For the last week, the family has been battling the dreaded Hand-foot-mouth disease, which the kids caught in childcare. And Paul, me, grandpa, grandma have been battling two non-eating kids, who have been battling the excruciating pain of having many many ulcers in their mouth.
I don't blame the school, I feel they have done what they could. My boys' childcare covers a huge area, with 8 individual classrooms plus a dining hall, and an open-door playground. Compared to those which cramp little kids into small areas using bookshelves, I think we are lucky to have found this centre (just on the merits of the environment).
While I like to document our growing up moments (with hundreds of photos each month!) I figured it is too cruel to take pictures of their pain - so this is a quiet photography week.
The brothers were also kept apart in two homes last week, but alas, like most siblings in the centre, the little ones had passed it on to their older brothers and sisters.
It takes 7 to 10 days to clear, the doc and my internet research said, and there is no medicine to cure (!!). Yiheng has been on a liquid diet for almost 4 days now. He is so afraid of the pain that he does not even dare to give ice-cream a try. Yiyang, who was brave for the past 2 days and still ate, is beginning to stop eating. He too prefers liquid. He was moaning so much that I gave the poor boy some paracetemol tonight before sending him off to bed. Not even Ben 10 on YouTube and his new Bumblebee transformer toy (which I presented his today for being a 'brave boy') are enough to distract him from the pain anymore. Poor thing.
Yiheng should be well in another 3 days. Yiyang probably has another 5 days to go. Hang-in there, boys.
