Sickly May

It has been a month of trips down to the doctor, medical certificates and generally, a Mardi Gras of viruses going on in the Hougang household. 

 

The 'festival' started with YSY coming down with the sniffles shortly after a round of night classes. Being afflicted with the Male Syndrome, he refused to visit the doc despite being wrecked with fatigue and the Usain Bolt of running noses for a couple of days. His wife finally had to tweak him by his ear and dragged him to the clinic for some medical help. (Note: no husband was harmed in the making of this trip). The man is happily recovered the next day.    

 

There was that. Shortly after the husband-ly (my blog, my corruption of the English language!) bout of sickness, a strange prickly sensation appeared in my nose and before I knew what hit me, I started having body aches and the Usain Bolt virus had made its merry way to my immune system (or lack thereof). This coincided with the same time where the Rascal started sprouting eye boogers like nobody's business and becoming whiny and tantrum-ish. At that time, we didn't think that it was a problem as he did not come down with any fever (the most common signal that something was brewing) and life went on.

 

To cut a long story short, Mum went to the doc, Mum took medication and Mum barely recovered. Monday came and in the morning when I was preparing the rascal for school, I noticed that his left eye was pretty red but attributed that to some eye-rubbing. Fast forward to 2 hours later: we found ourselves back at the doc when the rascal has been ejected by the cc. To cut the story short again, Rascal saw the doctor, Rascal was diagnosed with an eye infection (it is unclear at the time of publication if this was contracted at the cc or due to being in some other unfortunate place where he contracted the germ/bacteria/virus), Rascal got well again.

 

Shortly after T has recovered from his eye infection, his mum felt a familiar prickly sensation. Not in the nose this time; but in her left eye. It was bloodshot and swollen, not unlike Captain Hook sans eye-patch. This warranted a trip to a 24-hour clinic AGAIN - the 4th time in as many weeks. In retrospect, I should have asked MOH/NHG if I can get a VIP card for being so supportive of the physicians under its Medical Register. A free visit for every 3 paid trips to the doc's would have been nice...that last visit blew a $75 hole in my wallet!

 

Still awake after reading my ramblings? <3

 

 

PS: I just learnt that new '<3' symbol above. Pls lemme know if it doesn't represent a heart; wouldn't wanna be called up by the Censorship Board for (unintentionally) using a vulgar sign!