Monring - oh, its afternoon, how on earth did that happen?
Not too bad a night last night thanks news got more sleep than the previous three put together, but still nowhere near enough.
Lenni hope you all recover quickly, its awful when you are both ill at the same time and still have to look after the dcs.
Our pet insurance was beyond a joke, getting up for £75 a month for only two of the dogs and now they are both over ten the excess was huge plus we had to pay 25% of the treatment cost on top of that!
Dog we won't be going ahead with the referral. If we go back in a week like the vet asked, we will probably see a different vet (nearly always do - its a teaching practice) who will have yet another opinion or see the main vet who says the conditions are only manageable not curable (we tend to agree with her after 11 years of going round and round in circles and subjecting the poor dog to endless tests). We know she is allergic to house dust and grass so there is very little that can be done about either of those. They operation she mentioned the specialist would probably want to do is called aural resection and its where they take away part of the ear structure to allow greater air flow, but even she said this wouldn't cure the problem and wouldn't help much with the recurrent inner ear infections anyway, so imho its not fair to put an 11 year old dog through it for very little, if any, positive outcome.
at all these standing, cruising babies. I think dd must be lazy, she has pockets of trying to crawl, nearly gets there then decides its easier to manipulate her big brothers into bringing her whatever she fancies and gives up again. Its weird for me as both boys were off like rockets as soon as they were able (ds1 was proper walking at 10 months and I think ds2 was about a month behind that).
Been trying to do some reading with ds2 today and honestly, he just doesn't get it. I really thought we had made some progress, but working with him this holiday I can see that he isn't really making any progress and is still getting stuck in all the same places. I have been reading some stuff online about dyslexia this morning and it really does ring a lot of bells in relation to him. We also had a friend, who is a teacher, do some reading with him this holiday and afterwards his first words to us were "has he been tested for dyslexia?". I am going to have a quiet word with his teacher when they go back, he is still on the SN register at the school, so hopefully it shouldn't be hard to get someone to at least look into it.
I know I sound like one of those parents that insists that their children are 'special' or need help and goes round searching for problems that aren't there, but honestly, I promise I'm not. I really thought he was just a bit behind, but he seems unable to learn and retain the information he needs to read and as soon as I read the dyslexia info it just seemed to slot right into place. A good friend of ours is dyslexic and so is her daughter, she is very active and sits of committees and things relating to getting appropriate help for dyslexics at school and developing homeworking programmes for parents to help their children. I will give her a call as well I think, just to run it past her and see what she thinks.
Gumps what sort of rash is it and where? If he seems ok in himself and has no temp he is probably ok, but I think I'd probably cancel the playdate just in case if it was me.