Cass’ MRU At HKL (8-10 September 2022)

From what was supposed to be a one-day procedure at the hospital, Cass ended up spending 3 days at the hospital. Dang Murphy’s Law! Cass seems to attract Murphy’s Law quite a bit in a hospital setting.

It was an indeed eventful 3 days at the hospital.

First we waited in vain the entire day on Thursday for Cass’ MRU procedure. The appointment was for 3 p.m.

At 5 p.m., the nurse at the Institute of Urology & Nephrology ward gave Cass a specimen bottle and told Cass to collect sample of her urine for a pregnancy test! Cass had done an MRU twice in the past and was never told to take a pregnancy test. The MRU was done when she was 6 YO and 12+ YO.

After waiting the entire day at the ward, I was too tired to ask the nurse why a pregnancy test was needed. I surmised that the test is a protocol for MRU for female teenagers and above. This is because MRU involves the administration of a contrast material which may harm the fetus.

Next, the Urology team MO told us that Cass’ procedure had to be postponed to the next day. Why the h*ll tell us only after we had waited the entire day?! And the MO insisted that Cass stayed overnight at the ward so that she would not miss her slot at 8 a.m. the next day. Cass was reluctant as she would be sleeping there without me. But as usual, our Miss Spunky agreed and took everything in stride courageously.

I took a Grab car home, had a super quick dinner, packed Cass’ stuff and hubs rushed me back to the hospital before 8.30 p.m. to pass the stuff to Cass.

Also, the nurse inserted the IV catheter wrongly into Cass’ hand twice. There are different colors of cap on the catheters to signify that they’re for different procedures. One is for IV drip and the other color is for contrast material. Different colored caps are for different purposes and for insertion at different positions on the hand. The nurse used a different catheter and inserted it at the wrong position on Cass’ hand, twice.

😔

The next morning, a doctor prepped the IV line again for Cass.

There are now blue black bruise marks on three spots on both of Cass’ hands 😞

On Friday, which is the day of Cass’ MRU, things went pretty well initially and she was out of the MRU room after 1.5 hours.

When we were back at the ward, Cass was still OK. I walked across the hospital to get us some pie and quiche from Gloria Jeans and Cass’ favorite drink from Tealive.

After eating the pie, quiche and drink, Cass told me that she felt queasy. Her lips turned grey. I asked her if she wanted me to call the nurse but she told me that she’ll just take a nap. When she woke up from her nap, she told me that she wanted to take a dump in the toilet.

After 20 minutes or so, I went to check on Cass at the toilet. When Cass opened the toilet door, I got a shock. Her face was white and her lips were grey. She did not look normal. She looked drowsy and irritated and kept asking me to tie up her hair with a hair tie. She could not even stand steadily. I told her to forget about pooping and just get back into the ward pronto to get help!! Cass resisted me and I insisted in a serious tone that something is not right with her. As I pulled her out of the toilet, Cass collapsed on me. Luckily I managed to catch Cass fast enough and the super helpful Indonesian cleaner ran to my aid.

When Cass was drifting in and out of consciousness, her dead weight of almost 50kg on my body was really too much for my 42.5kg frame. With all my might I held my child tightly to prop her up to prevent her from falling. The kakak shouted out to the nurses for help and kept stroking Cass and saying “sayang, tak apa” (love, it’s ok).

I am now suffering from sore arms, similar to the pain I got after my Covid shots.

When Cass was wheeled back to her bed, the MO and nurses came. The chief nurse coaxed her to drink some Milo, another nurse took her blood pressure, set another IV line (on the other hand) for saline drips and the MO kept bombarding me and Cass with questions.

Minutes later, Cass’ lips color changed to pink again and there was colour on her face again. She regained consciousness and was well again in less than 5 minutes! PHEW!! 🥴

Apparently, the contrast material administered intravenously plunged Cass’ blood pressure to a dangerously low reading of below 80!

I was shocked as to why this happened as this is not the first time Cass did an MRU with contrast material administered. She did not suffer from any side effect from the previous two MRU.

I think Haru sensed the danger that her sister was going to go through and wailed the entire night. She didn’t wail when Cass and I went back to Ipoh recently nor did she behave in a bizarre manner when Sherilyn went back to Ipoh early this week. Read my post on Haru’s Six Sense here.

To be continued…

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