Streptococcus

Sarah was moved back up to the specialist Haemotology ward, Frederick Andrewes, on Friday as her infection progressively got worse and the doctors couldnt diagnose the exact strain of infection; despite taking (painful) blood samples from the main artery in the arm they couldnt determine what was wrong as Sarah continually went from cold to fever and her temperature regularly sored above 40c.

Thankfully, after what seemed like an enternity they diagnosed that Sarah contracted (http://www.dhpe.org/infect/strepa.html) and was given a course of antibiotics to combat this. However, all through Saturday Sarah was again suffering from hot & cold spells (a bit like the climate outside) and she was on oxygen all through the day and night. In fact at one stage she really had thought that right at the end something terrible was going to happen, she was in incredible pain and nothing she had ever experienced before in her life could compare with this pain and hurt.

The children came up to visit Sarah on Sunday and their visit perked her up and she was feeling slightly better than the previous two days; although their visit had left her extremely tired and that evening she was again on oxygen and suffering from cold shivers.

Monday and Sarah was sat up in a chair and was dressed, when you consider that the previous 4 days Sarah was bed-ridden and hadnt been capable of dressing herself, I knew that she was hopefully through the worst of it. As during Sarah's hospitalisation she has always made a point of getting dressed and getting ready for the day ahead.

Now Tuesday and Sarah is no longer spiking any temperature or suffering from any hot/cold sensations, although she is still on oxygen to help calm her breathing. As I have said before we never know what each new day will bring but thankfully Sarah believes that she has turned the corner, in what has been quite a worrying week, and definitely one of the worst weeks in recent times. The consultants saw Sarah today and were pleased with her progress through this latest infection and lets hope it wont be too long until we can try and get on with our lives; in fact Sarah has been watching alot of programmes about India (albeit on her dodgy TV reception in her room) and I know that one day I'm going to take her and the girls there - just like the colonel in Fawlty Towers:

I must have been keen on her because, ah, because I took her to see, ah, India! ... At the Oval! A fine match, a marvelous finish! Now, Surrey had to get 33 in about a half an hour, and she went off to, ah, powder, ah... powder her hands or something.