The Amazing Coughing Family

There seems to have this powerful virus floating around nowadays, with a short incubation period but a long infection period.

I was on my way home on 6th Jan, I remember someone near me was coughing vigorously... one of those deep long coughs.

Next morning, I had the same deep long coughs with body aches and discomfort. By Monday, I had a fever of 39 c... for 3 days...

I took lots of precautions to ensure I don't share food or drinks with my daughters, wouldn't go near them or carry them. BUT... after a week, the virus finally got its next victim... Little Ally.









The poor girl coughed so bad that she couldn't eat or drink for a few days, fever hit a high of 40.3c. She was shivering cold on the outside, but burning hot on the inside. We rushed her down to the A&E in KK Hospital. Because of her history of heart condition, she was given priority to see the doctors.

X-ray was taken, medications was fed. Ally used to be very obedience when seeing doctors, but this time she was very irritable. She kicked and cried when the doctors wanted her to lie down for examination. She did the same to the x-ray techs...


For the next few days, the fever went up and down, but was rather mild. her cough was bad in the nights, tendency was that she'll cough till she threw up the phlegm.. and along with everything else in her little stomach.










One week after Ally got her episode of cough, it was Isabel to fall victim to the virus. Her fever was almost as high as Ally's, but she don't take it easily. She cried and whined and complained, hoping to get sympathy from everyone.

Because the last time she was sick, we let her sleep in our room so that she can use the toilet if she needs. So this time she automatically made arrangement to stay in our room for the night, making her little sister very jealous. Ally cried and bang on our door when the maid brought her to her room.

On the second night, I told her she's well enough to sleep in her own room, She immediately started to drama, telling me she got bad headache, she made a few wet and convincing coughs. But the worst was later she managed to vomit her milk within minutes of consuming.

So she made her point, no choice but to let her stay in our room for another night.

Finally, my lovely wife. She may not have bad fever, but she have been coughing about the same time as Isabel. She's strong enough to ignore it and continue to take care of the kids. Wonderful wife.