Dec '06 - Still clinging onto sanity.

[EasilyConfusedIndith]

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Satin - silly suggestion, I know you don't want to post on main boards, wasn't thinking. Sorry.

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to old and new

Had surprisingly good time at in-laws and week in Cornwall. Just got back yesterday. School tomorrow

My NY resolution is to get a job/study/start writing. Update this time next year

Satin, hope you are ok ((hug)) Have had no contact with 'my family' since August and it's been most invigorating

Yes YES Jabber, please come over, it would be fab!

Eli, let's meet soon!

Happy NY, Castles - yes, lets, we can make that another NY goal

It would be a nice resolution to make a trip "across the pond" (that phrase always makes me giggle). Ds1 would love it! Fingers crossed as I say the office has been doing well lately so who knows?

Satin, no experience for you but best wishes that things go well.

eli, I baby ds2 way too much too It's hard not to when he can be soooo loving. Ds1 is a bit prickly iykwim.

Thanks guys.

Eli - not silly at all, but I dont want to post specifics on the web tbh.

Jabber - a trip to the UK would be great.

Castles - isnt it fab! Liberating...

Jabber, yep, those cuddles are rather addictive aren't they...I'm sure I don't need to take dd2 for a wee before I go to bed (around 11pm) but that floppy little body with arms around my neck, half asleep, is so sweeeet though my back doesn't agree...

...speaking of which, I saw a 'back man' today. He says it mostly postural and bad luck being female and doing so much writing but am having an MRI next week just to make sure its nothing more.

Satin, I totally understand. Hope you've had some helpful stuff. How's dd?

DD1 is still really really tired. I'm considering keeping her off tomorrow (first day back) as I think a 2 day week might be manageable but I'm not sure about 3 days. I think it was flu and it hit her so hard :(

Horrible how much flu (and pneumonia) there's been around here over the holidays. FWIW, I would do the same - not worth pushing it when they're recovering from something, especially given the luvverly soup of alternative bugs school is likely to be! Hope she's bouncy again soon.

Has been such a bad year for bugs hasn't it.

I thought it was warmer today but we went out for a walk and while we were out it go tall cold and dark and started snowing a bit. I do not want more white stuff until next year when we will have sorted out the leaking in the dc's bedroom (leaks in when snow thaws but not in rain, not dried out yet from thaw over christmas so all damp plaster and peeling wall paper).

So sorry for all the cold and sickness :( I hope everyone is well and warm very soon!

A film student came today to interview dh about how makng art affects your health in a positive way (or maybe whichever way) They also interviewed ds1 as he likes to draw when he is upset about something. Of course, he loves to draw most anytime but it does seem calming to him.

Flipping heck it is cold today!

I am a bit today. Dd was born with a skin tag on her back, quite a big one. Lately she has been trying to scratch at it which is tricky because it is in the middle of her back. When she gets out of the bath she sits on your knee rubbing her back against the towel and often when we go in ot her at night when she wakes she has her top pulled up and it itching. In the morning there will be scratch marks at her shoulders and lower back, sometimes she scratches until it bleeds.

Took her to the Dr today. She said with a baby it is easy to whip off but with a child dd's age you can't be sure they will stay still with a LA so it would have to be GA which of course is not advised for something that isn't really necessary like a skin tag. she was born with it, why did nobody mention it then?

Anyway I have been told to but emollient cream on it (I already do) and see if it settles down then rethink if it continues to bother her.

Is it just with dd or do HCPs (the MWs who deliver the bay, the Dr who does the newborn check, the HV who checks them over later and strips them for weighing) not mention these things? I know it isn't exactly a serious situation but not one person mentioned the skin tag and not one person mentioned her birth mark, again not serious but as I have realised over the past couple of years it does need moisturising especially in cold weather otherwise it goes all scaley. It would be nice for someone to just let you know, suggest a good cream, that sort of thing.

Unless it's something serious the NHS will do as little as possible. I think they can whip it off really easily (with thread??) afaik so maybe you need to press for a referral. Pita, I know.

Quite balmy darn sarf, inbetween rain showers. Sorry!!!

Indith. No idea how big it is but I snipped a skin tah off my armpit once with nail scissors. Not sure I'd recommend it tbh but i reckon a private doc would do it for about £40. worth checking.

Thank you both.

I'm going to leave it a couple of months, wait and see if it is just something she discovered while itching her pox and now can't leave alone but if it still bothers her I'll be back in. Surely they can do it with a local if they just snip it off? She is small enough that I can pin her pretty well on my knee and not like they would be slicing her leg off by mistake if she wriggled. Just that every single bloody night I go in to resettle her several times and half of them she has her arm twisted round ther back scratching!

Poor dd, Indith. I think, if its that itchy, its worth asking GP about sooner rather than later...at least, I think I would, rather than let her/me have such disrupted sleep for another two months! Skin tags aren't usually itchy, are they? I developed one or two when pg with dd1, don't remember them itching?

Sorry, when I say 'asking GP about' I meant 'getting GP to deal with it' - youv'e already asked, of course.

Not sure if it'll help with the irritation Indith, but if you can get hold of a healing balm called Melrose and smear it on at random times (in the morning, late afternoon, before bedtime), it may help. It will probably also help with the dry birthmark. I swear by the stuff and go nowhere without it. You can get it from smaller chemists for under £3 and it lasts for ages. Use it on all sore skin too, lips, noses, toes, scabby knees...it heals very quickly. It also moisturises, so could help with itchiness too.

Some of you may have seen this on FB already. THE novel is finally done and published. Also available on Amazon :)

Oh, and Indith, Burt's Bees Res-Q Ointment is quite fabulous

What's this about a book jabber?

It's a suspense novel surrounding the very mysterious coincidence of the fact that by 1959 nearly every major star of the emerging genre had been derailed in some way. Elvis was drafted, Chuck Berry jailed, Carl Perkins was in the hospital and Jerry Lee Lewis was in disgrace. Little Richard turned to the church after an airplane fire and near-crash and Buddy Holly was killed. Before the Kennedy assassination the term conspiracy theory was virtually unheard of in America. An innocent nation accepted the misfortunes that had befallen these early rock stars as coincidence. But was it really?

Written by someone very close to me

And I can honestly say after many, many proof-readings I still found it quite entertaining!

Oooh! sounds fab! I really am into conspiracy theories though! might enjoy that myself!

I was brought up on the idea of ancient astronauts, etc. so it has been a labor of love proof-reading

As much as I am a Catholic and believe in God, Jesus Christ etc, I still have this inner thing that thinks that the pyramids probably were built by 'alien life forms' and that there is far more going on than just Earth life forms iyswim. I have seen with my own eyes at least one UFO and am very openminded about almost everything.
Loved the X-Files and anything spooky'

They have already found one "Goldilocks" (conditions to support life) planet on practically the first look around at other systems so the opinion now is that they are probably more prevalent than we used to think.

We are not alone