J&M got Maui'd!

Elsy finally slept through the night without a high fever in the morning. It has been a long week and a half, but I think we are finally through the worse of it. My parents were so worried on Saturday that Maggie took Elsy to Sick Kid's Hospital to see what was up with her and her constant high fevers and her potentially infected blister on her thumb. I cut my evening activities off early to go down and ended up waiting until midnight before we were able to get a diagnosis of the flu. So, we recalled that we had wanted to give Elsy the flu shot, but when we brought her in last year, the vaccine was not ready for her. Since then we have been sick, sick, sick or busy, busy, busy. In any case, at least we have a diagnosis and Elsy seems to have finally gotten over the illness.

So Elsy has been sick for a number of days now. She started off with a mild fever which has become a moderate one (>40 C) which we have been trying to keep in check with medication. Apart from the loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, runny nose, constant coughing, and occasional vomiting, she has been doing okay. She did go and see the doctor on Monday, but the recommendation was to just keep giving her drugs until it goes away. Well, hopefully we all recover soon from this recent round of illness. It sucks to be sick. Oh yeah, Maggie hasn't been feeling well either, although I do feel like I am on the up and up, so.. that is a good thing?

Elsy's second birthday was a couple of days ago. She had a blast playing with some of her cousins. She's at that age where she can definitely participate in group play of some sort and enjoys interacting with other (older) kids. She definitely charmed the Kwongs this weekend, and had a blast chasing after Zoe the cat, calling out "Kitty Cat!" repeatedly while she unsuccessfully tried to keep up with the frisky feline. She did get in a number of pats though, once Zoe got a bit more accustomed to her, but the cat still fled after contact. Gentle Elsy, gentle!