What a week it has been. Jake has been suffering from a stomach Flu which has really knocked him for six. He didn’t eat very much at all for at least three days. What we did give him, including water just was vomited back up. Over the last few days he has started to drink his milk and eat a little more. The doctor prescribed him some powders to replenish his body sugar levels and the such-like. Jake was having none of it though and wouldn’t drink it at all. That was a little stressful to say the least.
The last couple of nights have been really bad. Jake has been waking every 2-3 hours with a terrible cough. To cap it all his left eye is all puffed up and weeping pus and his nose is streaming. Amy took him to the doctor this morning. He said that this was just a progression of the stomach flu which was ‘working it’s way upwards’.
It was so sad when he woke yesterday at around midnight. He was crying and his eye was completely closed. We brought him into our bed until he went back to sleep. After a while we put him back in his cot. At around 3am he woke again and we went through this cycle again. This is really taking it out of us and I hope that Jake gets better soon as I’m not sure that we have the reserves to keep it up. Roll on the weekend!