Dec '06 - Still clinging onto sanity.

[EasilyConfusedIndith]

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Fingers crossed she is getting over whatever it was. Poor girl.

Have been waking dd after no more than an hour for naps. She is going to bed much better but the actualy sleep is still all over the place from sleeping all night through Thursday (yay!) to moaning on and off all bloody night last night. So frustrating!

awww poor dd torturo, what do you think you can do?

halloween excitement, is it really worth it for half an hour and enough sweets to sink a ship? Forced dp to take ds1 &2 down the avenue, thought ds2 was going to explode with excitement over trickletreating and being a punkin. Am buying up crap halloween stuff at 75% off for next year! Felt shamed all we had was 2 balloons dts got at nursery party.

castles, I am only getting presents sorted as otherwise I will have a complete breakdown at the end of November, I know what I"m like. As well as ds1 &2 birthdays in Dec, there are 4 relatives. I don't find the kids remotely difficult to buy for, problem is stopping buying things for them! V.v.v.v.pleased with myself as got massive playmobil castle for £30 for boys to share off ebay to pick up locally. Unfortunately did not think through where on earth it will go It's my own fault, I just love playmobil, I want to join in playmobil games. Lego is soooo boring.....

toro, I'm so sorry she's still having problems. FWIW, they could not tell for sure what was going on with me until they did a scope up the urethra If she continues to feel bad maybe you can have another appointment and ask about that?

How are you all?

MNTotoro, how is DD? The clear test results are a good thing.

AQ, my shopping hero, one of the many good things about being disowned by my entire family is I have no adults to by for. Yee ha! Fortunately, DH's family are very sensible and we only buy presents for the DCs. I too love buying kiddy presents

Having a playdate from hell today. It's a regular Tuesday thing where I basically 'child mind' for my sponging user of a mate for free every week. She's never once had DS back. Without wishing to sound mean he is the archetypal 'spoilt brat'. I've just had to tick him off for repeatedly calling everything "gay" (that kind of thing makes my blood boil) and now he's sulking and I feel like an old dragon!! With any luck he'll refuse to come here again

Hi solo!

castles, I think it may be time for your ds to develop a passion for gymnastics/piano whatever that disrupts the weekly childcare playdate.

Hello all, especially Solo :)

Sympathy to Indith ref Sleep.

Castles - DD2 now seems fine . I am wodnering if it might have all been linked to the threadworms in a roundabout way as it was about a week after we treated her? As the urine and thrush tests were fine.

I may have helped the clothing diva crisis. I have removed everything from her drawers that I am not happy for her to wear . She is still getting changed 3 x a day, and wearing multiple dressing up outfits, but I am now less bothered.

MNT, I'm glad dd's tests were clear and she's better - a mystery, huh? But good result on that, and on clothes...

Indith, I have fallen off my high horse: have scoffed remaining chocolate eyeballs today...

dd2 went back to pre-school today, thank goodness; I think she was very bored by the end of half-term! Both dds happy, and a bit more space to recover from shingles - its a mighty slow process though, talk about watching paint dry

Has anyone else's nearly-7 year old turned into a ghoul over all things gory/bloody/death related? dd1 is studying war related things in Y2, and is riveted. As she put it, 'its not that I like that those things happened, Mummy, I just, like, really LOVE hearing about gory things.'

And now she's saying it hurts inside again :(

Calling Docs in a bit to see if I can get an appt tonight.

Oh no, the poor girl :(

Hello Solo :)

Eli I'm sure chocolate eyeballs are very good for shingles.

AQ I think I'm going to side with you re lego and playmobile. Dh and the dcs can spend hours with lego but I'm rubbish at it! Ds doesn't really ask me to play with it anymore because I don't make good enough things! We don't really have any playmobile but ds just got given the little set with 2 robbers stealing a crown and it is fab. I could spend the whole day with the fishing line gettingthe crown out without setting the alarm off!

Dd has half a back molar. Least that explains the sleep. Do you think that one day, when she has all of her teeth, we will finally have long enough without anything else going on to get her sleeping consistantly?

Eli, hope you feel better soon, I remember my gm having shingles when I was small, she was knocked out for a long time.
MNT, poor dd
Indith, yes one day it will stop, tell her before she's two, there's a deadline! I saw that robbers kit . DS1 has given up on me with lego too (ds2 not that interested, he's in craft mode at present). I'm so rubbish.
Castles, well one benefit to the family rift I guess! Kiddies are easy esp once they can tell you what they want (i.e. lego/playmobil) but I keep seeing lovely girly things that I have no-one to buy for but me. My sister only wants books boring.
DD has given up naps altogether. I can cope with that (as ds3 can still be persuaded), it's the 5.30 wake up calls that are killing me as she sits on my head. Plus I drank too much last night and went to sleep at midnight.

at sitting on your head! She and dd would get along famously I think. Dd not in a bed yet, she has one but other than a passing fancy when we first got it hasn't wanted to. I shudder to think what she will be like in a bed. Since the clocks went back she has taken to starting to complain loudly and want to get up around 5.30

Suppose I should go wake her, really don't want to! She wouldn't got to sleep after lunch and dropped off int he buggy instead when we went to the shops.

Ds is growing again. Huge naps and lots of complaining about being tired and growing pains. Poor boy. Nursery said he wasn't himself at all yesterday and burst into tears at the table at tea time. Felt very guilty when I picked him up.

Indith

MNT, oh no, sounded so hopeful that that was that...poor thing, good luck with GP. Did they give her ABs before, just in case? (sorry, you probably said, have cotton wool for brains atm).

AQ, I used to love lego as a child...but am not utterly hopeless. I vote playmobil

Doc is at a loss with DD. Yes, eli, she had antibiotics. He said as she isnt in pain all the time we should leave it be for a couple of week and see if it disappears on its own.

He doesnt think it is thrush/urinary (due to test results).
He doesnt think it is bladder reflux (I asked)
He doesnt think it was linked to the threadworm.
He doesnt really know so I think he has his fingers crossed that it disappears as quickly as it came so I stop hounding him

AQ - you can get fairy playmobil now :)

but hope it does as the GP hopes, iyswim!

Fairy playmobil is lovely, a friend had some a while back....little gardening fairies, a pony and trap, flowers...dds love it.

Is it possible that she had something, the ABs cleared it up but now she is just a bit scared of it hurting so she isn't emptying her bladder properly and causing the hurting (you know how it hurts if you just have a tiny bit of wee that hasn't quite come out)? Whatever it is I hope it does clear up.

The GP reckons the sample would have shown if there had been any infection in her urine at all. I'll wait and see....

How is she today, MNT?

Seems ok again today, Eli. Her bits are a bit red so I'm going to talk to her again about how to wipe herself properly in case that is part of the problem - she's so independent she doesnt like me to help

DD1 on the other hand is so exhausted she is tearful. She did find out her part in the nativity play yesterday though - she is to be a narrator. (she wanted to be mary)

I take it back. Her bits are really inflamed and she is in mucho pain. I put bubbles in the bath this morning so am hoping it's not my fault :(

I have been googling...and I think she has vulvovaginitis. Not helped by the buvvles in the bath this morning and the fact she probably doesnt drink enough. And, we put sudocrem on her tonight which made her cry in agony :( I'm going to cut out all smellies, make her drink more water too. Why couldnt my GP tell me all this though?

I'm tired, and fed up at the moment tbh. House is a tip which always gets me down :( Kids both tired and teary too.

Sorry. Me, meme

Aww, mnt am sure you are doing your very best. Things always go downhill a bit when one is ill. Hope you are right about diagnosis and can get some action on Monday or can you go to emergency doc? Sending a hug your way

Thanks AQ. Everything seems a bit much tbh.
I'm not going back to GP yet. I'll try to deal with it myself and see what happens.

On a positive note I have done all of DDs christmas shopping :)

phaps right as gp doesn't seem to have been that helpful so far! Being worried takes a hell of a lot out of you, but I'm glad to hear that you're shopping to cope with it all (my credit card took a bashing this week!) Also recommend ben & jerrys. Seriously though, take care.

Aw, sorry MNT. Agree, definitely NO bubbles in bath and lots of water. Minimal soap/scrubbing too. I've used E45 itch cream on my girls' bits before (only on outside of course). Sudocrem and other nappy creams are quite drying and best avoided. You can also over wipe. Make sure this isn't happening. Check your washing powder/fabric conditioner too.

It does sound to me that the threadworm may have made her anxious (she sound's quite sensitive) and triggered off a chain of events and she's probably picked up on your anxiety too. Sorry you are having a horrible time. Hope it improves soon.