we had a particularly bad day today with Josh. he was fine to start the day, jumping on the bed to wake Daddy up at 8.30 but writhing around by 9am after 1 spoonful of porridge, progressing to screaming so much we had trouble keeping him in his car seat to get him to Epsom.
Great Ormond Street had requested an Ultrasound when this next happened, which was easier said than done. He was seen initially in a+e as we were quite worried about him by the time we got there, where they pushed hard for him to have the ultrasound but the best they could do was 1pm even though we were there before 10am. They did xray (where he started vomiting) and then sent us to the ward where they gave him a suppository pain relief and he spent the next few hours writhing, crying, saying ow, more sickness and drifting in and out of awareness in between each bout of pain. gradually the pain subsided and he had his ultrasound (which was 1pm still despite saying they would try and bring it forward) which anyway showed so much air in his small intestine that the technique would not work (the waves just bounce back apparantly). the x ray showed bowel full of faeces so they did a barium swallow like we have had before but this time during a pain episode, so xrays at 3pm and 5pm. He wasn't keen but eventually agreed to drinking the strawberry nesquick flavour barium in exchange for a flump marshmallow bar!
We were allowed home as he had picked up, but giving him dinner started the pain over again so we'll see how the night goes... their plan is to start him on 'movicol' to see if that helps and we have an appointment at Great Ormond Street surgical team on the 11th Nov (hopefully baby will stay in place until its due date!)
Great Ormond Street had requested an Ultrasound when this next happened, which was easier said than done. He was seen initially in a+e as we were quite worried about him by the time we got there, where they pushed hard for him to have the ultrasound but the best they could do was 1pm even though we were there before 10am. They did xray (where he started vomiting) and then sent us to the ward where they gave him a suppository pain relief and he spent the next few hours writhing, crying, saying ow, more sickness and drifting in and out of awareness in between each bout of pain. gradually the pain subsided and he had his ultrasound (which was 1pm still despite saying they would try and bring it forward) which anyway showed so much air in his small intestine that the technique would not work (the waves just bounce back apparantly). the x ray showed bowel full of faeces so they did a barium swallow like we have had before but this time during a pain episode, so xrays at 3pm and 5pm. He wasn't keen but eventually agreed to drinking the strawberry nesquick flavour barium in exchange for a flump marshmallow bar!
We were allowed home as he had picked up, but giving him dinner started the pain over again so we'll see how the night goes... their plan is to start him on 'movicol' to see if that helps and we have an appointment at Great Ormond Street surgical team on the 11th Nov (hopefully baby will stay in place until its due date!)
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