Good afternoon

Had a weird day today: Niall managed to put himself to sleep in his own cot last night at about 9pm.... and he slept through until 8am... at 9am DH and I were lying in bed having a chat while Verity kept an eye on the boys (easy because they were allowed to play with the Duplo which they've been wanting all week but only get on the weekend)... but at 9.15am I moved to get up and experienced the most agonising cramp since labour!!! I thought perhaps it was a sudden onset of gastro so i went to the bathroom where i swear I nearly passed out! I felt faint and went all clammy... I called for DH who came and rescued me (I didn't need to go to the toilet after-all... just back to bed!) and I felt like spewing the pain was that intense! I told Dh to give Nurse-On-Call a ring... maybe to cancel out a twisted bowel... she told us to go to emergency but there was no way known I was going to move from my bed where I curled up and rocked from side to side. Anyhow after about 40 minutes (and pain killer/hot water bottle) the pain eased to a dull cramp... the clamminess went too. By about an hour I had drifted off and woke up feeling better... DH had made a "nest" for me on the couch and we watched the olympics together for most of the day. But I wish i knew what had happened! So scary... lucky DH was here! I don't have gastro... everything is normal now... cramps gone too. Fun hey? Sympathies to my other ill Junies!!! I hope you are on the mend too Maya! it's the PITS being sick with kids around let alone study commitments... Speaking of which i am seriously thinking of returning to study next year... LaTrobe has a Post Grad course on Art Therapy that sounds fascinating! Being able to combine my three interests: art, medicine, education would be my dream job!!! The Austin has a successful Music Therapy department (for patients mainly with chronic and mental illness.... they use music as a form of stress release and as a language that they can use without the commitment of sharing too much and as a way of being "heard" which we all know is very therapeutic! I would love to be able to work with people in the same way but using art... kids especially really respond to suggestions that they share their thoughts and feeling via art... more so than asking outright questions like "How do you feel about...." which they can feel is too hard to answer.

Enough about me!

Nic: oooh your poor mum and niece!!! I hope she is recovered now... some kids do tend to be susceptible to convulsions when they get over heated.... thankfully mine never have... it's such a scary thing to see! When I was a child the little girl down the road was always having them. My mum is a nurse and was often called to help. After a few of them her mum did kinda get more able to deal with them... it was because she ran a temp... it didn't even have to be that high. She grew out of it though by about age 4 I think... and went on to be an ambulance officer herself!

Good to hear from you Amanda I know, it's wretched to have ongoing, life long health concerns after having children. it's something I never thought I would have. I saw my Endocrinologist on thursday and my thyroid is over active again So it seems i could have Grave's disease which is a common by product of having babies. However my thyroid level was only slightly above normal... the doctor was very surprised and relieved as I had taken myself off my nasty anti-thyroid tablets a few months ago... he warned me that it would get as bad as before but because my previous test was so good (almost indicating an underactive thyroid!) then he allowed me to stay off them... but my level was slightly too high meaning I have to take 1 tablet a day now... for the next 8 weeks (blood test) at least.

DH home with dinner... i shouldn't be on here... back later!!!