All OK with young Jacob. I’ve got a new version of this site, built in Plone, coming up as soon as I finish it off, hence silence here…
Monthly Archive for August, 2004
We had to dash our son Jacob to A&E last night, because he had an
Hernia, which then became strangulated. He spent all night in A&E,
where the doctors managed to relieve the hernia, but it returned this
Morning.
He got put on the emergency list for an operation, and was operated on
at about 3pm this afternoon. The operation went well and the bowel was
undamaged. It’s possible one of his testicles has been damaged, we’ll have
to wait and see. As the consultant paediatrician said “fortunately you
only need one testicle”.
It looks like he might have a chest infection too, probably because he
was vomiting a lot and some of the vomit got into his lungs. He’s spending
the night in Intensive Care for observation. He’s not on a ventilator or
anything right now though, and hopefully he won’t need it.
As long as the chest infection clears up, he’ll be in hospital for
another two days or so while his bowel recovers, and then we can start
feeding him again (he’s on IV right now), and bring him home.
More news as it comes in.
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