What a weekend.  I am just sticking down a quick post and then off to bed I am soo exhausted. 

Ashley vomited several times after I posted and slowly deteriorated---after the second re-dose of his hydorcortisone he vomited again so I gave him the dose again and bundled him into the car.  Not supposed to drive vetween 10pm-6am due to only having a restricted licence but I just went for it.  I felt he would need IV and he was still feeling nauseous whilst we were in A&E but I think the third dose I shoved down him before we went actually stuck and started to wokr!  However, by that time we were admitted to the Children’s Ward and stuck in the system and he made a great recovery actually.  Held down 25 mg at 7am and I managed to persuade them to give him some breakfast which they were averse to and just wanted him to have drinks.  However, somehow I twisted the nurses arm up her back and as it was he was hungry by that time and ate his breakfast and held it down, so when the Doc did his rounds it was easier to ask for us to be allowed home.  he’s on 25 mg every 6 hourly for the next 24 hours and then if well back to normal dose.  the vomiting stopped at 3am and he is a tad dehydrated but the fluids are picking up now I gt a full florinef tab down him. 

I’ll keep him off school tomorrow (Sunday night here) but otherwise I am happy with his recovery and looking forward to having an undisturbed sleep after 1am when he gets his next 25mg dose.   We are on a 24 hour gate pass. That means we go back if he is ill within the next 24 hours we can just ring and then go straight to the Childrens Ward and pick up where we left off.  things seem to have changed for the better at the hospital since our last trip there where that’s concerned.  Just having a letter allowing us back without having to go through the admittance procedures again is making me feel better aboput coming home actually.  Had he vomited again they would have given him IV and they in fact even applied emla upon admitance to the ward just in case which was another improvement also.  Also, they allowed me to dose him his med’s when I saw fit and with the med’s that I had.  the Doctor took a look at his notes and asked me what dose I thought was best to give him given the dose that worked last time.  i felt like I was part of the process and we discussed the 25mg every 6 hours working last time and she said if you have med’s feel free to given them starting with the dose at 7am.  It was nice to see they realise that I probably know him btter than anyone where med’s are concerned. 

I didn’t get much to eat myself and did not really sleep.  Here it is not policy to feed parent’s of sick children on the ward so I had to use what was provided in the parent’s rest room which was white bread, butter and jam and coffee and tea until we were able to leave. There is a canteen but the food is naff anyway (I’ve had it before) so I gave it a miss and just had white toast every 2 hours until we got out. So I was just a bit hungry, tired and stressed when I got home but settling down now... 9.20pm. I just grabbed a shower and had 40 winks this afternoon, but will be glad to see my bed tonight. That’s was after having a totally undiet like meal of steak and mushroom pie made with puff pastry pie (making your taste buds water? LOL!) and mash potatoes and gravy with peas. Not exactly diet food, but I could have eaten the whole side of scabby pig at the moment and Roo cooked it, so I ate what was on the menu for a change.  

Kyle and Tyler go to daycare (Monday) all day and I won’t have any kid’s home apart from Ashley so I am going to pamoper myself.   I don’t know what caused the whole thing, but Aran started being ill around 72 hours and more ago intially, then Kyle in the early hours on Saturday morning and then Chloe at 8am Saturday.  Then of course Ashley was the last to come down with whatever it was.  The baby did have it but he just barfed on his bedroom floor and no one noticed, such was his brief episode with it.  I discovered his vomit about 2 hours later when I went in to make up their beds on the floor in the corner, but he had not cried when being sick obviously.  In fact he had been running around and wondering more than likely what all the BIG fuss was with everyone puking left right and centre around him.  LOL!    My tmmy ache has gone.  I think (cross fingers) I managed to dodge it this time.  :)  I just feel dry in the mouth and lot’s wind pains in the gut but it’s difficult to say whether that is stress and lack of sleep as I swallow a lot when stressed and it creates a lot of gas and tummy pains anyhow..LOL!

Catch ya later and thanks for your replies.

Sandra, here’s hoping that Jackson doesn’t come down with it-cross fingers. 

Cheers

Anne-Marie