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Unfortunately, the week before half term Aaron was quite poorly and had to stay home from school all week. Coby had been ill the previous week so we think he passed his illness on to him. From the symptoms, it seemed to be the flu and he got so bad at one point that Kelly called the NHS Direct line and they made an appointment for Aaron to see the out of hours doctor at the hospital.  So we had to take him down to the hospital to see the doctor for 19:15 on the Wednesday evening and he confirmed that Aaron was close to dehydration and almost had to keep him in the hospital overnight to rehydrate him. Luckily, we were able to take him home again, with some medicine, and had to make sure he had a drink every couple of hours, even through the night.  The poor boy looked awful really and very sluggish. He wasn’t eating and his legs and body were aching all the time – he was even sick a couple of times as well. Luckily, by the end of the week, the medicine and all the extra fluids we were making him have, perked him up and he was much better by the weekend, which was good as we were going to stay in a caravan! It wasn’t just Aaron ill that week though, as Ben ended up being ill all week as well, after being sent home from school on the Monday morning. At least they are better again now!

It wasn’t the best Christmas ever as Coby was really ill and Ben and Aaron were ill as well. Saying that, Ben and Aaron enjoyed it all and had lots and lots of presents to open on Christmas morning. It took well into the afternoon to finish opening them all, and they had some really good presents from everyone, and Father Christmas. Unfortunately, due to them not feeling very well, they were both in bed just after 6pm, which was very early for them, especially for Christmas Day.

They both got up just after 7am and dived into their stockings, which were chock a block.  We then all went downstairs and the boys were amazed to see all the presents under the tree.  They wanted to dive in straight away but we managed to get a bit of breakfast first, and then started opening presents.  We were still going by dinner time, and they both had their Christmas Dinner, although Aaron didn’t eat it all as he isn’t found of roast dinners. Ben scoffed all of his though! Aaron preferred dessert! 😉 They both had a good play in the afternoon when all the presents were opened, with their main ones being a remote control robot Dinosaur (for Ben) and a robot Puppy (for Aaron). Aaron also got the ambulance he asked Father Christmas for! They had some more food for tea but has slowed down considerably by this time, and not long after went up to bed, tired out and not feeling very well.

All in all, we did have a nice day, but it was a shame that all the boys were ill and myself and Kelly were completely tired out after being up with Coby all Christmas Eve night.

Thanks to everyone that gave the boys cards and presents!

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Since Tuesday this week, Aaron has been very poorly indeed.  He has had a very high temperature with it reaching 39.5 degrees at one point! Kelly has hardly slept as he hasn’t wanted to sleep in his cot so she has had to stay up with him. The poor little man still had an appetite but was sooo hot all the time and just didn’t look very well at all. On Tuesday night Kelly got hold of NHS Direct for some advice as we were quite worried due to his high temperature, and they said that if it got to 40 degrees, then we should call a doctor.

Luckily, it didn’t reach that high, but stayed high enough for Kelly to call our normal Doctors on Thursday but they were useless as usual. They had no appointments so a doctor called her back and basically said the opposite to the NHS direct doctor. Our doctor said it was probably viral and it would pass in 7 to 10 days – no offer of a check over just in case or anything! In the end, the little man started to lose his high temperature during the day but still wouldn’t settle on his own to go to sleep even though he was absolutely shattered. In the end, I took him out for a ride in the car at half 10 last night to see if that would make a difference, and it did thankfully. Aaron feel asleep in the car but unfortunately woke when we got home. Even so, it didn’t take too much effort to get him back to sleep and he managed to stay in his cot and slept most of the night – not getting up till about 8am. Phew!

So, it looks like the worst of it is over now so fingers crossed he will make a full recovery in the next day or so and that we will all, finally, get a good nights sleep tonight!