Isaac home

Hello All,

Isaac came home at 10am this morning. He has been a bit brighter. However, eating is not something he likes to do. I am not pushing eating at the moment. Drinking is what we need him to do more. I have made strawberry milks, banana/chocolate/ice cream milk shakes, water and offered red cordial and more. It doesn't seem to matter what I offer or set before him, he grizzles and takes these tiny sips! I thought he would gulp down the banana/chocolate milk shake like he usually does and he turned the whole thing away! It is so frustrating.

He drank enough late last night at the hospital because his current IV jelco was inflammed and had to come out. We told him that if he drank enough then he would not need another. We had to really encourage him but he got a whole cup of milk down with our insistence in about an hour. Then he had some water while we played a game and went for a walk. So he was allowed home today. Also, Alan and I wondered if now that he can swallow water and stuff, that he might improve in his own environment at home. We must continue to encourage the drinking. The problem is that Isaac is refusing the stuff he really likes. If I purree things like soup and stuff, he will refuse that and clamp his teeth shut. He doesn't even want any chocolate!

So I just keep encouraging and reminding him that if he doesn't have fluids, then we have to ring the paed and go back to the hospital. Even ice-cream is a fluid. SO he can have a big bowl of ice-cream. Do you think he wanted it? Noooooooooo.........he has had 3 teaspoons of custard (that is also a type of fluid) and wanted no more. It has been really frustrating. How much he wees out will tell me how hydrated he is. So we will continue and it can only get better as his surgical site heals more and more.

What a drama at lunch time with the antibiotics. He didn't want them. Usually he LOVES the taste of the antibiotics. But not when he feels like this. If I put them in something else he just refuses it and we waste it. I learnt that at the hospital. I can disguise something in poo medicine but some things can't be mixed with this medicine. I disguised oxycodone in that the first night and he took it. You see, Isaac has trouble with constipation and he knows if he doesn't take that stuff, he gets real sore. He also likes the taste......so no matter what, he takes his poo medicine quite happily. If only he connected the two dots with his recovery and the medicine he has to have......if only he would realise how this would all help. SO it took 20 mins to get the antibiotic down and he spat the first bit. I actually got a bit cross because I think Isaac needed to have some "firmness" to see that this is not acceptable. He is 6 and you can reason with them a bit., but not much when they are unwell it seems...ahhhhhh.

You see with tonsillectomies, the more they DON'T eat or drink, the worse the pain actually gets. So the pain goes in a cycle............it is annoying.

So I guess I should go and encourage him to take another sip. It has been a long week.

Love Charisse