staggered up to GOS today with just over 2 weeks until baby is due. treated ourselves (well me mostly) to a taxi from waterloo which considering the weather was good (but got the underground back as its now ok for labour to start!)
generally a good appointment, running to time and a full hour of their time. in summary it looks in their opinion to most likely be adhesions from the previous surgery rather than an intususeption, and when he has pain and vomiting he MUST go to local hospital incase of a non resolving obstruction. The registrar seemed to be saying that it was a balance of how he was and how much intervention which we agreed with but at one point we thought he was going to say Josh had to live with it! However Prof.Pierro then came in and thought that it was worth doing a MRI, and re-explained that he had to leave a significant amount in situ and described it as extensive. Also that it was not the sort of thing easily cured as it is quite complex, and the registrar said it was a bit of a vicious cycle where surgery to remove adhesions could cause more as could a laproscopy.
So MRI will be in about 6 weeks and then a follow up the week after with their team again.
Josh has had 4 bouts in the last week of various dgrees of severity, so it will be good to see if they can see what's going on.
ps - baby update
i have had a couple of occassions with flasing lights in fron of one eye requiring yet another night time visit to EGH but they did not feel it was related to pre-eclampsia which was their main worry. whilst we were in though the baby's heart rate had dipped lower and we did wonder if they were about to deliver. However in other ways it is still very happy even with a rate lower than 100 most that eve, so we got to go home, she did say though that if it does that in labour i'll be straight down to theatre...
generally a good appointment, running to time and a full hour of their time. in summary it looks in their opinion to most likely be adhesions from the previous surgery rather than an intususeption, and when he has pain and vomiting he MUST go to local hospital incase of a non resolving obstruction. The registrar seemed to be saying that it was a balance of how he was and how much intervention which we agreed with but at one point we thought he was going to say Josh had to live with it! However Prof.Pierro then came in and thought that it was worth doing a MRI, and re-explained that he had to leave a significant amount in situ and described it as extensive. Also that it was not the sort of thing easily cured as it is quite complex, and the registrar said it was a bit of a vicious cycle where surgery to remove adhesions could cause more as could a laproscopy.
So MRI will be in about 6 weeks and then a follow up the week after with their team again.
Josh has had 4 bouts in the last week of various dgrees of severity, so it will be good to see if they can see what's going on.
ps - baby update
i have had a couple of occassions with flasing lights in fron of one eye requiring yet another night time visit to EGH but they did not feel it was related to pre-eclampsia which was their main worry. whilst we were in though the baby's heart rate had dipped lower and we did wonder if they were about to deliver. However in other ways it is still very happy even with a rate lower than 100 most that eve, so we got to go home, she did say though that if it does that in labour i'll be straight down to theatre...
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