Tonight I took Charli to the Emergency Department at the Austin Hospital. She has been feeling unwell for a few days and has been a bit off, not really eating or drinking and a bit snotty. The thing is, she hasn't really been all that bad. Last night she got a fever and today she was complaining that her neck (throat) was hurting and I did notice that her breath smelled weird. Tonight she was sleeping on the couch when she woke up crying. Every time we asked her what was wrong, she would just cry more. She was hot so I took her temperature which was at 37.7C so we decided on a shower, that was when I noticed that she had a large welt on the back of her left hip and a few on the back of her right arm. Judd and I decided that I would take her to the hospital as I didn't want to take any chances after going through Staph scalded skin with PJ.
The triage nurse and the the 2 nurses and 2 doctors who saw to her in the hospital were excellent. We were in and out in about 1 1/2 hours and they discovered that she was having either an allergic reaction to possibly something that bit her or more likely an immune reaction to the fact that she has a sever case of tonsillitis. She was really good, as always, she had everyone around her finger in about 30 seconds flat and she has been sent home with a dose of strong antibiotics and orders to rest.
And that is what I am now going to do, give my eyes a rest until the morning.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Again with the Drive-In
Saturday night, we once again made our way to the drive in, we all love to go so it is alot of fun. The girls love that they can watch a movie and eat junk and sleep in the back of the car which acts like a bunk bed (see this post for explanation if required). Paige really wanted to see Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief because of the way he clicked his pen into a sword on the ads. She loved it and the next day she wanted to spend her pocket money on a sword. The funniest part of that decision was she was telling me about it before The Boy got up, once he did, she was all "Daddy, I want to spend some of my Polly Pocket Moneys" and his immediate response was "You are not buying a sword!" He didn't even hear the conversation, that is how well they know each other, scary. Anyway, that would have ended badly....for Paige anyway, when Charli clocked her over the head with it.
The point I was originally making before I was distracted by the whole sword thing was that we went to the drive in. This is the first time that we have had to line up to get into the place. We got there early and everything and it took us 25 mins to get into the field and the movie had just started. Oh well, didn't miss much and still got a fairly good park. On the upside, the guy at the gate only charged us for 1 movie for 2 adults so that saved us some money. We ate junk and watched 2 ok movies, the aforementioned Percy Jackson and Valentines Day which was a romantic comedy and everything that implies, predictable and sappy, but I liked it and The Boy didn't hate it so we will call it all good.
We got home at about 2am with both the girls strapped in but sound asleep across each other and thoroughly happy with their evening. They didn't stop talking about how much fun they had until late yesterday so I will take that as a good sign and patiently wait for some more good movies so we can go again.
The point I was originally making before I was distracted by the whole sword thing was that we went to the drive in. This is the first time that we have had to line up to get into the place. We got there early and everything and it took us 25 mins to get into the field and the movie had just started. Oh well, didn't miss much and still got a fairly good park. On the upside, the guy at the gate only charged us for 1 movie for 2 adults so that saved us some money. We ate junk and watched 2 ok movies, the aforementioned Percy Jackson and Valentines Day which was a romantic comedy and everything that implies, predictable and sappy, but I liked it and The Boy didn't hate it so we will call it all good.
We got home at about 2am with both the girls strapped in but sound asleep across each other and thoroughly happy with their evening. They didn't stop talking about how much fun they had until late yesterday so I will take that as a good sign and patiently wait for some more good movies so we can go again.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A Pet Whale
On the way home today, Paige and Charli were talking about a theory they had. It was started by Charli who was saying that it was lucky the new ship playground at school didn't have water under it or it might float away. Paige said but it wouldn't be able to float away as the road was in the way.
P: If the roads were made of water it would be able to float away.
C: Yeah!!
P: If the roads were made of water, we could all drive a submarine car to school and then we would get out at school and mum could drive the submarine car home. Then we could have a pet whale and it could swim to school to visit us.
How funny, if the roads were made of water, it makes me think of Dr Suess for some reason, can't think why though.
P: If the roads were made of water it would be able to float away.
C: Yeah!!
P: If the roads were made of water, we could all drive a submarine car to school and then we would get out at school and mum could drive the submarine car home. Then we could have a pet whale and it could swim to school to visit us.
How funny, if the roads were made of water, it makes me think of Dr Suess for some reason, can't think why though.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
School Holiday
At this point, I kind of wish that we had the second part of the school holidays over again. We got back from Adelaide with plans to go to the beach a few times and get some play dates in with some of the kids from school as well as one of Charli's friends, but ended up going to the beach once and that is about it. PJ did have her best friend over twice and went there as well, but Charli got Bronchitis and as it was the second time in 6mths that she has had it, the doctor is concerned that she also has a slight case of asthma. She was prescribed antibiotics and an inhaler. She took 2 weeks to get better and I have noticed that when she runs around alot or jumps on the trampoline for a while she gets a cough which is not fun, so just keeping an eye on that.
About 3 days after Charli started feeling better I got sick, then it turned into bronchitis, then the doctor told me that my blood pressure is REALLY high. So now I am pretty much confined to the couch. Friends are picking Paige up from school, who by the way absolutely loves her new teacher, I am getting told off if I spend too much time walking around or at the shops or doing too much at home. I have a whole month to wait until I can go back to the doctors to get it checked again and then go from there. Can you tell I am a little frustrated. At least when this happened when I was pregnant, there was a good reason for it, now there is nothing, just high blood pressure and taking it easy and the guilt that comes along with being a stay at home mum and doing nothing.... grrrr!!!
So Paige is back at school and happy, although tired, Charli is her usual happy self and thing are chugging along albeit a bit slower than normal. I guess I could take this time to do some sewing, now there's an idea :)
About 3 days after Charli started feeling better I got sick, then it turned into bronchitis, then the doctor told me that my blood pressure is REALLY high. So now I am pretty much confined to the couch. Friends are picking Paige up from school, who by the way absolutely loves her new teacher, I am getting told off if I spend too much time walking around or at the shops or doing too much at home. I have a whole month to wait until I can go back to the doctors to get it checked again and then go from there. Can you tell I am a little frustrated. At least when this happened when I was pregnant, there was a good reason for it, now there is nothing, just high blood pressure and taking it easy and the guilt that comes along with being a stay at home mum and doing nothing.... grrrr!!!
So Paige is back at school and happy, although tired, Charli is her usual happy self and thing are chugging along albeit a bit slower than normal. I guess I could take this time to do some sewing, now there's an idea :)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Christmas Fun
We drove to Adelaide for Christmas this year, the day we drove over, it was 39C most of the way and we had no aircon....oh well. It was the first big family Christmas for us in 3 years. The last Christmas we had in Adelaide, Charli was only 7 months old and my niece C was only 1.5 months old. Now there are two 6 year olds, two 5 year olds and two 3 year olds. They had so much fun playing together even despite the fact that the nieces were unwell and towards the end of the holiday, my 2 got sick. They got LOTS of presents, a holiday at Nannie and Papa's, a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's, a camp out in the "shed bed" (caravan), a trip to the carnival at Semaphore where PJ went on every ride she possibly could and a sleep over at Aunty S's with all the cousins.
Poor PJ did have a bit of a rough time though, she went out for dinner with Daddy and afterwards they had cold rock icecream before going to see Avatar 3D. Apparently the combination of icecream and lollies that she decided on was a little iffy, add to that a swing around the pole while waiting for daddy and what you get is spew all over the movie theater carpet and a trip home. Oh, and an argument about where the clean up will take place with one Daddy refusing to enter the female toilets and one six year old refusing the male. Luckily Aunty K came to the rescue and she made it home in a less spewy state and went straight to the shower. On top of that, she got a cold and then a bit worked up at the whole leaving Adelaide thing and spent half the ride home with her head in a bucket. This particular bucket is now lovingly referred to as "security bucket" due to the fact that she wouldn't let it go for the whole trip home, even though she had been spew free for at least 5 hours.
So, the point to this long drawn out story is that Christmas this year was Awesome, family, fun and a holiday which felt like a holiday, now if the kids would just get better so we could enjoy what is left of it :P
Poor PJ did have a bit of a rough time though, she went out for dinner with Daddy and afterwards they had cold rock icecream before going to see Avatar 3D. Apparently the combination of icecream and lollies that she decided on was a little iffy, add to that a swing around the pole while waiting for daddy and what you get is spew all over the movie theater carpet and a trip home. Oh, and an argument about where the clean up will take place with one Daddy refusing to enter the female toilets and one six year old refusing the male. Luckily Aunty K came to the rescue and she made it home in a less spewy state and went straight to the shower. On top of that, she got a cold and then a bit worked up at the whole leaving Adelaide thing and spent half the ride home with her head in a bucket. This particular bucket is now lovingly referred to as "security bucket" due to the fact that she wouldn't let it go for the whole trip home, even though she had been spew free for at least 5 hours.
So, the point to this long drawn out story is that Christmas this year was Awesome, family, fun and a holiday which felt like a holiday, now if the kids would just get better so we could enjoy what is left of it :P
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