Just a quickie as me and youngest are going out...Daughter is away so leaving eldest on his own as he has to rest his ankle...Please go and have a looksy at this journal it was only started this week so i thought i'd advertise it :o) http://journals.aol.co.uk/queenbodiceax/DiagonallyParked/
Better go venture out into the rain to buy birthday pressie and youngest a new folder for certifictates and new jeans...He doesn't know we're doing clothes shop yet LOL...Toodle pip xx
Well today was the final of youngests countdown...Sadly he had to leave to go to respite playscheme before the postie arrived...When he did get his post i was really good and let him open the envelope although he needed a bit of help LOL...We already knew he had passed but he was so excited about having the certificate that made it official...He has a thing for awards/certificates/medals etc...He now has his SQA access 2 in french and drama :o)...Before he started the school he's at now 2 years ago i would never have dreamt he would get anything from school at all...Hopefully one day he may even go on to do some standard grades.
I gave him the envelope in the car as we had to go to casualty...When i went and picked them up from respite i had to sign an accident report for eldest lad...He'd been playing football indoors and tripped and going crashing over something onto the lino and hurt his ankle...They had put an ice pack on it for 30mins and made him rest it....I do think they could have phoned me about it when it happened or maybe they did but phoned old mobile number...They x-rayed it as although they doubted it was broken he does have a high pain threshold...It's not but it is a bad strain...So he has it bandaged up and no sports for a couple of weeks...He's supposed to sit with it up resting for next 2 days at least...Skiing doesn't start till near end of august and footie doesn't start till around then too...On tues he will have to take a note to school excusing him from PE <sigh> ...It's a plain old normal coloured bandage, they didn't offer him a coloured one even though they had them...When we go north on thurs eldest and my big sis can hop-a-long together ROFL
Apart from above it's been pretty uneventfull...Been pain free since sat :o) ....Went out for tea on sun but we ended up in KFC as car had a mega flat as a pancake tyre...Well we got in it to drive to somewhere else and not far round corner i felt the car shuddering...Kwik Fit were just closing and at £55 for a tyre i told them no ta...Left car near my usual garage and we got bus to town to KFC much to daughters disgust...The spare is on at mo and new one going on tomorrow now...Had hassles with one of my banks but got it sorted...Gits bounced DD for my car insurance even though i had money in to cover it <sigh> ....I had proof and was on their puter screen so got it sorted...Tomorrow daughter is off to dundee (poor her) with young carers project...We're off up north for the day on thurs, fri and mon will take it easy and it's back to school for the boys on tues HURRAH!!!!!....Toodle pip for now tc xxx
Right a few entries back i said i would do a brief potted history of youngest so here it is...
He couldn't hear with left ear right from birth until he was 2...He failed first hearing test and was refered to ENT dept...At this point i was still going with eldest lad to there but they had different consultants...I felt like i spent 3 years almost living there between both the boys LOL...It was obvious youngest couldn't hear on left side because if you spoke to him from that side he wouldn't respond...If you were behind him far enuff for him to hear with his right ear then he would swivel his head round to try and listen to you...Even so he still started babbling away like normal and he started to say things like mum, dad etc when he should have...When we found that eldest didn't have glue ear and never had done at youngests next appointment i went a bit nuts...Poor woman testing him was so heavily pregnant am suprised i didn't bring on her labour...I told her no scrunching of paper, no shaking a rattle etc, i wanted and demanded a proper hearing test done...So he was refered to a special clinic outwith the hossy for it...We did have to wait about 4 months and 2 weeks before it he started responding if you spoke to his left side...We still kept the appointment and his hearing was found to be slightly less in left side than right but nothing major...I explained that he had started responding only 2 weeks before...They never eve rmentioned glue ear at all as being the cause...Whatever it was it went away anyways...Now everything else he did when he should like walking etc...Actually he was sitting up and standing up weeks before he should have been normally...That was due to fact he had a special leg brace on for a clicking hip until he was 6 months old...He had support so was easy for him to sit up and to stand up...He was a happy cheeful baby/toddler until he got his mmr...I know controversal of me to say it but it's true...Now you have to keep in mind this was years before anything in media or anything about it...Back then mmr was relatively new where we live and they didn't get it as early as you do now...He was less cheery after having it and a couple of months later he had a fit...I asked health visitor if it would be anything to do with the jab and got told no a fit as a side effect should happen within days...Rubbish i since foundout fits as a side effect of any jab can be up to 4 months later...Hossy put it down to a febrile convulsion...He had another fit about 3 months later again they said febrile convulsion...Four months later he had another fit and i phoned GP...The one that came out said he was fevered and had an ear infection and was another febrile thingy and gave me a prescription...He was fevered because that doctor had woken him up and he was angry at being woken LOL...I went got the meds and when i came home he had another fit so i phoned 999 and got him into hossy again...He had no fever at all and no ear infection...That GP i only see now if it's a dire emergency and i mean dire...Upshot is the following week they tested him for epilepsy and decided he did have it...He got put on meds and was on them for next 3 years...Once he was fit free for 2 years they weaned him off the meds and fingers crossed he's not had a fit since...I was warned it could come back when he hit puberty so am a tad wary now with him being 14...Because he was on epilepsy meds which can slow you down the health visitor suggested he got seen at same place eldest was at...He was reading fluently by age 3 which i since got told was a sign of his autism!!!...Funny his sister could read at same age and she isn't LOL...This was just to catch up for going to mainstream school...So he went part time mainstream nursery and part time the SEN one...Meanwhile he got the booster mmr at same time as his brother...With eldest he stayed same as he had been before getting it...With youngest NOPES...He changed overnight into a very aggressive child :o( ...Because he had become aggressive and was still on the epilepsy meds and was learing slower he went to SEN primary school...His name had been on waiting list for special language unit his brother went to but he never got to go there...By the time there was a place available he had been diagnosed on autistic spectrum too...By then they weren't allowed to take pupils on the spectrum...He was diagnosed in the june just after his 6th birthday about 3 weeks after he came off the epilepsy meds...I was in complete shock and i felt extremely stupid...I felt like i should have noticed ages before as his brother had been diagnosed for 4 years at that point...On reflection his epilepsy and the meds for it was masking the autism...He has since stayed in SEN education...I moved him from the school he used to go to 3 years ago as i felt he wasn't getting the education he needed there...Since he moved he has come on leaps and bounds as this school know he has a brain and they let him use it...Old one didn't, they also didn't follow the scottish national 5-14 cirriculum...His aggression had calmed down a lot at this school but since january it has become bad again...In the past i have always managed to pinpoint any triggers for it (ie: seeing his father again)...I am at a complete loss with any now except for the teenage hormones kicking in...The boys both developed differently and maybe if he had been as severe as his brother (having no speech) then it would have been noticed sooner...I am always peeved that he's not had the same education chances as his brother as he isn't daft and can be very intelligent...Anyways thats brief potted history of youngest and am off to watch last episode of enterprise...Toodle pip xx
I know i haven't bothered to write anything since tuesday mainly as not much been happening and i've still been aching...Before the pain has gone after about 3-4 days this week it has been there niggling away all the time <sigh> ...I got scared to eat as it seemed anything that passed over my lips made it worse...So i have had my tummy rumbling and moaning at me for food and then gall bladder rumbling and moaning at me for eating food ROFL...I still haven't had any post from the hossy with a date for a scan...So the 4-6 week waiting list for the scan obviously doesn't include the wait for the appointment <sigh> ...I have been advised that any pain i phone a GP straight away even if the painkillers keep it under control...To be honest next time it is as bad as the early hours of monday morning i am going to A&E...At least that way i know i will get the scan done within a couple of hours...
On tuesday the boys were at respite playscheme and youngest went to Crathes castle but eldest stayed at the centre...Youngest had a good time and has been in a good mood all week :o) ...I can hardly believe that there is only ONE week left of the holidays...Time has flown so quick this summer and we still haven't managed to go north to visit my relatives...I feel bad but neither my mum nor my sisters want me driving too far in case i get an attack...Next week we are hoping we can go up though...I so want some ice cream from where i am from originally and where my mum and older sis still live LOL...Yes i do know it's bad for my diet BUT it's a treat i don't have often so i can be allowed...If it sets off gall bladder then so be it LOL...Eldest lad has had a busy week...He went to a friends after playscheme on tues, to a different friends on wed and yet another friends yesterday :o) ...The friend he went to see yesterday his mum phoned in the afternoon saying he was a bit upset kinda...She had bought him a 2nd hand gameboy SP and he was worried i would be annoyed...I wasn't as his own one *disappeared* at this friends back in march then am more than happy for them to have replaced it...They also came round today with a 2nd hand game she had bought to replace one that went *missing* too...Maybe some will think am wrong in accepting this but IF a friend of his had come here and their stuff had gone AWOL then i would replace it for them so fairs fair i think...I still need to replace the other games and game link cable thing but he's happy for now...
Older sis has been in the wars this week so hopefully with what's happening to me and mum being in hossy at beg july that is our 3 things over with for now LOL...She's on crutches and youngest who doesn't like my sis wants to go visit her and give her a big hug...So hey something good may come of it :o) ...I have just chilled and done nowt all week except sleep and not eat and read journals although not always left a comment...Youngest is off to see Charlie & the Chocolate Factory tomorrow morning with his worker...He watched the old one on channel5 the other week and again on a sky channel last weekend LOL...He wants to buy a wonka bar to find a golden ticket now <sigh> ...Having seen what kind of choccy they are he won't eat them and i will have all this temptation in the flat shouting 'eat me eat me' at me ROFL...Found out on news today the ski centre has made a huge loss and i hope they don't close it...I don't think they will but the prices may go up a lot...What they did say on the news was that they are looking to have someone different run it after sept...Thing is that was always on the cards anyway as the current ski school only had the contract for a year...They are trying to make it look as if the ski school is at fault when it was the council admin side that were a disaster...Not my problem as long as they keep the place open...Have been able to hang out washing this week HURRAH!!!! and that was my highlight of the week ROFL, am so sad...On that note am offski...Toodle pip take care xx
As i said in a previous entry an online friend sadly passed away the other week from the cancer she had been bravely fighting...Today another friend forwarded me an email asking to do something really simple on the breast cancer website...It is something i didn't know about but i have gone and done it and i do hope anyone reading this does it too...If it will help save someones life then it will be such a good thing and only involves clicking a button on your computer :o)
Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle).
This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Please click on FUND FREE MAMANGRAMS
AGAIN, PLEASE TELL 10 FRIENDS TO TELL 10 TODAY
You don't have to tell 10 friends but the more the better
Thank you xxxx
