Roll call - Hannah Canavan

April 3, 2002

Had our eldest in day surgery last Thursday for two molars to be removed under

GA and another tooth exposed to help its passage through the gum. When I called

home from the hospital to see how everyone was doing I found that Hannah had

been feeling unwell all day and had thrown up all through her carer's car on the

way home from the bus stop. Poor carer had to pull over and sit with her on the

grass by the road while she recovered. By the time I arrived home with our older

daughter Hannah was still throwing up and she became my husband's responsibility

for the night, while I took care of as her anaesthetic wore off. Lets

just say it was an interesting night.

The following day (Good Friday) Hannah was sick a few times, and generally not

improving, and we began to talk of a hospital stay for Hannah and how to manage

at home. The children were less than happy at the thought of me being

away for Easter, and poor felt so miserable with an increasingly sore

mouth. They have just started school holidays and were feeling very unsettled

about me being away. But what could we do? As Hannah became worse on the

Saturday, with increasing amounts of blood in her vomit, and not tolerating any

feeds, we made the choice to go to hospital. Admitted in the early hours of

Easter Day, and after five tries finally had a successful IV set up for

rehydration (after once again having to argue with a couple of doctors that she

was NOT to be given gastrolyte or saline/glucose because of her being on the

ketogenic diet) and she was able to come home on Tuesday.

So far so good and she seems very happy and settled today. 's mouth has

improved much quicker than we ever hoped, and we are going to celebrate her 13th

birthday tonight with the food she wants, not the mush we expected she would be

able to cope with. All that remains is for me to restore my energy levels, not

that they were great before, but they are now severely depleted. I cope really

well in hospital but tend to fall apart a bit when I come home. Emotions a bit

raw today too, just because I am so tired I'm sure.

Wonder what the next exciting episode will be in the " Hannah saga. " LOL

Love and hugs to all of you

(Hannah's mum, Australia)

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