We've had no phone or internet since Monday (BT 
), and it was just when I need you all! 
We ended up spending yesterday at the hospital with Charlie.
It started Tuesday afternoon when I noticed a bit of blood in Charlie's nappy. He was his usual happy self, so I wasn't overly concerned. I thought maybe he had torn himself a little when he was pushing a poo out. But it got a little worse in his next nappy. 
He normally only gives me 1-2 dirty nappies in a day, but we had 3 dirty ones with blood in all of them. We'd got an appointment Tuesday night and MIL was looking after both kids for a couple of hours. As Charlie seemed fine in himself, we still went, leaving her instructions to ring if there was any problems. When we collected them both, he hadn't done a dirty nappy, but when she had checked him, there was about a tablespoon of red bloody jelly stuff in his nappy. Nothing else, just this. So I rang NHS Direct and spoke to a guy who told me it was probably nothing, but to keep an eye on it overnight and ring back if it got worse.
I had a dirty nappy again at 2am, but no blood so I thought he was okay. But then when I changed him at 7am, it was again dirty and quite a bit more blood. I rang NHS direct and she offered to get me an out of hours doctor, but that may take 3 hours. The local surgery opened at 8, so I rand them and got an appointment for 8.30. I took the bloody nappy from the night before, and she took one look and got on the phone to the hospital to speak to the peadiatric surgeon!
Luckily DH was off work with a cold, so we went straight to the hospital, and was there by 9.30. They were fantastic. The NHS are great!
He was seen immediately by the ward sister, and then they said that the surgeon had been called to an emergency so could maybe be a couple of hours. He was due a bottle at 10 and they told us he had to be Nil by Mouth. This panicked me as the only reason they would say this is if he needed surgery! So I got in a bit of a state and the sister said she would try and get a junior doctor to take a look to try to put my mind at rest. Well, in walked DH's cousin who is a trainee doctor and on her peadiatric rotation! She was great because she told us things that she probably shouldn't have done, but she explained everything. They suspected some very long named thing that I can't remember. It is basically when the bowel somehow wraps round and grows inside itself, or something like that. To be honest, it was too much to take in. If it was that, he would need immediate surgery.
So they sent us straight to Ultrasound. They were extremely thorough and checked everything and measured all his internal organs. Charlie giggled all the way through it! He liked the sonographer rubbing the jelly on his tummy!
Anyway, after a very long stressful wait while the head surgeon checked everything, they finally told us we could give him a bottle at 1pm. He had been soooo good considering he was 3 hours late. He gulped 5 oz straight down, and when I sat him up, he brought it all up again!! So we did him another bottle and he took it slower and then went sleep.
The surgeon came to see us and told us Charlie had had a polyp (sp?) inside his bowel and it had burst. It would cause no other problems at all, but we would probably notice very loose bowels over the next couple of days, and a little more blood, but then he would be fine. I cried with relief!
So all is well now, and Charlie was fine through it all. It was just bloody typical that it all happened when I had no internet!
), and it was just when I need you all! We ended up spending yesterday at the hospital with Charlie.
It started Tuesday afternoon when I noticed a bit of blood in Charlie's nappy. He was his usual happy self, so I wasn't overly concerned. I thought maybe he had torn himself a little when he was pushing a poo out. But it got a little worse in his next nappy. He normally only gives me 1-2 dirty nappies in a day, but we had 3 dirty ones with blood in all of them. We'd got an appointment Tuesday night and MIL was looking after both kids for a couple of hours. As Charlie seemed fine in himself, we still went, leaving her instructions to ring if there was any problems. When we collected them both, he hadn't done a dirty nappy, but when she had checked him, there was about a tablespoon of red bloody jelly stuff in his nappy. Nothing else, just this. So I rang NHS Direct and spoke to a guy who told me it was probably nothing, but to keep an eye on it overnight and ring back if it got worse.I had a dirty nappy again at 2am, but no blood so I thought he was okay. But then when I changed him at 7am, it was again dirty and quite a bit more blood. I rang NHS direct and she offered to get me an out of hours doctor, but that may take 3 hours.
The local surgery opened at 8, so I rand them and got an appointment for 8.30. I took the bloody nappy from the night before, and she took one look and got on the phone to the hospital to speak to the peadiatric surgeon! Luckily DH was off work with a cold, so we went straight to the hospital, and was there by 9.30. They were fantastic. The NHS are great!
He was seen immediately by the ward sister, and then they said that the surgeon had been called to an emergency so could maybe be a couple of hours. He was due a bottle at 10 and they told us he had to be Nil by Mouth. This panicked me as the only reason they would say this is if he needed surgery! So I got in a bit of a state and the sister said she would try and get a junior doctor to take a look to try to put my mind at rest. Well, in walked DH's cousin who is a trainee doctor and on her peadiatric rotation! She was great because she told us things that she probably shouldn't have done, but she explained everything. They suspected some very long named thing that I can't remember. It is basically when the bowel somehow wraps round and grows inside itself, or something like that. To be honest, it was too much to take in. If it was that, he would need immediate surgery. So they sent us straight to Ultrasound. They were extremely thorough and checked everything and measured all his internal organs. Charlie giggled all the way through it!
He liked the sonographer rubbing the jelly on his tummy!Anyway, after a very long stressful wait while the head surgeon checked everything, they finally told us we could give him a bottle at 1pm. He had been soooo good considering he was 3 hours late. He gulped 5 oz straight down, and when I sat him up, he brought it all up again!! So we did him another bottle and he took it slower and then went sleep.
The surgeon came to see us and told us Charlie had had a polyp (sp?) inside his bowel and it had burst. It would cause no other problems at all, but we would probably notice very loose bowels over the next couple of days, and a little more blood, but then he would be fine. I cried with relief!
So all is well now, and Charlie was fine through it all. It was just bloody typical that it all happened when I had no internet!
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