until monday josh remained floppy and unable to support his head and cried when sat upright. the surgeon visited sunday morning and suggested starting on milk. his first water and milk prescipitated more bouts of crying but this slowly improved. by monday he started to be more of his usual self but easily tired. he had his first food and tolerated this well, the registrar who had been in the operation assisting came back on shift and said to see how he copes with food over that day or 2 and then go home. we agreed with the ward sister that if all continued to be well we would go home tuesday morning and the registrar said that would be appropriate.
Granny and Grandad brought Ethan up for his first visit monday lunch time, and after letting me know his feeling on being left was smiley and happy and enjoyed exploring the hospital eating cake and playing with toys!
it was decided that Josh was doing well so could return home that day. after organising this and going back via Tom's Aunt's to collect our things we arrived home at 11.30pm!
He had a settled night. the communtiy nurse visited the next day (at our request) and checked him over. he later developed at temperature thats kept creeping up (38.1) so she suggested going in to Epsom Hospital where they gave him a thorough check and took a urine and stool sample and said he was ok to go home as by then his temp had dropped to 36.5 but to come back if we were worried. over night his temperature continued to fluctuate and was 35.7 when we to bed as he had sweated to much. currently we are keeping an eye on this and are to go back if it continues to up and down.
in himself he is gaining energy all the time and laughing and amazingly off all pain relief!
1 comment:
It's wonderful news to hear you are all home and Josh is doing so well. My prayers are that this continues for all of you.
Love
Derin
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