Once upon a time, not so very long ago........

Little Leon was born with a poorly heart. This made his Mummy and Daddy sad and they decided to search for a special friend who would keep Little Leon company and look after him while he was in hospital.............

The Adventure begins..............

Monday 4 July 2011

Little Leon settles into the High Dependency Unit

Well, Little Leon now being the Prince of pink cuteness is relaxing on HDU while the laydees cater to his every whim! Food, entertainment, milky and of course he is rewarding them with smiles.
Woo!  Mango Surprise!!!
Saturday night was a long one for Little Leon, his saturation levels dropped and he needed some oxygen to help him breathe more easily.  So Sunday he was still on the oxygen, but then decided he had had enough of having prongs up his nose, and promptly pulled it out along with his feeding tube!   So now Little Leon is trying out different foods.  Nursey Laydee Steph suggested he might like some Mango surprise and surprise!  He really enjoyed it!!

Paging Dr Beat....
Dr Noel looks after Little Leon while he snoozes and takes on more oxygen.  The big cheese dropped in and said that he was doing fine. He told Noel to keep up the good work!

Leon smiles for the laydees...
Little Leon cuddled Daddy for a while and then Daddy tried to pump more air into Little Leon my moving his arm around!  This wasnt working very well and nursey Steph suggested it might fall off and that would be more stitching to fit it back on!  Dr Sam scanned Little Leon and found some fluid near his lungs, which isnt too bad because thats the bodies way of dealing with trauma, Mummy suggested hanging him upside down to help it drain, but Dr Sam said that Little Leon wiggling and coughing would be better!

No Daddy thats my arm.....
When Mummy and Daddy arrived on Monday morning, Little Leon had made a nest of pillows and was snuggled well in!

Little Leon makes a pillow nest to snooze in!
Little Leon has had lots of snoozes, He woke up when Mummy and Daddy arrived, ate some breakfast and snoozed again.... Then Big Cuz Deb came for a flying visit all the way from Sutton, she is very happy that Little Leon was smiling and waved at her, then went back to sleepy! Woke for lunch and some milky, snoozed a bit more, had afternoon tea, played a while, then yep snoozed again!  Dinner was a bit late because Little Leon was catching up on healing sleepy!  Mummy is very happy about that, she thinks the more he sleeps the quicker he will heal!  Its going to be about six weeks before she and Daddy can squeeze him tight because he has a broken breast bone that needs to mend before squeezing!

So as Mummy and Daddy left for the night, leaving Little Leon playing pee po under his clean blanket and smiling at his nursey laydee Ellen, they were very pleased that it has been a good day, maybe tomorrow the last drain will come out and they can all move to a room closer to the door!   (that is the one marked EXIT and HOME!).



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