A scary couple of days

I know in my last blog I reported that my little Charlie was going on to antibiotics for her throat and ear infection, well she has now been taken off them. 

On Thursday we had stated to notice that she was starting to go a little limp from exhaustion and we also assumed from dehydration as she had refused all solid food and fluids from Wednesday. It wasn't helping that she was still getting 39 and above temperatures as well.

M and I decided that it was best to take her to the Hospital even though we went to see the GP that morning. 

As it was raining M dropped Charlotte and I off at the emergency entrance (that is after we dropped Lachlan off my parents), at this stage Charlotte was getting worse and was basically limp in my arms. 

This was one of the most scariest mothering moments in my life. It felt that she had fought as hard as she could and she was now needing some help to get over the line. 

We got seen straight away, and were sent directly to the paediatric emergency ward where Charlotte was hooked up to monitoring equipment and had a cannula inserted into her foot (the only place they could find a workable vein) and was hooked up to her fluids. 

I wasn't able to let go of her I was so scared that something may be seriously wrong with her. 

They continuously checked her vital signs and her temp, which continued to be up around the 39's, and also asked for us to collect a urine sample, which was impossible as she hadn't had a wet nappy in over 24 hours. 


As the night continued on and the put up another bag of fluids and continue to give paracetamol every 4 hours, she became a bit cooler and she seem to struggle a lot less (although she was still asleep).

Once she woke, we started to test her with hydralyte to see if she would drink something, she slowly was starting to drink via a syringe. Which I started to have a little cry over as I had so much relief that she was starting to actually drink something. 

I talked the doctor about taking her home as she was now off the drip. They wanted to keep her over night, but as her immune system was already down I wanted to get her out of the Petri dish that was that hospital and home to where she could lie on my chest and we could snuggle. 

Thankfully they said yes, but told us that if she started to get dehydrated again we had to bring her straight in. 

Luckily that hasn't happened. She has started to have almost a full bottle again and has now started to have a couple of spoonfuls of rice cereal which is really great! She is still getting a temp every now and then and is still sleeping a lot, but hopefully she will be right as rain soon.

 I am going to ring her paediatrician on Monday to give him and update and see if there is anything else we need to do. 

Alright, I think it might be time to bed and this week has made me totally exhausted.