chicken-sick

sick. as sick as sick chickens. that was what have been happening since two weeks back. it began two fridays back when both the kids' nose began leaking and Khidir was coughing. since he was running a fever too, we brought the both of them to KKH. faeqa came down with fever the very next day which lasted for two days.

on wednesday, seeing that her fever was gone, we sent her to school. on thursday she complained of 'pain' at both her calves area but she still was able to go to school. when i reached home in the afternoon, Mak informed that her soles were cold - this is a definite sign that her body is reacting to the heat inside. her body feels cool though so I did not think much of it. Khidir, at this point of time had already gone through the whole flu thing - high temperature, cough, running nose. so he was pretty much recuperating. at around 4pm that thursday, faeqa's temperature shot up to 38.8. chop chop brought her to KKH again. this time, as it was a recurring fever, and add to the calves muscle aching complain, a blood test was taken. to eliminate dengue.

results came out and it was viral infection. thank God. we were advised that the fever will take a few days to blow up and then will disappear. it did shot up especially when the medicine has worn off. all through thursday night, friday and on saturday it began to ebb. saturday we were supposed to go to the family day event at my workplace. ended up only Mak and my bro went. becoz why, becoz its the MAK kepada budak budak's turn to fall ill.

since its the MAK right, the flu bug also very smart. sent the cip to attack. just the flu not enough, add stomach flu [read diarrhea] to the cocktail. life couldnt get any better. two whole days i was on liquid diet. on the second day add gastric-becoz-never-eat-becoz-if-eat-also-will-end-up-in-the-jamban to the mix. i think i lost two kgs just for that. an EXCELLENT diet method.

alhamdulillah im ok now. faeqa still have the running nose and a bit of cough. we have been keeping her from school for a week now. if the nose is still running next week, we will be considering keeping her for another week. as for Khidir, well, he was recovering really well. until today. his first tooth has just made his appearance and with it came a new bout of cough and running nose.

PFFFT.