with a little help from my friends…

two little girls…

who are the best of friends….

for the past four days have been neighbours in Alder hey hospital. One with asthma and one with pneumonia. We think they may have planned it…..

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Seriously…I took Maisie to hospital on friday evening following a couple of days of watching her struggle with her breathing and being generally unwell. On our arrival we moved through the triage very quickly…(always a bad sign!) and Maisie was put on a oxygen mask, had a chest x ray and was generally poked about. It transpired that she had a viral infection and pneumonia in one side of her lungs……

we got transferred to a ward and had a very disturbed night trying to keep her oxygen mask on and her observation readings up….in the morning my question ‘can i go home please’ got met with a very stern No and we got transferred to a respiratory ward where we discovered, in the next bed, Maisie’s best friend Anya had been admitted with severe asthma in the early hours.

Within a few minutes both girls where sat next to each other, face masks on, saturation monitors beeping away watching finding nemo.

and the biggest plus??

having a couple of our most valued friends next door so to speak…

A bit of a co-incidence you might think? i think more like some generous grace being sent our way.

Maisie is at home now, sleeping, she is on antibiotics and her breathing is so much better. There is a chance that the virus may have caused some scarring on her lungs and she may be likely to get more chest infections as a result. Which is kind of scary. But for the moment, all is well.