The Ultimate Hard and Fast debt clearing mission

N.I.M

Well we got a free fire alarm out of all that.

Kittikins

and I bet the firemen loved Grace

ruby_eskimo

Yay for free stuff! Glad to hear you're doing well and hope the Graphic Design thing works out. Sounds like it could be a great opportunity for a little extra money on the side.

wendz86

Morning,

Aww at Grace, sounds like she knows her own mind already .

Hope the fireman check went ok, free smoke alarm sounds good!

Yay to payday Birdie. Sounds like a nice weekend apart from the work bit.

We have been swimming this morning and then we are probably off to music this afternoon. Been having a bit of a nightmare with Poppy this week at nursery as she has been shoving and pushing and snatching off other children. They are moving her up to the next room up in the next couple of weeks so hopefully that will help being with older children.

shrimpy_80

Lovely to hear from you Dinah, NIM and Grace and sounds like good news on the diagnosis front, although obviously not good at having to go through it. I'm sure the fireman were too taken with Grace to tell you off!

I think you're right to hold off Beccie, hopefully things will settle down in time for you to go out there. It all sounds quite worrying though.

Hurrah for the weekend and (hopefully) some sun! Going carbooting on Sunday, is it sad to be excited about that? (I actually know the answer to that question but I'm excited anyway).

tootallulah

Really pleased to hear how well things are going with D,N and Grace at home. Sounds like you have a sensible consultant, I hope that all continues to go well.

Birdie85

I don't think it's sad to get exciting about car booting Shrimpy! I love it too! Well, I love going to buy, I hate selling! We're never up and about early enough to catch the good bargains though!

Hope you didn't get told off by the firemen, good that they sorted you out with a new alarm! Think it's quite obvious that you've been somewhat distracted recently!

The graphics design thingy sounds good, would be a nice little sideline for you!

Not good about Poppy getting naughty at nursery! Hope it's just a short lived phase! Can't really imagine her being like that since she's so little and innocent looking!

Got my brother and SIL coming for tea tonight and I really can't be bothered to cook, even worse I've promised a certain meal so can't just get take-out instead. Do you think if I buy the ingredients and when they arrive tell them to crack on and sort me out with a meal they'll mind?! My manager is off today so at least I might be able to get away with sneaking off early!

clearmydebts

Dinah - I find nothing beats getting them to sleep than a nice walk. The fresh air seems to send them off in no time. Neither of mine liked napping in the cot so have always napped in their pram/buggy.

Wendz - hope Poppy's snatching is a phase. Max does that at home with Evie and I have to correct him all the time. He is the 'mine mine mine' phase. He has also stopped napping so I have the pleasure of his company for 12 hours non-stop every day. Evie has dropped down to one nap and it varies from 30 mins to 2 1/2 hours!

Birdie - it if it were me I would order a take out and just be honest about being tired.

Flower08

clearmydebts wrote: »

Dinah - I find nothing beats getting them to sleep than a nice walk. The fresh air seems to send them off in no time. Neither of mine liked napping in the cot so have always napped in their pram/buggy.

Agreed! Not so much now because he likes to see whats going on, but when he was really little Noah would be asleep in his pram before I even got to the end of the street :rotfl:

Dinah93

Hi guys. Just a quick update. Grace is back in hospital, but thankfully seems to be responding well to treatment. We took her in on Saturday as she seemed really off, cold, grey, and her sats monitor said she was only about 45% oxygenated - she needs to be over 90%. Once they started doing tests they quickly got quite panicked, she went from her low flow oxygen onto a cpap machine, which is a form of hot pressurised oxygen. She was cranked up all the way to 100% oxygen (normal air is 21%) and she still was only hovering in the low 90s or high 80s. They said they needed to ventilate her, and for that she needed to go to another hospital as our local one can't deal with ventilated babies post discharge. They were considering meningitis but her infection marker was normal so hopefully not that. She was also extremely cold, it took two hours to get her warm enough to show up on the thermometers which start at 35.5C, so she was officially hypothermic as all her energy was being directed to trying to get her lungs to work.

Our favourite consultant from her old ward came down to see her, and sent one of the nurses from up there down to try to get the cpap working better. The consultant on the new ward said she had to be transfered to be ventillated, and her old consultant went back upstairs for a bit then came down and said they would take her back up there as they could ventilate. It is against hospital policy to allow discharged babies back up there as they could have bugs that the newborns don't have. She was wheeled up there in an incubator and into the isolation room, and by the time we could see her half an hour later she was down to 70% oxygen. I felt like I could breathe again then, as at 100% all I could think was that there is nowhere to go past that.

The biggest thing they've found wrong is her blood co2 was gigantic - a normal baby will have a level of about 5, a baby with chronic lung disease like Grace will be about 8-10. She was at 23 when she was admitted and no one seemed to believe she was even concious. They have her on a raft of diuretics to dry the lungs out, antibiotics in case of infection or meningitis, and anti seizure medication, as she had at least one confirmed seizure so spent the night hooked up to a machine that involved sticking pins in her head.

She is looking so much better, pink, awake, the gorgeous baby who is the centre of our world. She may be sent back to childrens ward today as our consultant has to go in front of the board to defend his decision. I am beyond grateful to him for breaking the rules, he knows her like no one else and I'm not sure where she'd be right now if it wasn't for his actions over the weekend. It's a scary time for us as we still don't know why this happened, if it's a progression of the ACD or if it's just her 80% lungs not being big enough to support her yet and just gradually failing until they clean them up again. We are just glad she has pulled around so quickly and hopefully will keep making steady progress, and the seizures were just a one off as she was so ill.