Sunday, 29 June 2008

Exploding nappies and hospital trips

We've spent most of the day at the Walk-in centre and then at the Infirmary. Laura started having exploding green nappies on Friday but yesterday's was even worse.

She had two szs yesterday and was very subdued. This morning she woke with blood on her pillow suggesting another sz overnight. Then she had another exploding green nappy this morning so I decided to get her seen by a doctor.

Actually I was worried about a urine infection too as she had a bit of temp and seemed a bit uncomfortable after three exploding nappies whose contents had got everywhere. So we went to the Walk-in centre where she had a sz in the car park and then another shortly after getting inside, both tonic szs so quite scary. She was extremely jumpy in the emergency room and so the doc (who coincidently is our GP) decided to get her an ambulance to take her to LRI. She was fine in the ambulance and much more settled from then on. A good sleep certainly helped.

They watched her for a few hours at the hospital but things really did seem more settled and her urine sample was fine so we were given the all clear to head home. They would have happily let her stay on the ward for the night but we definietly didn't want that, especially with all those coughs and colds!

She's just had a feed and seems fine, although still quiet.

It looks as though I am going to have to take the day off work tomorrow though as Mick has a meeting at the Halifax regarding our mortgage on the new house. If she's still off school on Tuesday, Mick will have to stay at home with her as I am interviewing all day.

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