Struck with the sickness

My princess has been sick and so it has been a roller coaster. I mentioned in the previous post that she woke up sick on the day of her party and came this close to missing the actual event.  Well the Thursday before her party (actually the Friday), she woke me up out of sleep, crying. She was riddled with stomach pain and I was at my wits end trying to figure out what could possibly be the matter.  That was around 12:45 that morning. She finally was able to go back to sleep around 2am.  That day, Friday, we took her to the clinic, where she was checked over and prescribed antibiotics.  She was supposed to be on three kinds of meds for 3 days. Doctor was not sure what was the matter but we ruled out appendicitis and other more serious ailments. Could be a bug, could be something she ate. Could be.  She felt better, so we got our meds and went on our merry way home.

Saturday she was fine. But Sunday morning at around 4 am, she came down with a high temperature. She stayed that was, feverish, on Monday.  She felt fine on Tuesday, so I sent her to school. Big mistake. She came down with fever again that Wednesday and got even sicker on Thursday.  By Friday I decided to take her to the children's hospital.  I needed to know what was wrong and why she was not getting better. Plus Thursday night, her temperature spiked to 102F.

We spent all day at the hospital, for about 11 am until we left with the meds at 7:30 pm.  She had blood tests and two rounds of X-rays. Come to find out, she has a sinus infection. Did you know sinus infection causes fever, tummy aches and headaches (which princess complained of having on and off the whole time she was sick)?  I had no idea.  Now she is feeling much better, a day later ( hospital visit was yesterday).  She is on antibiotics, again, for 10 days this time and ibuprofen for 5 days for the pain and fever.  The panadol I was giving her was just covering up the fever, not helping at all.

She has lost quite a bit of weight as she was sick and weak (although she was eating just not enough to keep her weight up). So now we're working her getting back to full health.  She can't wait to have a piece of her birthday cake and a few pieces of candy from the piñata.