Summers at Home.... Take 2

Again and also sooner than expected Summer has been discharged from the Leicester Infirmary. All her cultures came back negative to meningitis so they have stopped the antibiotics and said she is free to go home. Especially good for me as it was my turn next to do the hospital night shift!


On Wednesday night we gathered people around us and prayed that there was no meningitis. An now there isn't. We do not know what had caused her to be so ill but thankfully it was only for a short time. Next week we have 3 hospital appointments in Nottingham. For those that don't know the area Nottingham is about an hours drive away compared to the 3 minutes of the Leicester hospital. We will be starting our treatment there and then hopefully transferring what we can back to the more convenient hospital. She is having the frog brace fitted to fix her hips on the Thursday so there will be lots of screaming that day!!

A lot of people have been asking about the Hydrocephalus. This was such a big issue during the pregnancy but now hardly talked about. This has confused us as well but what they are doing is each week measuring the circumference of her head and if this increases faster than normal they may then act by fitting a shunt. We had an ultrasound on her head 2 days ago which seemed to show no change from before he operation which is great. Please pray this continues to not be an issue for us. We are told that shunts, while effective in their purpose can cause a lot of additional complications we would rather avoid.

Thank you all again for thinking and praying for us.