Of conjuctivitis and new maid

Ok, no connection between the two..just happen to be the 2 things going on right now.

The entire household, with the exception of the maid, is down with conjuctivitis. What began as an infectious eye condition that my beloved first born must have brought home from the hostel last weekend, is now affecting the rest of us at home.

Shaf got it on Sunday. By Monday afternoon, while I was as work, I felt soreness in my right eye. I dismissed it as "must be my contact lenses". But less than an hour later I got a call from hubby dearest who exclaimed, "eh, my eyes sakit lah". Only then did it hit me, oh dear, it isn't the lens, it's the conjunctivitis. So, after work that day hubby and I must have looked quite comical, wearing dark glasses at half past 6 and we drove straight to the clinic.

The next morning, our precious had caught it too. As for me, having administered a couple of the eye drops the night before, voila, I cud not open my right eye by morning. Glued shut not just because of the conjunctivitis but because I had developed an allergy to the medication! The eye drop was steriod based and I had conveniently forgotten to mention to the doctor I cannot take steroid based medication. How wonderful..! So for the rest of the day I was pretty much Zorro, minus the eye patch.

By yesterday, I could open my eye but my left eye had also been affected. And with very puffed eyelids, I was no longer Zorro, more like a Down Syndrome patient I think, no disrespect intended. By this time, another son had caught it too so that completes it. So can you just imagine what it looks like in here, all of us walking around either with squinted eyes, red eyes, puffed up eyes, it's not a pretty sight! My mom says I should probably hang a sign out front to say No Visitors, Contaminated Area.

Save for the maid - she's fine so far. But the interesting bit is she's leaving back for her home country this Saturday so if she gets it this day or two, then she will most likely contaminate an entire aircraft, but hey what do I do??

Speaking of her leaving brings me to the next thing - getting the new maid. Aargh, always a source of great anxiety on my part..This girl that we've had for the last 2 years has been generally good. Not much to complain about. I just wonder what this new girl will be like..Will she be an honest girl, will she be too loud, will she be able to get along with the kids, will she have body odour??! Eh, I'm serious, ok..

Well, she is supposed to arrive this weekend, so will keep you posted!