A Tiger Year Start

The Lunar New Year was a rough start for us as Jaime (14 yrs), Audrey (10 yrs) and Richard ( 8 Yrs) were unwell.
By New Year's eve, Jaime's left thigh was already in severe pain. We thought that she had played too much tennis and pulled a muscle. By New Year's day she was limping so badly and by the 2nd day she could hardly walk. So with all clinics closed on the public holiday, we went to the Accident and Emergency at the National University hospital. The doctor there took an X ray but said he couldn't detect any thing wrong - the X ray looked normal. So we were sent home with pain killers - Brufen. We pointed out the few patches of red on the knee area.
The pain killers eased the pain for 2 hours after it was consumed but the severe pain left Jaime unable to walk and sleep. I called the A + E department again the following day to ask if the doctor could take a blood test...
No, I didnt have medical training but other possibilities did cross my mind...such as Dengue, Chicken pox, measles... ( there was some red patches around the left knee where the pain was originating and which ran up the back thigh to the back of her left bum. So we went back to A + E ( it was still a public holiday being the 3rd day of New Year) and the doctors took a blood test and 3 doctors 'looked' her through. We were sent home without any further treatment. By Wednesday, there were more patches of rash on her thigh, back and a fwe sots on her neck and fore head. I called the hospital and spoke to the senior docotr @ A+E at that time and he suggested that I go to the Specialist clinic 'A' to see the specialist there.
So on Thursday ( 5th day of New Year) we went to the specialist clinic A. But we were told there was no doctor to see us as the referral letter given to us was to see an Orthopedic specialist. So we were directed back to the A+E Department.
At the A+E, the doctors told us that Jaime had to be warded as they wanted to do an MRI and ultrasound. So she was warded that morning as she had just developed a fever hat morning. As NUH is a teaching hospital, a group of doctors came to see her @ Ward 47 which is a general pediatric ward. They quickly came to the diagnosis that it was shingles...

She was quickly transferred to the Isolation Ward!