Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Health, illness category.
The IVIG poster girl.
Filed in Health, illness, Ivy - girl, doctor related posts, happiness, July 22, 2008, 8:27 pmYou know what makes me crazy?
Aside from driving for two and a bit hours like a mad woman to the hospital, so we can sit and wait for an hour and a bit for our half hour slot?
It’s a doctor who doesn’t know what we have been through and who looks the pred child up […]
Dear Winter,
Filed in Health, illness, cranky, July 20, 2008, 11:20 amI hate you.
If Ivy doesn’t make it to the immunologist on Tuesday because your second rate weather has caused her to catch another hospital worthy lurgy, I will kick your frosty backside right into next year.
So there!
Yours Sincerely,
Sick of Snot.
Ivy update, I’ve never wanted something more… I think.
Filed in Health, illness, Ivy - girl, hope, July 10, 2008, 10:23 pmToday we went to the paediatrician.
Ivy has lost just over a kilo.
Her cortisol levels are out of wack.
Her iron stores are low.
Her chest x - ray looks better, the pneumonia is clearing.
Her kidney functions are still okay.
Her left ear is discharging, her other is infected.
Her white cell count still high.
She is still sick.
But
it’s time to move […]
Just stuff and nonsense.
Filed in Health, illness, doctor related posts, June 23, 2008, 5:39 pmToday we were told (quite by accident) that the doctor does not want us to leave until Thursday. It would have been nice to hear that from the paediatrician or even the staff specialist.
But No.
Thursday is Lily’s 10th birthday.
And I’ll be in here.
I think I have just been made to do something I don’t want to […]
Irony.
Filed in Health, illness, Ivy - girl, hospital, sarcasm becomes no one, June 22, 2008, 3:21 pmIrony is;
when you discover that your daughter has mycoplasma pneumonia and the hospital doctor tells you the best oral antibiotic to treat it is the very same long term antibiotic (Erythromycin) that your paediatrician only ceased a fortnight ago, in favour of Keflex.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!
So, here we sit on three different IV antibiotics, waiting for her lungs to come […]
The lobbyist and the politician.
Filed in Health, illness, too cute, too funny, twins, June 19, 2008, 10:24 amIvy (at the top of her lungs): No - No, you spewed! You spewed.
Noah (pretending not to hear): I love you too, Ivy! Love you too.
Ivy: You spewed, I said, you spee - you - ed!
Noah: I not pooed Ivy.
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2:20am Ivy: “I want to snuggle with Mummy! Iwantosnugglewithmummeeeeeee Iwantosnugglewithmumeeeeee!”
Mummy: “No, you stay in your bed.”
2:22am […]
Wheezy, wheezy…
Filed in Health, illness, The Boy, hospital, June 17, 2008, 10:52 pmNot to be outdone by his sister’s recent hospitalisations, Noah decided to drop his bundle today and with oxygen sats in the high 80’s earned himself a trip to the hospital in an ambulance.
Abandoned by our paediatrician, once more, we hospital hopped from the local, rural ER to our secondary in our trusty ‘am blue […]
From the frying pan into the fire.
Filed in Health, illness, I hate prednisone club, June 16, 2008, 10:11 amI whinge alot.
You would think I would learn a lesson…
When you tell the universe you can’t take much more of the coughing and snot, the tears and grumpiness of one child, you expect a little reprieve.
Well, I do, anyway.
Instead the universe smirks at you in that ‘you’ll be sorry you said that’ kind of way and […]
48 hours…
Filed in Health, illness, Ivy - girl, June 9, 2008, 8:29 pm…and we are home again.
Ivy is tucked up in her own bed as I type.
Is she 100%?
No - but I am coming to the realisation that maybe she will never be.
Here’s to;
a new antibiotic. Keflex, our new wonderdrug (fingers crossed).
At least four weeks before she crashes again.
Time for her to play.
Time for her to laugh.
A hot […]
So here we are.
Filed in Health, illness, Ivy - girl, doctor related posts, hospital, worry, June 7, 2008, 10:21 pmThe paed called late on Friday night and I told him the Ivygirl was sick, really sick.
You know, that frightened, sick in the guts, knot in your throat, something bad is happening worry that you get when someone special is sick?
Yeah, that’s been me for a large part of the week. (As if you guys […]
