When I asked for luck I didn't mean the bad variety!!!

grannyx2

Enjoy our DSs birthday tomorrow, wish my little boy was 4 instead of the hulking great 26 but then again I wouldn't be a Granny

Granny x

*Robin*

Happy Birthday to Lucky's DS2! :T :T :T

:bdaycake:

StressedSteph

Hi PLMBL

Haha your colleague sounds so funny, bless her.

Hope you Ds has a fab day, xxxx

Rollercoaster_Rach

Ahh...I think 4 year olds are so cute and precious...Enjoy the day!
RR x

Fudgefund

Hi PLMBL, first diary I've caught up with!

It all started so well with the rebate from the energy company and your luck seems to have turned again. Hopefully it's temporary, but either way you are doing the right thing by sticking to your goals, it's seriously impressive! You are getting really close to being debt free, not long until you're in the £5000s club. :j You are back to being my dieting inspiration again too.

I'm really sorry to read about your loss, it must have been a terrible time.

I hope you're having a lovely day with the boys. xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Thanks for the lovely messages everyone! DS2 has had a wonderful day, which amazingly didn't start until 8am! I thought he'd be up way earlier than that! Anyway, he loved his presents from us, had an awesome time at his party and then spent most of the afternoon unwrapping and playing with the brilliant gifts he got from his friends! Not one duplicate or something he already had!! He's a very lucky boy!

Thrilled it all went without a hitch and DH was well enough to attend. I had worried it would all be called off due to more seizures, so massive sigh of relief that it wasn't! Looking forward to seeing the Consultant tomorrow though, fingers crossed they can do something else for him. It's sad that all evening I've been reliving my labour etc with DS2 (he wasn't born until 11.50pm!), but I can't share it with DH as he has no recollection of it. He gets down about that .

Had an email today from the eb@y survey people and I've won £5. I love free money

madhatter90

Glad that your DS's birthday went so smoothly - from what I hear from my friends with children this is nothing short of a miracle! Shame that your OH can't remember the birth though, I guess it's little things that you forget to appreciate sometimes.

Congratulations on the survey win - you deserve it!

debtfreewannabe321

Happy Belated Birthday to your DS Glad he had a good day :j !

Hedgehog........:eek: I wouldn't want to eat one as i've heard they always have fleas :rotfl:.

As for the labours I think my DH would be grateful if he couldn't remember them as apparently I traumatised him with all my screaming and crying :eek::rotfl:(never mind what I was going through!:rotfl:)

Have a lovely day :A

HeadAboveWater

Happy belated birthday to DS

And well done on the free money too!!

Promise us you'll try to get more 'me' time in, starting this week please!

please-let-me-be-lucky

Thank you Madhatter and DF(w).

Believe it or not I'm sat in the tattooist's :eek:. DH is managing ok thank goodness, and I've spent a quite enjoyable hour catching up on MSE! Looking forward to him getting finished and out in one piece though! It makes me very nervous.

We saw the Consultant yesterday. He's such a lovely man and so interested in his specialist subject of Epilepsy/seizures. We've been told by many people how lucky we are to have had DH placed in his care. Anyway, I explained that the most recent seizures were without warning and that I had come up with 3 possible reasons. In order of least to most likely;
1) DH was stressed and worried about me after Goddaughter's death/funeral.
2) DH had consumed some energy drink the few days proceeding the seizure.
3) Due to seizures happening every 12-14 weeks, his body had got used to the higher dose of medication and it was no longer enough.

He suggested that the energy drink could be avoided in future "just incase it adds to the risk", however he didn't feel it had been the sole cause and he has prescribed DH an add-on pill on top of his other medication as he believes reason 3 to be the most likely cause. He did suggest that there was a better, more effective drug that he would normally use, but as it has the side effect of lowering mood, it is not ideal in DH's case. We all agreed to try that one if the first one doesn't prevent further seizures.
At this point we saw the Epilepsy Nurse too, who together with the consultant changed the protocol for me administering the Buccal Midazolam. I am now to give it to DH upon first seizure, as he is known to have cluster seizures so there is no point in waiting for the 2nd or 3rd episode as we expect it anyway. The Consultant then asked DH to fill in some questionnaires to assess mood/fatigue and put is in a side room to do it. Here, we were met with a lady from the Epilepsy Society who was there to speak to people who had just been diagnosed. We struck up a conversation and she ended up giving me so many helpful leaflets and some medical I.D type cards for DH. This lady was 63 and developed Epilepsy as a child. She spent many years being shunned and avoided because in those days it was not well known and akin to being possessed by the devil!! :eek: She spent 50 years with it until they finally got her medication right 6 years ago and she has been seizure free since then. It gave DH massive hope, especially when she said she'd been told she was now allowed to learn to drive, as DH still yearns to get his licence back. This might sound airy fairy, but I felt that meeting her was 'meant to be'. It was exactly what DH needed. Xx