On the very next day after we arrived in Singapore, we all went to see the doctor. Mummy's doctor told her she shouldn't have flew since she had the ear infection and couldn't equalise her right ear during the flight. As Mummy was still breastfeeding, she only asked for mild antibiotics that could allow her to continue to breastfeed Shannon. However, after finishing one course of antibiotics, Mummy's right ear is still not alright. So now, she had to go on stronger antibiotics and has to stop breastfeeding for a week at least. Mummy visited a ear specialist who explained to her after doing tests that her middle ear was infected due to the flu and will take up to 2 weeks to recover. It's been a week already, so hopefully by this coming Sunday, Mummy would have recovered and be ready to return to Shanghai.
As for Shannon, Mummy's decision to let Shannon rough it out was caught offguard as Shannon ended up with bronchitis. Or rather, maybe if we had not flown and without the changing environment, maybe Shannon wouldn't have ended up like that. Of course, we never know. It was scary when Dr Ngiam told us Shannon got an infection in her right lung and needed an X-ray to determine if it was merely bronchitis or peumonia (which she will have to be hospitalised). Luckily or not, it was bronchitis and Shannon had to be on the neuboliser for one week. She is recovering and still waiting for Dr Ngiam to give her the go-ahead before we can return to Shanghai...
As for me, I am left with a mild cough and running nose, so Dr Ngiam figured that this would be relatively easy to treat.
I guess, it will not be an easy winter, since the temperatures have been dipping so quickly. In fact, Mummy just heard from her colleagues that Shanghai has snowed for the very first time this winter yesterday afternoon.
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