MC

Louisa was supposed to start school today but she'll be on MC for 4 days!  Which means her summer school stint in Singapore will be shortened from 2 weeks to 1.  What's the culprit this time?  Very bad rash all over her body.  It all started last Saturday evening. I'd thought it was a food allergy.  Brought her to a GP and was prescribed the usual anti-histamine and anti-inflammatory medication.  He suspected dust allergy.  It made sense since we'd visited several bridal boutiques in the afternoon.  She didn't seem to respond to the medicine and the rash looked worse so I decided to bring her to KKH a few hours later.  There were many sick children.  After paying and waiting for nearly one hour, I saw that the rashes were subsiding so cancelled our queue and went home.  It was 2am then.  When she woke at 7am in the morning, there were more rashes and the itch was really bad.  I gave her the medication regularly and the rashes came on and off but it got really bad, even on her face from the afternoon.  My sister Jo (Bless her!  She'd been driving us around) suggested bringing her to KKH in case she became very uncomfortable in the middle of the night.  Along the way, we decided to go back to the GP whom we thought might give her the same treatment as KKH - an injection as opposed to waiting for hours at the hospital.  Unfortunately, the Dr (different from the first visit) said he didn't know what's wrong with her and advised us to bring her to KKH.  His answer to all my questions was 'I don't know', 'I really don't know'.  Good for him for not charging me anything.  So we ended up at KKH afterall.  There were even more children then the previous night.  We were warned of a long wait.  I could see most children were there for high temperature due to the patch on their forehead.  My sister brought Louisa to the car to sleep while I waited.  After almost 2 hours, she was finally seen to.  The Dr asked for many details.  She didn't think it was food allergy as Louisa didn't eat the same thing she had on Saturday and by right, the rash shouldn't come back.  She suspected a viral induced rash.  Louisa was given a jab (so brave of her), placed under observation and prescribed a different anti-histamine which worked this time.  Up till last night, there were still rashes all over but she didn't itch as much.  New rashes appeared on her face and her lips swelled a little.  The Dr from KKH did say the rashes will come and go for a week.  Finally today, she looked more like normal.  The rashes were really ugly.  Big, raised, blotchy and lumpy.  Louisa had been really good these whole time, all the while only complaining about the itch and I could see she tried not to show it at times.  

Doctor visits so far (over 2 weeks):

1. KKH - 4

2. GPs - 3

3. Specialist - 2

My wallet is haemorrhaging.