Three Ring Circus

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Thanking you

She’s out and good.
She’s eating grapes and floating on a cloud of pethidine.
Thanking you, my friends for nursing my worry and thinking of my girl.

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Courage through sharing - thanking him. Yes. Him.

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* This month’s theme is to talk about a person who has helped us in some special way. There are many people who have helped us. I am very critical of the medical profession, I know that. I have many trust issues with doctors. I’ve chosen to thank Ivy’s paediatrician because, even though […]

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People are amazing.

Since starting this blog, I have ‘met’ some amazing people. People who are struggling with something, people who just have something they need to say, people who are blogging for the greater good, hoping to make the world a better place.
People.
They are amazing, intimate, intricate beings.
When I started this blog, I felt very alone in […]

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Dentist week and William’s notes.

I wish I could name names sometimes because yesterday I took Ivy and Noah to the dentist.
Not just any dentist but the best dentist in the world.
She was lovely. thorough and has brought us one giant step closer to havivg a type of Ectodermal Dysplasia for Ivy and Imogen.
I’m not really sure what having a […]

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Ivy update - playing with fire?

We went to the paeditrician yesterday.
Ivy was well (touch wood touch wood touch wood).
Her chest was clear.
Her stomach not too tender.
Her ear looked much better. Still not fabulous but he said he could see a clear spot.
Her bottom was clear of any blisters, clear of any trace of the pemphigus, just a small amount of […]

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Only in my house…

Just when you think that you can’t take anymore and that you are at breaking point, you walk down the hallway to discover this:

I love my kids!
They rock and they totally made  my day, made everything okay, if just for a small moment in time. The belly laugh was SO needed.

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Home again, home again, lickety split!

Hello, my friends.
I can call you that, can’t I? After the outpouring of care and love that I have just had the honour to read, I think I can definitely call you all friend.
Firstly; Thank you.
After a few days cooped up in the hospital cage…er… I mean, room, I am a little rusty with my words […]

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You know it’s going to be a bad day when…

…you leave the house and just as you step outside it pours down in buckets, soaking you and two toddlers to the core.
…you can’t find your car keys but your toddler son knows exactly where they are.
…you get to the car and realise that your husband has taken out one of the car seats.
…you get […]

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Blow me down.

Thank you everyone for being patient and kind with me, while I wander through my William haze. I appreciate it more than you know. To be able to put my thoughts down and have them acknowledged and accepted is more precious than gold.
For those of you who were shocked by the paed’s lack of follow up […]

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Home.

Ivy finally stable and waiting admission to the ward.
It was so scary on Wednesday morning.
I couldn’t wake her up.
Two febrile convulsions and I knew she was really sick.
We had been chugging along at half health for a couple of weeks and then things went curly.
Bacteraemia. In old terms: blood sepsis.
She did not wake for 24 […]