poor stef

Poor stefanie is off school again, there we were thinking that she was on the mend with 2 full days at school last week. No we were wrong over the weekend she went back downhill again. Andy has been off for a couple of days so he has been at home with her and took her back to the docs again on Monday. They have said her infection is clear , but because it had caused such a strain on her lungs etc her asthma was now really bad and has left her with another attack.
We are now on an even higher strengh of inhaler , steriods are on and a cough mixture as welll, also no going outdoors. Well as you can imagine she has now been ill for a total of 7 weeks and is very tearfull and depressed, all she wants is her life back to normal . Unfortunately this seems to be a no go at the moment. Still she is getting loads of TLC from all of us.
Fingers crosed we may make a turn for the better next week and get our sunny girl back........

me and my brainwaves

We have friends coming round on Friday night for curry and a game of texas poka, so me being me decided i was going to re do the kitchen. Poor Andy got in tonight from work to the kitchen in complete turmiol, but i had been good the painting was done, all he had to do was wait for it...... Put up all my new cladding for the dining room part, cut it because i couldn't get it in the lengh i wanted. Put that up for me , as i happily stain it behind, then what happens he runs out of wood . So we do a quick dash to my favourite B.Q store. finish staining the dado rail, order a chinese and sit down.
I have given him the rest of the night off and he can finish tommorow night before he goes to rugby, then i can finish staining and my re-vamped kitchen will be ready for visiters and Christmas It's such a good job that he loves me......
Oh and on a final note steph has managed 2 full days of school, she was a bit tired today so we gave her half day and hopefully she will do another 2 full days then have the weekend to rest.......

Steph and school

Hopefully it will be a bit of a landmark tommorow, steph is actually going to try a half day at school, the neighbours are on school alert that if she can't cope they can go and pick her up if called on.Otherwise if all goes well she will be sent home at miday.
This lung infection has really knocked her for six and with over 4 weeks off school she is itching to get back and see all her friends. The school has been fantastic giving me work for her to do at home, and will keep a good eye on her when she goes back.
Me i shall be at work unfortunately, she has coped fantastically, i hated leaving her , but i am so lucky that i have such wonderfull friends that have been keeping a watchfull eye on her. I am so lucky the personality of my brave girl has seen her through this attack, which i am sure would have daunted most kids her age . No, not our steph she just gets on with it. So i wish you luck sweetheart and hope you manage tommorow. I am sure there will be several phone calls from work to school just to check you are ok........

Your Brain's Pattern

You're a simple thinker, and this is actually a very good thing. You don't complicate matters when you don't have to. You look for the simplest explanation or solution, and you go with that. As a result, your mind is uncluttered and free of stress.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

still off school

Poor steph had another visit to the doctors last night, the lot of medicine she was given had not touched the infection at all. So here we are on yet another week off school, a change of medicine, a visit up to the school to pick some work up for her to do at home from her teacher and me feeling like a very frazzled mum.
It is so hard sometimes for us mums to work, if we are ill , we may just get paid. If they are ill, what do you do, stay at home and get the evil eye from work and not get paid , this is bacause you are not ill, forget it when your kids are.
As for me i am feeling extremely guilty at the moment,i have been going to work, unfortunately i can't take the reduction in wages. My neighbours are fantastic and been taking it in turns to check on her, I get several calls at work from her , just to say she ok, still it does not stop you from feeling guilty. I really hate it sometimes that i can't be a stay at home mum, I have to work because of the society that we live in especially in this country.....
So i say sorry to steph that i cant stay at home with her and she smiles back saying that's ok mum i've been fine i slept for most of the time you were gone, i give her a big hug and off i go to make the tea..........

Ill at home

Poor stephie is still not well, i really can't send her back to school yet.The sad thing is , she can go up to 5hrs without a cough, but then it will hit in hard , she will choke and then throw up.
She has been so brave last week with wonderfull neighbours rallying round checking she is ok, she has taken it all in her stride, but now with blood vessels blown in both eyes from choking and coughing so much , i think my sweet girl has finally had enough.
I shall again ring the school and the doctors again tommorow and get another appointment and tell the school she will be back when she can stop choking.She has had her flu jab over a week ago, but unfortunately the whole of her left bronchal tubes to her lung are clogged with flem, I'm just glad so far it has not brought on a major asthma attack, although she is on extra quantities of that medication at the moment just in case.
So my poor wee honey hopefully we will get better soon.......

Happy Birthday

To our very special daughter,our very own Steph. Today she has turned the majical age of 11.It seems like only the other day that i had a small toddler, the apple of her fathers eye.
She is smart, funny, stubborn, but most of all she has been a joy to watch growing up, everyone falls in love with the infectious joy she has. Unfortunately she has been unwell all week and has not been to school, so this has put a bit of a damper on the birtday celebrations. But hey we have a birthday chocolate cake made with real cadbury's chocolate, chocie buttons on top a true homemade cake to put the smile back on her lovely face.
We were lucky that we had her Birthday sleepover at the weekend and her friends over for pizza, i am so glad she managed that before she became ill, and so i shall now go back to the curling off the lovely blond hair with the new curlers she got and will try and post photos later.
SO TO END HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX