Hospital stay in Australia

These few days been really tiring. Now can still feel the body trying to get the balance back. Saturday morning walked half an hour to the Chinese school since Joe was staying with Chantz in hospital. After lesson, we went for lunch at a Japanese restuarant before sending the kids to school. We took the route via Strathfield and ended up caught in a traffic jam there for half an hour. Seems okay with no accident or road work but somehow traffic was like crawing snail. When we reached hospital, Chantz was happily playing computer games on the provided in starliight house entertainment system. The machine was to be shared with the other patients. After a while, a Cable tV representative appeared and told us to watch the TV we had to pay $8.50. We decided to forgo it since we were not keen on television. However, we soon realized there was only 3 channels left and it was no fun. Chantz was complaining that he could not watch his favourite TV etc so I called up to ask to reconnect again. However, the lady did not come again till Sunday afternoon. Without TV, chantz was bored as I told him to limit his usage of starlight entertainment set as other patients wanted to have a go too.

Joe left at 4 plus to fetch Charles and Charlynn while I stayed in hospital with Chantz. The whole nite I was reading magazines so I was well entertained but Chantz was complaining of boredom. I did not sleep well or at all since there were babies crying, parents snoring, machine beeping away and nurses coming in to check the kids' temperature. The sofa bed was surprisingly quite comfortable but the noisy environment was not. It was such a horrible experience staying in a 6 beds room with the other kids and parents. We could not do anything since we were on insurance and they only paying or 6 beded ward. The expenses here are about twice as compared to Singapore so we dared not upgrade to a single beded room. Luckily for us, Chantz was discharged yesterday morning and we were spared the agony of sleeping there.

On Sunday, Joe came with Charles Charlynn and Channery. The children had fun at the playground outside the room. I was feeling so tired so I really wanted to go back earlier. We ended up leaving only at 4 plus. I was really nervous as I was not sure how to drive back home but luckily I was not that bad la. Found the way home safely and quickly. Kids wanted to stay in so I cooked some simple fare for dinner. After that, I tried to watch Singapore NDP online but could not do so. anyway, too tired to figure it out so we watch TV instead.

Really felt happy not having to drive all the way to the children hospital or eating the not so tasty food there. As parents, we really have no control over our kids mishap and accidents. Staying in hospital has always been bad experience and I hope I don't have to do so again.