You want to ADMIT her?

Last night, Anthony came home to a really itchy wife with a large bumpy rash rapidly spreading across her body and to a sick kid who needed to see the doctor. So, off we went to ChungShan hospital. Liz saw a doctor who within a few minutes of examining her said she needed to be admitted to the hospital for 3-4 days. Ummm…No… This seems like crazy talk to us since she’s had a fever for 2 days, a cough and runny nose. No real difficulty breathing that we could see. Doctor told us not to come running back to her when Liz gets worse (nice, huh?). She said she would do some tests to make sure – did Chest Xray and Blood Draw. I was away seeing a dermatologist for my rash while this happened, so I didn’t have to be put through the agony of a toddler getting blood drawn. Anthony did though, poor thing. Liz screamed and screamed while it was happening, but she got over it fairly quickly, although she didn’t want the doctor anywhere near her. Doctor said her WBC was normal and her chest Xray showed some signs more of bronchitis than pneumonia (which is what she originally wanted to admit her for). So, we came home with a load of medicine – three combinations for Liz and three for me, including an antacid. I don’t understand why every time I get medicine here, they give me an antacid too – STRANGE. Doctor said I had Hives, he had a horrible bedside manner and barely spoke a word to me, but the itching went away by morning, so at least the meds worked. No idea why I got them, but hope I don’t get them again since it wasn’t a very enjoyable experience.

Liz is doing better today. She woke up with a fever, but it was gone this afternoon. She ate a little dinner (first she’s eaten since Tuesday night) and played a lot this afternoon. She didn’t nap well, I was holding her during my Chinese Lesson while she napped and then I managed to get her to sleep on the little Princess couch. I remember when Ashley used to sleep on that next to her bed. Too cute. What a great purchase that couch was – they use it all the time.

Ashley had swim class today with Tiffi. I didn’t go this time and I guess Ashley wasn’t really into the lesson and just ended up playing in the kiddie pool the whole time. At least she was in the water, right? Too bad she’s not learning to swim though, I really wish she would learn so I can take them both to a pool and enjoy it a bit. She had some cake and ice cream too and then spent the evening with her friend, Tiffi. She was so tired when we picked her up, she just wanted to go to sleep.

We are going home for a Stateside Visit next month! I believe the dates are June 29th – July 17th. I’m a bit excited since that means we’ll be in the States for my birthday (sorry, Angie!). It will be nice celebrating it there. We are looking forward to seeing family, friends, house, BACKYARD with grass!, good English speaking doctors, Mexican food, American Italian food, etc, etc.