I am posting on behalf of my friend Tessiebear, who cannot get online atm.
She has had an awful few days of hospital trips & worry with her DS2, who woke up Saturday morning (after being poorly with a bad D&V bug) in a lot of pain, saying he couldn't stand on one of his legs.
TB rang the doctor on call who immediately advised her to take him to be checked out at hospital, which she did.
Anyway, after a very stressful weekend of hospital trips involving countless blood tests & scans, she has been told there is a possibility her DS is suffering from something called Perthes, which is basically where the hip & the top of the leg don't knit together properly.
She is out of her mind with worry as she knows little about this condition, and she is having to take her poor little chap back for yet more blood tests next Monday.
He is feeling a bit better now, but she has been told to keep him as still as possible, which is proving pretty difficult as you can imagine!
She has asked me if I can start a thread on here for her, to see if anyone has any experience of this condition, as the consultant hasn't given her an awful lot of info yet & she is understandably pretty worried.