I dropped her off at school happily but at 11am my phone rang. Teacher Syah said that she was having fever and needed to be picked up from school. When I arrived school, Kodi was lying on a mat asleep while the rest of the kids were getting ready for lunch.
The fever was high, around 39C and she seemed lethargic. I waited for about half an hour before getting her into the car for the doctor's appointment. (a side note, should consider changing pediatrician as the office is ALWAYS busy and couldn't accommodate sick appointments effectively). It was a new Dr who just joined Camden Medical a few months ago, not Dr. Leow since his appointments were all full. The new doc from Tennessee was medically proficient but not the best with kids. He made Kodi throw up in his office with the tongue depressor!
Nonetheless, the information he provided was helpful. No apparent upper respiratory infection so virus was suspected. He commented that there's been a kind of virus lately that causes high fever, albeit no other accompanying symptoms, and will last for a few days and the kids usually just get well with little medication. That was good news!
After we got home, she said she was hungry, so I gave her diluted apple juice first while trying to fix lunch. She gulped it down out of thirst and threw up the juice right away, making both of us distressed even more. I took a deep breath, ensuring her that everything is OK. I changed her and gave her Ibuprofen, and half cup of water, reminding her to sip a little at a time, which seemed to work fine. She was very tired so I put her down to bed, turned on her music, and continued to clean the floor and everything else. 10 minutes later, I found her sound asleep on her bed.
The fever started to go down after half an hour or so. She woke up around 5pm and feeling hungry. She was SO proud that she didn't suck her thumbs when falling into sleep "yesterday" (referred to all earlier time points in Kodi's vocabulary). So we ate at Crystal Jade in Holland Village and she had a decent dinner of dumplings. She played the doctor-patient game with Daddy at the restaurant.
We gave her again Ibuprofen before bed and woke her up around 4:30am to head to the airport. She was in good spirit despite having still elevated temperature. The airplane ride was not as smooth as it used to be. She was not feeling well so she slept on and off, fussy at times, skipping most of the meals (worth-skipping anyway, we are not planning to fly with United in the near future), and finally threw up again during our wobbly descent to New York (hit a turbulent).
At Newark airport, while waiting for our bags, she ate some crackers and threw up again. I think this might just be that she was still air sick but ate out of hunger. On the car ride to Delaware, we gave her water and she unfortunately threw up again. We stopped by the Chows and had a light dinner and rice soup there. Kodi was hungry so she had a few spoonfuls of porridge. Threw up in minutes. So this was Saturday.
Kodi woke up at 4:30am on Sunday and seeming doing pretty well. She ate some bread and crackers and did not throw up afterwards. She then slept through most of Sunday fever free.
In all, the virus infection lasted about 3 days, and the temperature peaked around 39.5C at some point with no other symptoms. She threw up several times although it seemed unrelated to the infection, mostly because of the triggered gag reflex, being air sick and maybe lack of sleep. We gave her Ibuprofen or Panadol during the course, every 6 hours while she was having the fever and plenty of fluid. Her appetite was bad and she ate whenever she felt like.
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