March 2007... soon they will be one!!

[kiwibella]

Well, Jordi is our first one year old.... they will be catching up soon .

I was tempted to write the subject with reference to NM .

He feel off the sofa yesterday. it's a very low sofa anyway, but the seat cushions had been taken off so it was extra low. I didn't see him fall, ds1 did.
He seemed a bit whiney afterwards. He whimpered a lot which I thought was odd, but I thought I'd wait until today to see how he was, we couldn't work out which part of his body he might have hurt.
Then this morning I noticed he wouldn't put any weight on his left arm, no pulling up, no crawling, crying when he tried to, he just held his arm in a limp way.
I took him to A&E just to 'rule out' any fractures
of course I got the big inquisition at the hospital. I know they have to be vigilant, but it made me feel crappy.
We are going to the fracture clinic on Tuesday to see how things are and whether he will need a permanent cast.

Mossy, sorry your dh is being a pain. Well done on the weight loss. Do you feel loads better?

Piff, are you in less pain yet?

Foxy, are you recovering from your sicky bugs? How bad did you get in the end?

Kiwi, it's been such a lovely weekend hasn't it? I wish I could have spent the day at the beach again today, it was glorious.

Diva, I've looked in on your thread, hopefully will get a chance to post later.

eids-i hope everything goes ok at the hospital appointments.i think you are superwoman to deal with all that and still do cleaning/ironing/lawnmowing

kitty-poor ronnie,i hope he's ok.what really happened?

mossy-dropping a dress size in such a short space of time suggests to me you are very stressed.i hope you are looking after yourself.

kitty-x posts.so much for babies being bouncy,i dont think there are many babies who havent fallen off the sofa at some point.he must have landed awkward.i know what you mean about the inquisition.i felt like a criminal when i took ds2 to A+E(which was on a few occasions due to his love of eating stupid things).

OMG kitty poor Ron! Was it a clean break? hopefully they will knit as good as new and it can all be forgotten about.

An ortheopaedic surgeon once told me that bones heal as quickly as one week for every year of a child's age... which would mean Ronnie could be okay within one week! I have no idea if that is true or whether she was having me on!!! It would be nice to think that's right though cos i cannot imagine what it must be like with a 10 month old in a full arm cast - poor you!

Sending positive healing vibes to poor Ronnie!

Kitty, poor little Ronnie, and poor you, you must've felt awful having them give you the third degree at the hospital.

Diva I will try to have a think about your thread and post properly tomorrow rather than just come out with platitudes.

Yes I am a bit stressed - just all the stuff with dh really. Although I have cut out sugar & nearly all alcohol and I think this combined with the stress is making me drop the weight.

Eids you have a lot on your plate by the sounds of it. Hope you manage to get through it all.

Hello everyone else. Sorry I'm being crap and not replying properly again but I'm so knackered I can barely keep my eyes open.

Love to ya! xxx

Kitty - poor little Ronnie, hope he is well soon and back on all fours!

Polar - i'd be knackered and unable to keep my eyes open if i wasn't having sugar or alchohol

Polar sorry to hear you are feeling so stressed Maybe you need the alcohol atm - try cutting out food instead and just having the glug glug?

Kitty - oh that's really unlucky poor little chap. Give him a really gentle hug from me [OXOX].

Is his neck all sorted now?

Monti is "himself" again (i.e. cheeky and happy, not whiney) but still projectile vomming late at night. A mumsnetter sent me some motilium (for reflux) which is helping loads

Foxy, poor monti, glad he's got something to help.

Wellllllllllll, Ronnie's neck saga.
He went for a physio appt today, it's a REAL hassle to park there but we struggled in, dd3 was poorly and off nursery so she had to come too. My mum took us in (bless her, she's being really brill atm, I'm waiting for it all to stop though). Of course ronnie had a high temp during the appt and cried and only wanted to feed so that was a waste of time and I have to go back again next month.

BUT In order to move around he has started shuffling on his knees using his good (right) arm to move himself. Of course this means his whole head, neck and body lurches over to the right, so he now looks even worse then before. I reckon by the time the cast comes off he'll look like quasimodo

Muppet / Foxie - I actually think the lack of alcohol is helping a bit. I certainly wake up feeling much less tired in the mornings. The weight is dropping off, but I am still quite big for my height (5'6") I am now just under 13 stone, I was about 13 and a half, so a lot has gone.

I'm keeping an eye on my milk supply though just in case it is affected by the rapid weight loss... Foxie if it dips I'll have to nab some of Monti's motillium (it is domperidone which would turn you into a milk goddess if you took it yourself)!

Before I got pregnant I was about eleven and a half stone, so I wasn't slender by any means but I'd be happy to go back to that and then maintain it... I'm going to start introducing alcohol again but slowly once I get down to about 12 stone; I'm happy for the final half stone to come off slowly

I'm glad Monti's back to normal apart from the vomming, poor thing. He must've lost a lot of weight; make sure you stay away from any HV's! Must be a stressful time.

And Kitty poor little Ronnie. It's good his Nan (or Gran?) is helping out though and helping you... finally. Get as much out of her before she forgets again!!

Reverse - vodka with diet coke is virtually fat free!!

foxy-glad monti is feeling better

kitty-poor ronniei hope they can sort him out!

mossy-i wanted to lose a stone,i have been excersising loads and not eating very much.i lost half a stone in the first week but i havent lost anything in the last 2 weeks

i dont even want to get back to my pre-preg weight,just my pre-christmas weight would do!

im pretty sure my non-fuctioning digestive system has something to do with it.it goes in one end but doesnt come out the other

Bethoo it is on my list of suitable drinks for when I'm at my ideal weight:

Vodka and sugar-free drink
Gin and sugar-free drink
White wine soda (with sugar free carbonated water rather than soda)
Low C beer

Trouble is, the knowledgeable Piffle alerted me to the fact sugar free drinks contain carcinogenic sweeteners... so I may end up having to have neat gin and neat vodka!!

X posts Diva...

I too am, ahem, a bit bunged up at the moment.

Prune juice?

Reverse - yes and on the news it said that these artificial sweeteners can actually be jsut as fattening!!!

mossy-i am more at the 'mr.muscle sink and drain unblocker' stage

i dont even count drinks in my calorie count(not that i drink any alcohol),maybe thats where im going wrong?.im pretty sure i would be trying to survive on just the milk in my coffee if i added that on though.

Hello girls

Very, very sad household here. Our beautiful cat, who was a bit under the weather, suddenly got very ill on Saturday night - staggering, incontinent, sick, refusing food, flopped on the floor with her eyes open and staring. I took her to the emergency vet about midnight, and he found she had massive kidneys which weren't working. He said she may have had lymphoma or something, but it had been building up for while. We had to take the agonizing decision to have her put to sleep. I was consulting DP over the phone at 1.20am and he said it was the kindest thing to do, but after he'd rung off I thought, I can't do it, I can't . The vet was lovely, he gave me the option of putting her on a drip for the night and thinking about it, or said we could send her to a specialist if we wanted for detailed diagnosis, but he said as well as costing us thousands, literally, it probably wouldn't prolong her life and would just put her through enormous stress. He brought her in to be with me, and I had her in the laundry basket I'd brought her in (no cat basket - never needed one because she was so fit and healthy) just stroking her, and I thought, I can't not do it - I can't put her through even the stress of leaving her here overnight, more needles etc, when I know she's not going to get better. So I held her while they put her to sleep, and it was quick and she didn't suffer. But oh dear god, we miss her so much. She would have been 13 in a few months, and I've known her as long as I have DP - she arrived a few weeks before I did. It's incredible how such a little animal can fill up a home so much, because the house seems desolate and empty without her. Having DS obviously puts a pet into perspective, but I don't think there's anything wrong with loving an animal. Just hurts so much to lose one. Sorry for the length of this post, it's self-indulgent but I need to get it off my chest.

Kitty, very sorry about Ronnie. Hope it heals asap.

Alcohol isn't suiting me atm. Well actually I've discovered after mush in depth and painstaking research that gin and orange is fine , oh what a shame

Callie I'm sorry She lived a long and happy life, but it is heartbreaking neveless You know you did the right thing, the kindest thing. It's very often the kidneys that go in old animals, {{hugs}} to you.

callie-((((hugs))))

Oh Callie i am sorry about your cat.

Oh so much, sorry had bust w/e with ds1s 14th birthday his dad and wife and new 9 week old baby came to stay Sat night and little baby did the 2 hr scream thing, mum in tears, then the little so and so did a 5 hr stretch while me and her drunk wine and I todl her she was great and it was normal
We both cried as I knew how she felt and I told her she coped better than me and Finn was my THIRD so she was GREAT. And actually she is CUTE little boy too very cute

Then sunday had inlaws coming over and being total and utter twonks... MIL normally is easy and lovely, she fed dd half bag of haribo after I explicitly said no sweets before lunch (rule exists due to dd's (5) low weightgain and health issues she fills up fast and needs protein in small and often amounts... She has sick all day and I had made stunning GReen and Blacks checkerboard cake and she was too sick to eat it
Then had to stop MIL from giving Finn choc buttons and then caught her slipping him an effing jammy dodger

Subversion I say and I am very cross at her,, even worse she then tried to force dd to eat her chili con carne saying she was naughty for not eating it!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Sorry rant over (I think)

We are going to Oz (Brisbane) to see Eids in October, well for my brothers wedding actually but we'll visit Eids too we're going for 3 weeks!!!
Not quite sure how we're paying for it but dp is mentioing spreadsheets and bans on new clothes so we'll see!

Callie so sorry about your cat, we have lost lots of cats and it is very sad esp when you have had them so long.

Foxy are you all any better yet?

How is Bethoo?

Mossy are you eating properly petal? You sounds very busy

Kitty - poor Ronnie is her bearing it ok? I broke my arm (falling off a couch) when I was 11 mths. Has he got nice lightweight cast? I had a heavy one and could barely move apparently!

OH Kiwi them kiwis eh? tsk tsk

Crikey who have I missed
Have to go can only sit for about 10 mins and cannot believe it has taken me this long to post.

Pain getting better during day - prob cos kids on half term and no driving plus have mum here to help

Night pain is bad so am on codeine /paracetamol mix

Hey ho

Love to all
xxxxxxxxxxxx

yes Callie - very sorry for you losing your cat like that - we lost ours on the road a year and a half ago roughly - bawled my heart out when they put him down... hugs to you

Sorry about your cat vallie. It's horrible to have to be the one making that decision.

kitty- hope Ronnie is OK (had to at Quasimodo)

Piffle glad to hear you are going!!

vallie? Obviously that was Callie..