The lil’ dude and his family…

Excerpt from Wiki:

Balanitis is inflammation of the glans penis (from Greek: βάλανος balanos “acorn”). When the foreskin (or prepuce) is also affected, it is termed balanoposthitis.

We were all looking forward to the long weekend last week because there was nothing planned (which is rare!) and we just wanted to laze around at homelah. But alas. While we were visiting my cousin and her newborn baby at my aunt’s place, Irfan complained that his penis was painful. I saw that it was quite swollen and there were some pus on his undies. Didn’t wait any longer and brought him to SJMC once we arrived home.

The paed said that what he has is balanitis and that he needed to be admitted (yet again!) and to be given antibiotics thru the IV (yes, yet again!). It is pretty common for uncircumcised boys to be getting this but it is my first time of ever hearing the word “balanitis”. She even scheduled for us to meet with the surgeon the next day to see if Irfan needed any surgery done a.s.a.p.

Like the previous time, I decided to take the home leave again because I just cannot stand sleeping in the hospital. We left SJMC around 1130pm on Friday night and got back to SJMC around 815am on Saturday morning. After the paed checked him and saw that that the swelling has subsided, I ran off for a bit to Bangsar for an important meet. By the time I got back to SJMC, Irfan was being wheeled out to the surgeon’s clinic. And 5 mins later, I was trying hard to not faint when he said that Irfan needs to be circumcised in a few days. Alamak! How to handle him lah? Mr I-cannot-sit-still-for-one-second?

So anyway, fast forward to Wednesday and he’s all circumcised and in pain and cranky. Everyone knows that a cranky toddler = cranky parents, so yeah, we haven’t really had proper sleep since errrr last week maybe and I don’t know if I can hold the fort any longer. Thankfully, we’re staying at my parents’ so at least they can help us out when we’re all knackered but when Irfan stays up the whole night and wants us to chat with him to take his mind off the pain takkan nak ask my parents to take our place? :P

Wish us luck for tonight!