On Friday night I put the boys to bed as usual at 7.30, then went out to do a little shopping and then picking up chips on the way home.  We had the food and I was planning on having a shower when Ham called me having gone into Daniel who was crying.  Ham had found a spot on him and said to do the glass test.  I grabbed him and went to the kitchen, to my relief it faded but he was still a bit warm and not his happy self.  I called NHS Direct once Ham had come down from upstairs and while talking on the phone saw more spots come before our eyes, I came off the phone and within a few minutes decided not to wait for the return call but to go straight to A and E, the nearest being 20 mins away.  I thought I'd give our local hospital a try but had no luck, the casualty dept is no longer open at night.  On arrival at Cheltenham General we were seen almost straight away, little Daniel was put on a bed and the nurses checked him over, eventually calling special care for a doctor to come down, he came almost immediately and took blood from Dan, most came back ok within the hour but the meningitis one would need a few days.  So, to be on the safe side they decided to treat as worst case scenario and Daniel was put on a drip of antibiotics, the first over an hour.  He was also to be admitted, but to the Childrens Centre at Gloucester Royal, not to the Battledown Ward upstairs (no admissions at night) so a little later an ambulance was called.

I was so worried about him I just watched him constantly, even when the man in the bed in the same room (with the curtain pulled across) had a fit I stayed, although I could quite easily have ran out with the panic just listening to it.

As the medication for Daniel came to an end, I moved the car into the car park and put a note on it, and the nurse called for an ambulance who were there in 2 mins, they were sat outside having just rushed someone in.

We had a nice little room in Gloucester, meals were given for me as I was breastfeeding and by the Sunday Dan seemed a lot better.  It was put down to a virus but with the temp he had plus the rash it was enough to send us running for help, so glad I did and even happier he is ok.