Which way is up?!

'I am your biggest fan,  I hope you know I am, but won't you just slow down...'
We are thinking about schools. Big girl schools. My girl isn't big-she's my little girl! Please slow down...

What a whirlwind of a few weeks-4 hospital appointments, 1 emergency booster jab, 1 short admission to hospital and lots more visits to the bathroom. That said, we are happy, healthy and thankful xx

Ear Nose and Throat appointment
I forgot to mention that Grace had a nasal swab at her ENT appointment. I thought it was a redundant detail.  Not so...

Brief spell in hospital
After 3 solid weeks of the squits  (there's no nice way of discussing diarhhea!), the doctor sent us to our local hospital assessment unit. He feared dehydration and felt that 3 weeks was quite long enough!
Six hours later we were discharged with strong antibiotics and a diagnosis of secondary gastroenteritis, caused by a bacteria known as strep pneumoniae residing in her nasal canal. This non-symptomatic bacteria was not a nice one. Turned out that nasal swab wasn't so redundant after all!

Endocrine appointment
G has grown 3.6cm in 4 months, woop woop! The paeditraican reduced our 4 monthly visits to 6 monthly with the view that G would hit her annual target of 5-8cm growth.
(To our dismay, when we returned home and checked our notes, we found that G had only grown 3.8cm in nearly 11 months. It doesn't look like she is on target...)

The paeditraician was happy with G in general-her bone age scans came back fairly normal, as did her bloods.

One surprise result was that her childhood phneumoccocal vaccination had been unsuccessful.  For 3 years we'd thought she had been protected against meningitis C, and she wasn't! I had faught for the meningitis B jab to help protect against as many strains as possible. Little did I know it was possible that her  body had not built up the antibodies after her baby jabs. Cue the emergency booster and a form for repeat bloods to check for antibodies.  I'm so thankful for vaccinations, and our NHS!

Gastro appointment
G has officially been discharged by the gastro team. Woop woop! One less appointment every 4-6 months.

Dietician
G's tummy issues will now solely be under the care of the dietician. Once her digestive system has settled after the gastroenteritis, it's time to start that dreaded dairy trial again. Perfect summer holiday gap task!!

Sleep solutions?
Have we any? We are close to being signed off due to her sleep improving, but I use the term loosely.

So that's us up to date. Time to run- church house group. I've a lot to be thankful for!