HFMD hits home

An angry red rash which appeared all over Balqis gave us a real scare. It was followed by high fever which fluctuates between 38 to 38.5 degrees. When an NEA officer came to inspect my mom's house for any potential Aedes mosquitoes breeding ground and he also informed us that there was a few dengue fever cases at the next block. I was worried that Balqis might be down with Dengue fever. Hubs took her to the PD the very next day and we were told that it might not be dengue as she had no vommiting or any loss of appetite. The PD attributed the rash to her throat infection.
However, the Hubs developed some kind of blisters on his feet and some red spots on his hands along with high fever. Not to mention the unbearable sore throat. Then, I followed suit, with high fever and a blister on my left foot.
HFMD came to mind and the 3 of us headed to the polyclinic to confirm. Indeed, we were all infected with HFMD. Both hubs and I contracted it from Balqis and by the way she had developed more red spots and blisters on her hands. The unbearable sore throat which we had resulted from the ulercs in our throat. Mind you, it was so painful that we could not even swallow anything.
Hubs was given 5 days off work and all of us were to go to the polyclinic again for review on 24/12.
There you go, all 3 of us were stuck at home and we had to send poor Ilyasak to my mom's again. We cloud not trace where Balqis contracted the disease from and the only place we could think of was the airport. Balqis played at a few indoor playgrounds so it could be from any one of them.
Till then, we are home bound and ahd to find activities to entertain ourselves. It was kind of a blessing in disguise as both hubs and I can rest fully as we did not really have a chance to rest after our Hajj trip.

Here are some pictures of Hubs feet and hands with the scary looking blisters.

A track of his own

Finally, Ilyasak succeeded in constructing his own train track without any help from Abi. He had been trying this for quite a while. It may look easy to construct but mind you, it takes creativity and persistence to actually design the track along with all its accessories. The hubs often took over an hour just to design the track. As it is, our choice of tracks available and its accessories were very much limited.


It can be seen here that he still need to be much more observant in his choice of a particular track. Here he was unaware that he needd to build an extension when he used a diversion track.

Well done! Ilyasak keep trying to design more varieties of train tracks.