CERITA KUCING, HIGH PROTEIN DIET, DAN ICU

assalamualaikum.
selamat berpuasa hari ke 6 to all. smg amalan kita diterima, insya allah.

a very cute story in a medical ward.

on thursday i went up to review a patient. septicemia case, with DM and HPT. he also has gastritis. Pt is LOA, but appetite is improving, and he is on soft diabetic diet. Has been losing wt for the past couple of months, and he appear wasted. high protein diet it is to the pt. i prescribe milk supplement to him before, but he could not tolerate the milk -nausea and vomiting. so i gave him modular protein supplement to be added to his porridge. Alhamdulillah he tolerate it well.

Well that is not the cute story i'm about to tell. so when i review this pt, the sister of the ward happened to be there as well. she is a very funny-cute-motherly lady. but she always forget my name. from perak she is, thus its easier for her to call me YONG (i believed it is a nama manja for girl in perak). so we discussed a lil bit about the pt's progress and high protein diet. and then suddenly she told me that her cat was once hospitalized, warded in icu, and given high protein diet. i was like huh???

yup, high protein diet for cat. ok lets call the cat lionel messi (bukan nama sebenar). poor messi has stunted growth. his brother has grown big but he is still small. he also developed diarrhea and vomiting. he has become so thin. so being a concern owner she is, the sister brought messi to the animal medical center in jalan tun razak (or is it jalan ipoh? x igt laa). he was warded in the cat icu, and given drip bcos he was dehydrated. and then he was given high protein diet (for catch up growth). well i heard of veterinar clinic before, but icu for cat? that was my 1st time. i forgot the name of the high protein foods for cat sorry.

nway messi was warded for several days (cost for cat icu is rm50, not including meds and foods, per day). the sister mentioned that his condition is improving. ever heard of a pet always know his owner? whenever the sister pay a visit to him, he will meow and cheer up. (but to a friend, who 'raised' fishes, aku x sure la pulak kan ikan kenal x owner dia ;) nway all d best to the new batch, dont worry nama mcm tough insya allah kekal la yg ni). well back to the story, messi was discharged after a few days of treatment. sister still continue his high protein diet for quite sometimes after that, and she said that messi's development has improved a lot since then. he grows bigger, the fur becomes shinier, and he becomes more active, portraying the name messi (though it is not his real name).

what i want to highlight here is right diet, appropriate to ur condition is very important. even animal shows significant changes when correct theraputic diet is implemented to him. dietetics has become one of the important treatment of a patient, because a pt's nutritional status as well as dietary intake pretty much affecting the prognosis of that particular diseases. 

funny part of the story is how the sister so enthusiastically tell me the story in the middle of the ward. the other staff nurse, overhearing the story, were smiling to us. she show me the picture of messi, from before warded, when in icu, and upon discharge. imagine she has like 600+ pictures in her phone's memory, so she has to scroll one by one to look for it. kite x sampai hati nak cakap x payah susah2, sbb die semangat sgt, so kite layan je la ;) then she realized she didnt have the latest pic of messi (who is perfectly healthy now), so she promised me to take one. fulfilling her promise, right after i counseled wt reduction diet to a pt yesterday (friday) she called me:

sister: yong, dah habis tgk pt ke?

me: dah counseling dah pt bed ** tu. ade refer lg ke sister?

sister: x de dah. nak turun dah ke? kejap. 

me: knp ade sample biskut raya ke (hehe)

sister: ni, awak (yes she called herself awak mcm usop wilcha tu) kan dah janji nak tunjuk gmbr messi yg terbaru. smlm awak dah amik gmbr die. jap eh.

*taking out her phone, scroll the pics, and show me a healthy, shiny, gorjes cat*

me: wow chumilnya..........bagus la diet die.

sister: tu la, die byk girlfriend tau skrg. 

monolog dalaman saya: hai tu pon nak cite ke sister??? haii laaa. 

well thats about it. cute kan cerita ni? baik cakap cute. kongkong nih. ;)

p/s dah selamat smpai umah pkl 9.30 mlm. teki-teki: kalau kite gembira kite cakap seronok kan? kalau gembira banyak kite cakap ape? jwpn: beronok-ronok!