Blue Lights

Just when I thought things were settling down............................... Young Jacob decides to give his parents a scare. He'd had a cold for about a week and even though I had taken him to the G.P. at the end of last week, I really thought he was on the mend, 95% back to his usual self. However, there we were on Tuesday evening, dozing off when we hear Jacob rasping and sounding like he smokes 100 a day. He sounded really dreadful and whilst Aaron was sitting holding him on our bed poor little Jacob started being quite sick, looking very pale and totally listless. Then Aaron started reaching and had to make a dash for the bathroom! Great that's all I needed. Called the emergency GP service and they told me to call an ambulance. So before we knew it we had a fast response veichle pulling up in the driveway. Next an ambulance turned up and all together we had 4 people from the London ambulance service. Jacob was still being sick but seemed to have perked up a bit. I went with him in the back of the ambulance where he proceeded to vomit over me and nearly got the paramedic. We go to A & E and the Dr. tried to get a line in but couldn't. His temperature was quite high and so we were told he'd be admitted for the night and that the registrar would come and see him in A & E. Thank God that after about an hour and a half he really started to perk up and his temperature was back to normal, so we were back home by 3.30am. He's made steady progress but I'd forgotten what the disturbed nights were like already! Had some straight talking with Jacob and told him I don't want to be going back to St. Thomas' for a quite a while!
Friday night was the "Southwark Babes", mums night out. Went to a local pub for drinks and dinner al fresco. Hardly recognised some people, looking very different from how we look in our day time mummy uniform with pushchair to accessorise. Had a good evening and even though I was in bed by 11.30pm, I was still knackered the next morning. Oh what a party animal! So definitely a weekend for crashing out and catching up on much needed zzzzzzzzzzzzz's