It turned out that her HFMD was a false alarm. We had to wait till Saturday to know for sure. So, unfortunately, she had to miss school on Friday. We had ordered a Tweety Bird birthday cake for her. We still sent the cake to her childcare centre for her classmates to share. But Vanessa couldn’t be there to share. She would have loved blowing the candles, cutting the cake, and I’m sure eating it too.
I don’t suppose the pizza dinner at home makes up for it, but I guess she’ll have to make do with it. She loved the garlic bread and chicken wings. We brought her out for lunch and dinner on Saturday too (yeah, after she was cleared of HFMD).
I think we, the parents, are glad the HFMD was a false alarm too. It would have been very tiring to look after Vanessa had she really been down with HFMD, and more so that our domestic helper had returned back to Philippines on home leave.