RSV

We finally left Westmead and came home a full month in hospital, so wonderful to be home again but .........................

next up for Owen was RSV

its a very nasty respiratory virus for a person that has just had cardiac surgery - though better that he got it after surgery than before surgery when the outcome could have been too awful.

Instead the RSV put him in hospital here in our home town for 10 days and he needed O2 (his sats were 80% when we first arrived in hospital)

RSV also sensitised his lungs so that every cold virus he got after that put him in hospital between July and October we were in 5 times for around 5 days each time.

Finally at the end of October we came home and the weather cleared. During this time though Owen was THRIVING ! He stacked on the weight and grew like a weed - all the energy that was going to his heart was now going into growing !