Mycoplasma?

Dr Luke Sammartino the paediatrician is a nice bloke. He seems thorough too.

He thinks that Ivy's persistent cough might be a mycoplasma infection. This is a bacterium, but it behaves a bit like a virus in that it can lie low and keep coming back. Sez Dr Luke. I didn't know that that was a defining feature of viruses.

So Ivy is going to take a 10-day course of antibiotics, and if she's better at the end, great. If not, back to Dr Luke. He says it might be mild asthma, or it might indeed be mild whooping cough, but these are less likely than the mycoplasma hypothesis.

I am eating chocolates left behind by Judy. She stayed for a few days and I'm sad to see her go. She's a great help with the girls, and they love her. She taught Hazel to say "car". We have funny chats about how things were "in her day".