La's hospital journey part 2

On the morning of Friday 17th may I got JR ready to be picked up for nursery and TP ready to spend the day with his great-grandparents. Then I got me and LA ready for a day patient visit to the local children's ward, I took enough nappies, formula, clothes and food to see la through until early evening, I also packed her sleep sac so she could nap. I took nothing for me! I didn't need anything I'd only be there a few hours, so I took no food or drink for myself, and no money to get anything either. Once LA was examined and given a cot (purely for her comfort,I was reassured) her dietician Cheryl came to have a look at her and speak with the doctors and consultants, again I was told all they needed to do was watch her feed and take some blood and would be out later that day. Very stupidly I had a panic attack and once Mr M&TTT arrived I was sent to A&E, to be checked out as apparently nurses on the children's ward aren't insured to help ill parents so thank god it wasn't anything serious.

When I returned to the ward after self discharging myself (there were people who needed the help more than me I was fine) I was told that they hadn't been able to get any blood we'd have to wait for the night shift so we'd need to stay in for just 1 NIGHT! 

1 night I was able to cope with and Mr M&TTT went home and got me food, drink, a change of clothes and nightwear. Whilst in the bay ward LA picked up a tummy bug a very nasty bout of D&V so we were moved into a side room at 3am but that meant that I had privacy, my own bathroom and my own tv, and LA had a box of toys all to herself.

When we woke up on the Saturday morning it soon became apparent that until she got over the stomach bug there was no way we were going home. 

LA's hospital journey part 1

As regular readers know LA has been diagnosed with a milk allergy and as a symptom of this her weight has always been very up and down. Since we started weaning her 2 months ago we thought her weight would even off and she'd start to steadily gain weight, alas no it didn't it instead it has rapidly dropped. 

On Tuesday 14th may 2013 I took her to be weighted at the baby clinic, I was shocked to discover that she had lost a lot of weight. When my health visitor asked what and how much she was eating I immediately thought I was doing something wrong, but my health visitor assured me that with what she was eating she should be putting on plenty of weight and she we'd be referred to a paediatrician but would have to wait a couple of months.

On the Thursday of that week LA had a paediatric dietician appointment, Cheryl our dietician again weighted LA and even though she'd eaten really really well she'd lost even more weight in the 2 days. Cheryl decided that we'd bypass the community paediatrician and phoned the hospitals children's ward to see if they were able to take a look at her,but warned them not to expect an ill looking child, they were very busy with surgical patients that day and requested that we came back as a day case the following day a 11am. 

At this point I asked Cheryl if there was any chance at all that LA would be kept in and we were told not to expect to be kept in, but expect to be there until late afternoon! 

Little did we know what would happen the following day.........

Project 365 25-5-2013

This is painted on the window of our room in hotel Russell's hall hospital, costa pensnett 

Have you been wondering why I've been quiet this week?

You may have noticed I've been a little quiet this last week on both my blog and social media. The reason for that is my gorgeous daughter LA is in hospital. Right to explain I think I'm going to do this in a few shorter posts rather than one long one. This is a tough time for me and my family so please bear with me 

Me and LA settling down for the night in ward C2 Russell's Hall Hospital