Little Fatty Got Sick

Little Fatty was sick 2 weeks before. Just after I picked up her from childminding, she kept crying and insisted telling me her hands were so painful. At first, I just assumed she perhaps was in bad mood or just need me to comfort her. Most parents know, kids are good at those tricky things. But my daughter is different from some sticky children. Only if she does have some problems on her, otherwise she will never complain with none sense. I knew there was something wrong. So after I parked my car, I did my best to hug her in my arms. I tried to feel her forehead. Oh, my gosh, it was so hot, and the temperature was 38.4 C. Once I measured her fever, I was not that panic. I knew this level fever in Canada was a piece of cake. Just a few minutes later, I gave her a dozen of Tylenol, on which it really worked. Only half hour passed, she had her fever gone out of her body, and she became active again.

That day my husband just returned from field trip, and he was back home almost at 10 pm. Meanwhile, I measured her again and her fever peaked to 39.5 C, which shocked me a lot. My husband even could not have dinner then accompanying with me rushed to the hospital. As soon as we entered into North York General Hospital, we were surprised in seeing so many patients waiting in the hall. As for swine flu's explosion, every medical staff wore specific mask that really scared us. We'd been waiting for 3 hours in the registration ward till Little Fatty's checked. The doctor seemed very experienced, he even didn't have blood tested but her urine, and later told us she had urine infection. It needed at least 1 week antibiotic medication.

Little Fatty is so special, because she likes to take medicine, for those which are mostly sweet and syrup. Every medicine time for her is a happy meal. Therefore, sometime I even punish her by not treating her medicine syrup. :[]

1 week later, she almost recovered. But after urine test, the walk-in doctor said still a small trace of white cells came out. He suggested me to let her drink cranberry juice instead of antibiotic medicine treatment. As cranberry juice has abundant of vitamin C, on which could have urine become acidic enough to kill germs. Out of my imagination, Little Fatty loves drinking cranberry juice since the doctor told me most children hate the tremendous sour taste. Big Fatty also doesn't like this flavor juice, 'cause with my tongue it feels like chemical juice.

Tomorrow ( May 29) will be 2nd urine test, I hope everything is gonna fine.