Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd January 2011

pigpen

Hellyboo wrote: »

They advised me not to cool him off with water as it can make them shiver and temp goes up not down. I think he has a water infection as he said earlier it hurts when he wees so back to the docs tomorrow I expect...but then again he told me the Christmas tree was telling him fibs earlier so who knows...

Going to bung another load in the wm, scrub the loo and go to bed, night everyone x

you don't need to if it is coming down with meds anyway it is only advised if it won't come down at all. It has nothing to do with shivering it is because the surface capillaries dilate to the hot blood goes to the internal organs raising internal body temp. Shivering is the bodies was of creating heat by muscle movement when we are cold.. which is how we get warm when exercising. However, if you are sponging them and they are shivering you have probably done the job.. the internal body temp has dropped to such a low level it needs to generate heat. Again shivering is very often confused with rigors which are associated with rapid changes in body temp..

Water infections are nasty and he should get is checked ASAP to avoid possible associated kidney infections which can cause permanent damage

DS3 and DS2 never responded to paracetamol so had to be sponged down.. DS3 would hallucinate as well which was amusing.. we once had a squirrel which was going to eat me.. it was sitting on my chair arm apparently.. and a huge polar bear in the corner of the room with its claws out.. he was very very ill with terrible flu with this one.. we have pics and he looks dreadfully ill. He had a 3 week tummy bug one time where we simply could not get his temp down.. he ended up with adults paracetamol suppositories (1000mg ones) when he was tiny about 3.. they worked eventually but were NOT fun to use!

pigpen

mummyyof5 wrote: »

Totally agree with you Pigpen...was speaking with my best friend today and her family have had the same flu bug as us...she has a 10 week old baby boy who also caught it but rather than a high temp he was really cold and she couldnt warm him up...trawled internet but couldnt find any info on cold babes so phoned NHS direct who told her to put the heating on:mad::mad::mad::mad: as if she hadnt already done that ....eventually warmed him up with skin to skin and a thick blanket wrapped round them both still took almost 3 hours for his temp to get back to normal.

like they would all have been sitting there freezing!!! lol.. Freja is a nightmare to keep warm and we often resort to snuggling in blankets and my bed.. in fact we did that this afternoon and slept for hours!

Mudbath

(Mudbath quickly sneaks in and pretends she's been around for the last two weeks...la de da de la de la)

Evening everyone. Hope you're all well. I've been busy flying....clinic is spotless, decorations are down and I'm ready for an early spring clean.

Hugs to everyone xxx

pigpen

*bombards Mudders the Slack Smurf with mules.. of the eeyore variety!*

Craftyscholar

toottifrootti wrote: »

oooooh Aunty i was getting a bit worried after i read your other post - maybe you needed to get it out of your system - this weather is getting to lots of people - you need to start thinking about a new project - if i remember rightly you did mention things you wanted to do this year - and what about the studying - are you doing any? I am sending you a huge squishy (((((((HUG))))))) because if I could i would be there in a shot to give you one today.tootsxx

I think you are right (as usual) toots, I did feel better after I posted.
Thank you for the hug - made me feel all warm and cared about.
Next course starts on 26th so I have 20 days to get my butt in gear - 20 day challenge starts now.

Hope all goes smoothly Valli
sockdrawer - way to go :T def. a different sd to the one who first posted.
Missus Aka :eek: I got tired just reading that list
get well vibes to all the poorlies.

Hugs to all

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

My bed has disappeared under clothes - DD decided to see whether her tie has been caught up in my washing and put stuff from my wardrobe and drawers on it. Let's just say I have quite a few clothes

but I have decluttered a whole load more beauty stuff that was out of date - so all the more space to replace items

xx_Jo_xx

bubblegum6000 wrote: »

Hi all

I have tried to read through a lot if the posts while at work, I am in awe how you all do it! I have decided to not follow the lists this week and blitz the house so that I can start following next week and hopefully never let the house get so messy again! anyway I am going to continue reading and blitzing and hopefully become a fully fledged fly lady one day

Loving the great thread,
Bubbles x

Hey Bubbles

Welcome to the thread.

Dont wait until next week - just imagine all the extra jobs you will get done before then if you join in now!

Just start with Level One every day plus the things you do every day anyway.

Jo xx

Mudbath

Pigpen - watch the nose!:rotfl:

I'm on a mission ... always am in January. Each room will be cleaned within an inch of it's life and stay that way until I get bored (in about two weeks) and it will slowly get bad again. I'm nothing if not honest!:D

pigpen

Mudbath wrote: »

Pigpen - watch the nose!:rotfl:

It's hard to miss!!

Miss Grotbag pic for those not on FB (with daddy geek!)

Dippypud

Well my ironing basket is empty, until the WM finishes and thats dry, hey thats for tommorrow.

DW decluttered, DS1 and DD gone to cinema seperatley(?) to watch the same film, but with their respective friends.

Please excuse spelling, I appear to be having a [STRIKE]grey, blonde, senile[/STRIKE], odd moment. :D

Pud