Sunshine After The Rain!

it's been nearly a month since Shannon or Shannon's Mommy a.k.a me posted...


We have been very busy with a bad episode of Stomach Flu which hit the Ho family of three!


Shannon got it first, though I still have no idea from where, since her good friend and neighbour Xuan and her both started vomitting on the exact same day.


There she was, one minute happy and cheerful and ready to have her lunch on Thursday, the next minute, throwing up every 5 minutes until all she could manage to cough up was gastric juice. And in case any of you didn't know this, gastric juice is slimy and thick, oh boy, the things you learn when you have a kid!


I rushed her down to the clinic and by the time I saw the doc, she had thrown up about 10 times, and couldn't even keep water down, poor baby.


Dr. Tan gave her some suppostitorys to be inserted up her anus, as normal fluids just wouldn't stay down. He also warned us that if Shannon was still throwing up by 6am the next morning, we had to admit her to Mt. A for drips, and she would be terribly dehydrated by then....


Thank goodness the medicine worked! She stopped throwing up and started diarrhoea the next day. Every 10 min, we would have to change her diaper and by Saturday, I was the next victim, with throwing up and diarrhoea....


Mal was the last to catch on Monday night, though his case was mild compared to Shannon and me.



Thankfully, by the following week, it was sunshine after the rain, whew!