• I’m sick of talking about this but it yet another week of kid illness 😩

  • Big L was fine but little L developed some purple dots over her legs on Wednesday. She was acting completely normally but by Thursday the spots had spread and some bruising had appeared on her legs. We called the insurance doctor and they told us to take her to hospital immediately. Quite alarming. We went straight to the hospital where a blood test showed she had pretty much no platelets (2,000/μl, cf. 150,000-350,000 as normal) in her blood.

    They transferred us to the kids’ hospital where they ruled out really nasty diseases and concluded that it was probably immune thrombocytopenic purpura that probably followed an earlier infection. Less than 12 hours after initially going to hospital she was treated with immunoglobulins and spent the next two two nights in hospital under observation. She came back home on Saturday. Thankfully she has so far recovered fine — her platelet count is now 163k and we have some followups to monitor her levels for the next few months. It was a scary episode and I am glad that it seems to be over.

  • I got a new passport. It’s the wrong colour.