Intuition

Do you pick up on those ´gut feeling´vibes,

We do it all the time, I find it´s best to act rather than over think them

Well that´s what happened on Monday early evening, I just knew, so rang Rebecca and found her not very well at all and feeling rough.

I managed to persuade her to act on doctors advice of if anything changes go straight to A & E.

She was seen very quickly with no long hours of waiting and admitted.

With both their heart rates elevated, high even for her, they were hooked up to monitors where they managed to get it under control.

She had freezing shivers and hot flushes so a virus was suspected, the fact that she had recently been given a flu jab followed a week later by the triple whooping cough vaccinations, was deemed not to be the culprit!?

I´m not a medic but do have my own thoughts about that.

Antibiotics and paracetamol were given with very frequent obs.

It took 4 attempts to insert the cannula in her arm, until she asked for a more experienced person, then a scan.

They thought it might be flu, subsequently ruled out, they have been ruling out possibilities but still have no idea.

Tuesday evening her arm was terribly painful at the cannula site, upon investigation there was a raging infection going on with tracking creeping up her arm. Certainly not helping

How on earth did they manage to inflict that on her, poor hygiene or damage to the vein?

Straight onto IV antibiotics and then would you believe a bag of medicine as a precaution against sepsis, which obviously they had caused. One response to her questions over this was ´well hospitals are dangerous places´!! Fills you with confidence doesn´t it, NOT

Rebecca has been asking all along the way is this ok for baby? The monitor tracking his heart rate also has a button to press each time he moves as apparently, rather like us when we take exercise it naturally increases.

The baby, well he seems to be having a ball, with Rebecca on bed rest, he is obviously enjoying the quiet time and is unbelievably active, he is also picking up on her not so good moments by squirming even more. 

Cultures should return today so we may be more enlightened.

All very tense and scary, the site I use for flights and train times has been regularly visited, continuously updated with various scenarios. 

I can still get a flight into next week at very reasonable prices (not that, that matters)

so as Rebecca said, we wait.......

take care

xcx