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Today is the 3rd day Thordeus caught a fever. When he wakes up this morning, there are a bunch of small red dots migrating to his face (since yesterday it was on his back and a few on his stomach). I freaked up straight away and decide to bring him to see a doctor. Actually I want to go yesterday but since it was Sunday so no doctor that I recognize will want to see a patient. I called Dr Gede and he sounds very friendly, funny, and supporting on the phone, he said to give Thordeus paracetamol first to control his fever and comes back to see him on Monday and saying that Thordeus might need a blood test because I was telling him that there are red rash in his body.
Went to Dr Gede at Total Life Clinic at 10.00 AM and got number 34 already...I was like WHATTT!!! but when I confirm to the nurse I actually are on the 3rd queue. Maybe because Dr Gede is so high tech thats why people are registering online which cause the massive queues.
The clinic itself I've been there to see Dr. Amang when I was pregnant. It was the most beautiful clinic in Surabaya with its own Hi Tech waiting room. They have an APPLE computer there where you can surf the internet, if I'm not wrong there are 3 of them, FREE Wifi of course, and they also give you cups when you pay for your administration fee so you can get FREE drinks such as MILO or Coffee there.
Now the price...this is a bit expensive in my opinion, the administration fee itself is IDR 40.000 where you have to pay everytime you see a doctor there. The doctor fee itself is IDR 200.000. My own pediatric which located in Pakuwon City near my house named Tony Chandra only cost IDR 125.000 but this time I want to try and search for other pediatric so that I have more experiences with pediatric. So far...Tony Chandra wins :) I will tell you why soon.
As I said before I was only in the 3rd queue, but the wait is more than 30 minutes, well after I came in I know why...the doctor is very talkative and sometimes he talks about something that has nothing to do with why you comes in to see him, well in my case he mentioned about how nowadays Air Conditioning doesn't even have a manual for exhaust system.
While waiting, Thordeus is very happy to play in the playground area. They seems like to change the toys every now and then, I see that they have partnership with www.toys4rent.biz. Today's toys is showed below in the picture. He surely loves to climb up and slide also to hide in the area under the slide. It has a small door and window, good activity to keep him busy while waiting. The playground area also showed below, picture taken from Google, so just imagine to put the swing in the playground area hehehe.
Okay now move on to the consultation material. First within registration, the nurse measure the weight and the head circumference. And then stepping into the doctor's room., at first I thought that the doctor is very friendly, he doesn't checking on Thor and do his normal doctor job first, instead he plays with Thor...I was like...wow niceee. And then he sees what the fuss is all about. Thor's fever is diagnosed due to what we call in Javanese: Gabagen. He caught this due to virus contamination via air so this is very hard to be avoided. The only way to avoid is not to go out to public places where there are minimum air circulation (guess this is where the air conditioner with no exhaust topic comes on and takes up quite sometimes just to explain this to us). When the red dots come all out then the fever will cease to exist. The medicine that the doctor prescribes is only to control the fever and to lighten any body pain. Gabagen patient should feel discomfort, feeling sore in their joints or parts of their body, and in a baby are expected to be restless at night.
Myths vs Facts:
- Old people said that Gabagen children should not shower and not to be taken out exposed to wind.
Doctor said...this disease has nothing to do with air or water so please just shower your child and its okay to expose them to the wind but I guess...why would you?
- Old people said that when a child is teething, child may caught a fever.
Doctor said, when a child caught a fever there are other problems thats going on, fever is unrelated to teething. But in my opinion, everytime Thor's tooth emerge...he always caught a slight fever and his poop become watery so I guess I dont know about this, which to believe?
- Old people said if Gabagen we have to make sure that all the red dots is coming out, do not let is stop otherwise it will be dangerous for the baby.
Doctor said, even if you shower or let your baby exposed to wind, the red dots will keep coming out. It is not because you shower or exposed to wind that the red dots become more or less, if it is going to come out, it will come out no matter what.
He gives Thor a prescription, I will take a picture and put in here later so maybe if your child get Gabagen you can just copy my prescription since now that I know all this, I don't think that going to doctor is necessary. I force my husband to drive me to this doctor and he said that I am just buying a peace of mind hahaha, well that is actually what counts, otherwise today all day I will be worry why my son got this reddish dots all over his body, now at this very moment at this night it has travelled to his arms and leg but his fever is stable at 37.5 - 37.9 not hitting 38 Celcius yet and that is taken temperature from his ear.
Now why I will not come back to this doctor. I do not really like the way he talks, seems like he is provoking and the way he jokes is not funny. Just like when my husband asks about medicine dose which is prescribed as puyer (drug powder). My husband asks if we give one sachet or just a half. Dr Gede answered like this, "Why would the apoteker make one sachet for several time, it is troublesome, have you never take a drug powder? Do you really drink one a tenth of a drug powder?" (bahasa sebenarnya: lho ngapain kok satu puyer diminum bbrp kali, malah ngerepoti lak an kalo porsine satu dibagi2, km ini ga pernah minum puyer ta? masa ya satu sachet dibagi 10x). I was giving my husband a wry smile. I knew that he doesnt like the doctor to react that way since he was only asking very nicely and my husband is a very soft and humble man even though he is a big daddy hehehe.
Moreover, in the back of Thordeus's head there are like a little marbles, it is a lymph node. I asked the doctor is this because of the fever or teething or any infection? He touched Thor's head thoroughly and said that if the lymph node is swelling means there are infection maybe somewhere on the top, but when he checked there are none. And he answered me more like this, "Please just dont connect one case to another, such as this lymph node and the fever, you should see the timeline which one comes first". Now with my question hasnt been answered in the way that makes me satisfied, I asked again..."so is the lymph node is okay?" He answered, "if it doesnt get bigger then its okay." And I go, "But it has gotten bigger since this red rash, is it okay?" Dr Gede answered again, "As long as the swelling comes down its okay, it has swollen so you cant expect it to dissapear just like that, overtime it will be gone." Finally I get the answer that I need to hear and I am satisfied with it, but the way he answered is just haiz...seems like he is joking because his voice is not serious, even with my husband also his way of speaking is like joking but the content of the joke itself is offensive.
Finish with the consultation, he gave us the prescription which I will post the picture later in the end of this story, we were waiting for the medicine for quite a while again. I took Thor to go to level 3 where Lineage baby and spa is, I have an appointment for this morning but when I go there they said that they cannot massage a fever baby. Well massage for another time then Thor :)
While waiting for our medicine, I dont go back to level 1, in this level they also have toys yayyy, keeping Thor busy again. So if your kids are bored in level 1 just take them to level 3, there are a small playground :) Here is the picture courtesy by Mr Google again. It is not possible for me to takes pictures while busy attending Thor here and there.
Finally my husband came with the medicine. Everything costs only IDR 29.000. With Dr Gede the consultation fee is expensive but the medicine is cheap. With Dr Tony Chandra the consultation is cheap but medicine always variate and expensive hehehe
Thats all for today :) If you have any question or more just email me, I will try to answer you within my knowledge.
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Note: Thordeus do get better in day 4, fever comes down permanently and the red rash slowly starting to fade away. Here is the prescription as I promised. Also Thor's medicine end up not being consumed at all so if any of you in Surabaya area just let me know by sms to 085931155518 and I will give it to you for FREE.
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