Update: he has been hospitalised. He had a CT scan done on Wednesday and on Thursday they called and said "why aren't you in hospital?" Errr, why, was I meant to hang about in the corridors for 48 hours in case you wanted to admit me? (He didn't reply) (and bear in mind he's the ex-Chief Exec of the former District Health Authority .. )
Anyway, they are monitoring him closely. He has had another chest x-ray and an echo today, waiting for news from my mum, who is visiting him now.
I was meant to be going tomorrow morning to help put stuff back into the cupboards in the new kitchen, but she doesn't want me to come now. I think I'm going to overrule her and go anyway; I don't want her to be alone all weekend, I think she needs to talk about stuff as - god knows - I know how isolating it is to be in this (or at least a similar) position. And I want to see her. Everyone is so worried about her.
I think I will start my own thread - I feel bad about having hijacked this one, let's let this one get back to the business of being our newsy gossipy thread about our little monsters. Today at pre-school Demon Child 1 was surprisingly good (this isn't ds, it's a little boy who screams when his mum leaves him, for ages as well) but the newly-discovered Demon Child 2 did the same thing and after his mum had left, started throwing up.
Cue mass panic, trying to shepherd all the other kids (who were hugely interested in what was going on) out of the room, calls to the mum to get her back - fortunately ds took it all in his stride!