Friday Night Thread!!!!! Can I start one super early?

[hazeyjane]

Just because it is my birthday!!!

Sorry about the shameless bigging up of myself

Hope everyone has had good weeks, ds has finally woken up after being sedated for his eeg on Tues, he has been like a drunk all week. We have just been told he is going to get weekly hydrotherapy at a lovely pool, yay!

Right I have to get everyone to school and start the day of festivities - which includes a cricket match, giant inflatable stonehenge and a recorder concert (obviously all in my honour!).

Lola, we're kindred spirits then! Annoyingly, I am registered as sight impaired, but my sight is often too GOOD for a lot of schemes! Access to work is something I've heard about, must see if some tv production companies have too!

Lolliopo - The job centre should be able to tell you how to access access to work. The support you can get is agree between you and them, your employer doesn't need to agree, although they will be expected to sign forms and maybe paying for equipment up front and then claiming the money back so their support is useful. Since the cuts AOW have become very unhelpful though you have to really fight for what you need now. .

Hazy - by now you should be feeling hazy hope much wine has been consumed!
Lolli - congrats always an uncertain time gratuating but we all feel the same - fear not, you'll find your way
Badvoc - prayers and love to you
Star - about friggin time!!!!
NoHaudin - sorry for your news, wishing cousin all of everything good

Good week for ds - although I've had a few wobbles. It's been sports week at school so they've been running around in the local park and jumping off things. I got a bit upset one day as he was last in everything, don't get me wrong his school doesn't do the competitive thing .... Think I was being over sensitive and tbh needed a good kick up the ass because ds loved it. We've been doing transition meetings between the infants and the JNRS they've been going well, all the stuff for ds is in place his transition book is ready, met his teachers. The jnr HT has a background in SENCO and Inclusion, she also has a neice and nephew on the spectrum, who she looks after a lot, so been nice not to have to try and educate a professional and shes bothered to make a special visit to ds.We also had our meeting about his residential trip in a few weeks and ds is over the moon that they will be sleeping in bunk beds and in sleeping bags! After much badgering OT have said they will try and get ds on a sensory noise program .... If not it will be £1600 to do a private program. Dd is 15mths and obviously I watch her like a hawk with x-ray vision to see if she's showing any signs of ASD, but she's engaged, sociable and talking without saying any tell take complicated words. My only concern was her lack of walking and I had whipped her along to the GP - who said there was nothing wrong ..... On Wednesday she stood up and started to take her first wobbly steps - phew another one off the tick box!!
Now if this PMT could just sod off then I'd be dandy

Thankyou for all the birthday wishes

I am indeed a little hazey after a glass and a half of pink champagne (I am a lightweight), I have also eaten my own body weight in lasagne, and chocolate truffles.

Today was an almost perfect day, I at and had coffee with a friend whilst ds slept, then walked up to a friend's grave with some flowers, went to a cricket match, wandered over to the bouncy stonehenge with dds and ds and dds best friend, then went to dds summer concert, where I blubbed at dd2 singing her heart out, and dd1 playing her recorder.

I'm so sorry to hear about your ds2, Badvoc. Hope things improve.

Also so awful about your cousin, NoHaudin.

Sorry for hijacking the thread at the beginning, I'm a big show off when it comes to birthdays

Have to sleep now.

Happy Birthday Hazey.

Badvoc - hope things improve soon

NoHaudin - that's tragic news

Starfish - I'd leave him alone. You just need to wait until his anxiety decreases. Forcing him to attend PRU is not a good idea. Have you considered medication? I wasn't keen but it has worked.

Lollipop - you've done so well to graduate from this course. Hope you get an opportunity to take it further.

I overdid the walking on holiday - about 7 miles a day on uneven ground. I now have painful knees, pains shooting through my feet and swollen ankles. Am walking shuffling around like a 90 year old!

Glad you had a good birthday Hazey. All the best ones are in June !

Quick update:
Ds2 home now.
Not pneumnonia, thank goodness.
Chest infection and viral wheeze (?)
Was very poorly yesterday but hopefully 48 hours on ABs will make him happier
Thanks for the good wishes x

That is good news Badvoc, must be such a relief for you x

Hi claw it is, he really frightened me at 3am yesterday

Ds1 was so funny...he wanted to come in the ambulance with us but had to be content following behind with dh.

The docs/nurses station was just ouside ds2's cubicle and when ds2 was attached to the sats monitor he kept shouting out an update whenever it changed!
"Its at 92, up to 94! Now its 96!" Bet they loved that! :)

I bet he did Badvac, its horrible when you feel so helpless to make them feel better isnt it.

a running commentary on his sats, priceless!

Ds has scaring on his lungs, caused by previous infections, when ds was given the mask in the cubicle, he was doing his Darth Vader impression!

Glad you are both home now

That's a relief, Badvoc. Viral wheeze, eh? Does that sound made up to you?

Glad you're home Badvoc. Hope you get a chance to rest today, must have been exhausting for you.

Wet sorry about the feet, knees hope they recover soon. Did you have a good holiday otherwise or get blown away on Scilly last week?

Really glad your DS is on the mend Badvoc, must have been very scary though.

Wet, I am going to be led by DS and if he has any doubts at all and can't face anything that has been suggested am not going to push him. Think that is part why am feeling so low, I knw it is not the right thing to do.

Am considering medication all be it reluctantly, what helped your DS?

Glad you had a great birthday Hazey! :)

Ellen- oh don't get me started! The doc forgot to write up his ABs so that was another 2 hour wait and then his temp kept spiking and I asked if he could have some ibrufen ans wa s told quite haughtily "we don't write up brufen for just a chest infection"
So of course his temp went up and up and up.....I asked the nurse whether they would write up some burden or would they prefer he stay on the ward that night due to his temp?
He got the brufen :)
And - amazing coincidence! - his temp went right down!
Funny, that :)
Nurse was very apologetic. Not her fault. The NHS uses no common sense at times.

Popped back to see how Badvoc's little one is doing and am so relieved to hear he is brighter and has been allowed home. Hope he's better really soon.

Ds1 had a scary wheeze with his last chest infection and was rushed in to be nebulised. His chest has never been the same since he had swine flu - he'd never wheezed prior to that, but now everything goes straight to his chest. You feel so helpless when they just can't get a breath in don't you. So scary.

I was in bed from 8.30 pm last night to almost lunchtime today. Poor dh was looking after the gang on his own whilst balancing on one foot after having a mole removed from his ankle the other day.

Had to get up to go to the summer fayre with the boys and really struggled to cope with all the noise and sunshine, but managed a couple of hours anyway before ds1 went green and started clutching his stomach. Poor boy was curled up in the middle of the playground. Came home and within half an hour he was ok, just the excitement and stress on top of all the transition trauma he's struggling with at the moment.

We now have about 5 years' worth of jam jars full of sweets, sweetie cones and plastic tat etc and I'm about £25 lighter of purse than when we left.

On a more positive note, my cupcakes went down a storm and it seemed like everywhere I looked there was someone scoffing one. I have done another box of gf ones for home. Will get a photo up on my profile pics when I can get my head around the bluetooth.

Have to be in position for 7.30 am tomorrow to see the olympic torch procession and that means getting everyone up at 6.00 because we'll have to park and walk thanks to road closures. So, looks like it'll be another early night for me if I'm going to manage that.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Moose sorry you are having such a bad time health wise....I can really empathise :(
I am so run down at, I have come out in a lovely crop of mouth ulcers :)
Hope you manage to see the torch tomorrow and it's not too taxing for you.
I offered to make a tray of flapjacks for the promise auction at the summer fare and someone bid for them! So now I have to make a tray of flapjacks....

Thanks Bavoc.

So sorry to hear how run down you are too, the stress of ds2 can't have helped either.

Mouth ulcers are horrible and you can't even console yourself with eating.

Ds2 had a massive ulcer on his lingual tonsil (sort of under/on the side of the tongue) a couple of years ago and the best thing we found to help was that Igloo stuff that sort of seals the ulcer. It doesn't last as long as they say it does, but it can at least get you through a meal.

Good luck with the flapjacks. I'm always jealous of people that can make them, as mine always come out either rock solid, or like thick porridge. Cupcakes and icing I can do - flapjacks have always eluded me.

Badvoc - Mouth ulcers can be due to magnesium deficiency. I bet you are deficient in magnesium.....

Probably indigo - I am deficient in a lot of things!! :)
Will have some of ds1s cal/mag supplement

Badvoc, glad DS is home :)

I've just done my Jobseekers application and am terrified I've entered something wrong or mis-interpreted something. Does anyone know if they're nice at the interview?

Really hope I get it, or I'm not sure what I'll do.

My sil is doing her forms for jsa atm (was made redundant last week and they have a 6 month old baby :() and they are a nightmare! Her company has gone into receivership so she doesn't have some of the info she needs...
It's been many years since I was in a job centre but everyone I have dealt with were lovely :)

Moose...you see I can do cupcakes but I can't do icing. I cheat and use nutella!! Yum yum :)
My flapjack recipe is soooo easy..I will pm you it if you want?

Oo yes please Badvoc, I'd love your recipe. Ds1 loves flapjack and it's one of the treats he can have, as long as I make it with pure gf oats.

Well, I made it to see the Torch and actually ended up seeing it twice, as it did a circular route and we caught it again going back to the car. Such a lot of effort for a two minute glimpse of some bloke running past you with a torch - but I'm still glad we did it, for the dcs.

Unfortunately, it has completely wiped me out. I had to come home and go back to bed and have only just resurfaced, so I haven't had much of a Sunday really.

Ok x