After my last post in which I mentioned how worried I was that a hospital stay was inevitable, we did indeed end up in Hospital. Lauren was diagnosed with a bug called Aspergillus. A fungal lung infection. It explained her cough for the previous couple of months. But to get to that diagnosis we ended up in hospital on IV antibiotics because of her persistent cough that just wouldn’t go away.

We did a week in hospital. It was rough. And if I could take the emotion of reliving it I would tell you all about it but I really need to have let that go so I won’t go back.

It was educational though, Jonnie and I learned how to do home IV’s. So the second week we were at home and doing lauren’s IV’s ourselves. It was tiring but we did love being able to be in control. And in future, home IV’s is the way to go!

This did’t get rid of her cough though. This left us anxious, but at the end of her treatment the docs got a full set of bloods, and within them, found that she had this fungal infection.

So in the end it all worked out how it should. She was diagnosed and put on the right treatment for it, and now in December she is almost rid of this cough that stuck around for literally months!

My worrying isn’t irrational. Mostly it’s because I know the reality oh so well.

I am now a little more protective! Imagine that!