Sick

[nanna 0]

Our youngest grandaughter Esmé had been unwell before christmas with a lung infection and a viral infection.Last week we had Esmé sleepover for a few nights and she was her normal self.On Monday this week my sister invited Esmé and her mum and dad over hers to have a late christmas celebration and stay over for the night and open presents with her.Everything was going ok till dinner time Esmé only ate a little of her dinner a little while later esmé vomited.When it was time for Esmé to go to bed she was laid in her travel cot.Our eldest daughter who was staying with us over christmas had gone to my sisters for the evening the time came for our daughter to leave my sisters when she heard esmé crying so she looked in on esmé and she had vomited again.Early tuesday afternoon i phoned our son who was still at my sisters to find out how esmé was and he told me he had phoned the doctors and was waiting for the duty doctor to phone them back as there was no improvement in Esmé.At about 4.30pm tuesday afternoon our son phoned me to say their were at the doctors waiting to see the duty doctor and when they had been seen he would phone me back to let me know how Esmégot on at the doctors.On coming out of the doctors our son phoned me he said the doctor had listened to Esmé'schest and said her lungs and chest were clear the doctor and looked in her mouth and said that Esmé had a viral infection and she couldnt give esmé anything for it as there is nothing that works for viral infections.On getting back to my sisters she invited our son and daughter in law and esméto stay another night as esmé werent well. They gave esmé some dinner but she ate nothing at 7pm they laid esmé down for the night with a bottle of milk.During tuesday evening our son phoned me and invited me over to my sisters for lunch and to spend some time with esmé wednesday our son would call in for me on his way back from our local village as he had to pick up a few bits from the shop in the village i said that was good i would wait for him to call in for me.Wednesday morning my sister phoned me to see if i was still going there for lunch today i said yes she said Bruce will call in for you on the way home from the village.I heard nothing else.At 2pm our son phoned me to say he hadnt been out yet as he only got up at 1pm and they woke Esmé up then too as she had slept from 7pm the night before till 1pm tody they did her some weetabix which she had a spoon or too and gave her a bottle of juice which she just spat out and she went back to sleep so their laid her in her travel cot.At 5pm their woke Esmé again to give her a bottle of juice and something to eat Esmé was burning up they took her tempreture several times the readings ranged from 39+ to 40+ our son phoned me and i said and my sister said dont wait get her up to A+E straight away.Aswell being since Monday evening she has done nothing but sleep.A paediatrician came round to see Esmé they took her tempreture it was 39.6 they examined her and said it werent a viral infection it was a bacterial infection they bput her von a sailine iv drip as she was dehydrated and a iv drip of antibiotics and also sent her for a chest x-ray as she was coughing a lot the paediatrician wanted to keep Esméin overnight to see if the drowsyness is being caused by the high tempreture.Eventually they took Esmé down to the childrens ward where she was put on oxygen as the oxygen in her blood levels had dropped low.The results of her chest x-ray came back she has a very bad chest infection.And they will be keeping her in for at least 48 hours.In my mind i think it might be more serious as pneumonia as from a chest infection she not going to be drowsy like she is and when our daughter in law left the hospital she was still drowsy.now Esmé is in the best place the way she is.But she neednt have been laying in the hospital if the doctor had done job properly yesterday and examined correctly.This seems to be happening a lot at our doctors surgery.Tell me someone how these so called doctors get through medical school.Our son and Daughter are not going to leave it like it they are going to put a complaint in about the doctor misdiagnosing Esmé.I will keep you all updated on how Esme is doing and about the complaint when its handed in.

[sheepdog 10]

Oh dear, that sounds really bad. Sorry to hear about your grandaughter. I see this post is from several days ago, I hope things are going better for her now. Hope you can pop in and give us an update.

[nanna 0]

Hello everyoneHere is an update on our Esmé.Sorry that its late but i have been very busy the last few weeks having our son his partner and Esmé living back with us.Esmé was discharged from hospital on the 8/1/12 she was in hospital for 4 days.And as i had suspected on Esmé discharge papers from the hospital she had been treated for pneumonia.After being discharged from hospital Esmé was not 100% for 2 weeks.And now the poor thing is now teething very bad she has her molars on both sides of her gums coming through and she is a lot of pain with it and every night she is waking up because of the teething.Hopefully when this teething lark has passed that will be the last of her being under the weather and back to her normal self.

[sheepdog 10]

Gosh, the poor kid! Why is it when it rains it poors?When I was a real young kid, maybe 3-4 years old, when I had a toothache, my mom would put her finger in a bottle of wiskey, and rub it on my gums. It actually worked pretty good. However I did grow up liking the taste of wiskey, so it may not be the best home rememdy in the world!