Sorry for the lack of updates. Ingrid’s illness got worse instead of better, until this afternoon, so we’ve been rather busy here. (And tired, because Ingrid has been waking about once every hour for three nights running.)

Eric took her to see a doctor on Thursday and was told that it probably wasn’t anything serious. I kept pouring Calpol into her which brought the fever down for a while but then it always went back up again. Yesterday her eyes went red and puffy, and today she developed a red rash over most of her body. The fever kept going up as well, getting to over 39° on several occasions, and she looked so ill that we went back to see a doctor again. This time the verdict was ’upper respiratory infection’ (= common cold), combined with a strep infection, plus conjunctivitis, but the rash was probably just a heat rash and nothing infectious.

In any case we came home with antibiotics, Nurofen, more Calpol, and eye drops. (The kitchen counter looks like a regular pharmacy now, with medicine bottles, thermometer, measuring syringes and spoons, and notes on which one was given when.) The Nurofen got her temperature down straight away and she perked up within a couple of hours.