Yellow Banana Boy

I developed jaundice on my 3rd day. They poked my foot with a needle and took some blood for me. It is painful.

Mummy cries because she was ready to go home and yet I can't go home. I have to be under this blue light called phototheraphy. It's so hot under the blue light and they cover both my eyes with black mask like Zorro. They also covered my head with white strofoam, the ones that people use to wrap around apples or pears at the fruit shop.

I have to be under the light for 24 hours. Even when I'm awake, I can't open my eyes because of the black mask. It is horrible because I can't be wheeled to Mummy's room anymore. I get to see Mummy and Daddy only for 10 minutes, three times a day. Mummy decided to stay back because she can't bear to go home without me.

The next day, they poked my foot again and tested my jaundice level. It was still 10 and the doctor said it's better to be under the blue lights for another 24 hours. Mummy said the doctor just wanted to earn some money because I wasn't that yellow but anyway, just to be safe, Daddy and her stayed another night with me at the hospital. Mummy's got baby blues because of this and every time she thinks of me under the blue lights, she cries.

Thankfully, my jaundice level went down after two days after phototheraphy. I went home with Mummy, Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa. That wasn't the end of my jaundice though coz I was so yellow again after that. I'm trying my best to be pink. Grandma holds me under the sun every morning till I get tanned. I am no more the little pink baby. I am so tanned, almost like Mummy was when she went sunbathing in Bali.