Your ex sounds delightful (and completely deluded) @iwantanewusername. Glad you’ve agreed the financials and can put the house on the market. The house you’ve found sounds good. Sometimes being on a corner can be better - does it have a bigger plot than the others on the street?
That must have been so annoying @AntiGrinch: to pay for a cleaner and never see any benefit from it. I’m glad you can now enjoy your freshly cleaned house and laugh about him with his crunchy floors. Eurgh.
I have been in the car for about 6 hours today. DS2 is away on his school trip but he had a hospital appointment this afternoon. We couldn’t really postpone it because that would mean waiting about 3 months, so I drove out, picked him up (he complained bitterly that he was missing out in being in a boat and apparently doesn’t care about his health if it means missing fun stuff), drove him back to go to the hospital (which is about 15 mins from out house), went to the appointment, drove him back out to the middle of nowhere and then came back home.
Ex wanted to come to the hospital appointment (and I couldn’t really say no to that) and then insisted on coming with me to drop DS2 off again. He did drive on the way back but actually I’d rather have not had the company. He was a wanker in the appointment. The consultant was asking questions about things and DS2 couldn’t answer them (because he’s 8 and 8 year olds are crap at anything other than saying they’re ‘fine’). So I’d answer and ex would get snippy about how I should just let DS2 give the doctor completely inaccurate information talk for himself. 
Just because he doesn’t know how often DS2 has headaches or joint pains (because I’m the one he tells and I administer the calpol), or how when he’s been up in the night with horrible growing pains (because I’m the one who gets up and looks after him), or about DS2’s vowel habits and stomach issues (because it appears I’m the only one who listens when DS2 tells us his tummy is sore or he’s got diahorrea) doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen. Nor does it mean that an 8 year old will accurately relay this to a doctor.
Anyway, we got the results of his blood tests. So it was another very high result for the coeliac antibodies. Plus a strongly positive result on some other test (IgA I think) and he has the associated gene markers. So the consultant said she was confident that she could diagnose coeliac and recommend a GF diet. He’s seeing the paediatric gastroenterologist in July who will properly confirm it, but they don’t tend to need to do a biopsy with those results plus symptoms apparently.
All of which means DS2 will be starting a gluten free diet once he comes back from his trip. So I’ve joined coeliac uk and downloaded their app to help with that. We’ll see a dietitian alongside the gastroenterologist in July too.
On a more amusing note, the doctor checked his stomach and remarked on what strong stomach muscles he has! He’s got a proper six pack from all his swimming. 