Catch up

Our brave little man found himself in a hospital bed today. A couple of days ago whilst play he hit his middle finger on his right had with his milk bottle cap. He had a little red mark on his finger and it wasn’t anything to worry about. The next day when we picked him up after work his finger had swallen up and was very red, so we dicidered then and there to take him to the doctors in the morning. The next morning his finger was pretty much the same, so Veronica took him in to the doctor where he was given some antibiotics and an xray to see if there was any factures (which there wasn’t). As the day goes on he had his antibiotics with no worries at all, until that night.

His temperature rose to 39.3 degrees so we rang the childrens helpline nurse who advised us to keep up his water and give him panadol, which we did. After a very bad night we rang the nurse again in the morning because his temperature was still high and he had now developed a rash all over his body, he was as red as beetroot and he was swallen all over. The nurse then told us to get him to emergency as soon as possible. Obviously we just threw some clothes on and jumped in the car and rushed to hosptial. When we got to Princess Margaret Hospital they got him through very quickly as he as pretty bad. They told us that he had a reaction to the antibiotics which was causing the rash, redness and swelling. Because of the severity of the infection in his finger which came up over night with the help of the bad reation to the antibiotics he will need to be admitted to hospital and will have to have rush surgery so that the infection won’t spread into his bones and blood system. Also because of the very high body temperature there was a worry of damage to his internal organes.

They bumped him into surgery at 4:15pm where he spent the next 55 minutes on the table. When he came out he was very tired but he was in great spirits, wanting to point to every car that passed the window of his room. He still have a very high temperature but hopefully soon that will change with the old antibiotics leaving his system and the new ones kicking in.

Veronica is spending the night there tonight as only one parent can, so we will take it in shifts and that way we both can get some sleep, if that is possible with all the worry.