Evening :)
Just a quick one (as if I'm even capable of not rambling on for far too long...) as I'm bloody shattered from B's new trick of waking up at 4.50am - who knew that time even existed?!
We've had a good couple of day, really good actually. She's massively improved movement wise and is now getting quite confident at crawling again. She still gets tired easily and can only manage a few shuffles at a time before she puts her head down on the floor and has a little rest but she's already so much less frustrated. She's desperate to stand and has been wobbling round the furniture a little. Again her muscles aren't up to much just yet but she's been in her jumperoo which we got down from the loft and she can actually jump in it now, much to her delight!
She's also found her voice again and it was so so nice to hear her chatting away to herself in her cot at 5am this morning (even if it was shouting "yeah, yeah, yeah" or something very similar sounding, funny little thing!)
DP is now off until Monday, big yay! He's been a bit of a zombie today, getting home from work at 7am and not getting the chance for a couple of hours sleep til this afternoon but hopefully he'll be feeling better tomorrow after a good nights sleep tonight.
B had a blood test at the hospital today, no results yet, but the main thing was to check her blood count and Hb levels. She still looks very pale so I'm expecting it'll still be low but they did say it can take weeks to get back up to a normal level left to its own devices.
I had a phone call this evening from the GP we saw the day before we were admitted to hospital, who diagnosed B as having a virus at the time. She's absolutely lovely and I've no wish to cause a fuss about her not picking anything up. DP has ongoing chronic health problems and she is the only GP in 4 years who's really taken him seriously and she did give B a thorough checking over when she saw her, plus she did deteriorate massively in the 24 hours after our appointment with her, I guess these things do just happen.
I've just remembered I've also got a voicemail to follow up from the meningitis trust, I've not listened to it properly as was driving when I picked it up and my hands free was all crackly. Must remember to do that tomorrow...
Funny the GP who called earlier actually did her training with our consultant (one advantage of living in a small town where everyone knows each other hey?) and is going to drop her an email regarding B. She's advised me to get her booked in for her 12/13 month vaccinations which she's missed but I'm inclined to wait another week to let her get her strength back a little more. It's a tough one, do I get them done urgently or let her rest a bit first? Our GP erred on the side of getting them done sooner rather than later.
Thanks girls, all hugs much appreciated right now! And thank you for the spare ear as and when required too 
Thanks also pullupapew and FMF. I'm hoping Sunday/Monday night were sort of rock bottom for me, I'm feeling a little brighter these last few days and long may that continue (she says cautiously, knowing there probably will be crap bits in the middle somewhere!) :)
So much for not rambling on eh?!...