Spent yesterday in tears, didn't sleep last night. I'm worried silly...

[Megglevache]

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Good luck tomorrow. Glad you're all able to be home tonight!

Just read this, wanted to wish you good luck for tomorrow, give your ds a big hug from us.

All the best for today, Megg and miniMegg

Thinking of you all today x

Glad to hear you're news MV - thought about you lot's over the w/e and wondered how you were all getting on.

Hope it's gone okay

How has today been? Hope it hasnt been too stressful.

Dont forget, a lot of the tests are really to exclude things - just because they do a scan, for example doesnt neccesarily mean they think its a tumour, just means they want to check all possibilities, and make sure they exclude as many possible diagnoses as possible.

xx

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Thinking of you all Megg, thanks for the update XXX

Aw Megg, sounds like a hard day

All the best for tomorrow xxx

Best of luck for tomorrow, Meggy!

Thinking of you, Meggle. It's still possible this whole nightmare will go away on its own.

My dd1 woke up one morning when she was 3 and couldn't get out of bed or walk. Dr thought it was Irritable Hip. We were o/n in hospital, all sorts of tests, no positive diagnosis and the paralysis disappeared the next day as mysteriously as it came. She's 12 now and there's never been a repitition.

Hope today goes well, Meggle. Thinking of you x x x

Hi There

My best wishes to you.

My ds (4 yo) all of a sudden found that he couldn't walk. Before his afternoon nap, all ok, after nap, couldn't walk.

We took him to a and e and they immediately admitted him to hospital. Within a few days, they diagnosed a bone infection (osteomylitis). He stayed in hospital for 4 weeks on an antibiotic drip. The good news is that he's walking again and so far, no reinfection. The bad news is that it's tough emotionally and physically on the parents and the child. Trying to sleep in an NHS hospital children's ward is like trying to sleep in a supermarket - the noise just doesn't stop. Holding a child down for blood tests and canulas is emotionally waring too after a while.

If it is a bone infection, don't worry as your child should make a full recovery. I felt so awful about feeling sad about my child when the child in the next ward was receiving chemo and wasn't responding well and he was unlikely to leave the hospital again.

I do wish you all the best.

Just read this and I'd like to wish you and your dh all the best of luck today for you and your little chap.
We went through a horrible time last year with our dd who was only just 2. Thankfully she's fine now, after two ops, but I know what you are going through.
It might be an inner ear problem - virus related perhaps.
A friend of mine knew a child who was forever falling over, bumping into things and was generally very wobbly and un-co-ordinated. Turned out to be a problem with a bone in the neck and it got sorted by cranial osteopathy.
God willing your outcome will be a good one.
Will be thinking of you today !

good luck megglevache, our thoughts are with you

Thinking of you megg; it's certainly been an education reading on this thread about some of the really alarming things that others have experienced with their kids. I think it must be so scary and so awful.

Good to hear of so many complete recoveries though! Hoping for a speedy one for your ds.

I'd like to send you our love and as much healing energy as our house can muster. Get well soon to your LO xx

Hoping your little one is better asap, Megglevache. He sounds a real star, though!

Probably too late, but there was something in the Times about a book explaining to children about having to go to hospital and have blood tests and stuff. A mother wrote it for her daughter when she was going through the process. Hope you get a good result...

I've only just read this thread now. All the best Megglevache, my DS (only 4 months) has been in hospital recently too for visual / neurological investigations but so far no definite diagnosis.

I am thinking of you and the rest of your family at this really tough time....

Megglevache, also sending you all the best wishes.

Any ideas yet about what they're thinking it might be?

thinking of you Megg

My ds had similar thing as imaginary friend and 23balloons. We drove up to visit my parents and when we arrived, ds was limping, but not complaining. By bedtime he was complaining that his leg hurt. When he woke up in the morning he couldn't walk. Scared the hell out of me. Luckily we are now in the usa and my father is a scientist at the research facility for a children's hospital and organized for ds to be seen by a paed who immediately diagnosed Transient Synovitis which is basicially an inflamed hip joint triggered by a virus (ds had had one the week before...nothing serious at all). 3% of kids (mostly boys) get it and they don't know why. We had to go immediaely to A&E to get tests (sonogram and xray and the dreaded blood taking....ds is petrified of needles) to confirm diagnosis and to make sure it wasn't bacterial (much more serious). Whole thing took a day (there are some advantages to non-socialized medicine....apart from the $2000 bill to pay). Cure was a week of ibuprofen.... Ds has had one reoccurence since after a cold (internet says about 20% of the kids get it again). And the only long term danger is that some very very very small percentage go on to develop Perthes and some small percentage of those have some long term hip troubles. Altogether not really a big worry.

Best of luck, Megglevache. I hope that it's something simple like what my ds had!

Good luck again miniMegg
xxx