Sickness Bug

Imogen finally went back to school last Thursday for a full day as she did a couple of half days first. On Sunday she did brill with her eating and ate a full banana, which is a huge record as normally she would only eat about half an inch. Then on Sunday night started with stomach cramps and she was a bit sick, by Monday nothing was staying down and the cramps were quite bad. So another 2 days off school. She is fine now, back at school today.

We went to parents evening on Wednesday, her teachers said she is doing really well with her reading and numeracy, being above average. But her writing has slipped a bit so we are going to do 10 mins every night of writing at home to bring her back to the standard she was at.

On Saturday Imogen and I are going to Gullivers world (Barry is unfortunately working, and will miss the grand day out), meeting up with Kay and kids, Sharron and kids, then all of us back to Sharrons for tea. She is very excited, and easily used as bribery to be good all this week. I will put some pics of us having fun at Gullys when I get chance.

Anyway, my bed is calling so will say bye for now and update next week.

Lindsey x

Few days in Hospital

Well, we have gone from going to see the consultant every 12 months instead of 6 to a few days stay in hospital!! Imogen has been poorly for a few days last week and by Wednesday she was struggling a bit with her breathing and needed her oxygen on, much to her disapproval. We saw Imogens consultant (that we only saw week before) when we got there on the assessment unit, which was lucky as then we didnt have to go through all Imogens medical history. She admitted her to the childrens ward and she needed an IV line in for antibiotics. That didnt go down too well with Imogen. We stayed in for 3 nights, cant complain as she has not been admitted for about 3 years. On Saturday afternoon we were allowed home as she was off her oxygen and doing loads better. She didnt want to come home as she was happy watching tv and dvds all day!! Anyway, Saturday night was a full nights sleep back in our own beds. Blissful.

Tarra for know, will keep you all posted how the patient is.

Consultant Visit

10th March sees Imogens 6 month check up with Dr Peckham at Lancaster Hospital. Always feels like 2 months since the last appointment, time just goes by so fast. Anyway she is always pleased to see Imogen, she was the consultant at Lancaster the morning she was born so she has always took an interest in her.
She does her usual, goes through Imogens medication, how much milk she has overnight, and how she is doing generally.
Imogen has put some weight on recently so is finally up to 16Kg, seems like she has been 15KG for ages.
She notices an improvement in her eating that we probably dont see and what we said she now does since our last visit is quite a big improvement. Well its quite big for Imogens standards anyway. Main thing is she was so pleased with Imogens overall progress we dont need to see her now for 12 months, unless we are worried about anything, so good news really.

She has gone to bed not very well tonight. She was a bit sick this morning with her reflux, we always know when she is coming down with something as the reflux comes first. Her throat sounds quite scratchy when she cried just before, so maybe getting a cold and sore throat.

I have been working on Imogens other website tonight, I havent really done anything to it for quite a while so need to get back on with it. Took most of tonight just researching a few more CDH family blogs to put on it. Need to tweak the text colour. But its coming along. The Url is www.imogendyson.com
If you are a CDH family reading our blog, please contact us and we will put your link on our blog.

Thats all today
Lindsey