Last man standing

The family (well, K and P at least) have just recovered.

Kim started to run a highish fever on 3 and 4 Sep. Then it subsided. I was very relieved cos her fever never left so quickly before. Rashes started to appear at her diaper area. I thought it was due to the fever. Then there were more spots on her hands and feet. Oh oh. I suspected HFMD. So I got TK to check her out on Sunday in church and he said it was nothing. So we went on our merry way and did normal things. Although her appetite was somewhat affected.

Tuesday night we were to have dinner at the Chengs. When we arrived, there was just Dawn there. The kids were out - TK had Joel and the other two were at Chinese class. So K got to play with some toys. I thought that I had better get Dawn to check her out too just in case she went around the whole house and played with every single thing only to later be diagnosed with HFMD. It was confirmed! Oh no. Only because she had ONE blister on her left foot. The rest were just spots. The conclusion: it was a mild case. But she couldn't go to school. Had to wait for everything (read: that ONE spot) to dry up.

Sigh. So I kept her home on Wed. But she really did seem fine to me, except for the usual mealtime fights. Thu morning, I brought her to see our GP who agreed that his retrospective diagnosis was HFMD but said that she had recovered already. Which meant she could go back to school! I kept her home most of the day and only sent her to school for lunch and her milk before bringing her home for her nap.

So that was Thursday. Day. That same day, P felt unwell and so stayed home after going to see the doc to check out K and get mc for P. That night, he was feeling so terrible and ran a persistently high fever. He had reached 40 degrees! And poor baby was so ill and feeling all woe is me. Went to see doc again in the night and doc said he had tonsilitis. Fever broke in early morning but was very tired on Friday.

Went to see doc again on Sunday....cos he had spots!!!!! Yikes!!! He had caught HFMD from K!!! Oh sigh. So that meant that he couldn't handle K at all, couldn't do the dishes, had to try not to touch anything in the house and had to wear socks. Poor P. His was not a mild case.

Oh don't worry. We are now safe to be around. And I won't attempt to post any pics of the blisters on P, tho' he made me take some. :) I'm just glad to say that everyone is well again. And thanks to those who were praying for K not to get it again and for me to stay clear of it.