Thing one took a turn for the worse on Monday after I said that so I called the doctor again. The doctor who I spoke to previously said something like there is a channel open now, just call back if he gets worse. Calling the number they had rung on redirected to 111, so there I had to go through all the hoops again. You go through eight or nine automated menus saying "are you sure it's not about coronavirus? If it is, hang up and look at our website" and then to a call centre operator who goes through their script again. I gave the same answers as before so it came to "call an ambulance" again which seems a bad use of resources. They have no access to his records or what happened the day before and couldn't listen to an explanation, so we had to settle on that. Then a health care professional called back, different one to yesterday, and said going back to hospital was good but if I could drive there that's better. So I called Grandpa, he came round to sit with thing two, and I drove us to the hospital.
Kids A&E was much busier than the day before, we got seen straight away though and this time they actually did blood tests. I thought they did yesterday but it was only a finger prick test for glucose levels or something. The boy was still not quite right here so they sent us to a ward for observation, we had to stay in overnight. I say a ward, but everyone has their own room and there was a fold out chair for me. In the night though he got even worse with the hallucination type stuff so they moved us to the high dependency room so they could keep an eye. He had seemed a bit delirious earlier in the day, giving answers to questions I had not asked and not being able to find the right word. In the night it got worse something to do with the fever I thought. A doctor came in and loaded him up with an antibiotic drip, to accompany the rehydration drip he was already on. We both had a fitful night as he had to be woken up and checked, every twenty minutes at first, going down to once an hour, and I think we had two hour's peace between 4am and 6am. He did become more lucid again by this point.
This morning the first thing we heard was we're not going home for a couple of days at least, and if it's worse than it first looks he's getting transferred to London. The consultant calmed it down a bit and said we can stay here at the William Harvey, hopefully the next blood tests will show the infection markers are down and he is improving. Today he's had an x-ray (I keep writing "we" instead of "he" and then deleting it again) though still no food. He has an ultrasound booked for 4pm. They brought an XBox One in to play which was nice, he's had a few games of something like this1 and a Lego game. Clare has dropped off some bags for us, including food and games and books and comics and pyjamas and toothbrushes and my laptop, so I can write this. She was not allowed to come in at all because of covid restrictions. Our original plan this morning was for us to swap, I go home and shower and rest and she stays here for the day, then I could come back later, but that's not allowed. They said we could do one swap and not swap back, so better I just stay with him. I'd hate it if he got any worse and I couldn't sit with him.
Clare had to let her work know she couldn't come in and it sounds like they could have been more understanding.
Right now his temperature is up again and he's not hungry, doesn't even want a sweet. We did play Top Trumps and he read a magazine, but he's just going to rest.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 28264918 | 497249 |
| Brazil | 9834513 | 239294 |
| Mexico | 1988695 | 173771 |
| India | 10916172 | 155764 |
| UK | 4038078 | 117166 |
| Italy | 2721872 | 93577 |
| France | 3465163 | 81814 |
| Russia | 4071883 | 80126 |
| Germany | 2341706 | 65566 |
| Spain | 3074344 | 65215 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + Mexico + India + UK + Italy
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