Following a 2 and a half week hospital stay for my youngest with meningitis I was struck by the amount of people (medical & otherwise) who said that once you've got 4 children this was more likely! You just upped your chance for the 1 in 4! My husband, also 1 of 4, had cancer so it got us wondering. Here are the ramblings of a mother of 4...
Monday, 28 June 2010
spots and memories
It's been a while and lots has happened. Herbie has been doing well, running about, being amusing and generally in good health. Then with an outbreak of Chicken Pox (the one thing we were told to avoid) we tried hard to avoid them.
Herbsie had his MMR finally after all of the delays and was a good boy, then 6 days after he had a fever and 14 days later woke with a rash that covered his whole body! A measles rash! Poor spotty boy...
We are also trawling through our memories of our time in hospital with Herbie as good friends of ours are in with their 5 year old who is ill with no diagnosis! Being a parent is so damn hard on the soul at times, thank goodness children are also the best tonic!
Labels:
chicken pox,
John Radcliffe hospital,
measles,
meningitis,
MMR,
spots
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