Biography
Lawson was born in 2023. He had all his newborn checks at the hospital before he was discharged.
At 2 days old he wasn't really drinking much milk and was being sick, midwife advised to keep an eye on him, but at 4 days old he was still the same with his milk and sickness, so Contacted the GP, who sent him to A&E, due to his symptoms and having an unusual red area on his tummy.
At the hospital he had tests done and x-rays and was found to have calcification in his bowels,which the doctors confirmed to be due to Meconium Ileus.
Lawson also contracted sepsis, due to having a perforated bowel, which he had ante-natally (while I was pregnant with him) but wasn't picked up on any scans.
Genetic tests were done to confirm the Cystic Fibrosis diagnosis, due to my older son having Cystic Fibrosis. Lawson was confirmed as having CF at around 2 weeks old.
It was a very very scary and emotional time and then at 6 days old he had to have an operation to create a Ileostomy stoma, he had a long 8-10 weeks hospital stay between intensive care and the ward, due to the operation recovery and slow weight gain. He also contracted sepsis for a second time.
He had his stoma reversal in March 2024 and had a 4 weeks stay again due to recovery and sickness.
He now has regular 3 monthly hospital clinic appointments and has to take regular medication and has to do physiotherapy, which he has to have daily.
He is my brave beautiful 18 month old warrior.
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