Matthew Norris

Doctor confirmed that Matthew has the chicken pox and was sent home early from nursery. Daddy counted about 10 spots over his body.

Today I had an echocardiogram on Matthew’s chest. It’s like an ultrasound, and he did it from a few angles. Col. Moorney did this and had two training doctors looking on. No problems, found an innocent murmor. Need to be tested to see if he’s anemic as his complexion is pale.

Matthew is back to normal now. He had his final injection today in the leg for the last of the Ceftraixone. Discharged from the hospital fully, he has an appointment to see a Paediatric doctor in September 2009.

Matthew is almost back to normal. He had another antibiotic given to him today, but injected twice in to the top of both legs. I took him to the hospital to have this done.

Another day of antibiotics. He was responding well to them. He had an appetite back and was drinking well. IV was taken out of his arm, and only given antibiotics by IV. The cannular was removed later in the day and he was sent home.

Matthew looked a lot better today. The Doctors came around (Dr. Maltby) and stated the antibiotic he was on was for treating Menengitis. She recommended he should be tested for this now.

Matthew had a lumber puncture done to take fluids from the base of his spine for testing.

The priliminary results came back within two hours and were negative. He stayed in for another night, still on an IV and taking the antibiotics.

Called the GP in the morning. They took one look at him and reffered him to A&E at FPH.

At the hospital, they conducted a chest x-ray, urine test and another blood test. All tests came back negative and normal. He was given a drip for fluids and antibiotic by IV – Ceftraixone. I stayed with him that night in the F1 childrens’ ward in the assessment section. It was a restless night. Matthew slept well.

Another unsettled day. Temperatures are not as often but still quite high.

Matthew was very unsettled all day. He wasn’t drinking much now and food was not that often. We stopped the antibiotic (Trimethoprim) today as he wasn’t very well at all.

We called the doctors again today. They said to take him to the surgery. When he got there, they said he might have toncilitus and he should go to the hospital for tests. They wrote a letter and called A&E at Frimley Park Hospital.

We went to the hospital and they did a urine test. That came back normal, no trace of infection in the urine. They took some blood and sent them for analysis. Came back with a few infection markers, but nothing to concerning. They advised to stop Tamiflu as he didn’t have Swine flu and to continue the antibiotic for another couple of days. We were sent home.