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I love rocket and roll, put another lime in the fruitbowl, baby - 10 / 10 thread

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FrannyandZooey · 27/05/2008 08:43

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FrannyandZooey · 31/05/2008 08:43

Good morning everyone
I have had a lie in and am v v hungry so will be back shortly

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FrannyandZooey · 31/05/2008 09:17

gigantic bowl of mango, strawberries, grapes, and raisins

going to family day at nature reserve
looks quite nice out

what news of Boco?

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Boco · 31/05/2008 10:00

Hello, we're home!

Just scanned the thread ,thank you for all the support - it was so nice to be texted by MrsC and Fox - who was a star calling and being generally level headed and kind. MrsC i think the text I sent on Thursday night before my phone died must have come through a day later.

They let us out just in time to run for flights, but it was so close, - they kept changing their minds - had to see radiologist first, then chief registrar, and sign something saying that we were taking her out before treatment had finished. She's actually ok, still wheezing and coughing, but very springy again now. I am not springy - two nights on a plastic chair and a diet of grey meat not so good for a refreshing holiday. Glad to be home.

MrsCarrot · 31/05/2008 10:04

Thank goodness for that!

Hello, hello and hooray. Will dd1 make it to the party, and will dd2 have to have treatment here and so on?

You poor thing, we were so worried about you both.

lazarou · 31/05/2008 10:05

Morning. I had leftover chilli and sausages for tea last night with a few leaves.

Tonight I am going to make a vegetable balti and a chicken korma, or maybe a vegetable lasagne.

I have lots of fruit, but yesterday my mum brought round about three bags of chocolate and crisps!

berolina · 31/05/2008 10:06

BOCO!!!!!!

SO glad you're out and home. How awful for you, the whole thing. Glad Little

Boco · 31/05/2008 10:11

DD is desperate to go to party. I'm trying to persuade dp to take her but so far he's not committing. Personally I think I earned not going!

They gave us antibiotics, probiotics and expectorant. All instructions in polish.

The antibiotics bit was so stressful as E is allergic to penicillin - had full on anaphalactic reaction last time, and as no one spoke English it was a bit stressful everytime they came and injected her with something, which was pretty constantly.

One morning they gave me a big fat capsule and a spoon and spoke to me in Polish and walked off. I had no idea what it was or what to do with it. Different nurses kept coming in and pointing and speaking Polish vaguely slowly and crossly. But figured if I didn't know what it was I wasn't going to administer it until someone could tell me. IN the end they impatiently cracked it onto the spoon, added water and got her to drink it. Found out on the day we left that it was just a probiotic.

berolina · 31/05/2008 10:11

apple, banana, apricot (sharing the latter two with ds2 in a BLW type way).

dh and ds1 have gone to the airshow after an enormous row which had very little to do with the airshow dh rabg insistently some time after leaving. I was feeding ds2 to sleep, so didn't answer the first couple of times, but then I eventually did, waking ds2 in the process, and all he wanted to know was whether his parents had rung. I told him they hadn't and (am not proud of this bit) hung up.

berolina · 31/05/2008 10:12

rang

berolina · 31/05/2008 10:14

oh that does sound stressful boco. I think I would have a constant nightmare here too if I couldn't speak German.

littlerach · 31/05/2008 10:14

Oh, glad to hear you're mhome, Boco.
that must have been a stressful "holiday"!!

How was DH?

It is sunny today - hurrah!
Dh and friend are putting up shed later, our garden is beggining ot look real now, not just a hazardous dumpomg ground.

Veg is planted, or at leats almost planted.

MrsCarrot · 31/05/2008 10:15

your dp is not committing?

Ggrrrrgh

Boco · 31/05/2008 10:15

I was very surprised how basic it was, are German hospitals like that? We were in a children's hospital (only found that out on the last night!) on a chest ward, and there was not one machine of any kind, no oxygen stats or anything. You had to take your own temperatures. There were just small bare rooms with big cots and that was it.

They had the right medication though, and treated her so fast and thoroughly , so very grateful for that.

They told us to see pediatrician as soon as we got to England, but she seems well now so will just take her to GP on Monday and emergency GP if she seems worse.

berolina · 31/05/2008 10:17

oh avi - ds1 turned 3 2 weeks ago - so very little still, esp for all the noise and heat. dh is from E Germany, from a very conformist (in those days) family - it later emerged that FIL collaborated with the Stasi Because of his parents being on the right side of the powers-that-be, and the protection from some of the realisites of GDR life offered by the military community, he had a very charmed childhood.

berolina · 31/05/2008 10:18

Oh no, German hospitals are all mod cons, but the rather authoritarian attitude sounds very similar. Also the paediatrician thing - I assume it's normal there, as here, for every child to have a paediatrician.

MrsCarrot · 31/05/2008 10:18

It sounds awful, Boco, truly awful, I don't know how you coped. I guess you just have to and as she was improving then you knew their medicine was working.

Why could no-one come and help you though, what about the PIL or other family?

Boco · 31/05/2008 10:19

DP was ok really - he looked after dd1 with his parents, he was very calm and he walked backwards and forwards between hospital and appartment which was a long way, getting stuff.

Was very good that mil could speak Polish as no one spoke english. A couple of the doctors spoke a bit but only saw them once a day. And they spoke a weird medical kind. The first day the dr said 'we are in crisis presently!' and the next day 'we are entering medium crisis crepitation today!'

MrsCarrot · 31/05/2008 10:24

well, sorry, but surely they didn't need three of them to look after dd1 while our Boco wasted away. We were tortured on here, longing to send you supplies but then we are very food focused.

Main thing is you are home and she is well. You need brilliant food and a lot of sleep this weekend. Hope you get it.

MrsCarrot · 31/05/2008 10:26

lol at we are in crisis presently

though of course it is not funny

Boco · 31/05/2008 10:27

Tbh there wasn't much anyone else could do. I was in a small room, very very high ceiling but small - with two other sick children and their parents, we had no space, one plastic chair. When pils and dp and dd1 were all there it was quite unbearable anyway - all standing about watching dd2 breathe, nowhere to go or anything. The first foodless day was my own fault - it was all so shocking and urgent that i hadn't thought about eating until it was too late, then I realised I hadn't eaten all day and only had an apple. Mil had made lots of offers of getting stuff but we were so far from any shops and i wanted her to just take dd home and get her to bed because the milling and standing and staring was making me want to scream. And they were freaked out too.

They did give me a break the next day and went and found a cafe that had fresh vegetables, ate a plate of tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce and it was so NICE. Not a fan of Polish food. For breakfast they served grey pate that smelled of fishy pork and a slice of bread, for lunch it was pork slice with cabbage and potato, for dinner it was jellied ham from a tin and a bit of bread! And, and - the only drink they gave E was which each meal they served all the children strong black tea! Was odd and alarming all round.

MrsCarrot · 31/05/2008 10:33

Tea, how odd?

Yes, it must have been awful for them too, we were just imagining them having their stew and cakes at the apartment while you starved. Obviously it wasn't really like that.

It was painful not being able to help, it really was. Thank goodness she responded well to treatment. Her poor little lungs really suffer don't they?

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FrannyandZooey · 31/05/2008 10:38

god Boco you're BACK thank god what a nightmare
we were appalled at you being left on the hard chair with grey fish to suck
so glad dd2 is better
and you are back HUZZAH!

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lullabyloo · 31/05/2008 10:39

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooco!!!!!!!!!
(((((((())))))))))))
so glad you are back lovely one & that dd is on the mend

you poor,poor things
just ghastly

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FrannyandZooey · 31/05/2008 10:40

I think the thing of you all being thrown into this crisis not knowing each other terribly well and the language thing and dp being distant and all of it - well! thank god you are back anyway

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Tatties · 31/05/2008 10:51

BOCO! You must be so relieved to get back, I bet you are all exhausted, poor things

Bero