Different Hospital, same Microwave meal.

Day two in the RUH and William has a line infection similar bacteria to at Christmas. Luckily that was three months ago and his immune system is much stronger now and so far his temperature has not drifted over 38 too much unlike at Christmas when it was off the scale. Although there is some dispute about what is his temperature as, there are two readings his under arm readings are near normal whereas his ear readings are just over or just under 38. The infection is in only one line, which is good and the antibiotics that were started last night are the right ones to deal with this bacteria (until the cultures came back the doctors didn’t know what they where dealing with). It is very strange sitting in a hospital room eating Waitrose microwave maccy cheese again with nurses hooking William up to syringe drivers. Hopefully it will not be for long as once we get a negative culture reading on William’s blood samples we can go home. William will be on a 10 day course of IV antibiotics once at home, which we will be trained to give him over the weekend. A little scary as the lines go straight into his heart. William is quite happy in himself apart from doing a good impression of a two bar heater every now and then. Cath is doing ok but is missing tea, as there is a no hot drinks rule on the ward, which also means no fancy coffee from Starbucks in the morning either.