Babies Born ~ September 2007 #74

[Cassius2]

we are being referred to neurology after a night spent at the RCH. it is on the cards that this may be more permanent than not for Miss E. I will be honest, i am a bit scared. i just want the best for her and am scared

[Artechim]

I would be scared too Cass Are they thinking some form of epilepsy? I know that whatever ends up being the case, Miss E has the right family to help her.

Wish I could pop around for a cup of tea to take your mind off it for a bit xx

[Cally]

Cass - I'm not surprised you're scared, I would be too. We're all thinking of you and DH and of course little Miss E.

[Ginger]

I would be scared too honey. Hoping you get some answers soon. Please keep us updated if you can xo

[Artechim]

How is everything today Cass? Thinking of you all xx

[Ginger]

any news cass?

[AnyDream]

Cass, have been thinking of you all with love and hope and healing for little E. Such a scary time for you all, I hope you get some reassurance quickly, although it sounds like it may be a slow process to get definitive answers.:hugs: Is the asthma looking any better now she's on the meds?

Arte, sorry to leave you hanging after your worst interview ever/accidental emergency call story (which, besides being horrifying at the time I am sure, is also pretty hilarious). Good to know the police do turn up though... kinda reassuring LOL. The known exam thing must be verrrrry weird. Sorry about your car/the petrol pump.

I had a dingle last year, had a big cognitive lapse and clipped our rosemary bush and didn't realise how much damage was done & then made it five squillion times worse by driving around before half the underside of the car fell off. LOL. The insurance company wouldn't pay for all of it so it turned out to cost more than just the excess. Ooops.

Cally, sorry to hear you didn't get the value of the car - bit of a bummer on top of the inconvenience of having to find a new one. Your jambalaya sounds yum, might have to try that one day. I've been promising myself to learn how to make a good gumbo too.

[Artechim]

Still stalking Cass. I hope everything is going alright xx

MD, I would totally be the one driving around with the underparts of my car falling off lol.

Yeah, interview/emergency story is pretty hilarious, but I usually store it in some repressed memory vault or it taunts me with the moronic stupidity of the whole thing lol.

[Trillian]

Oh Cass! that's just awful for all of you My sister sees a pead nurologist at Monash for her DD's epilepsy and they are fantastic with her, but her epilepsy is connected to her CP though. I really hope you can get in to see someone soon - having to see her endure that would be heartbreaking for you.

I have been incredibly busy here with the end of trimester and a heavier workload because of reports etc. Because of the TA work I had to help write reports because I spend more time with the kids than their class teacher. Plus with everything else going on I actually felt sick with all the pressure to get things done in time. But now I am officially in my 4th year!!!! Only 10 units left and I can kiss this degree goodbye! I will be completely finished by this time next year and I have started the process to get my interim teaching number in August.

[AnyDream]

OMG Trill, there's that rainbow again! You are seriously awesome, I cannot believe the pace at which you are putting that degree away AND now all the TA work as well. What ended up happening with your footy/committee commitments that you were stressing about. Did you just wade right on in or did you manage to push some of it to one side? Massive congrats at hitting your 4th year

MD, I would totally be the one driving around with the underparts of my car falling off lol.

LOL - see that's why we're friends. What made it even funnier was the guts fell off one day when we were out on a little day trip, car full of me, my girls, my sis and her DD, and we had the Flo in the Machine fully blasting like some kind of girl power road trip movie scene.... and then we had to pull over and wave down a passing motorist (male) for "help" because there wasn't a hammer to hit the spanner to get the nut undone to pull the undercar thingo off. Talk about feminist mood killer

Cass - thinking of you, love.

[Trillian]

Thanks MD Unfortunately, I still have the other commitments and I am doing a **** job at it too. Had a big blow up with someone at the footy club who actually told me I'm donig a **** job and I told them to put their money where their mouth was and do it for me instead because god knows I don't need the hassle. Now trimester is over now I feel like I can breathe a little bit. There is only a few weeks left of footy too and then I can ditch it. thing is though, is that I really love doing it, but it's just been made so much harder this year because of all the haters and other hassles we've had and I think it would be OK next year. But I have to be realistic and give it away. I've started my netball umpiring badging as well so I will hopefully be doing more of that and not the club admin stuff anyway.

I am terrified of having pieces fall off the car while I'm driving LOL. It's equivalent to turning up to school in your PJs for me

[Artechim]

LOL, at your road trip. Nothing says girl power like having to get a guy to undo a tight nut It is my dread that something goes wrong with the car when I am driving it. I think I might even be a car hypochondriac - every little squeak and bump and I think there is something majorly wrong with it lol.

Trill, glad you are getting a bit of a breather in your schedule, sounds like it was crazy busy for a while there. It is really amazing how fast time has gone - doesn't seem like that long ago that you were enrolling!

Cass,

[Trillian]

I know Arte! the time really has flown by. How long until you finish your study? I'm like that with our car now too, it's been playing up a bit and I'm worried it's just going to stop one day.

[Cally]

Car is definitely a write-off, but DH has argued with them for a week and they've settled on a value that is better than expected, so that's good. Now just to buy a new one....

LOL at cars falling apart!!

Trill - I can't believe that you are almost finished, great work!

[Artechim]

Cass, hope you are hanging in there xx

Trill, won't be finished until the end of next year. Provided I pass my exam next week, I have three papers (=units?) to go. I am only doing one a semester or it is too much time pressure and there is really no need to finish it fast - I will still be an at home mum if it is done or not.

Cally, glad you managed to get the insurance to pay out a decent price. I bet my company is regretting offering the no claims bonus for life lol - they only replaced our car 3 months ago andI have already dinged it. We certainly get our money's worth out of them

[Cally]

Well DH didn't dilly dally - bought a new car on Thursday night! Hyundai I30. Will pick it up when we're in Canberra on our way back from Gold Coast.

Made brownies tonight with Mint Slices as the middle layer - Scrummy!

Cass - any results yet?

[AnyDream]

Cass - hope it's all going well, I saw on FB that you're home again.

Trill - I cheered (silently ) at you telling someone at the footy club where to get off! It's a pity you're going to have to give it away, especially as you're enjoying it, but that's not to say you can't pick it up again further down the track or even something similar, kwim?

Arte & Trill - stakes for you ladies if something were to fall off the car is a little bit higher than for us where the RAA is only a ph call away. The nice RAA man came out yesterday and changed a tyre for me because - yep - I'm too much of a flimsy-wristed girl to be able to get those wheel nuts off. (My inner feminist knows I should be embarrassed by that ).

Cally, I'm imagining the scene out of the jeep ad:
HIM: "I bought an i30."
YOU: (*shocked disbelief*) "You bought... an i30?"
HIM (*continuing to tidy the room while you stand there looking completely stunned/in awe of his car-purchasing prowess*) "Yes, Cally - I bought an i30"

Nice pick by the way. I bet it has awesome cup holders and everything.

Also I so want to know how the mint slice brownie thing works. Do you put down half the mixture and then a layer of biscuits and then the rest of the mixture and bake it? What happens to the biscuit part of the mint slice - does it go soft?

Anyway, I'd best be off. I'm single parenting AGAIN this weekend - beyond p'd off - DH was supposed to get home yesterday and now because some bunch of delicate aircraft workers couldn't be called into work on a Saturday, it now means we don't know whether he will even be home by Tues for his/DD1's birthday.

[Artechim]

Sucks MD. I am sure he will make it home in time. Has he given any thought to a change of career?
We have reasonable AA here - we ran out of petrol a few weeks back and the guy was there in 20 minutes! I told him our car doesn't have a petrol light (electric seat warmer, but no petrol light!), but then he pointed out it does have a fuel gauge. We agreed not to speak of it any more.

I am at home with the kids by myself while DH is off hunting. A bit P'd off also - exam on Wednesday, need to write a whole essay and had planned on both afternoons of the weekend but DH took the big kids out and left me with E most of yesterday afternoon and now it is 2.30 and he isn't home yet. E's day naps are getting harder to make happen on time, so she is staying up really late. I was hoping to get through next semester with day naps but I think we are into that stop/start bit when they start dropping the nap.

Today we have made salt dough to bake into shapes. Then I realised that kids don't really get to play with play dough once they get to school - W was loving it lol. So I made some proper play dough, and then all interest was lost lol.