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Situations in which I do not agonise at all about leaving LB to cry: when I am looking after PB who has just had a fit.
We think he's okay and it's just another febrile convulsion, although there are a few slightly non-standard features which are why we were sent up the NHS tree (NHS Direct - Walk-In-Centre - PAU). He's in the Paediatric Assessment Unit with D at the moment, having been basically asleep for 3 hours since he had the fit (that's one of the reasons they're keeping him in for observation for a few hours). I've come home with LB because it was just too difficult to manage him in a ward environment. They're not expecting to keep PB in overnight.
I do have some interesting thoughts about expert patients, parental self-flagellation and the identification of premonitionary dreams, but I'm too much in emergency mode at the moment to write them down.
ETA 7.15pm: He's home now, and seems to have bounced back to almost normal. Of course, having slept for nearly 4 hours this afternoon he's full of energy and not remotely ready to go to bed, whereas his poor parents are utterly exhausted and just want to collapse in a heap.
We think he's okay and it's just another febrile convulsion, although there are a few slightly non-standard features which are why we were sent up the NHS tree (NHS Direct - Walk-In-Centre - PAU). He's in the Paediatric Assessment Unit with D at the moment, having been basically asleep for 3 hours since he had the fit (that's one of the reasons they're keeping him in for observation for a few hours). I've come home with LB because it was just too difficult to manage him in a ward environment. They're not expecting to keep PB in overnight.
I do have some interesting thoughts about expert patients, parental self-flagellation and the identification of premonitionary dreams, but I'm too much in emergency mode at the moment to write them down.
ETA 7.15pm: He's home now, and seems to have bounced back to almost normal. Of course, having slept for nearly 4 hours this afternoon he's full of energy and not remotely ready to go to bed, whereas his poor parents are utterly exhausted and just want to collapse in a heap.