Hmm. Need to stop commenting that illnesses have gone. No sooner has one died than the next one crops up. In this case about an hour after I wrote the last post. Dylan decided that the best course of action was to have a temperature and a breathing rate around the 90 mark followed by a screaming fit and bringing back dinner. Rather pleased that he didn't want much to eat. Shame about the calpol though.
On the plus side, this morning he's breathing is more normal and the temperature has gone although he does now have a cold. We're reasonably impressed with the drugs that he's on (montelucast) as he's barely coughed all week, and the fact that he coughed twice yesterday is a note of remark to us is also very pleasant (although the fact that he's got a cold increases our stress levels!). So we wait and see how he goes and maybe we'll go on holiday this evening. Or tomorrow. It'll be fine.
Thursday - 14th March
Thankfully, whatever it was that had made him unwell has at least died a death. He stopped vomiting on Monday and his bum is now back to normal which is also a blessing! We took him to the GPs on Monday (after 4 days) but he didn't really know what the problem was. To be fair, we didn't expect him to. It was probably a combination of a reaction to the vaccinations, perhaps with some other bug thrown into the mix. He did have a sore throat which the GP did seem surprised that he wasn't complaining about. It was a little bit of an odd illness as he was mostly a happy little boy throughout which is not what you'd expect if it was more "serious".
So he's almost back to eating normally which is good. He's struggling with lumpy food more than he has in the past although clearly he has some sort of aberrant digestive system as he doesn't like sausages. He does like chocolate, however.
Thursday - 7th March
Well, it has been over a week a since he was allowed out of hospital and he was doing very well. He came out of hospital in much better shape than on previous episodes and that means that we've been able to get out more and generally be more sociable rather than locking oursleves away in case of further infection. And scaring the locals with the cough. Perhaps we could use it in an anti-smoking campaign? It's been nice having a happy, smiley boy around the house.
We had a consultant appointment on Wednesday and she was (as usual) very pleased with him. He has fallen further behind in his development but no more than would be expected given the amount of time spent in hospital and generally unwell. Although he is sitting well, standing and trying to walk, he's still no closer to being able to roll over and so we do need to spend more time with him in trying to sort that out. In terms of his overall health he's doing very well all things considered. There is probably some further lung damage due to the infections that he's had over Winter but hopefully the effect of this will diminsh as he gets older. There will also be a sleep study when he's back to "normal" which will look at his saturation levels overnight to make sure that there's nothing strange going on (like he's not saturating).
The biggest issue is, no surprise, his weight which is really not ideal. He no longer gets the benefit of a month being taken off his age as he was early and so his age\weight chart looks reasonably poor. The 0.4th centile is looking an awfully long way up! It is hoped that he will return to his eating habits in September where he ate everything in sight and so put some weight on. Otherwise drastic methods may need to be taken.
Other than that, he had some more injections (vaccinations). The nurse was struggling somewhat to find suitable spots in his thigh to stick needles as there's not much spare flesh there. And today, he's ill again. We're hoping that it's a side effect from the vaccinations rather than anything more serious and so will be over very soon. What we don't need in a
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| Dylan pleased with another birthday present |
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| A rather splendid Welsh dragon fleece! |
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