H1N1 scare

I think our family thrives on drama.

Now it's Pa's turn to have his share of excitement.

He started being unwell on the 16th July, initially with a fever. Then he didn't seem to get better, even though he'd started Tamiflu and subsequently Augmentin. The rest of us went into minor panic mode, and Novena became flu zone and was quarantined. Even the maids were sleeping at our tiny apartments, in the hallway while we waited out the quarantine.

Yesterday, he started having a cough on top of his fever. That took the cake. He was packed off to Tan Tock Seng hospital to have tests to see if he'd developed: 1. H1N1 2. Pneumonia. 3.Something else eg dengue?

Good news was, it wasn't H1N1. Bad news? The chest Xray did show some changes. So it was some kind of pneumonia.

So far so good... he seems to have improved today, after starting some clarithromycin that I dug out from the drawer at home. If Geok hadn't called me to call him, he'd even had gone off to work!

Was a bit mad for me this morning too... Chinese class again ( which we'd missed on Saturday as Chris was called back to work for the blast victims from Jakarta ). And a patient turned up at Balestier just before we had to leave .. when it's usually dead as a doornail on Mondays!

Got to go...