Elaina

Elaina finally turned 3 on 18 March. The day when I hoped that she will step out of her terrible two stage finally came… but it didn’t quite happened the way it did for Matty. She is still a diva like she had always been before 18 March 2010. We had the usual 3-cake repertoire for Elaina – a 3kg castle cake loaded with marzipan, a Minnie Mouse cake for her school celebration and a Hello Kitty cake with compliments from her maternal grandpa. Fortunately the leftover cake for this year wasn’t as bad as the last… at least I didn’t feel that I had cakes coming out from my ears.

Unfortunately for Elaina, she was confirmed to be down with Mycoplasma few days after her birthday. Actually she has been coughing since Chinese New Year and had been toeing in between “getting better” and “getting worse”. There was a period when she will only cough in the morning and not a squeak for the rest of the day making the GP conclude it as a backflow of morning sinus (since there is a family history of people who suffer from that). The haze situation made the real condition even murkier for us to decide if the haze is making her cough or is there another reason behind it.

The whole family was in denial for a while of her getting the dreaded Mycoplasma. I suppose that is understandable knowing that getting Elaina to take the blood test will be a test of patience and the antibiotics is not going to be very agreeable to Elaina’s palate. In the end, the mummy had to play the bad guy and take her in for the blood test despite some sounds of protest from the rest of the family. A mummy has to do what a mummy has to do. I won’t want Elaina to cough for 4 months like what happened to Matty. I rather she bite the bullet, suffer for 2 weeks and get it over and done with

The road to recovery has been dramatic for Elaina. She had a bruise on her right arm from the blood test, she will kick, scream and cry when she knows that she needs to take the yucky antibiotic. She will cry for no reason and begged us to bring her to Disneyland (because we threatened her that she won’t be able to go on the holiday unless she recovers). Obviously, Elaina didn’t take the threat very well and we were sorry that she was traumatized by it.

Four more days to go for the antibiotics and I am keeping my fingers crossed that her cough will leave her alone after that.