Sick Girl

Mika started getting a bit of a cold on Thursday. She was more or less OK until last night when the croup cough kicked in. By this morning, she was having trouble breathing and we had to run her over to Emergency. Five hours later and we're home with a diagnosis of mild pneumonia. Mika was too sick and tired to even loudly protest the contraption she was in for the chest xrays. It was called the Pigg-O-Matic, I kid you not. Basically a table with a wee bicycle seat mounted within a hole in the middle. You sit the kid down on it, legs dangling through, and they close a clear plastic cylinder with a face hole around to hold her in place. Her arms had to be pinned straight up in the air. My poor little girl. She's back on antibiotics for a week, but was given the OK to go back to daycare. We'll see how she is in the morning. Daddy is not well either, so the two of them may take a sick day tomorrow. It amazes me how quickly her sickness progressed. I hope it recedes just as quickly. Mika weighs a mere 8.325 Kg or about 18 and a half pounds for you old folks and americans.