My beautiful children

Things have been crazy of late!

You may already know that our daughter Isabella was

admitted to hospital with acute asthma and apnoea recently.

I spent four days sleeping on a chair next to her bed, and

experienced some of the most gruesome hours of my life

watching her struggle to breathe properly...

Slowly slowly the doctors were able to stretch the intervals

between her medication until she was able to cope for

two whole hours without any support or drugs..

..and just as we thought things were really starting to turn,

Isabella was hit by a terrible gastro episode that had her

throwing up for 8 hours straight...  It didn't feel fair!!

24 hours after that, things finally improved and we were

eventually able to leave the hospital and head back home.

As Isabella still required frequent doses of Ventolin around the clock

we've been setting our alarm clock accordingly and are all now so

exhausted that I think it actually beats breastfeeding a newborn..
That said, we would take down the moon if that is what would

be required for Isabella to be healthy, happy and comfortable.
 Come the weekend (just gone) we were all so excited to be

together as a family again, however fate had other plans for us...

It was after dinner on Saturday that Oscar started

complaining of a sore tummy..

He looked OK and so we put it down to having had too much

to eat and perhaps also being a little overexcited about

having everyone back under the same roof again..

... a couple of hours later Oscar was vomiting violently and was

crying so hard due to abdominal pain that we decided to take him

the ER of the hospital Isabella & I had left only 48 hours earlier..

It turned out that we'd done the right thing in taking him there,

as he was put on a drip and kept under watch over night,

whilst the doctors performed tests to rule out the worst..

Poor Oscar was in so much pain and that night none of us slept

at all, due to the worry & uncertainty of what caused all of this.

Later the next day the doctors finally gave the all clear,

and Oscar & my husband were able to come back home.

The kids are not entirely well - Isabella still requires

medication every four hours around the clock, and Oscar

is extremely worn out and still very tender in his tummy.

That said, it seems that at least the worst is behind us now,

(knock knock on wood!!)

and we can focus on nursing both of the kids back to strength

away from hospitals, needles, IVs and nasty viruses.

Friends at school and daycare will have to wait a little longer

before we let the kids are back in full swing again.

Actually life in general will have to wait until any of us are

able to leap back in full capacity again..

Here are some pics of these divine young people who
we love more than words can say and who
once in a blue moon scare us out of our wits..

Oscar is the quiet gentle soul and 

Isabella the cheeky whirl wind of our 

happy and loving little quartet..

Life would not be life without them!

xCharlotta