After her checks with nurses and more paracetamol administrated her temperture was still not reducing. We continued to give her milk and water to ensure she didn’t get dehydrated. After a few more hours waiting the doctor decided to prescribe ibuprofen to help reduce her temperture. Finally around 5am it started to reduce.
After all night spent there I started experiencing extreme stomach cramps during the night. It got so bad I ended up collapsing in pain in front of Isobels doctor. It was worse than childbirth. The nurses took great care of me, got me on a bed and got a drip of painkillers going. Once the pain started to ease I drifted into a deep sleep. They had referred me to another doctor as they suspected appendicitis. So while Isobel was leaving hospital with her dad, I was transferred to the surgical unit.
After some scans and tests and a lot more painkillers I was eventually diagnosed with billery colic. I essentially have a gallstone in my gall bladder which gets aggrevated anytime I have fried foods, or foods high in fat such as cheese or butter. Unfortunately cheese is one of my favourite foods, that I’ve now had to give up. I had been experiencing stomach cramps for a few months but ignored it as thought it was either bad ingestion or a bug I had picked up from Isobel. The nurse who took care of me gave me a great lesson, she said “sometimes mum needs to be looked after too”.
After a week on a new diet I’m starting to feel better and glad to see Isobel is back to her very happy self too.
