I'm thinking of you too Lexi. Fingers and toes crossed!
Dame, get thee to a GP. That sounds grim. I have no idea how all you guys cope with full on MS. Yesterday was a fairly grim day for me but, at worst, I have a general feeling of being sick (made far far worse by gross smells, when hungry) and a spot of wretching.
Many thanks manda, JoJo and Lexi for your messages re 'scratchgate' yesterday (t'was me tiddley). It was very, very minor so no one was hurt (thank god as I had DD in the car). I was approaching a junction (in London Lexi) so going very slowly and the other car was, ahem, stationary
. It was a thin road with loads of parked cars both sides and a big van trying to squeeze past and I stupidly misjudged how much room I had whilst trying to let the van past. The owners of the car I scratched were nearby (actually watching the incident whilst having lunch in a nearby cafe) so we were able to swap details. Once I had applied a bit of spittle to the affected area - in between preventing DD from hurtling herself into the road - the damage done to their car didn't look too bad but at best I'm expecting a call from the guy re cost of paintwork on his BMW (it would be wouldn't it!).
The most annoying aspects are: i) DD and I were at the cafe when the BMW turned up and I thought at the time, blimey they're brave parking that lovely BMW there, it's just asking for an accident; and ii) literally seconds before I heard that lovely crunch of metal against metal I thought 'focus now Tinker you'll have an accident the rate you're going today'.
Shimmy I agree with what everyone else has said and he will no doubt be as excited as you when it comes to the scan; still not fair that it feels like the shine was taken off for you. DH only ever come to the scans with DD and I think if he had attended any other of the appointments he would have appeared disinterested and it would have annoyed me so I'm happy flying solo this time as well. I should add that DH is extremely hands on with DD so it is in no way an indication of things to come iyswim...
One thing that is slightly annoying me this time around is that DH keeps commenting how 'less exciting it is second time around' and similar such statements. I asked him what he meant (since I'm properly excited this time, same as last) and he explained that last time it was going to be a huge shift in our lives that he could barely imagine whereas this time it's more like an increase in the current work load. You see what I am working with? I know if and when the time comes for him to step up looking after this little one though he totally will (he's ace with DD) so I'm doing my best to take the apparent lack of enthusiasm with a pinch of salt...