpia tilu siki ge geus pinuh!!!

Dia : Bae ah, nu penting haratis!!

Aku dan Dia : Hahahahahahahahaha


Kurasa ia hanya sempat membaca beberapa edisi saja dari Women's Weekly yang datang bulan2 sesudahnya...
*sigh*
Aku rindu. Tiada hari tanpa aku ingat dia.

Guilty As Charge

Never feel so guilty when this afternoon while eating an Rp. 40.000,- meal (if you call 3 small size siew mays and 2 mini size lor mai kais are really 'a meal') in a quite posh Chinese Restaurant in Nagoya Hill (hey, it was supposed to be a reward cause I lost 10 kg in 2 months), I saw a family of three, a dad, a mom, and a little girl, and I overheard the Daddy say to the crying little girl, "No KFC for today, Darling." "We've been to KFC last month on your birthday, didn't we?"