Easter Show

William has had a couple of days lying around just draining fluid from his chest cavity after having his drains re-sited.

Yesterday Liza & Adam took Olivia & Thomas to the Royal Easter Show (with Pa, Uncle Dan, Aunty Emma and the Kipps cousins) Wil stayed behind with Pos who looked after him all day while we were out. He did  bit of sleeping in between dressing changes, medications, suppositories and feeds but generally was a little grumpy when awake. Today he has been a little better by all accounts and was lucky enough to get a little bit of the Easter Show come to him. Several of the RAS Easter Showgirls came into the hospital with toys for the kids. Wil has always had an eye for he pretty ladies and he seemed pretty happy to have them visit. I am sure that he was less impressed that the Miss Canowindra Showgirl was an ambassador for rural NSW (and could probably even bake a decent scone) than the fact that she gave him a Wiggles bag and some other play sheets and cards.

We are hoping to be able to rationalise William's antibiotics soon. The sensitivities of his blood cultures was finally reported today and we were pleased to see that the staph is sensitive to flucloxacillin and is not the dreaded MRSA (resistant to multiple antibiotics). He is currently on timentin, flucloxacillin and vancomycin four times a day and gentamycin daily. This is combined with his oral medications including MS Contin, Keppra, frusemide, lisinopril and pyridoxine twice daily, warfarin and melatonin daily and oxycodone and paracetamol as required. It is a never-ending time job just getting him dosed up!