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Evening ladies. Since we're at 999 now. Was feeling reflective tonight.

happy new year everyone

I dont post here very much as my twins are all grown up, but i remember how hard it was

there is a lovely lady in this thread who could really do with your support I have asked her to come over and speak to you wonderful lot, but might be nice if you could help her out

Happy New Year everyone. And we can celebrate with heating and hot water in our house!
I looked up the problem online, found the probable cause, we bought the parts yesterday at screwfix, and this morning my clever DH plumbed in a new diverter and it all works! Cost £55 for the part, £17 for pipefreeze so we didn't have to drain the whole central heating down, and voilà , its fixed! Saved us £100 on a plumber
We had a quiet family celebration in our house. went for a meal at local carvery (a Groupon offer, family of 4 two course meal for £30) then to cinema to watch Catching Fire (Hunger Games) which was very good, then home to board games, snacks and dips, and went upstairs to watch local fireworks.

where dis all those accented A's come from

Tomorrow is transfer day. I'm a nervous wreck and unable to sleep. Apollo still isn't stable and if he isn't stable by this afternoon his transfer will be cancelled. Fingers crossed for him! He has an MRI, ECG, ultrasound scans tomorrow :(

Decided to bedshare with Artie, tonight. I cannot believe she is 13 weeks old aka 1 month adj! So surreal. I keep staring at her and watching her nose twitch when I touch it. :)

How is 2014 treating you ladies?

Morning all, still raining, all through the night..........forecast until Mon. Mama fingers all x`d, how exactly is it going to work, do they take him by ambulance? Where in Germany will you be living, you have probably told me once! Awake early........another long day, might start taking decs down. Another Christmas done an dusted, they come and go so quickly!

Morning girls xx

Morning all.

Hoping Apollo behaves himself so you can transfer Mama. Does he have to be stable for a length of time or if he stabilises will they let him go?

Onwards and upwards today. Taking the decorations down and spring cleaning commencing.

Morning

Trips, long and short of it without going into detail. He will be moved by ambulance to plane, plane to germany, ambulance to hospital. Hence why he needs to be stable for travel. Lot of planning!

We'll be moving just outside Frankfurt but Apollo will be going to a children's hospital in Berlin.

My God they have come such a long way with babies like A. I remember Gareth being transferred just half a mile to our local childrens hospital....took them over an hour to make that journey. 4 police motorcyclists surrounding the ambulance and the slow crawl. Good luck to you and your family - I hope you are all settled, very soon, in your new home. xxx

Thanks, ladies.

Didn't see your post Soks, til after I checked back! He has to be stable for a period of time before travel so that he's less and more stable for the change in air pressure. And to cover their backs and for insurance purposes agreed to by both hospitals.

He's starting to stablize but his heart rate keeps going out of whack so they're going to increase his beta-blockers.

Artie threw up on me this morning and she smiled just after. She's gunna be so like her big brother Dom!

Last post from England!

Apollo stablized around 2.15pm 45 minutes before the deadline! He's still stable and sleeping like a log for the first time since off the high vent. He's on high doses of everything. He's being prepped at 6am and will be on our way at 7am on the dot! :)

Woo hoo mama. Wishing you all well on your journey to rejoin your family. Will you and Artie be travelling with Apollo?

Oh Mama I would be so scared and probably have stayed in the UK until he was out of any danger, you are in incredibly brave........I feel a bag of nerves just thinking about it.........its daunting though I know he will be in safe hands. Gods speed. xx

Morning girls xx

Hope everything has worked out for you Mama.

We're here and settled! Saying goodbye to my dad was truely heartbreaking, I won't see him now until my birthday :(

I would like to thank ADAC and their amazing staff who reassured me and talked to me through everything and explain what would happen.nd They also took the time to watch over Artie too. The incubator was massive and bloody scary. On board their was the pilots, a paramedic, a Neo nurse, a neurologist and a cardiologist plus me and Artie. It was a scary, surreal situation but friendly and calm.

Apollo will stay in Berlin for his heart assessment where they will decide if he would benefit from the pacemaker operation now or later. The staff are friendly, lovely but intense and very proffessional and it's so weird hearing German where ever I look. Talk about culture shock!

DH starts work on Monday so the family are taking over care of DC until Apollo's case has been reviewed. 5 hours away from kids and it's awful.

Oh well done Mama. I'm so glad to hear you all arrived safely. Especially with the weather warnings which were given for the east coast yesterday.

Taking dot baby for a hair cut today. It grows so fast. Poor poppet can hardly see for it dangling in her eyes.

Morning girls xx

Rain rain rain......just back from my brothers, 3 hours housework cleaning up after his familys visit. Its not fair the way they leave it. I only do it to help him as he s so good to me and the kids. Thomas got up at 5.30am and has walked 4 miles to a wood to go airsofting with 9 of his mates, chucking it down,must be mad! Oh had better go, dd is on the pc filling in her online application for 6th form and all I can hear is "how the hell do I know"!

Sorry I have been away. Laptop has crashed! A tyical end to an wwful year.

Mama - Wow! what a journey.Glad you are over there and everything seems to be hoing smoothly. Mama, your little Apollo, is a little trooper!
Trips- didnt they clear up after themselves at all, even though they knoe how unwell your DBro has been and how much stress you have been under? How ungrateful and thoughtless of them
I spent yesterday afternoon at my friends house. She is the one with 10yr old id boys, as well as her two girls, 12 and 14. She is really struggling with the behaviour of 1 of her boys, they are fighting all the time (no surprises with that) but one is very destructive with it, and flys into horrendous tantrums whenever he is denied anything he decide s he wants. yesterday, I drove her down to the nearest town to get a few bits, and he went berserk because I couldn't take him as well, (I had no room in the car) so while we were out he destroyed 2 of his brothers Christmas presents! Mind you, she bought loads of sweets whilst out, and, despite his awful behaviour, she gave him some! I couldn't belive it!

Hi Bubbs, how I wish we were all within walking distance of each other, I could really do with a good friend right now to sit and pour out all the anger and frustration that's in me.
DK!!
I end up feeling its me, feeling that I am the selfish one who always gets her own way, but believe me I dont. Ok heres whats going on. 3 months ago dks niece and her husband (they have adorable 6yr old twins) asked us if we would be interested in going to Florida in Aug 2015 with them for Michaels 50th b/day. Dks sister would come too. Great, all for it and dead excited after the last grim 6yrs. So I have started looking at 7 bedroom villas, flights, tickets etc and come up with an approx. cost............bloody expensive. But dk said we deserve it. Fine. Then today I get an email from his niece to say their best friends would also like to come, we have met them once, seem ok. Told dk and he instantly said that's it, we are not going. He thinks they have no right to have asked them. They never said in the beginning it was family only, they obv want a group of people to share the holiday with. So I suggested to him we get two villas, side by side we get our privacy, probably during the day we would end up doing different parks to them anyway as our kids are so much older etc. We could still have nice evening together, it would be fun. But no, he says its spoilt now, he doesn't like them (hardly ever spoken to them) and he knows what it would be like, us 4 women would get together and be silly and hell feel left out, and its not fair on our kids!!!!
I would like to bloody well go without him.
Honest opinion please.

Honest opinion. Tell him to stop being so bloody selfish, this could be a nice break for all of you and he has no right to have a hissy fit seeing as you were also invited not the ones who suggested and invited people. And like you said you could get two villas and you don't have to spend everyday with them. Tell him to suck it up and you're not gunna turn down what will be a lovely holiday for you and the kids because he's got the monk on. Just my two cents.

Ladies, can you put a thought to the universe tonight for Apollo. I just need all the hope I can get because I'm really struggling here.

Mama. Thinking of Apollo for you. And also of you, wishing you strength.

Sending every positive vibe to you both, it must be so hard, he has come along way, a little fighter xx

Mama- sending out the prayers for your little Apollo, keep fighting little man. â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡â?¡
I don't know if you sre religious or not, but, despite everything, I am, so hope you don't mind.

Ahhhhh - the funny symbols is the site transposing my heart symbols - that was a line of hearts Mama xxxx