An Eventful New Year's Day 2010...

What a way to spend the first day a new year... It was 4AM in the morning when Mummy gave up waiting for 姨姨 to return home from her new year's eve partying. As Mummy was getting ready to go to bed, she touched and felt Shannon very heated up. So she got up and checked Shannon's temperature. To her horror, it was running at 39.2 degrees celcius. Mummy was shocked. Shannon has just recovered from bronchitis and given a clean bill of health by Dr Ngiam two days ago. Mummy immediately fed Shannon some fever medicine and sponged her with cool water.

Shannon's fever remained at 38-ish degrees celcius even as she woke up the next morning. Luckily she was still quite cheerful and finished her milk. All the PD clinics were closed as it was public holiday. After much thought, Mummy decided she will bring Shannon to the A&E department of Glen E, hopefully, the doctors on duty will be able to contact Dr Ngiam. Luckily for us, Dr Ngiam was actually around in the hospital that day. Dr Ngiam checked her throat, lungs and ears, they were all clear. So Dr Ngiam decided to get a urine test to determine if it was an urinary tract infection ("UTI"). Although the nurse got a urine bag done for Shannon, it was not secured and Mummy had a hard time thinking of ideas to collect her urine. At last when she did, the nurse confirmed that it was UTI after doing a urine test and Shannon needed antibiotics. Dr Ngiam said Shannon cannot leave for Shanghai yet, so we had to delay our flight to until a few days later. Sigh, I will miss the first few days of school. I was so looking forward to going back to school to ride my favourite bicycle and play with my classmates from school...

What a way to spend the first day of a new year... At the A&E department of Glen E.

On a subsequent visit yesterday, Dr Ngiam explained to Mummy we needed to find out the reason for the occurrence of the UTI as Shannon is still very young, whether the UTI caused by an inborn structural abnormality with her urinatory tract, which would need her to be on a few years of antibiotics or surgery, depending on the severity. See link below for more information.

http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/utichildren/

So we had a series of tests / scans done earlier this morning. Luckily, the results show that the kidneys are functioning normally and there is no sign of reflux. The UTI Shannon had was probably caused by a bacteria infection. So we finally received the go-ahead to return to Shanghai. And so, we are leaving tomorrow night. Hopefully there will be good weather when we touch down in Shanghai as it is forecasted to be snowing tomorrow with a temperature around 0 degrees celcius. Back to winter wonderland...