D'ya ever wonder if you could still do the twist and not actually wet yourself in the process?

[shabbs]

New thread my friends xxx

Home at 1pm to a tidy house

What had she done Trips? (Cynic).

Dealing with vomit and poop here. There's a bug been going round the school since before half term. E came down with it Sunday night. Luckily she was clear by the end of the 48 hour absence from school but missed sports day. J2 started being sick Wednesday night, and continues with that whenever she eats or drinks so poor little mite is exhausted. Just lies on the sofa watching TV and asks to go for a nap. But is refusing to walk as I guess it's too much for her - she took 3 steps from the sofa and laid on the floor. We're at the do we/don't we take her to OoH to be checked over. She is still drinking and giving damp nappies at the moment. But really I don't think there is anything else that can be done at the moment. Have chucked a box of ice pops in the freezer to see if she has any more luck with them.

J1 came down with it Friday morning. Thankfully (?) only poop and he's otherwise fine, but won't be at school Monday due to the 48 hour rule. J3 so far has been fine. So fingers crossed.

New head at school is going to be changing sick policy apparently. Current head went with 24 hours vomiting only and could go back to school. I was slightly irked initially. But clearly some poorly children are being sent back in to school too early hence it going round continuously. So I'm not going to grumble at that one anymore. Although other parents are talking of insisting a deep clean is done to try and eradicate it.

Well, big news here, I have just got myself a new job!!!
love my current role, but feel as if I've been sidelined a bit since coming back, already dome weeks nights, and now they gave rota'ed me in for another 4 weeks . They say it's so I can do my hours without having to do the long days, as nights are easier, but I am fed up. How on earth can I be lead nurse if I'm never on bloody day shift!!
Anyhow, a mate of mine in Occupational Health told me her manager was looking for another senior OH nurse, and I applied. telephone interview last Monday, face to face Yesterday, and they offered me the job on the spot, I start in 6 weeks, 9 to 4 Monday to Friday, occasionally different, but if longer hours I'm given time off in luv the same week, much better pay. and I'm going to be traveling around 6 places within a 20 mile radius of Stowmarket, which is 6 miles away, oh, and company car for longer journeys, fuel card for shorter, pension, sick pay the lot. I am well chuffed!!!!

Trips, glad your mini break went well, and what has your dd been taking, if you know, can you send some go my 2 ds? ?
So ks - our rule is always 48hrs after last poo or vomit, no wonder it's been doing circles around the school, kids are pants at hand washing and hygiene in general.
Shabbs-How have you been?

well done Bubbsy..........chuffed for you myself :)

Congratulations Bubs The new job sounds so much better than your old one.

E's class have been using alcohol gel on returning to class, as an extra measure. But I know what you mean. Even the little ones are not supervised when hand washing over in preschool.

I've bleached and disinfected our bathrooms, and have been supervising all the dc hand washing. Thankfully today J2 has woken up, eaten and drank without being sick. She's just laid out on the sofa instead.

It only takes one person to not follow the rules and we're back to square one again.

aww bubbs I'm so pleased for you! Well done you xxx

48 hours at our school too, and schools I work in, but they don't always follow the rules even when they do have them set in place :(

I'm loving working, though it is knackering. Spent Saturday teaching adults and children how to ride bikes on a course for total beginners. That was a huge learning curve for me, but so satisfying to see people who couldn't even ride a bike at all, riding around by the end of the session. :)

Morning girls.

Well done Bubs that sounds fantastic.

Tom has left college. 3 Apprenticeship/Jobs applied for - no reply from any of them as yet. Cant apply for JSA until the end of July when he is 18. To be honest I don't want him to 'sign on' but there may be no alternative.

So................another day in paradise!!! lol

Shabs. Will keep fingers crossed for Tom. Hopefully he will hear good news soon. I applied for a job after I left college in the July - went full time at my weekend job. Didn't hear anything for weeks. Then I got called for interview. Offered job and eventually started in February!! (Civil service and security checks had to be done. But still... Luckily I only had to give a weeks notice.

Had a phone call a little while ago. Have fetched a poo machine home from school! He'd passed the 48 hours and the bloody things back again. Think I'm going to keep him off the rest of the week to be on the safe side.

Aw Shabs its so hard for these kids isnt it? I hope Tom gets something positive soon. they need a purpose at that age. My James is a lost soul, he hates 6th form is doing bugger all there, done his resits so only now goes in for 8 hours a week! Shabs can they leave school as soon as they are 18? He was thinking of going to college in Sept but only because he doesnt want to go back to his current one, but in my book its going to cost me another £400 for a bus pass + £400 for Rebeccas and I just cant do it. I said if he can leave school in Jan when hes 18 he can find a little job to tide him over until he re-applies for the Royal Marines Band Service in Sept.

Im not a 100% sure about the legal 'leaving age' Trips. I'm sure that once they have finished at High school they don't have to go to college. All I know is that they cant claim JSA (Job seekers allowance) until they are 18. I honestly don't want Tom to do that.

So Tom is applying tomorrow for an apprenticeship at Aldi!!! They are taking on 4,500 staff this year. Its a 3 year apprenticeship in Retail management. Will be good for him to be earning money. He said that he likes their web site - think they send their apprentices to college a couple of days a week and they also work in the store learning everything from working on the till, to stacking the shelves etc etc. They are advertising for staff in our area and seem keen to take on 16 years plus to do a lot of IT work. So fingers crossed. I am keeping him busy lol. Shown him how to work the washing machine - sort out the clothes etc etc. Tomorrow we are practicing ironing!!

DH is going to get him involved in painting the bedrooms. He is walking the poor dog about 3 times a day. He will be glad to go to work.

Its difficult when you are on benefits. I don't want him to go onto them. I want him to work and be proud of himself because there is no pride in being a benefit claimant.

My dear, dear Joshy said to me this morning 'why have you got a baby in your tummy?' Cheeky bugger. It's a food baby, doesn't he know?

Ha ha :o that's funny Soks!

Just typed a long message and lost it! Here is much reduced version.
My lovely friend Hella (dementia) has been put into a home for a week due to lack of carers. I spent two hours y/day with her in a room that stank of urine, 30 elderly men and women and her in the middle of it all crying her eyes out begging me to take her home. I come home and Thomas had gone to see my brother before he goes back to Harrogate this morning. The phone goes, it was Sgt Yava from Harrogate, he had recd a call from Canterbury bus depot, Thomass wallet had been handed in, found on the bus, he needs his id car to get back into the college today! I ring him at Keiths, yes they had been to town to collect Keiths tablets and came home on the bus which terminates in Canterbury. I phone the bus depot, it is closed until Monday morning! In it is his debit card, army id card, army rail card, £40 cash and his £123 return train ticket for today..............I just cried. So two choices, buy him a single ticket, £131 today, lend him some cash until we can sort this out, he needs £11 for the taxi from the station to the camp. Or as we get train concessions one of us takes him back to Harrogate and comes straight back home, that will cost £32 on the train. So because my foot is so bad dh is taking him, last thing he feels like doing! I will have to go over to Canterbury in the morning to collect he wallet and pray everything is still in it and send it by registered post. I just hope he learns a big lesson by this, the army are liable to fine him too. It would have to happen the night before he goes back:(

Trips- a hard lesson I hope learned!
I have got my 2 a "go henry" debit card, and I give them £20 a month, and they can earn another £20 each by doing chores and good behaviour. Unfortunately J is being an ungrateful little shit atm, so he is going to learn a hard lesson too this month! The great thing about this card is that I can keep a close eye on their finances, and stop them blowing all their money on crap in one go. I can also stop them if they are doing something stupid like spending it on online games. I know they have got to learn, but I can't afford to top up their money because they have spent it all, and they have nothing left for essential needs

Well soldier boy delivered back by his Dad. Actually he had an amazing trip back to Deal. He left Harrogate at 16.33pm and was home by 9pm, 4.5 hours! I collected the wallet y/day, all intact.........how lucky was he! Yes he had better have learnt his lesson!

Shabs..........thinking of you and your lovely boy today, 31....unbelievable. So many lost years, never will be right. :(

Bubbs.........how are you now, whats the latest with your treatment? Whats a go henry card?

Morning girls.

Thanks Trips - I just thought (never a good thing) if Gareth & Matt were both still here I would have had 3 children under 2 and a half years old!!!

I must admit that his birthday is not a sad day. He loved special days like this with a passion. He used to always say - 'well dat was a wovwey day - whats next?' meaning Easter, Xmas etc etc. I celebrate his birthday - he brought the sunshine back into our lives.

Trips -I've got a PET scan in 8 weeks and after that it will be decided if I can stop the chemo, I know it's only low dose, but it does make me feel always just slightly unwell. I am having quite a bit of back pain, but that is because we have been really busy at work with a new lady, who is requiring 1 to 1 or even 2 to 1 care day and night, she is quite a tall, big built lady who is really unsettled and restless and she walks continually, and she leans really heavily on you as she is not steady and has no concept of personal safety left.She came to us last week after being in hospital for 6 weeks, where, as they couldn't cope, just drugged her up to her eyeballs , so now she has become tolerant and nothing works to help her rest, she snatches 10 mins here or there, but is otherwise on the go day and night, absolutely exhausting for both her and us!
Go Henry is a debit card designed for teens, it gives them their own money, but we can keep tabs on where and when they are spending, and put some restrictions on like no online spending without our okay, or a weekly limit.

Good morning girls! Cant sleep, we are having the mother of all thunder storms, torrential rain, James has a friend her for a s/over who fancies Rebecca so am keeping an ear open for tip toeing along the landing! It was 3 years today that my lovely mum died, could have broke my heart this morning looking at their names on the headstones at the cemetery :( Freaked out just now, bloody big spider ran along the edge of my bedroom carpet, you know the sort with thick dark legs no way could I leave it incase it crawled on me in the night. Couldnt kill it as Matthew always told me off for killing spiders. All I had was an empty panty liner box, chucked it over it, scooped it up and threw it out the window..........box and all! Dread the postie coming in the morning and seeing the box on the garden path.............Tena Lights (blush)

Bubby you are amazing coping with everything you do, hope the PET scan will be clear xx Bubbs if you have an MRI would you need to let them know you have a stent?

Hiya girls.

3 years since your Mum passed Trips? Oh my word - bet it feels like yesterday and a hundred years all in the same thought. I struggle to go to the cemetery to be honest......my Mums parents (and I loved them both) then my sons headstone and then my Dad....its sometimes to much to bear xxx

Aw bubbs, everything crossed for that PET scan.

DH's other aunt is now in hospital with grade 3 cancer. (His other aunt had the same type of cancer a couple of years ago, but less severe) This aunt has always been reasonably fit and healthy, and very good with always getting checks and things done regularly. Noticed a swelling abdomen and went to the dr. Cancer spreading from her uterus. Unbelievable - fit and well one minute, now she is battling to recover from extensive surgery and has developed pneumonia. DH has never been close to her so I've only met her a handful of times, but it has really shocked the whole family how it has happened overnight. :(

She is facing chemo after, but things aren't looking great atm :(

Sorry trips, but that tena thing did make me smile! I cannot believe it has been three years since you lost your lovely mum.

Good luck to Tom, shabs x

Hope your poo machine is all recovered soks!

Can't believe there only 2.5 weeks left til the summer hols! I'm sat in Tescos with a laptop as Rav is at an absurdly early bday party and nowhere else is open. Shay has gone to F1 with dh and his brother. Looking fw to picking up Rav and then we are going to do something together. Probably involving cycling!

hi Trips, I would let them know, they should already have it in your notes, but better to be safe than sorry. Is the MRI on your foot? I hope they find the answers soon. I also can't believe it's been 3 whole yr since your mum passed away
Chops-i saw on Facebook you got the cycling thing done yesterday, well done to you both for scouting out another route!
Shabbs- did your Greek friends get the result they wanted in the referendum? I think whichever way the vote had went, most ordinary people will lose out there
Soks - hope your little ones are all okay now.
I am upset- the nursing home Mum is in had a CQC inspection last week, and failed miserably in a lot of areas, including cleanliness and giving of medication, but apparently passed in their interaction with residents! ! They are not there to see the day to day lack of interaction and stimulus, which really gets me down. They have today in the local rag "vowed to do better"! My dbro is still in denial that it is not good for her there, as his partner still works there. The only thing I can hope for is that because the CQC can do an unannounced visit at any time to check on improvements, they buck their ideas up!!

Chops also sorry to hear about your Aunt-in - law, it's a horrible disease which lurks, waiting for any oppotunity to rear it's ugly head!