Hi everyone

Well I had a bit of a shocker of a weekend. On Friday at lunchtime Grace suddenly started vomiting and pretty much didn't stop after that - she couldn't even keep water down. She started going very pale and was lethargic so it was off to emergency for us. She got seen pretty quickly and she ended up with a drip in for fluids and an overnight stay on the kids ward. It was a case of gastro, so no nasty blood infections or anything, but it hit her really hard, poor thing. She just went downhill so fast. I had noticed she was a bit off in the morning but she was still playing and eating so I thought she must have just been coming down with a cold or something, but then the vomiting started.

In the morning she was well enough to come home, which was good. She is better now - she has had a bit of diarhhoea which I was told to expect and she still hasn't got her appetite back but she is getting back to her normal self. There must be something going around as at emergency there were three other young kids with the same thing. Harry and me are unlikely to get it now - if we were going to we would have got it by now, but I still have no idea how Grace got it. They did find a very small amount of bacteria or something in her blood test but as she is on the mend they are not concerned as it could just be a contaminent in the blood test. And she did have a big dose of antibiotics at the hospital, just in case.

Poor darling she was very brave at the hospital. It's amazing how kids take things in their stride. It's funny, at the hospital the kids ward is right next door to the birthing suite and maternity ward, so as I was dozing off to sleep on Friday night I thought to myself, well if bubba wants to come now then I am in the right place! She chose not to though which is good!