What a week!

Kiki was sick since last Friday - the root cause was sore throat which gave her a fever. As usual with her, once she's sick, she'll somehow require at least 3 visits to the doctor.

So after the first visit to the doctors, I fed her her medicine (Paracetamol-270 by Axcel) after a couple of hours nap, she woke up with rashes on both her cheeks. Suspecting that it was an allergy, I called the hospital but the doctor won't be in till 7pm but they somehow managed to patch me through on the phone and the doctor was nice enough to return to the hospital at 3.45pm. He then prescribed her her usual Progesic. Upon taking her temp we realised that Axcel was not working as her fever had spiked to 40 degrees and was advised to give her a bath and sponge her regularly. The doctor called the pharmacist up and showed her Kiki's rashes and told her to report to the company. I was pleasantly surprised to get Progesic and some rash medication for free, including the doctor's fees.

But it did not end there. On Monday, I was puzzzled by yellow stains on the collar of her on her blouse when we were at Midvalley buying Adorable Aubrey. I put it down to food or snot stains and put her to sleep when we got back. When she woke up, I found her hair plastered to her right cheek and examined the area more carefully and to my disgust, I saw pus was oozing out of her right ear in thick creamy trickle. Quickly I gave her a bath and called the doctor again who asked me to come in at 7pm. By that time, the ooze had turned clear but was trickling down in a heavier flow....it was yucky to say the least. So we did a swab and came back with yet some more medicine...antibiotics this time.

So after many many sleepless nights and worrying about her lack of food intake, she finally got better enough to attend school on Friday.

And I will post again what I learnt on Friday from S, a mom of Kiki's classmate.