Nina oh Nina

Nina came home from school yesterday with a note from her school nurse. The note read : "Fainted after deep breathing exercise. Bruise with swelling to right side of head. Cannot remember the incident. Awake, alert response at all times. Pupils equal, reacting, light." (the last two words were my own assumption as they were rather ineligible)

Being a rather blunt person I am, even in my role as a mum, my immediate response was : "Mmm... that shows life is short. Anything can happen, we can die anytime. So it is important that we don't miss our solat, we don't show disrespect to our parents ......"

She looked rather upset that I did not sympathize. So I reminded her of what had earlier happened in the morning before she went to school.

Her dad gave her a 100riyal note to pay for her Alice in Wonderland "party" tomorrow and told her to be careful with the money. Her reaction was very nonchalant with her eyes glued to the tv, like her dad was not talking to her. Papa repeated again what he said and again, this anak bertuah continued to be deaf. Then she said something that was not making sense to us mature we-have-lived-longer-than-her adults like we her parents were stupid or something.

That really ticked me off. And understandably, her dad too. Of course, she was scolded by both of us. And as she put her $$ into her bag, she looked pissed and kind of shoved her bag angrily.

My last words to her was to stop her rude manners because what goes around comes around and not to forget Allah, The Almighty.

So when she related her fainting incident later that day and how her friends thought she was going to die because her eyes were all white etc, all I could say, yet again, Allah is Great.

I don't know why she fainted really. She wasn't in her PE class, and it was after lunch hour. Since it was a Music class and the teacher was teaching them how to breathe correctly when singing, I figured she must have done it wrongly, causing a sudden shortness of breath.
Alhamdulillah, it only caused a small swelling in her head. It did not kill her appetite! :)