Tonsills and Infections!

Charlie had his tonsills adenoids out and grommets put in on the 5th of Feb and all seemed really well. He had a high dose of oral antibiotics for 4 days before the operation then had it done on the Thursday morning. It went really well and a couple of hours later he was eating toast and drinking we were thrilled that everything had gone so well and he was discharged the following day with more oral antibiotics for 7 days to try and avoid any problems. He was doing really well until Wednesday when his temperature went up a bit and his breath had a horrible smell. I phoned the ward who told me to bring him in to be assessed. Charlie has what they call a green card which means he gets seen straight away without having to wait etc due to how quickly his health can deteriorate. He is treated on the same protocol as the oncology kids as if he were neautropenic so is seen as a matter of urgency. Anyway we got there and he was examines straight away and I was told that he had an infection in his throat were his tonsills had been removed, he also had a large ulcer covering the back of his throat as well. He was immediately put on I.V antibiotics gentamycin and piptobactam which luckily seemed to do the trick and we came home on Friday. I am seriously going to discuss him having a port inserted in more detail with his consultant at the next visit as his needle phobia is severe and even if he only has I.V antibiotics 5 times a year it's going to make it much less stressful for him and will make things much easier while he has i.v plasma infusions. He's still not 100% well but does seem a lot better. He was sick yesterday and didn't seem too well I had visions of him ending up back in hospital but he perked up. He's not keen on eating as it is still sore i think and if you ask him how he's feeling he says not better!! Bless him, he has got more colour in him though so fingers crossed. Olliver is fine and has just got back from his weekend away with cubs and had a great time I've just finished washing his smelly muddy clothes and trainers!! He's in bed now after a nice soak in the bath and is exhausted so a good nights sleep is on the cards i think! Tomorrow I'm going to take him into town for some lunch whilst a friend looks after Charlie just so that we can spend some time together as charlie has obviously taken up a lot of my time lately. That's about it for now hopefully things will run smoothly for a while and Charlie will get better. He has his infusion on Tuesday but I'm not sure if he will be able to have it I will have to ring them on Monday. That's it for now i will update when I have some more news.