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No respite

September 30, 2008 at 12:20 pm | In Family, Ulcerative colitis | 7 Comments
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Daughter-in-law is now 37 weeks pregnant, she is well, slightly anaemic but nothing that a low-dosage iron supplement won’t remedy, but her stress levels are now rising daily. Her other half, our son, is now being admitted to hospital as his consultant has ’serious concerns’ about his health, apparently he will only be in for a few days. The plan is to treat his ulcerative colitis aggressively with IVI steroids, remedy the obstruction and perform further investigations. We are all doubly stressed, concerned about son and his health but equally really worried about DIL, and trying to support her whilst keeping fingers crossed that baby doesn’t decide to come before 40 weeks. This is the last thing she needs at the end of her pregnancy, my heart goes out to the pair of them and I am hoping, hoping, hoping that whatever concoctions the hospital pump into son work a minor miracle and see him improving, quickly.

What I forgot to record in my blog was what happened to Jack, Izzy and their Mummy on Sunday. ( I sometimes feel as if I may be in a ‘Neighbours’ or ‘Eastenders’ storyline ). We were all invited to a family friend’s off-spring’s 1st birthday party. Hubby and I arrived, on time, but then daughters were later and later, I was getting quite irritated by their tardiness. Friend’s daughter said that she had 2 missed calls from one of my daughters, and when I checked so had I, so I phoned her. Very weepy daughter, screaming children, someone had just hit their car head-on and they were stuck down a country lane. Luckily other daughter had answered her phone (!) and her other half was on the way to retrieve them, I threw my car keys at Hubby and sent him off to join in the rescue expedition. Long and short, daughter has whiplash and chest bruising, car is a write-off but other woman has admitted it was her fault as she was on the wrong side of the road entirely. Daughter’s partner was in France, and uncontactable, boy, did he get in the ear when he landed yesterday! We are counting lucky stars though, it could have been so much worse.

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I presume stress worsens the symptoms of ulcerative colitis, and he can’t be feeling too relaxed about things at the moment. Certainly can’t be helping things along. I wonder, if it has to happen (going into hospital etc), it is perhaps better that it happens now when baby is still safely in utero and doesn’t need getting up to in the night. Hopefully baby will stay put another three or four weeks. I hope things improve very rapidly!

Comment by wildduck — September 30, 2008 #

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Pleased you’re back. was worried about you. Similar recent stress during DIL’s pregnancy. Now all forgotten..Just kept remembering “Now is not always” (Passed down from MY Gran !) And it’s so true. Hope it helps you too.

Comment by Rookiegran — September 30, 2008 #

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It must be such a difficult time. It’s an awful disease (my cousin suffers from it and was very very ill a few years back but now is absolutely fine thankfully) I hope the hospital will come up with a magic juice that will bring improvement. I’m sure knowing that you’ll be there for them will help a great deal.

Comment by Cartside — September 30, 2008 #

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wildduck – You’re right, stress is bad for the symptoms! Far better that son goes in now, especially if it does make him better, or at least improves things. DIL just phoned to say that she thinks that baby has decided to move down, I told her to stand on her head!

Comment by midwifemuse — September 30, 2008 #

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Rookiegran – Thank you. Wretched children, they are still a constant worry even when they are no longer children. Love the saying, perhaps our family can borrow it?

Comment by midwifemuse — September 30, 2008 #

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Cartside – It really is a nasty disease, it’s always good to hear about someone who has it ‘under control’, hopefully we will all just be enjoying the new baby in a couple of weeks and this time will just be a distant memory.

Comment by midwifemuse — September 30, 2008 #

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Sending good thoughts to you and your family. I hope your son gets the best outcome possible and stress is relieved for all.

Comment by Anne — October 8, 2008 #

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