charlottecco2
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Just got back from a day in hospital, they nearly kept us there for a few nights, but i know Jaiden heals better at home so they let us go with the agreement i would take him back straight away if he got any worse.
He developed a cold 4 days ago and started vomitting, which he doesn't normally do as long as his dialysis (kidney) machine is doing its job. I rang the hospital saturday and they said he had bronchitis and to just keep an eye on it, so he has been screaming, coughing, vomitting and totally unhappy for the last few days. On top of that he is not sleeping day or night and we are both soooo tired.
This morning he started violently vomitting, so i rushed him into hospital, where we pumped dextrose into him through his nasal gastric tube, they needed to take his bloods as they do every week, but couldn't because he was dehydrated and your blood goes thick when you are dehydrated and won't flow out of you. So we waited for a couple of hours for him to absorb some fluid before they took some blood.
After examining him they confirmed he had a virus, but they couldn't give him medication, because he was already going through the worst of it, so we just have to see it through. And hopefully when the virus clears up he will stop being sick, he looks so ill and has lost so much weight...
Its so frustrating, him reaching 10kg and being able to have his kidney transplant seems sooooo far away right now.
xx
Oh and i found a really good site that explains peritoneal dialysis, which is the machine jaiden is connected to for 9 hours everynight, if anyone wants to have a look. https://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/site/pdanim.php
He developed a cold 4 days ago and started vomitting, which he doesn't normally do as long as his dialysis (kidney) machine is doing its job. I rang the hospital saturday and they said he had bronchitis and to just keep an eye on it, so he has been screaming, coughing, vomitting and totally unhappy for the last few days. On top of that he is not sleeping day or night and we are both soooo tired.
This morning he started violently vomitting, so i rushed him into hospital, where we pumped dextrose into him through his nasal gastric tube, they needed to take his bloods as they do every week, but couldn't because he was dehydrated and your blood goes thick when you are dehydrated and won't flow out of you. So we waited for a couple of hours for him to absorb some fluid before they took some blood.
After examining him they confirmed he had a virus, but they couldn't give him medication, because he was already going through the worst of it, so we just have to see it through. And hopefully when the virus clears up he will stop being sick, he looks so ill and has lost so much weight...
Its so frustrating, him reaching 10kg and being able to have his kidney transplant seems sooooo far away right now.
xxOh and i found a really good site that explains peritoneal dialysis, which is the machine jaiden is connected to for 9 hours everynight, if anyone wants to have a look. https://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/site/pdanim.php
Poor little guy.
