tuxedo_elf | What a day...

I have just got back home after spending four hours at the local Paedatric Accident and Emergency Centre. Aedan's been chesty for a few days, but today was much, much worse. He threw up his morning milk (all over me) didn't want breakfast, lunch or anything else. I took him to the baby group which is run by Health Visitors and his temperature was 38.7, which is high. Because of this he was so sleepy he couldn't stay awake.

I took him to the doctor and by some miracle he was seen within 45 minutes. The doctor told me he needed to go to hospital for a chest x-ray because he was so bad. So I called hubby who left work and off we went.

We were seen pretty quickly once we got there and they quickly examined him (he wasn't impressed) and put him on a nebuliser to help him breathe. It did help and shortly after he was given calpol (baby paracetamol) to bring his temperature down. Then he was taken for an x-ray, was examined again, had another nebuliser, was examined again and so it went on. I'm not even certain it happened in that order now I think about it. But it all helped and I started to notice the difference in him.

For a while it looked as if he'd be kept in, but a specialist looked at him and said he was ok to go home. She told me what warning signs to watch for and gave him a special inhaler. Hopefully he'll be back to normal soon.

It wasn't exactly how I'd planned to spend my day...