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DS had a great night. He looked good and was actually looking better today (which I call day 5 of the illness) than the previous days. The Dr. came to see us at about 9am. He is a really nice man and he by now knew that I had done my WC research and wasn't afraid to ask questions or offer my opinion and he was not offended by that but rather somewhat amused I think.

The Dr. said pretty much something along these lines "so here's the thing with DS - in my experience I never heard of a child who has presented at six weeks of age with such an early diagnoses. I don't really have anything to base his illness on. One thing that I have noticed is that the anti-biotics have been started very early in the illness and his coldlike symptoms have eased. WC is a bacteria that spreads a toxin into the lung and coat the lungs in mucus and makes it very hard to even an adult to get up. A six week old baby will not be able to get the mucus up. They will try to swallow the mucus, this is why they require so much assistance and why it's such a dangerous disease in babies. I am hoping, because I've never seen this before that your DS has had the anti-biotics so early that the bug will be dead perhaps before the toxins had a chance to take over. Most people present their children six weeks into the illness. Your DS has been present on perhaps day 4"

So what happens from here.....we have been released and are at home. We have a letter from the paed that if we need to go to emergency we show them and DS will be bypassed all paperwork, triage etc and just be admitted immediately. I have seen the social worker at the hospital and she has agreed with the Paed and the head nurse in the childrens ward that I can call and come in at any time for observation or just to be monitored, whenever I am feeling uneasy.

DS is only 6 weeks old...by the time this illness is done with him he will be 3 months old! Basically it's just a waiting game and no-one know what each hour will bring. (Stress).

The Paed also mentioned that my GP was amazing in doing the swab. He actually told the social worker that if I had of presented to him he would have told me that the test was not necessary. That's the 'normal' procedure. He was very glad that my GP did what I asked of him.

I will definately be updating on here just for my own peace of mind as we go through this horrible journey. I just pray and would gratefully accept all other prayers that our DS pulls through this illness.

Thanks for reading and sorry if there are spelling mistakes as I couldn't be bothered to reread what I had written.