Was able to sleep on Tuesday, but waked up repeatedly. There was no fever until 6am when the temperature started to go up, reaching 39.0° C at 9am. Owing to the fever, I had to miss the first physiotherapy session in the morning at NUH. The fever went off@11.00am. Fever returned at 4.30pm -nevertheless I continued to access the office email @6pm to get some distractions from the discomfort of the fever. It seemed to work and the fever left at 7.30pm. The fever pattern repeated again on Wednesday. No fever until 7am and then increasing to 38.8° C before leaving at 11am. Fever returned from 5pm - 9pm. I decided to plot a fever chart to show the pattern.
The fever came a bit later on Thursday morning at 8am @38.7° C, and went off quickly at 10.30am. Fever returned in the afternoon at the usual time. Temperature reached 38.7° C. The fever remained high when I had to visit the neighbourhood clinic @8.00pm to remove the stitches. Took the opportunity to show the doctor the fever chart which I’d been compiling. He said it was not unusual to have this kind of pattern. However, he advised to continue with Ibuprofen and take note of the A&E doctor’s instruction. When he pulled out the 2 stitches, there were sharp pains. I started sweating and felt the fever disappeared suddenly! This was how the knee looked after the removal of stitches.
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