Well... Sam has gone to sleep again tonight with no dummy!

We had a fairly horrific night with him waking up heaps even sleeping in with us, but he just flatly refused to take his dummy. He took it at day care today, but had a fairly rotten day there so I picked him up early. Poor kid is barely eating and finding it painful to drink his bottle... Day care think he may have an ear infection as he kept putting his fingers in his ears - but that's just something he does... But I've got him an appointment with the GP on Thursday to check him over just to be sure.

We'll see how he goes tomorrow with us all at home and make the call then on whether the dummies vanish completely while he's like this and we just ride out a few crap nights and potentially even crappier day sleeps, or whether he gets them back as soon as he's willing to have one. It's just awful right now - he's so not himself!

Meanwhile - even crapper news for me. I have an appointment with my rheumy on Friday, but my last blood test results were bad enough for him to ring me today with the STOP ALL MEDS NOW instruction I've been dreading. Weird thing is that I usually get pains in my liver before it gets to this point, so I'm just a little scared. I now have no choice - scary injectable drugs are my only option so we organise the application on Friday. I'm in so much pain now it's just not funny... and I know it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better! Hopefully the rheumy will at least give me some good pain killers.

And afraid I have no connections to Perth! Best I can do is going to the same schools as Mako - albeit several years ahead!

BW