Well hasn’t this week been a stressful adventure so far..
Toby woke with a mild fever on Tues morning, nothing a little nurofen couldn’t fix prior to daycare!! At lunch they ring and say he has a fever 38, please come and get him…
So after collecting him and getting him into bed for an arvo sleep at home following Panadol as well as dragging him to Will’s swimming lessons he starts to look better..
I head off to work for a night shift and daddy is at home to manage the boys!!
All night poor daddy is on the phone with me as Toby is beside himself, irritable and wanting mummy…
After lots of vomiting, dry retching, fevers and pain in belly and next to no sleep, Granny Jude gets the call to come over so Toby can be taken to hospital…
Long story short poor T gets worse and fevers hit hard, he is jerking when trying to sleep, continued nausea, pain and just flat…
Dr Rob Slade is the Paed, he thinks it’s Hand Foot and Mouth (EV 71) which can cause cerebral irritation due to increase fluid in the brain… MRI and Lumbar puncture will be needed if no improvement…
It’s been a hairy few days of stress as very worried for T and such a nasty virus affecting his brain…
He has been brighter this afternoon and no fever either so may have come through the worst of it I’m hoping!!
We need some positive swabs to confirm the EV71 so we are not left wondering meningitis?!!
Mummy and T are currently settled to bed and mummy is nearly asleep so night for now!!!
