January 2009

Coping with four children under six

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A weekend of celebration

Yay, we’re home! And tomorrow we get to hold my eldest son’s seventh and third son’s third birthday party which we postponed last weekend – and were about to postpone again – because William was in hospital. We’ll be back in hospital daily for the next few days/weeks but that is a hundred times better [...]

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Children’s hospital

The children’s ward is a heartbreaking place. It is also a place where you want to throttle the noisy, recovering kids who keep everyone awake all night and who run around disrupting poorly patients all day. Discharge can’t come quick enough for these ones. Across from William’s bed is a young teenager who is a [...]

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‘Flu season

We’re waiting in the day unit of the hospital, sent up by our doctor, where we have to see the paediatrician about William’s urine and blood results. In the chair opposite sits a little boy who barely stirs in the six hours we are there, so poorly is he with ‘flu. So it shouldn’t come [...]

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Not responding

William is still not responding to the drugs he is being given for the kidney problems he is experiencing. The doctors vary between mild concern about this and a ‘wait and see’ attitude which could be mistaken for mild indifference if you weren’t looking carefully. But you can’t complain that the paediatricians aren’t optimistic at [...]

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Nephrotic Syndrome

My Second Son William is very poorly in hospital with kidney problems and nephrotic syndrome, neither of which are so far responding to treatment. I’m worried, Matthew is shattered (he’s doing nights in the hospital, where sleep is never allowed with all the coming and going), Harry is badly missing his best buddy and we [...]

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