This is one of the moments when daddy & mummy aren't at their proudest being parents.
Sarah has hand, foot and mouth disease! And they didn't realise till days later!! =S
Unfortunately the earlier months of high alert during HFMD had been long forgotten by the parents. When Sarah woke up crying last wednesday morning, they thought she was just throwing a tantrum at her lazy sleepy parents. When brushing her teeth, they saw a hideous looking ulcer. It was followed by the fever in the late afternoon. Yet, daddy n mummy still didn't think of the HFMD! The fever that night went up to 38.8c!
Today's the 4th day. Sarah's fever has subsided. The spots are still there. So is that annoying ulcer. And guess what. Still didn't occur to the parents that its HFMD... Until Wan Ting ah-yi asked mummy to check for HFMD symptoms online. Argghhh!!!!!!!
Luckily the parents had been administering the right treatments (bringing the fever down, encouraging fluid intake, feeding her soupy soups, giving her liang-teh etc).
Hopefully the awful ulcer will go away tomorrow *fingers crossed*
