- 26
- Jul
Dan Dan is now back on the mend, he is back in air but he is very sleepy. His bile output has increased again so there is definitely something going on inside his little body. He is still on anti biotic and so everything is orange, his wee, his poo, his snot and his bile. Anybody who saw him would think he had been “tango-ed”. He is still his usually happy self, just tired I think from his cold. We went out for a walk in the rain and went to see the canal as it was very high. The hospital is just lucky the canal has steep banks. We went for a walk round the medical school and I had to chuckle when I saw a display on community MRSA but there was no display for the lovely superbug found in the hospital. Dan actually stayed awake for this interesting tour of the hospital, it was just me that wanted to sleep. It was nice to be off the unit though. Yesterday Kyle came to the hospital all day as we didn’t have anyone else who was willing to have the kids. Tom and Brides went to my aunties but because Kyle and Tom don’t get on, he had to spend a boring day on PICU as I didn’t think it was fair for my aunty to have to listen to them.
Today Rob and I got our results back from the MRSA swabs we had done last week, we are both clear which has shocked me somewhat as I am the only person consistently with Dan everyday so it can’t be spread that easily. We were also told today that PICU as a unit will be moving round the corner onto HDU on the 24th August because it has separate cubicles that we can be in so we are not in the same air space as the other non MRSA patients. I have to say this is the best idea they have ever had and I was surprised they are actually prepared to do that.
We also went through resus again. I think Rob and I both feel we know as much as we ever will. I just hope and pray we never have to use it. Now we are told we can take him out for walks around the hospital but we actually want to take him home as we both feel where we are is relative. Whether we have walked to wollaton park or at home it will still be left to us to deal with any crisis that arises and it would take just as much time for an ambulance to get to wollaton park as it would to our house and if we were at home and Dan collasped we would take him 2 mins round the corner to Ilkeston Community Hospital because although they do not deal with major things, there are people there who will have basic life support skill, well I would hope so!
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