The virus attack

Vic stayed home from kindy a few days before her birthday last week (april 10th) to recuperate from the cough and slight fever before the big party bash for her and William on april 11th, which I will blog about it when the pictures are ready.

The doctor prescribed Augmentin antibiotic for 5 days on Friday when her cough deteriorated. She's been staying home since then till today, and her condition has stayed almost the same, without much visible improvement except for the fever which has stopped. Today, however, she woke up with not even a cough, no running nose and she looks almost as healthy as any other kid on the street. Wow, praise God! We will send her back to kindy tomorrow as she's been missing almost a week's class.

William, however, caught the bug from his sister on Sunday. He developed slight fever on the evening, and cough and flu on Monday. At night, his cough worsen and the next morning, we brought him (and the sis, just for a follow up check up) to see the doc. Since he has had two episodes of bronchiolitis and bronchitis, we're very careful not to let the flu develop any further. His nose was running almost non stop with clear mucous. The doc prescribed antibiotics for him as precautionary if his condition worsen the next 24 hours. I am to continue with the ventolin and promethazine administered thrice daily.

Last night, William's fever peaked, at 38.3deg taken on his armpits with the clothes on. I'm sure it would have been higher if taken under the clothings. We gave him the suppository and sponge the little guy. He slept well, maybe because of the fever, or because we purified the air in the room with a little eucalyptus oil before that.

This morning at 7am-ish, his fever came back and I gave him oral paracetamol first and started the antibiotics. Since then, his cough has lessen very much, and his nose has stopped running.

The kids look like their on their way to recovery very soon. Such a big change from yesterday, but we continue to uphold them in our prayers and pray that they be strong enough to spend some time with Uncle Julian and Auntie Winnie before they fly back to US.

I've always been touched with people concern over my kids' health, especially her teachers. Although the paed has consoled us that kids at Victoria's age who attend playschool will fall sick 7-8 times a year, we still feel sad everytime either one of them catch the cold. A message came in from Victoria's teacher that really touched my heart, it says, "... God be with Victoria"

If Victoria's fine throughout today, tomorrow she will return to kindy. : )