This morning I rang the GP as there was more blood in his clothes from his armpit area. The birthmark had become quite raised and this created a couple of folds under there. This made it very hard to clean and quite painful for him.
The GP advised me to take him straight to A&E as he was now bleeding from it (only a tiny amount). When I arrived I was seen by a doctor who brought in the first set of students (get used to this, they obviously don't see haemangiomas this large very often). He didn't seem bothered about it at all and actually asked me why I had brought him to A&E today. He told me to stop the anti-biotics he had started yesterday and now use Fucidin, an anti-biotic cream and just to 'place' a piece of gauze under his armpit.
By chance, our children's community nurse, Linda, from the hospital called to see how he was after he was seen in the children's ward yesterday. I explained that I'd been back this morning and had been given the cream but how is he supposed to keep a loose piece of gauze in place? She offered to help dress it much to my relief and came out later that day. This was to be the first of many, many more dressings. Fox would be constantly bandaged around his chest and shoulder from neck to hips, including his right arm, due to the awkward location (under the armpit) of his wound.
The GP advised me to take him straight to A&E as he was now bleeding from it (only a tiny amount). When I arrived I was seen by a doctor who brought in the first set of students (get used to this, they obviously don't see haemangiomas this large very often). He didn't seem bothered about it at all and actually asked me why I had brought him to A&E today. He told me to stop the anti-biotics he had started yesterday and now use Fucidin, an anti-biotic cream and just to 'place' a piece of gauze under his armpit.
By chance, our children's community nurse, Linda, from the hospital called to see how he was after he was seen in the children's ward yesterday. I explained that I'd been back this morning and had been given the cream but how is he supposed to keep a loose piece of gauze in place? She offered to help dress it much to my relief and came out later that day. This was to be the first of many, many more dressings. Fox would be constantly bandaged around his chest and shoulder from neck to hips, including his right arm, due to the awkward location (under the armpit) of his wound.
