Always a smile

Well maybe not always a smile but it looks like little Danny is finally starting to come out the  other side of his septicemia.  He has been really poorly for the last week and from last tuesday until Saturday his milk feeds were stopped as his tummy was distended and was making him very uncomfortable.  On saturday his feeds were restarted at just 10ml per hour, down from 36ml per hour before his septicemia, but after a few hours it was found that he was just not tolerating it.  So on Sunday they restarted them again at a meer 2ml per hour but again after a few hours he stopped tolerating it as his stomach became distended once again.  They were restarted again early this morning at 2ml per hour again and have increased it slowly throughout the day as he has begun to tolerate it, but the time I left him just over an hour ago they had been increased to 10ml per hour.  So it looks like Dan has finally started to turn a corner and with a little luck he will keep going.  At the end of last week there was another meeting about his discharge and decisions were made about the community care that would be needed for Daniel and now applications have to be made for funding for the various things that Dan needs.  This, however, may not be submitted until the March meeting which will then mean that the job(s) will need to advertised, interviews, training etc.  Which in short means that his discharge will probably not happen until late summer, which to be honest is not much different to what I had expected.  There has also been some other events of late which has added a load more stress to the situation, at this time I can’t really got into it but once things are sorted all will be made clear.