Falling ill

The lack of post for the past week was due to Miss K and myself having an amalgamation of illnesses - sore throat, green nasal discharge (which most probably is due to some sort of bacterial infection), high grade fever of more than 40degC, headaches and joint aches (which might be due to some viral infection), cough (which is caused by the postnasal drip) and the newly acquired sinusitis, which could have occurred due to the mucus drainage plugging up the sinus passages!

A trip to the PD did not help much as Miss K has problems with oral medication (she was given amoxicillin for her sore throat). She 'empties her stomach' by throwing up every single time we administer medicine orally to her.

One thing I learn from my fellow mummy friends was to boil  南杏北杏 for her to drink. I'm glad she likes this drink.

No more fever since Tuesday, so I packed Miss K off to the Cove. She is adapting well. More pictures will follow when I get my heavy sinus-blocked-head back to norm.

Rotavirus

Miss K started her Thursday morning vomiting out her morning milk feed. Before leaving for school, she vomited again.
In school, she vomited practically everything (and more) that went in.
A quick trip to the GP at noon did not give us any conclusive diagnosis of her condition.
After a short nap, she was so hungry as she had not had any food nor liquid the whole day, so she gobbled down a banana and some yoghurt and 2 hours later, 4oz of milk, 5 minutes after her milk feed, she merlioned everything she ate!
I started to panic when her lips turned slightly blue and her whole body started to shake uncontrollably!

Hurried to her PD, Dr. Lieu (but it was slightly before her opening time, and she has not arrived yet), so we went straight to Mt.Alvernia A&E.
There were no PD on duty at the A&E, as it was a general A&E, but we were given priority as Miss K's fever went up to 40.6 degC!
The doctor on duty was pretty undecided and so I made the decision to ward her as I told the doc that she would be very dehydrated as she had no fluids the whole day (duh!)

After several tests, she was diagnosed with rotavirus infection. Miss K's symptoms were:
- severe vomiting
- could not retain any fluids/food, whatever went in came out.
- high fever (the >40degC type)
- severe diarhoea

I did not give her the rotarix vaccine. (There was this scare about contamination of rotarix vaccine soon after I was told that she was over the age limit for this vaccine to be effective)

Miss K's now 'famous' amongst the St. Gabriel ward nurses - she is the most difficult patient to be fed oral medication (a nurse took 1 hr to feed her 3 types of meds on day 1, very patient nurse!) The nurse on Day 3 actually told me she was 'terrified' and is 'stressed' when it comes to medicine feeding time for Miss K!
She vomits out all her medicine, food, liquid, etc, basically everything without fail every single meds feeding session.
They must be jumping for joy when we left the hospital at 7pm.
She is still weak but is on the road to recovery.
Thanks everyone for your prayers, concern and well wishes!

Here are some snapshots from Mt. Alvernia Hospital:



Miss K's stay at Mt. A, St. Vincent's Room, St. Gabriel's Ward
Day 3: Happy going on the slide in the playroom.