Out of hours dr or wait? DD2 really not right.

[JackTheHallsWithBauersOfHolly]

She's not seriously ill but since monday she has not been right, she was a little bit sick sunday night and since then has had mild runs and been off her food, also very clingy, not wanting to go and play and falling asleep every afternoon (she dropped her nap about 6 months ago).
She is also a bit blotchy, has some faint red spots on her cheek and arms and legs, just a slight rash type (goes under pressure)

Yesterday we went to soft play and after about half an hour she just wanted to sit on my lap and then exploded in her nappy, today she has had really runny nappies and has barely eaten, even choc was refused, but she did ask for and eat a banana and some cocktail sausages.

Lots of water going down but it seems to be getting worse instead of better. DO I wait over the weekend to see or shall I take her to out of hours tomorrow morning? If it wasn't christmas I would take her for a once over but it will be a nightmare atm.

Just opening another, come join me

Oh we had fun today. Woke up okay, both were ok on the loo IYSWIM so we went to the park (eraly, and it's cold so I wa sure no-one else woudl be around)
After 25 minutes DD2 had a major meltdown after her gloves got wet when she splashed them in a puddle. I had no spares. She had hysterics. DD1 decided to do exactly the same and had hysterics as well.
I tried giving them the hot choc I had taken ina thermos and some bics, it didn't help so we came home.
And spend the rest of the day inside with them being all overly dramatic.
AAAGh!

but thanks for asking

Bless, sounds like that post-poorly clingy phase that drives you mad as you are all out of mummy-patience as you have been up too many nights and put up with too many boundry pushes as they are poorly but you know you should still be smiling and cuddling when all you want is a night out at a nice restaurant and a strong G & T.

I am most impressed you took hot choc to the park!

It's genius isn't it?
MIL came with us last winter to walk the dog and she produced (with a veyr smug flourish) a thermos of hot water, 4 mugs, a cappucino sachet for me, a teabag for her and a hot cho sachet for DD's.
I went straight out a bought a thermos and when it's cold we have hot choc with dunking biscuits on the bench!

On wed we are off to MIL's for new year so I have to pack tomorrow, might just sign off on rest of the week and let them watch dvd's/crap recorded over christmas tomorrow and give up. She has a nice garden they can run around in while we sit in the kitchen watching them, will be much better.

Sitting at MILs now .... Peppa pig been on all day ....

Going to buy a thermos ...

Seriosuly, it is so uber poncey mum
But don't tell them you have it, just produce it with a smug air and announce (loudly, natch)
'Hot Chocolate, darlings?'

LOL - love it. Must make mental note to do this in front of other NCT mums then laugh my socks off at the faces !!

It is quite a good judge of character.
I tend to get strangers/posh mums loooking daggers at me when their kids ask for some, and then my mates/normal mums all comment on what genius it is.

Genius !!

I have been taking my dd to the doctors for the last 6 weeks and they said every time it was a stomach bug. I am not complaining about the doctor as they followed the usual checks and said come back if your not happy etc etc.

I know my dd and she was not right the most scary point was she was lethargic. Being in a medical group I asked again last tuesday to see my doctor instead of whoever was available which they did and he sent her for blood test the next day.

Before i had arrived home after the blood test they had rang me and asked me to return and within one hour had been told she had leaukaemia and we were being transfered to sheffield.

I really am not trying to scare you, childrens cancers are 1 in 600 and it is very unlikely a child has anything like that but the point i am making is YOU know your own childand a simple blood test can detect any abnormalities.

If anyone reading this thinks i should not have put the above then hard luck! I felt like the whittering mother constantly at the doctors but i knew something was wrong and if only they had have done a blood test 6 weeks ago! If i had left it and listened to people saying its just a bug, the people who dont wake up in the night with them or cry when they are crying because your cant make them better then you experience our last week and tell me you feel differnt

Oh woodhj, what awful news.
not anywhere near the same scale but twice I have been sent away from doctors telling me it's 'just a bug' and both times DD@s were hospitalised within 48 hours, DD1 with campolybacter after she started pooing blood and DD2 with bronchiolitis when she stopped waking to feed at 4 weeks old.
I totally agree with you to take them when you are sure there is soemthing wrong, and trust me, if I had been convinced it was something mroe I would have been down like a shot, but she just seemed a bit miserable and I really hate my ooh service.
Luckily after posting this thread I found about a bug going round that she clearly had so I stopped worrying too much but your advice still stands and I hope those who told me to stop overreacting etc read it.

Hope your dd responds well to treatment, how old is she? WIll be thinking of you anyway, x

Thank you Jack,
Have just read your op to dh as dd has been ill since Christmas morning beginning with vomitting and this evening she has a rash that goes under pressure as you said, clingy, the lot.
Nice to know not only one. Dh had been ill too last 2 days. Just hoping I don't get a turn.
Glad your little ones are better.
Woodhj- thoughts are with you.

Woodhj - I am so sorry to hear your news, I hope things start to look up soon.

Again, nowhere near the same same scale but ...
We were turned away from thr doctors 3 times recently with apparently nothing wrng but I kept going back daily as I knew dd was I'll and she ended up with pleurisy and is only 2.8, they reckon pneumonia most likely preceeded it but was missed.