Poorly Josh Visits A&E Twice

So we had a very eventful weekend with two trips to A&E for a very poorly Josh. It all started Saturday morning when he woke up with a burning temperature and saying he didn't feel up to going football club. As he had the Great Wakering Tournament on Sunday I decided to let him rest at home as I would rather he was fit and healthy for Sunday. So Sunday comes and he appears to be feeling much better and subsequently makes it to the football tournament where he played 2 games in goal and then 2 games in defence.

Then Sunday evening around dinner time we found him doubled over on the sofa, clenching the left side of his body, screaming in pain and with a temperature of 100 degrees. So Tina was down A&E for about 3 hours Sunday evening to get him checked over with concerns that he might have appendicitis. By the time they got to see him the pain had gone and the Calpol had kicked in thus reducing his temperature and so they couldn't really find much wrong other than saying it might be a urine infection or something. They advised us to bring him back immediately if it got worse or if the pain moved to the middle of his tummy. Joshua had hardly eaten a thing all day long and had been sick in the car as well, so we knew there was something wrong with him.

Anyway Monday morning arrives at Tina calls me at the gym at 6am saying Joshua is doubled over in pain again and this time it is in the middle of his tummy. So I rush back to take him to A&E again whilst Tina gets Holly and Brandon up to get Brandon into school on time. To cut a long story short I ended up spending 11.5 hours in hospital with Joshua where he was transferred from A&E to the Puffin Children's ward where they did loads of observations and checked his urine and blood. He was checked over by a surgeon, a paediatrician and numerous nurses throughout the day - but no more pains or temperatures again. After all the tests they concluded that the problem was viral tonsillitis and the tummy pains were caused by the bacteria which he had swallowed from the throat infection into his stomach! So eventually we were sent home with the advise to make sure he drinks plenty and keep up with the Calpol as required.

A very pale Joshua enjoying a ride in a wheel chair as a nurse takes him from A&E to Puffin ward.

A very poorly Joshua looking sorry for himself watching a bit of TV in hospital whilst we wait for the blood results to come back.

Fortunately his illness was nothing more serious and by Tuesday he had bounced back and was his usual self and eating us out of house and home. Amazingly the Monday we spent at hospital was Joshua's first day off school sick all year long. He was so close to making the whole school year.