Summers back in Hospital

Summer has been admitted to the Leicester Infirmary again after getting poorly. Yesterday she just wasn't herself. She was very grizzly, vomiting and had diarrhoea so we took her to A & E in Leicester to have her checked out. They did some blood tests and some other tests which all came back OK so at 2am we came home.

We had a call at about 9am the next morning asking us to go back in sometime after 12pm as on a second look she had a sodium deficiency. So we casually went in after a nice lunch with friends to find out her sodium levels were very low, and this was indicated by the previous nights results. They were re checked by the registrar the following day who found the error. We were both a little mad about that mistake as you would imagine but the next error really got to me.

Apparently the reason for this sodium deficiency is due to over feeding. Since she started on a bottle at 2 weeks old we have been telling all the doctors and nurses how she was eating a lot and we were always told you cannot over feed a baby. I even had one of the doctors light heatedly repeat to a worrying Kathy 3 times - "You cannot overfeed a baby". How wrong I was. I have to say that I got mad, not with anyone in particular but it was just such a devastating thing to hear after everything.

So tonight Summer is poorly in hospital with Kathy. She ate her full days feed by 2pm today so they will not feed her till 5am tomorrow except for a little if she is desperate. And from then she is now to eat below her recommend daily amount to try and build up her sodium levels again slowly. She will be in for a few days now until she is back to her old self.

We are angry this has happened and disappointed that she is ill again. All the prayer she has had and then his happens. Why? What is all this for? How is this "prospering us" as we are promised. Please pray for Summer that she will get and that we well see some real benefit coming from all this. I think we need that right now.