They come in twos

I was at a meeting at work just before noon when I received calls from a phone number I haven’t seen before. No thanks to all those nuisance calls from banks and insurance companies I get all the time trying to sell me products I have zero interest in, I routinely put aside phone calls from new numbers if I’m at meetings. But after two calls were made in quick succession, I ran a Google check on the number, and yikes – the number was from our infant care center!

Long story short: I got called because the center’s principal couldn’t reach Ling (she was having classes). During her routine bath, the center’s teacher discovered that she had light pink spots on her forehead. They immediately isolated her. Ling had just SMSed in the morning too that she was having a really bad sore throat, a temperature and had lost her voice. Talk about a double-whammy.

So it’s Daddy to the rescue. I filed an immediate half-day leave, then rushed off to pick Hannah from infant care, then Ling from school, then it was off to see Hannah’s PD and a family doctor for Ling.

As it is, it was still too early to say for certain if Hannah is just experiencing a side-reaction to medicine she got from last weekend’s PD visit for her runny nose, or it’s the first symptoms of chicken pox. So, we made a follow-up appointment for the next day tomorrow to see if it’s indeed the latter if symptoms might become clearer. I’m hoping it’s just a skin allergy to the medicine – Ling gets rashes when she has seafood. Either way, Hannah’s confined to home until we get the all clear from her PD.

Interestingly, Hannah’s her usual cranky self in the late afternoons to early evenings, happy and cute just immediately after feeds and before bed – so I won’t lay her grumbling on her possible pox. Her center’s teachers even remarked that Hannah was her normal happy self and had her feeds in the morning like normal. Funnily, it’s Mommy who’s faring poorer: Ling can’t put together an audible sentence right now so we’re communicating using sign language LOL.