Muse :o)

Oh joy of joys...G got up yesterday morning to go to school and promptly threw up...So phone escort to say he's off sick, phone school later to inform them and try to make sure he is well enuff to go out in the evening...Catch K online and she's not right either...The steroid pills have not reacted well with her...She's hyper, jittery, can't concentrate, hungry and having mood swings...She had an assignment due to be handed in tomorrow but couldn't concentrate enough or get anything vaguely intelligble written down...She emailed and told the lecturer and got told she could have excemption until fri as long as she got a note from her GP...Thank you to Stuart for all the info when i pounced on him to ask about steroid side effects :o) ...We did make the gig which will speak about in a mo...K texted today to ask about any other side effects as the tutor was asking...That tutor saw her in class today and noticed how wired up she is and said assignment can be handed in on mon as it's obviously side effect of the meds..Tomorrow is last day she has to take them so she should be settled again by weekend :o)

The gig well i had been hyper and all wound up about it since i bought the tickets...I absolutely love Muse...They are a fantastic group and i have wanted to see them for ages...We had disabled tickets...The AECC call it special needs on their website :o) So the disabled platform was right at the back of the hall although still not far from the stage...It's raised up high enough so those in wheelchairs can see right above the crowds heads :o) It's usually all standing for gigs there but disabled is seated :o) So we had an excellent view but the support caused some hassle...M doesn't like certain noises and at robbie he covered ears when support were on but once robbie came on he was fine...Well last nite he wanted to leave cos it was too much...Even with my hands and his covering his ears he was still screaming with pain :o(  ...So we left G and i took M outside to the foyer to calm down...We bought irn bru on way back to our seats but he was still agitated...He didn't have his headphones with him which he wears at times to muffle sound...The security guard at the ramp to disabled section asked if he would like earplugs...By this point we had st andrews ambulance lot hovering behind us...So he tried the earplugs and wahay happy chappy :o) ...But then i had another unahppy chappy...G was rocking continuously (aspie trait) and was uptight...He didn't like the crowds even though we were not IN the crowd...Now he's been fine at both Robbie gigs but they were outdoors this was his first indoor gig...He was okies once Muse came on as he does really like them...On way out he was panick attacking again and one of the security lot came over to ask if there was a problem...Explained the situation and he got his supervisor who let us out a side door emergency exit :o) ...Once out and in the car he was fine...Muse are a rock group from the west country and are amazing...They are fantastic musicians especially the lead singer...He is an amazing guitarist and pianist...Think the last time they played up here was years ago when they were starting out and playing small pubs and clubs...All 3 of them said last nite they were so amazed by the crowd that they want to put us on their regular venues for touring WOOHOO!!!!...They all went to school together and formed the band at school and have just worked their way up the ladder...From actually seeing them last nite am not surprised they keep winning awards for best tour and best gig because they are amazing...I've been to so many gigs over the last 25 years of people i like and been hugely disappointed with them live but i can safely say yesterday was not one of those times...For definite we will be going back to see them again...Mind you by then the boys may not want their old mother accompanying them ROFL

G was fine this morning and went off to school...Got phone call at 1pm asking me to come collect him as he was sick again <sigh> What is really annoying is he was at a safe driving conference for all 5th years and he ended up being out to first aid room to lie down...Wish someone had contacted me from there as it was down the beach and close to here...But no he got kept in first aid bit and taken back to school who then phoned me to come collect him and the school is 6 miles away DUH!!!! He is now in the huff as he had a birthday party tonight and he's not going...So he's stamping around, grumping and generally being a pain...Hmmm got M having a go at me for not letting G go to the party LOL...G is burning up and he's going nowhere bets me and M get it too...Well probs not M as he seems to have iron consitution and never gets anything

Just before i go did mention Muse were AWESOME <ggg> Think i sickned the boys of saying that on way home last nite LOLOL...Oh and i've lost my voice through shouting, singing and generally being mad woman at the gig <ggg>

Toodle pip tc xx

Laters

She can claim the payments back...Just i feel that students should be automatically excempt from paying rather than having to fill in a form as being on a low income...She's told me the steroid pills she has been given she has to take 6 every morning with brekkie for next 5 days...For someone who has major problems swallowing any pills at all this may just cure her LOL...I've told her to ask for a flu jab as well now she's asthmatic...Hmmm she doesn't like injections either but that could be my bad influence as am severely phobic of them...With good reason after all if you had an injection for every stitch when you cut your knee right across when you were 10 and there was 8 stitches had to be done you would be to wouldn't you? LOL...Anyways have to go play hunt the printer cable <G> Methinks me will just chuck ALL the computer cables scattered in that room into a bag and throw it at her...Portable telly, random clothes, long warm fake sheepskin coat am sure she'll have forgotton something...Did get her a plug in to leccy alarm earlier in asda...WOOHOO!!!! no more having to remember to act as alarm clock to someone 130 miles away as well as the boys...Have a lovely weekend everyone be back on sunday

Toodle pip tc xx

asthma

K just phoned and she does have asthma...She's been given low dose steroid inhaler, oral steroids as her chest is wheezing and amoxicilian...She forgot now she is 19 she has to pay for her prescriptions then try and claim then back as a student...So that's 3 lots she has to pay for...Is it just me or is it a bit unfair for students to have to pay for prescriptions when they are already on a very low income that barely covers everything???

alert test

hmmm no alerts gone out just checking

:o(

Caff has a headache...Caff has slept all day since boys left for school...Caff is not happy as she is not fit to sit on phone and try get Killers tickets...Caff will have to try get at a later date :o(  Caff hopes she is fit to drive to edinburgh tomorrow to see K...Hmmm need to get alarm clock for K as hers broked on tues...So i've been her alarm clock this week LOL

I do like the silvery grey colour background when doing an entry or comment...You'd think though that they could have made more options available for mood whilst they were changing bits...Or at least made it that you could enter your own mood LOL...The buttons are a bit daft too...Anyone else noticed when you press one a smaller box appears which to me looks like a glitch and not very professional...I've tried to be as near to professional as possible with minor details like that one my 2 websites...I got so into that that i really wish i could go and do the part time course at local college on website building...But it's on a sat morning so no use to me which is a pain...I am looking into finding out if i can get as much funding as possible to do full degree via open uni...The last time i checked i couldn't do the post graduate degree in social work via open uni up here in scotland unless i was employed in a social work related job...I could however do the actual full social work degree...I do find the website for the OU a tad confusing so i want to pop along to one of the local uni's as am sure it has an OU office where you can make enquiries...The info on the OU site says you can do the degree in 4 years which is same as doing it at actual uni!!!!...IF i can get enuff funding to manage it then the advantage is i don't lose my benefits and it won't affect either K's or G's (if he goes to uni in 2 years) money...You also do same placements etc so i want to discuss it with my social worker too...Well she's trying to encourage me into it as did my previous social worker LOL...Right i need to attempt to eat as my tummy doth protest although my head is telling me food URGH.

Toodle pip tc xx

<shiver>

*mutters something about relatives and embarrasing behaviour and glaring* Funnily enough Tet got a similar comment to that one yesterday...

Well it's me darling what do you expect <ggg> After 19 years you should know me well enuff by now :oP ...Not my fault you decided to hide from me so ner ner...The comment above was from K :o) ...Tet is her lovely boyfriend...I'll even it out and say that with M i didn't know i was pregnant either...But i did have some warning with him...I had been losing all the weight i put on with G and it was coming off quickly and then i stopped losing any...So ex (hubby at time) suggested going to get a test done...Said naaaa am not preggie...Hmmmm got told on christmas eve i was and got given a date to go get a scan see how far gone i was...So got the scan just after new year...I was 26 weeks gone and we got asked did we want to know the sex of the baby...As we had a girl and a boy we said yeah we don't mind knowing...So we got told we were having a girl...As we had both girl stuff and boy stuff it didn't matter...Luckily for us we didn't buy anything new that was pink or girlie...He was late and after enduring 24 hours + of labour i decided that the person who did the scan must have got it wrong...Well who else could be so irritating and put someone through so much hassle (didn't have much pain) as a male <ggg> ...And yes when he eventually arrived after 2 days he was a boy LOL...Needless to say during labour and all the time i was in hospital afterwards i kept demanding they sterlilise me...By then i was scared to as much as glance at hubby in case i fell preggy PMSL...I did eventually get it about 6 months after he was born LOL...So that's why there is only 14 months between the boys...Which in a way has been a blessing or M wouldn't be here...If as planned we had waited to have a third child then possibly by then we'd have already know that G was autistic and decided not to have another just in case.

It's cold, it's wet and it's very windy and it's horrid...The temp gauge in my car has gone from around 16 degrees last week to 2 degrees today <shiver> ...The weather was hideous last nite and i couldn't believe the amount of kids i saw out guising...That's trick or treating to anyone else...We've always called it guising up here and i always thought trick or treat was an american term...Thehelpers at the boys tues club were dressed up a wee bit...M has come home today with halloween cakes he made at school...I was going to write a bit about his review but i have to run and take G to wed club...M isn't going as he wants to watch the NTA's tonite...So G is whinging about it which is rather strange as i thought he'd be glad of the peace n quiet without his bro there ROFL

Toodle pip tc xx

Birthday girl :o)

 

Well 19 years ago today i had one of the most painful but most wonderful days of my life...Little did i know when i woke up that morning that by afternoon i would be a mum...I didn't know i was pregnant and had always laughed when reading about unexpected babies arriving...I wasn't even overweight back then far from it...My stomach was flatter than flat and i had no signs of being pregnant...But that morning 19 years ago i woke up thinking i had a severe case of food poisoning...I phoned my work and said i wouldn't be in as i felt so yeuch...Someone who lived in the block back then heard me screaming and crying in agony and came in to see if i was alright...Lucky the door was unlocked...They phoned an ambulance...One arrived really quickly and i was checked over and one of the ambulancemen turned and said to the other one to get a chair and a blanket i was going to the maternity hospital...Between screams of pain i shouted 'why the matty am not preggers'...Got told you're in 2nd stage labour dear...I got to the hospital around 10am and K made her appearance at 11.05am...Being so far gone i could have no pain relief cept for gas & air and that made me feel so sick i chucked it away LOL...An hour later they decided to come and stitch me up as i wasn't in a good way LOL...After that i was still bleeding so heavily that i was re-examined and then came a procession of one higher up person to the next until eventually the senior gynaecologist came along with an anaesthetist...I was whisked off to theatre to be restitched <ouch> And awoke later near tea time with a normal drip in one arm and a blood transfusion going into the other one...Too much info but tough <gggg>

I had a baby yikes what do i do with a baby...But she was cute and gorgeous and i loved her to bits...The next day i was worried though as she seemed to be a wee bit yellow...Now my sis in law had had a baby the previous year and she was slightly jaundiced so i asked a nurse...Got told it was just the lighting hmmm okies what do i know i didn't even know i was preggers...I wasn't some young kid at the time either i was 24 LOL...Next morning the nurses decided i had to have a shower so dragged me off to help me...Came back and no baby...Docs had been round and whisked her off to put her under the white lights for jaundice...See i maybe didn't know i was preggers but i was right bout that...Well that night i actually fell asleep ok but as rudely awoken at 3am by a nurse saying my baby (no name at this point) was being taken upstairs and did i want to come...Mumbled something like i'll go in the morning...Fair enough but when another nurse woke me at 3.15am and started asking next of kin etc i got a huge fright...I may not have known i was having her but i didn't want to lose my baby...Upstairs back then was where the special nursery was...She was so badly jaundiced they were putting her under the stronger blue lights and back then that meant going into the special nursery...The docs up there had a very long serious chat with me and they had to check K's blood type...If her bilirubin count wasn't down to an acceptable level in 3 hours time then she was going to have to get a complete transfusion...Needless to say i didn't sleep again that day...It did come down but she had to get antibiotics...This was via a tap thing in her wrist...They put special eye patches on them and she just looked like she was on a sunbed and had a lovely tan...She stayed there for five days and back then you didn't get a room on your own if you were babyless :o( ...But my darling K is a fighter through and through...On the thurs evening she started moving up the enclosed cot she was in and started tapping on the end...She also pulled out the splint with the tap on it LOL...Another was put back in but when they checked her on the fri morning she'd done it again...She came back to me on the sat and we got out on the sun...We went up to my mums for a bit to stay and my mum and sisters had rallied round and got baby stuff for me :o) ...I know K reads my blog but she has heard this story plenty of times before as i didn't keep it secret...So HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLING...I love you to bits and you were the most wonderful surprise i have ever had in my life :o) You have grown up to be a very pretty, intelligent, caring and wonderful young woman and me and your brothers love you to bits and we do miss you loads

I had M's annual review meeting early this morning after a rather hectic night...It went really well but i will leave speaking about it until tomorrow...I ended up babysitting for my best friend last night after my 2 were in bed...Her partner (the eejit) had accidently cut 2 of his fingers so she needed to rush him up to A&E...They didn't get back till really late and it was after 3am when i got home...They were told to come back today to the plastic surgery ward at 8.30 for a specialist to have a look...Well he's been operated on and has to stay in for 3-4 days...I reckon it's me and this time of year that makes daft things happen to people you know...Oh just before i go i am so excited...I need to be on the phone pronto at noon on fri to buy tickets to see The Killers...They're playing up here in feb!!!!...No-one huge plays gigs up here!!!!...It's just like not done at all...I so want to see them and i hope i manage to get through and get a ticket LOL

Toodle pip tc xx