Well, I haven't been able to get down to blogging about anything lately coz Alicia fell sick again. Within a fortnight of recovering from her previous bout of flu, she fell prey to another throat infection. She had really high fever this time round (39 deg!)but fortunately no other flu symptoms like the last time. The doctor said that she had little ulcers near her throat but coz she had no rash on her hands or feet, it's just a throat infection and not HFMD.
Coz of her high fever, doctor suggested giving her a suppository at the clinic to bring the fever down. The suppository worked like magic and in no time the fever subsided and she was back to her usual self. But as expected, the result of the suppository was short-lived and the fever returned next morning. The paracetamol had little effect on her and she started burning up again so by noon I had to insert another suppository. Unfortunately, after awhile I realised that she shitted so I had to look through her shit to make sure that the suppository had been absorbed by the body and not purged instead. What gross things a mother has to do... Still paranoid, I called the clinic to ask if the suppository's been absorbed by the body and the nurse on duty said as long as I didn't find it in the poo it means that it's already been absorbed. Phew!
The really strange thing about this illness this time is that she can still eat heartily, as long as her fever has subsided, but after the fever cleared up totally, she started to eat less! Hmm, I'm still wondering why at the moment.
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