DD who is almost 2 has had 4 days of a cough and cold and has been pretty miserable but still playing with toys and eating and drinking. Assumed it was we was a regular cold and to ride it out with calpol/nutofen, fluids and lots of cuddles.
DH has been in Spain for his friends stag do, I’m almost 21 weeks pregnant with terrible sciatica and unable to take the amitryptilline they gave me as it makes me so groggy and feeling hungover in the morning.
My Dad and Stepmum kindly offered to have DD overnight Saturday so I could rest and sleep in yesterday. I explained she had a cold but Stepmum is a nanny and is used to being around it all, said it wasn’t a problem at all.
Picked DD up at 10:30 yesterday morning, Dad and Stepmum reported a restless night of coughing but was napping when I got up he there and then laughing and playing with my Dad.
I did the 25 minute drive home and it was like something had rapidly changed, DD temp was 39.2, wouldn’t stop crying except brief spells of staring blankly at me. I called 111, out of hours dr saw her and was concerned by the grunting noise she was making and the sleepiness and send me to the children’s ward at local hospital.
Once there, she had 2 febrile seizures they couldn’t get temp under 40, she wasn’t drinking anything, was vomiting clear fluid in and out of being awake. I had to pin her down whilst they fit a cannula to start fluids, painkiller and antibiotics. Swabs shows she has RSV and a type of influenza.
I feel traumatised at how rapidly she went downhill.
I made DH aware of what was going on in the morning, he landed back here at 23:30 and told me he’d come straight here but I asked him to go home and get 6/7 hours sleep as I’m going to need him on top form today (as soon as I told him about DD in the morning he didn’t touch any alcohol so that he’s fit and ready to take over in the morning).
I’m currently sat on an armchair trying to sleep but failing because my back is so bad, they don’t have any parent beds. When DD was hospitalised with a less severe case of RSV as a baby, they put a pull out bed next to her cot for me but an armchair is all they could give me this time. DD is asleep but wakes up murmuring/whinging every half hour or so, I hate seeing her like this.
Paediatric consultant will review in the morning, I don’t know what the point in this post is but I hate seeing DD like this, I’m in pain, so tired and can’t sleep on this awful armchair.
The seizures gave me the fright of my life today and keep replaying them in my head.
Just feel lonely and so tired ☹️