Gnojna angina / Slap in the face

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 ~ au ~ 2 Comments

I hate that feeling of expecting something great and instead you get a slap in your face. I expected great time with relatives but Ada got sick… Yesterday evening it all started by Ada being a little bit cranky. She fell asleep at 19h,which is quite unusual for her. I measured Ada´s body temperature to be sure she is ok… and the thermometer showed 39 degrees!! Then the whole Odyssey started trying to get her temperature down. But it simple wasn´t working. During the whole day today Ada was never coming under 38.5 degrees. After a while she refused eating which made me suspect that we have a “throat problem” here. Luckily, we found a doctor in the city and got Ada diagnosed with tonsillitis. Just great. In any case Ada got some antibiotics that will hopefully work in next three days.
In meanwhile I wonder what is really better? Cool her body down to lower the body temperature or just wait? I have read by lowering the fever the agony is just prolonged because the bacteria, viruses are more efficiently fought in 39 degrees than in 37. But when I see Ada suffer I have big problems letting her fight the fever by herself…

Mrzim onaj osjecaj kad ocekujem nesto dobro i dobijem plesku. Ovaj put sam ocekivala super provod sa rodbinom, ali Ada se razbolila… Sinoc mi je postala malo kenkava a i zaspala je u 19h sto je vrlo rano za nju. Odlucim da Adi izmjerim temperaturu… kad ona 39 stepeni. I tako je citava Odiseja pocela sa smanjivanjem temperature. Ali nikako nije islo. Danas citav Adi nije pala temperaturaispod 38.5 . I dodatno je pocela da ne jede. Tako da sam pocela sumnjati nesto sa grlom. Srecom nadjemo doktora i diagnosticira je gnojnom anginom. Samo mi to jos falilo… Prepisan joj je antibiotik s kojim treba, nadam se, tri dana da ozdravi…
Nesto razmisljam… sta je ustvari bolje? Smanjiti aktivno temperaturu ili jednostavno pricekati da se Ada sama izbori s tim? Citala sam ako se smanji temperatura da se agonija produzi jer ipak tijelo ipak bolje unistava viruse i bakterije na 39 nego na 37 stepeni. Ali kad vidim kako se pati onda mi bude zao da je pustim… Ne znam ni ja vise…

Last day in Istanbul / Posljedni dan u Istanbulu

March 31, 2015 ~ au ~ 6 Comments

Looking back at my short trip to Istanbul the last day was to say at least stressful. It started very nice and calm. Our flight was at 19.30h so we had a lot of time… I thought. We packed, and decided to go to the Basilica Cistern because it was close to the hotel. It is 1500 year old cistern that was providing water in bad times. Inside there was also a possibility to get a picture dressed as sultans. It was a mess to get five girls to look in the camera in the same time. During the whole photo session my daughter was screeeeaming. The cistern I found quite nice but it was not so much to see, so I think it is easy to get disappointed. I heard that there are concerts given there and I can imagine that it is magic. For mobility impaired people or buggies you need help because there are no elevators and lots of stairs.
And for the stressful part of the day we almost missed the flight because of traffic jam…

Kad sad gledam unazad na nase putovanje u Istanbul, zadnji dan je bio najblaze receno stresan. Poceo je jako mirno i lijepo. Let nam je isao u 19.30h pa smo imali vremena…to sam ja mislila. Spakovali smo se i otisli u Cisternu Bazilike, koja je blizu hotela bila. To je jedna 1500 godina stara cistern koja je snabdjevala ljude vodom u losim vremenima. Unutra postoji mogucnost da se slikas obucen kao sultan/sultanija. Kroz citavo slikanje Ada je vristala. Cisterna se meni svidjela ali mislim da je lako postati razocaran jer nema bas puno toga za vidjeti. Cula sam da se ponekad organizuju koncerti a to vec mogu zamisliti da je magicno. Za invalide ili djecija kolica vam treba pomoc, jer nema lifta ali puno (klizavih) stepenica..
A za stresni dio dana… skoro smo promasili let zbog saobracaja…

Istanbul day 4/ Istanbul 4. dan

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015 ~ au

4th day in Istanbul was a wonderful day so we decided to skip the museums and visit Asia instead. We went with the metro to Üsküdar station and walked towards the Maiden´s tower but decided not to enter it. I was feeling that it is too complicated with buggy, later of course I regretted it but I will for sure go to Istanbul again so I can see it next time. However, technical seen the metro is incredible. It is fast up til 100km / h, clean ( I said it already before) and it goes 13.6 km UNDER the water!! The deepest point is 60.46m and it took in average 120.000 passengers per day during 2014, and there is a goal that it will take 1.5 million passengers per day. Fascinating 🙂 My niece insisted to go back to Europe with the boat so we enjoyed a short trip with the boat also.

4.i dan u Istanbulu je bio jedan prekrasan suncan dan, tako da smo odlucili da ne idemo po muzejima nego da “skoknemo” do Azije. Isli smo metrom do Üsküdar stanice i prosetali smo do Djevojacke kule. Iskreno mi se nije dalo maltretirati kolicima tako da nisam otisla U toranj. Sad mi je malo zao zbog toga, ali ionako cu ponovo ici u Istanbul tako da cu drugi put to vidjeti. Medjutim, tehnicki gledano metro im je nesto nevjerovatno. Brz je (do 100km/h), cist je (to sam vec prije spomenula) i ide 13.6 km ISPOD vode!! Najdublja tacka je 60.46m i 2014 je putovalo prosjecno 120 000 putnika na dan, a cilj je da na dan putuje 1.5 miliona putnika (?). Fascinantno 🙂
Sestricna je insistirala da idemo brodom nazad za Evropu tako da smo uzivali u kratkoj voznji brodom isto 🙂

In the evening we took a walk in the Gülhan Park.

Navecer smo prosetali kroz Gülhane Park.

Istanbul Day 3 / Istanbul 3.dan

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015 ~ au

Finally the internet started working again (for now), so here are some pics from Istanbul. / Napokon je proradio i internet (za sad) tako da evo jos par slika iz Istanbula.

The 3rd day we got a little bit confused, or rather we were all a little bit unconcentrated. It happens with 2 children around. Somehow we missed that the archeological museum and the Topkapi Palace are two separate museums. We saw a lot of interesting things in the archeological museum. The one piece I liked most was the small marriage contract engraved in clay (I think it was clay). The only negative thing was that the museum wasn´t made for buggies or mobility impaired people. There are no elevators nor ramps and many stairs. Unfortunately, we couldn´t visit the Topkapi Palace after a certain little person refused to go to more museums 😛

3. dan smo se malo zbunile, ili bolje reci bile smo malo nekoncentrisane. Desi se kad imas 2 male djece na putu. Profulalo nas je da su arheoloski muzej i Topkapi Palaca ustvari dva odvojena muzeja. Vidjeli smo dosta zanimljivi stvari u arheoloskom muzej. To sto mi se najvise svidjelo je bio jedan bracni ugovor ugraviran u glinu (ja mislim da je bila glina). Jedino negativno sa muzejom je sto definitivno nije napravljen za osobe sa djecijim kolicima, invalide, ili cak i stariji jer je jako mnogo stepenica, a nema nigdje lifta. Nazalost nismo mogli otici u Topkapi Palaci jer je jedna mala osoba se bunila da nece vise da hoda po muzejima 😛

The Tiled Pavilion Museum or The Tiled Kiosk is the pavilion of the Topkapi Palace. It was made in 1472 by Sultan Mehmed II, as a pleasure palace or kiosk. It has wonderful blue mosaic entrance, and Beautiful collection of islamic art indoors. I also found the colorful windows stunning.

The Tiled Pavilion Muzej (Poplocani Pavilion Muzej) ili Poplocani Kiosk je paviljon od Topkapi Palace. Napravljen je 1472 od Sultana Mehmeda II, kao jedna palaca uzitka ili kao kiosk. Ima predivni ulaz u poplocan plavim mozaikom. Unutra u paviljonu se moze kolekcija prelijepe islamske umjetnost naci. A posebno su mi se svidjeli raznobojnih prozori.

After the visits in the museum we went to the Great Bazaar. Somewhere we read that 90 million people pass through per year! Imagine 90 000 000! Inside the bazaar they had so much gold that my eyes wanted to jump out. There where so many stands with different things. After walk through the bazaar we had enough and walked out… and then we saw that the bazaar just continued in an everlasting stand. There where tons of dresses, cloths, curtains, shoes, bags and so on. Once you buy something you always feel cheated because if you walk a couple of meters there will always be another stand that is cheaper. Of course half the fun buying things is the bargain 🙂

Nakon posjeta u muzeju odlucili smo otici u Veliki bazar da vidimo i to cudo. Negdje smo procitali da godisnje prodje cak 90 milijona ljudi kroz bazar. Zamislite 90 000 000! Unutra u bazaru je bilo zlata da ti ocu stanu. Dosta je bilo radnji sa svakavim produktima. Kad smo prosetali kroz bazar bilo nam je i toga dosta pa smo krenuli van, kad tek onda podje prava pijaca. Pa to je haljina, robe, pidjama, cipela, zavjesa itd na tone. Taman mislis kako je nesto jeftino kad par metara nize ista stvar jos jeftinija. Imas osjecaj da si uvijek prevaren ako nesto kupis. I naravno pola cari kad kupujes je cijenkanje 🙂

Haos / Chaos

March 29, 2015March 29, 2015 ~ au

Toliko slika iz Istanbula imam za postaviti i sta se desi? Router rikne!! Znaci nisam imala/nemam niti kucnog telefona niti interneta. Apsolutna katastrofa za mene!!

Stigli smo u Tuzlu! Ja se ponadala da cu barem ovdje imati internet da sredim sve svoje zadatke, tipa platiti racune:/ Kad ono brzina interneta 33kb/sek. Znaci ne mogu ni stranicu otvorit :/ Ali ne smijem previse kukati. Bio je predivan dan tako da smo ga proveli vani i kao sto to biva u Bosni otisli u kafic na kafu i ako nista tamo sam se mogla nakaciti na internet. Barem za nesto ti nasi kafici sluze 🙂

I have so many Pictures from Istanbul that I wanted to upload and what happens? My router just dies!! Meaning I have no house phone nor internet. For me, that´s an absolute disaster.

Last night we arrived to Tuzla. I hoped that I will at least have internet …but no. The (lack of ) speed is 33kb/sec!!! Fabuolous. I cannot even open a page :/ One shouldn´t complain though, the weather was fantastic today and at least I could surf a little bit via the Wlan in a café. At least there is some use of them 🙂

Arrived in Munich / Stigla u Minhen

March 13, 2015March 13, 2015 ~ au ~ 5 Comments

I love Stockholm Airport just because they have these buggies you can borrow without having to call the company and ask for a buggy 3 weeks in advance. Very practical 🙂 Luckily my father helped us out with the luggage.

Inace volim Stockholmski aerodrom samo zato sto se tamo mogu pozajmiti djecija kolica bez da 3 sedmice prije moras zvati aviokompaniju da narucis obicna kolica. Jako prakticno 🙂 Srecom mi je tata pomogao sa prtljagom.

Before boarding the plane I managed to take a photo of my daughter where it looks like her eye squints :P.

Prije ulaska u avion sam uspijela Adu uslikati tako da izgleda kao da su joj krive oci 😛

In the air I had a screaming monster in my knee for the first hour, but afterwards I had a cute (=sleeping) little baby

Na putu sam prvih sat vremena imala malo deriste, ali poslije sat se pretvorila u slatku (=spavajucu) malu bebu.

And finally Ada and me arrived at the Munich airport..:D (it is written in arabic because there are a lot of veeery rich arabic tourists coming)

I napokon smo Ada i ja stigle na minhenski aerodrom…:D (a ovo je na arapskom Pisano jer imaju jako puno vrlooo bogatih arapski turista)

First step / Prvi korak

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 ~ au ~ 2 Comments

And so it happened 🙂 A small step for mankind, a giant leap for Ada. She took her first two steps and fell done on her face quite ungraciously. She was tough and continued practising to stand up and to “walk”. It is amazing how fast she is developing. I cannot imagine if human kind would have developed further in that speed where would our society be.

I desilo se 🙂 Jedan mali korak za covjecanstvo, a ogromni skok za Adu. Napravila je prva dva koraka i prostrla se kao tepih. Ali kako se ne predaje nastavila je vjezbati stojanje i “hodanje”. Nevjerovatno je kako se brzo razvija. Ne mogu a da ne zamislim kako bi nase drustvo izgledalo da smo se nastavili tako razvijati. Gdje bi mi bili…

Here, my sister is trying to “read” a book. / Sestra pokusava citati knjigu

First time / Prvi put

March 7, 2015 ~ au

Today my little sunshine decided she is strong enough to stand alone. I was caught by surprised and I got so proud 🙂 Unfortunately I didn’t catch her facial expression the moment she was standing. She was so happy, proud and surprised. My little fighter 🙂

Danas je Ada odlucila da je dovoljno jaka da stane sama na noge. Iznenadila sam se i postala sam tako ponosna 🙂 Nazalost nisam uspijela uslikati njezinu facu kad je uspijela stati. Bila je tako sretna, ponosna i iznenadjena. Moj mali borac 🙂

Temperatura / Fever

March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 ~ au ~ 4 Comments

Sto je to zanimljivo kako zivot stane kad je neko bolestan. Ada je vec dva dana imala temperaturu i sve se vrtilo oko nje. Izgleda da se I prehladila tako da je njezino malo tijelo bas vodilo pravi rat protiv virusa. iako je ovo maciji kasalj, ustvari zijevanje, prema onim zestokim bolestima opet se insan umori. Hem sto mi je zao da gledam kako se pati, hem sto se budi u po ‘ noci. Recimo sinoc se Ada vec mnogo bolje osjecala te je odlucila mene u 3.07h probuditi da se igra. I igrale smo se do 5.30h. kao sto neki znaju vjerujem u evoluciju, ali ubij me ako kontam kakva je evolucionarna prednost homo sapiensa da se u 3.00h igra a u 15h spava…

It is quite interesting how the view of life gets concentrated to the baby when it gets sick. She is now the center of my universe more than usually. Ada is having fever for the last two days due to the vaccines she got. I suspect she also got the cold so her little body got many viruses to fight at once. I know this is nothing special, especially when comparing to serious diseases, but I feel sad when I see her suffer, and she sleeps bad at nights. Like for example last night. She woke up at 3.00h and wanted to play!!! So we played until 5.30h. Since, I believe in evolution I really wonder what kind of evolutionary advantage this getting up at 3.00h and play and then sleep at 15h, has for the homo sapiens species… Someone explain it to me…

Vakcinisanje / Vaccination

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 ~ au ~ 5 Comments

Danas sam Adu vodila na vakcinisanje. Tri inekcije je morala primiti :/ Prvu je primila u ruku i nije ni zaplakala. Jednostavno je gledala i kontala sta se desava, ali zato druge dvije…Uh… Srce mi se paralo kad sam joj drzala nogice. Pa kad sam vidjela one njezine suze…Uh bas mi bi tesko. Medjutim tijesim se tim sto imamo srece sto zivimo u takvim drzavama gdje se mogu djeca pelcovati protiv raznih groznih bolesti… Uostalom, izasla je 15.g februara vijest da je u Njemackoj i u Bosni dosta povecan broj slucajeva sa “morbili(ma)” (malim boginjama-measles) tako da ako vi ili vasa djeca nemate zastite sto brze primite vakcine… Na slici: male boginjein the picture: measles

Today, my little sunshine was vaccinated. She had to take three vaccines. The first vaccine she got in her arm and she didn´t even cry or react. She was just surprised and wondered what has happened. The next two shots where horror …for me :/ She was crying so sad that my heart was breaking. I was trying to comfort myself by thinking how good it is that we at all have this possibility to get vaccinated against these diseases… 15th. of February a message came out that there are increased number of cases of measles in Germany and Bosnia so if you or your children aren´t vaccinated then please take care of it.

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