yes I know its nearing the end of january but I have not had time to sit down since before xmas! It all started xmas eve - I didnt feel right but put it down to being my first xmas on my own with my little boy and in a new house so carried on as normal. Xmas morning we got up and did the whole @Father Christmas' has been thing before heading to my dads for the day. By dinnertime I was feeling worse but managed to eat xmas dinner (well you have to come hell or high water!) but by 4pm I decided I had to go home else I wouldnt get there.
The next 4 days passed in a blur of sleep, medicine and sleep! By day 4 I managed to get to a doctors who diagnosed a chest infection, a week later when I had finished the antibiotics I ended up going back to the GP who then diagnosed pneumonia!! Thankfully the new medicines he gave me worked and I was soon feeling better....Good Job too - next my son was ill!
He had been back at school for a week - I collected him on the friday and one look at him and I could see something wasnt right. Took him home and he slept from the moment he got in through to sunday morning with no eating and me forcing fluids down him whenever he awoke...by monday his asthma was bad so I took him to the GP who sent us to the local Childrens Hospital where they admitted him. Chets Xrays, Nebulisers and Steroids (which he had an allergic reaction tto just to make him feel a bit better!) followed and he too was diagnosed with pneumonia. Sheer coincidence because apparently you cant 'catch it' or 'pass it on'...
My little man also has a severe nut allergy for which we have epi-pens to hand at all time, I advised the hospital of this and they put it on his notes etc but when it came to food I was advised to provide our own as we knew it was safe!!! To be fair he didnt eat an awful lot and hospital food is not great at the best of times but he wasnt even offered an alternative as they couldnt guarantee no cross contamination during the catering process!!Boy we were glad to get home!
Anyway we have been home a week now and he is fine - to look at him now you wouldnt think he was so ill a week ago! Kids are just so resilient its amazing!
And so the New Year Begins!!