We woke up early again to give Michael his medicine today. He had an injection of two medicines yesterday and will have the same today. Each morning and evening he has two different drops and a powered medicine to take too. We give him medicine at 7, 8 and 9 in the morning and evening. We are making him special easy to digest food called maizena.
Today was cousin Kerly’s (Now I know how to spell it) birthday and so Bob and I went into the city to buy her presents. We wandered about the shopping centre looking for baby girl presents and eventually found a small shop with a very helpful woman who wrapped some hair bands for us and raced around the other shops finding change for our large notes. She even gave us some sweets before we went.
Michael was fine all morning but by the middle of the day was feverish and weak again. This is again really worrying for us. We called on Gloria to come round and give Michael his injection and she checked him out and checked over his medicines too. She is a trained nurse so this was really good. She found out that the doctor hadn’t given us anything to counter Michael’s fever. Something for diarrhoea and something for colic and something for sore throat and something for a bacterial infection but nothing for his fever. So she recommended that I go immediately to buy Panadol and so now Michael has another medicine in his schedule, this time he should take it every 6 hours. He’s starting to rattle.
Here´s Bob waiting to see the results
Well it must have worked because by the evening Michael was back on bouncing form and made it to Kerly’s party where he ate everything offered including his favourite jelly and he danced and smiled and had a good time.
And here is Kerly with her cake
He did get very tired though and by the time of his 9 pm medicine he was finished for the day and we took him home. He still has diarrhoea which is bad because he can’t be getting nutrition from his food but he does seem to be well otherwise. Of course we’re watching him very carefully now and really hoping for a peaceful fever free night.
Great photo Bob! Poor Michael, it's 100 times worse for parents when kids get ill, as you can't explain to him what's happeneing or ask him how he is, and you'd take his illness off him if you could. But you know he'll be fine and you are doing absolutely everything right........it's just one of the first of many many dramas you'll have raising him - Auntie Sharron
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