Well what a hellish few days I've had. Ollie had been poorly with a cough and cold for about a week and it all went manic Friday night. I'd noticed he wasn't feeding well all day and not really waking up. I told Tim and he said he was probably tired from being poorly so not to worry. Anyway we woke him at 10.30pm as he hadn't feed since 5pm and when we finally roused him his eyes were all crossed eyed and rolling to the back of his head. We noticed he was pale and because we couldn't keep him awake long enough to feed we rang NHS Direct. They said to go to A&E immediately. Once we were finally seen after an hour and a half the doc took his temp and listened to his heart. He had a hight temp and his heart was racing. He got a paediatrion doc and all hell let loose. She said he was a really poorly baby. By this point his skin was mottled, he was even paler, floppy and still unresponsive and had a raised soft spot. All these led to suspected meningitis. She immediately got him on 3 different antibiotics and started testing him for everything. He had to have a lumber puncture to rule out meningitis (OMG I was in such a state with this as it's the worse pain imaginable apparently
) and it was done twice as they got blood in the first one. He had a chest x ray, blood tests, stool and urine sample and mucous sample from his nose. The bloods came back at 2.30am and showed an infection but couldn't say where. The lumber puncture came back at 4am and that was clear. By the morning all the other tests came back as clear too. They cultured the spinal fluid and bloods to see if anything developed and those results came back Monday morning. They were clear too. It took a long time to stablise him at first as his temp was making his heart race and thus the reason for his eyes being how they were. He was on a heart monitor for that and once they controlled the temp, his heart monitor came off. It was so scary and to hear the words "he's borderline resussiation" absolutely destroyed me. Me and Tim were beside ourselves but Ollie was such a strong fighter and pulled through whatever it was that was wrong with him. They've concluded that it was a viral infection but we'll never know where it was or why it affected him like it did. He came home Monday (my birthday) and went back for daily antibiotics Tues and Weds and that's it, no more hospital. It's been a hellish few days but the main thing is Ollie back home and better! 
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) and it was done twice as they got blood in the first one. He had a chest x ray, blood tests, stool and urine sample and mucous sample from his nose. The bloods came back at 2.30am and showed an infection but couldn't say where. The lumber puncture came back at 4am and that was clear. By the morning all the other tests came back as clear too. They cultured the spinal fluid and bloods to see if anything developed and those results came back Monday morning. They were clear too. It took a long time to stablise him at first as his temp was making his heart race and thus the reason for his eyes being how they were. He was on a heart monitor for that and once they controlled the temp, his heart monitor came off. It was so scary and to hear the words "he's borderline resussiation" absolutely destroyed me. Me and Tim were beside ourselves but Ollie was such a strong fighter and pulled through whatever it was that was wrong with him. They've concluded that it was a viral infection but we'll never know where it was or why it affected him like it did. He came home Monday (my birthday) and went back for daily antibiotics Tues and Weds and that's it, no more hospital. It's been a hellish few days but the main thing is Ollie back home and better! x
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