Some smiles

Anna has been much, much better today.

She is allowed out of isolation so we’ve been to the shop and chosen a magazine and even been out of the hospital to get a chocolate muffin from the deli.

Tuesday’s X-ray suggests her fracture is healing well.

There has been no vomiting, plenty poos and lots of eating and drinking.

All the swabs, infection screenings, blood tests and urine/bowel samples have revealed no infection. There is still no real idea of what has been wrong – most likely an unidentified bug – but there is an underlying concern about the similarity of her symptoms to previous significant episodes (that seems to be the medical term for terrifying, life threatening incidents, of which we’ve had a few), in particular the low blood sugar level. So Anna will be referred to the metabolic team. I think she has already been discussed within the endocrinology team. I don’t think there can be many teams at edinburgh royal hospital for sick children who haven’t seen or discussed Anna. Certainly she is known to neurology, oncology, orthopaedics, respiratory, endocrinology and metabolics.

Tonight, she has had a lovely bubble bath and is sleeping soundly.

Despite trying hard not to, she smiled several times today.

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