It’s not cancer, it’s curable, it will be over within four months. This is my daily mantra. These words help me pick up BB when she falls again as her hip dislodges, these words let me see the light at the end of the tunnel. … [Read more...]
Sep 19, 2011
I would be dead….
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Both my pregnancies have resulted in me being placed in a wheelchair and wheeled into an operating theatre to have my children removed from my tummy via the sunroof. They were never traveling down the birth canal, with a shadow of a doubt without assistance from a team of midwives I would have died giving birth to my beautiful babies. … [Read more...]
Jul 12, 2011
Living with an epileptic baby….
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Its been six months since BB had her first seizure. I remember watching my smallest turn blue and convulse and I genuinely thought I was losing her. The horror of not knowing what was happening to my baby was insurmountable. Tears spring to my eyes as the memory surfaces of the fear that grabbed hold of my heart when the fit controlled her. … [Read more...]
Jun 15, 2011
Newsworthy…… I think not…..
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Sometimes I read rubbish stuff; mainly from the trash magazines that I read for a guilty pleasure but more often from the rags we call newspapers. Today the headline that caught my eye in the Metro was: … [Read more...]
Mar 24, 2011
could you have done this?
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Years ago, back in the day when I still wore little knickers because I was slim, as opposed to big knickers to make me look slim I worked in the caring profession. Ironic really as most people wouldn’t describe me as the caring type; but still before my career, before kids came along I enjoyed a range of titles from residential social worker through to psychiatric care assistant. I was … [Read more...]
Mar 13, 2011
Sunday Sanity
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A bit more Sunday sanity for you. Next week is going to be a bit stressful in our house, baby beautiful has her first MRI scan which means she is going to be given a general anesthetic which terrifies me and then to add insult to injury I have to take rabid hound to the vets, without sedation. So I am concentrating on feel good blogs and posts that make me laugh this week to share with you, … [Read more...]
Jan 27, 2011
Reflux: how to cope
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Before twin boy decided to cast aside his nappies and make my life a living hell with his various toilet mishaps he still subjected me to experiences I never realised a mother could have. I recently found this video which shows what life was like with him in the 'reflux' years. It still brings tears to my eyes, but that could just be a mothers love. Let me know what you think: Twin … [Read more...]
