Good morning troopers
God, have been rushed off my feet this week, not least with STT's visit It was so lovely to meet you both, thank you so much for coming all that way, hope the journey back wasn't too bad? J is absolutely gorgeous, and you are right to be so proud of him He is going to be just fine with his baby sister
Am trying to remember things (have been reading, but not had chance to post, so I have forgotten a lot!)
Glask, being discharged is great news, huge great big 'well dones' to the both of you! Sorry about leak, DS1 caused a big one when he was about 3yo, put plug in the sink in the bathroom, left tap running, no over flow, straight down into our, then, new kitchen, straight through the new ceiling and new plaster on the walls, all through the electrics on the boiler and extractor fan, was a nightmare! Hoping it is something simple to fix for you.
Diege, I think there is an admin fee for a copy of the notes, it differs from hospital to hospital, but from what I've read it's somewhere between £10 and £50, I think they put a cap on it so they couldn't charge more than £50. Must have been really lovely to see your Doula's pictures, can you ask for copy's of them as well? How are you feeling physically now? Any improvments?
Ses, it's scary in the night, but really the chances of it being you rolling on him are very small indeed, all three of ours have spent differing lengths of time sleeping with us, the only one time either of us did anything that could have been slightly dangerous was when DH fell asleep with his arm cuddling DS1 when he was about 6 months old, DH woke up, moved his arm and heard DS1 sigh like a 'phew he's finally moved his arm' sort of sigh, whether he woke up because he knew his arm was around him, or if DS1 had started sqirming or something, I don't know, but he woke up, DS1 wasn't hurt or anything, so no danger, though he never fell asleep cuddling any of them again!
Jules, We had the news on last night when it first came through he'd been taken to hospital with CA, first thing I thought of was you.
OK, my memory is shot, I KNOW there was other things I wanted to say....
House is almost done now, a few more cupboards need going through, but I think we are very nearly almost at the point, where everything that is in the house will be coming straight to the new house, along with the stuff in the storage, and all the junk is gone gone gone. DH is going to be cutting the lawns at the weekend, and doing a genral tidy up outside, sweeping up, cutting bushes, cleaning all the windows and the porch etc. etc. etc. and then next week am hoping to get the estate agents in to give us the valuations and so we can decide who to go with. All a bit nerve racking and a lot scary but we have to do it. (Although now the house is almost empty, and we have room, even though it is 'false' room, because we couldn't live like this forever, I sit here looking around and remember all the good times we've had, playing with the boys, bringing DS2 and 3 home for the first time into this living room, christmas' birthdays, they all know this house like the back of their hand, DS2 was grumping about this morning, covered his face with both his hands and marched from the kitchen to the sofa in the living room, and didn't need to look where he was going once! Will be sad to leave - never thought I'd say that! )
We still need to sort through the garage, it is jam packed full of rubbish (old furniture, boxes from toys and stuff, DS1's pram is still in there I think!) garden toys, gardening equipment, a spare fridge/freezer, and another freezer, the dryer, the old dryer, and I think even the old old dryer we had before that ) And at some point, the house needs painting outside, but whether we get that far with it, I don't know!
DH has hurt his arm, it's been playing up for a few months now, but getting worse and worse, it's got to the point where even when picks Mikey up, I can see him wincing in pain, so I finally got him to go to the doctors last week (DH is not one for going to the docs for anything!) he had an xray on Monday, it's going to take 3 weeks for the results of it 3 weeks for someone to look at a picture! And then, when they have the results, they'll want him to book an appointment so they can tell him, which could be goodness knows how long! I said to DH, if it's something fairly serious, i.e. I don't really see how it could be a strained muscle or anything because firsty it's hurting above and below his elbow, that's two different muscles, and secondly, it has been going on for so long. I'd guess it's either ligiment damage or that he's actually chipped his elbow or something, but things like that un-treated can cause serious long term damage. And I know if he wasn't so bloody bullish he'd have gone to the docs a lot sooner, but I still think 3 weeks to look at a picture is bloody ridiculous!
Sorry, will get off me ol' soap box and shut up now! Have warbled on like a bloody warbler again