Our Family: August 2008

thought I would give a quick update. We are back home. L and T and I got back at about 11:30 Thurs night (the 7th) with Nome and K and the boys got home about 6 pm Friday night (the 8th) Mum and Dad brought them back down.

Well this holiday was a very interesting one. The day K and the boys were supposed to come up he calls to tell me R has a big blister on his thumb from the tip of his thumb down to the base/palm of his thumb that apparently burst on Friday at prayer meeting. No one had told me about it till this time, :( K had called the NHS as this is a Saturday and the clinic was closed while waiting for them to call back he called me letting me know they might be delayed. Dad lathered antiseptic cream on it and wrapped it up. The NHS rang back and said he needed to go in but that they could go ahead and come up and then take him in. So I rang the NHS in Glasgow to get it sorted for them coming up. They said they would see him asap when he got there. They arrived at tea time and so they quickly ate and Alice took K and R to the A&E while I bathed the other three and got them into bed (mum and dad had left for there hotel by this time. They actually did not take all that long. But it was what I had suspected when I had finally seen it. Staph infection in his thumb. He had a small cut on it that had gotten infected, he had been helping grandad in the garden dirt with out gloves on with this cut and that is the easiest place to pick it up. So they put him on antibiotics and wrapped it really good, sent him home with lots of wrapping as I had to change it once a day. Gave him calpol and sent him to bed. :) he was such a brave boy the doctors and nurses were quite impressed with him.

Sabbath was really lovely. It was really nice to be back at St Jude's for two Sabbaths. Mr Macleod was there the first Sabbath but then he was on holiday the second Sabbath. Well Sabbath night my back started to hurt and I just was not feeling too well. So I went to bed and thought it was just tiredness etc. well woke up at 3am with a fever and my back hurting really bad. I took some paracetamol which helped but by 9 am I was back with a fever. Alice called her doctor and they told her to bring me in and they would have a look. By this time I new what was wrong as I could not even eat anything I was so nauseated. sure enough Kidney infection. :( The UTI infection I had the week before that we thought had cleared up went into this. arrrrg!! not what you want on holiday.....They gave me antibiotics and Alice sent me to bed. She is so sweet she took care of the kids so I could sleep. By 1 I was feeling better enough to eat something as I had not eaten anything yet. Went back to bed then got up packed a few things and went back to bed. The day went on like this till we went to Nome that night after tea. I was taking paracetamol every 6 hours and Advil every 6 hours (basically alternating them every 4 hours) just to have my back be where I could move. By Tues I was feeling so much better and by wed was able to stop taking the pain killers.

Monday T was playing in the back garden at Alice's right before tea when I heard him start to cry and then stop, well C brought him into me caring him facing forward. When asked why was he bringing him into me if he had stopped crying he put him down and said because there is blood......and I looked at C and he had blood on his shirt....well apparently someone not quite sure which one had let the skate board go (Neil and Donald were also outside and did not see what happened) and it rolled into the back of Ts head and gashed his head.....when I looked at him I immediately asked for a wet towel as head wounds do bleed alot. K went and got one while I tried to keep the blood from dripping on Alice's carpet....T was so good he just stood next to the chair waiting for the next directions I gave him.....not crying anymore....well the bleeding stopped very quickly and it was only a tiny gash.....We put a small plaster over it and off he went to play.

But our holiday went on.....Tues went to the transport museum with Nome and Sara S was there too. It was so nice to see her before they leave for Tx. Wed Nome, Sara, L and I went into Buchanan (sp) Galleries and had a girls day while K took the boys to the Glen Lea ship. Oh they had so much fun they got to do a treasure hunt and hoist a pirate flag up. Thurs I had to go return something at M & S and go to the book room. Then get things packed and loaded up into Nome's car and we left about 7 to head home. Each day I ended up taking a rest after we got home from our excursions but I am so glad to be over this bout of sickness.

On Saturday after we got home T was downstairs playing in the living room, He fell and got up and came to K who gave him a little love on the spot right next to his eye that he had hit...lo and behold while he was looking at this he saw this little blue line appear!!! by the time I got downstairs he had a good mark just under his eye....by the next day he had a full grown black eye!!! Just now going away....

and then Last Sabbath we had some dear friends the Fishers for dinner after church when R tried to climb up (now we have told him many times not to climb up to get a stool) and get the Sabbath books when he fell.....and bit a hole in his lip!! from the top of the lip down just past the bottom of the lip....Mr Fisher took a look at it as he is a GP and said he thought it needed stitches....So K called his dad who brought up there car and T and K went off to the A & E !! it turns out by the time they got there got through the system and all the doctor did not want to reopen any of it to do stitches so just to watch it and keep it clean. I put a plaster on it and pulled it together and it has healed pretty well.

So lets hope our string of disasters is over for now. This week has been fairly quiet in that respect!! C had football academy all week have pictures I will eventually get up here....have been doing a spring cleaning of my house....

And today L had to get some new school shoes and a rucksack along with pencils, pens, rubber, sharpener etc. Have to go through there uniforms and patch what needs patching from Cs to pass down to R. They go back to school in just under two weeks. so these next week and a half will be very busy preparing for that.

well this has gotten long enough. Will post more later.

Okay you have to read the last post then read the second then read this one. I dont like the way Blogger wont let you put them in the order that you want. It just kind of goes how it wants to go. But anyways thought I would put a few random photos in here that I have not had a chance to get up on here for everyone to see.

Ls new bike. Thanks to C and D and R Ross who so kindly passed this bike onto Her. She just loves it. :)

I just love this photo of my two boys. :)

C in his football uniform waiting to play football.

Here is C getting his medal. I hope to get some more better pictures of him playing in a couple of weeks when he has another week long football training. :)

Okay that is all for now. Will try and get some more photos of K and the boys when they get up. We are all looking so forward to them coming. :)

Till next time.