Nadhirah the Brave

Today while we went swimming at Tampines Swimming complex, Nadhirah fell down from one of the children's slide and got a gaping wound underneath her chin. It was really deep and wide.

Immediately we went to street 11 but all the clinics had already closed, but we did found one infront of blk 335, but that damn doctor was either too stupid or scared to stitched her up, and told us to go somewhere else..

Finally we found one doctor infront of Springfield primary school. He gave us 2 options, 1 was to stitched up the wound or another option is to just leave it to heal by itself, but it will leave a scar. Afraid of infections, I ask him to stitched her up immediately.

I was beside her during the 30 minutes minor surgery. She was such a brave girl, she didn't cry when the doctor had to inject her about 5 times directly in the wound. And she lay down very very still the whole time the doctor poke her with needle and thread. Even the doctor and nurses were very surprised. They kept saying she is such a brave and good girl, and this type of child should be "sayang" as much as possible. I was proud of her, and seeing like that breaks my heart. She is indeed a very tough girl.

Anyway she's ok already, 11 stitches in total and the thread will be taken out next week.