That morning, Kel & I met up with Roger for breakfast to discuss about some work matters. As he is a long time friend, we decided to bring Daryl & Asty along too. After breakfast, Daryl got restless in his seat. Thus, I told Asty to bring him for a walk so that he wouldn't disturb us. After a while, Asty came back & showed me a lot of reddish bumps on Daryl's legs. The bumps on the back of his legs were even more severe. His back legs were practically covered with those reddish bumps. Kel & I were shocked to see them. As we didn't know what caused the bumps, we suspected that the chair that Daryl is sitting on might be dirty, thus the allergic reaction.
As we needed to print some forms to pass to Roger, we decided to bring Daryl back so that he can have a shower. I drove Daryl back while Kel stayed on to chat with him. Before I left the house, I told Asty to monitor Daryl & to call me or Kel if his condition worsen.
After the meeting, I went to meet Jerlyn & Rachel for lunch. I couldn't cancel or postpone it as I had already postponed this lunch previously due to some unforseen circumstances. We had a very nice lunch @ Beppu & did lots of catching up. After that, I went to run some errands & went back home.
To my relief, the bumps on Daryl's legs had subsided substantially when I reached home. Since it had kinda of subsided, I didn't bring him to see Dr Chua.
However, over the weekend, the bumps appeared again on his legs & even his whole body!! It pains my heart to see him with all those bumps. Therefore, Kel & I decided to bring him to see Dr Chua today after lunch.
At Dr Chua's clinic, the bumps had subside substantially, thus Dr Chua diagnosed that the bumps were caused by insect bites. He gave us a bottle of medicine & 2 types of creams for the bumps on his face & body respectively. But... our relief is short-lived.
To our dismay, the bumps appeared all over his body later in the afternoon.
They looked kinda of mild in the pics, but believe me, when you see them in real life, you will be horrified! His whole body is practically covered with those bumps! We decided to bring him to see Dr Chua again in the evening.
Before dinner, we brought Daryl to see Dr Chua again. He then diagnosed that Daryl is suffering from hives!! The unfortunate thing is, there is no cure for hives. What we can do is to minimise the itch by applying creams or taking medicine. We can also try to prevent the hives from appearing. However, we need to find out what is the trigger. Dr Chua said that hives can be due to something which he ate or touched recently, thus he asked us to recollect whether Daryl had ate or touched something new. But we couldn't think of any. Dr Chua then asked us to monitor him further.
When we went back home, it was with a heavy heart!! Why must this happened to Daryl?? Seeing him with those bumps on his body makes my heart pained. The lucky thing is that Daryl still doesn't know that he can scratch the bumps to relieve the itch. I am keeping my fingers & toes crossed that it is only a passing phrase & that he'll outgrown this condition soon!!
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