The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

stiltwalker

savingqueen wrote: »

I totally agree with Floss kidcat - please put your foot down before you become really ill and end up in hospital. We are worried about you, please listen to the toughies.

This is one of those posts that needs double thanks - we're all gonna nag you kidcat, don't you just know it!!

Worried about you too Gailey - that is no where near enough food for anyone, let alone with all the running round you do, plus it doesn't sound nutritionally great so you will be missing out on all the good stuff food can do for your general health. DH has decided he needs to lose a bit of weight so I'm doing meals out of the hairy dieters books as he reckons he's a similar shape and build to them with a similar attitude to food (in fact he looks quite like Dave as well!!) so it ought to work for him. Today he's had crumpets for breakfast, a ham, egg and lettuce wrap for lunch and leek, potato and cheese pasty with a few oven chips and a big pile of salad for tea and an apple for a snack - way more food and more fruit and veg and it's diet food. Mind you it doesn't taste much like diet food, we had beef bourgeon with leeky mash and veg yesterday.

Got a spotty boy here - the dreaded chicken pox!! and I've a sneaking suspicion that DD may well wake up with spots tomorrow too. Thankfully he seems pretty ok with it so far, fine in himself just a bit spotty! Hoping they are both going to be ok as my parents are coming to do childcare on Thursday as DH and I are supposed to be going to the Kidz up North show at Manchester (exhibition of various suppliers of disability equipment etc), we really need to have a good look at the vehicle section as we need to go up to a bigger vehicle sooner rather than later and there are a few other things we need to suss out. So far my parents are ok with a spotty boy and potentially spotty girl as long as they are in fairly good humour about the who thing but if they are miserably poorly then they will need us anyway. I'm also supposed to be going to the Knitting and Stitching at Harrogate on the Friday too which may well go out of the window - still suppose that will save a few pennies and I can always go internet shopping if I need anything.

Take care all - hugs X

nuttyp

hi everyone, just a quick pop by. DD has been re admitted to hospital this afternoon. She still keeps being ill, and has a temperature. So we ventured back and as I left she was on a drip with anti sickness drugs being pumped in her, seams she does get on well with morphine.

Will be on tenderhooks all night.

Byatt

Nuttyp, I am glad your DD has been re-admitted, and I mean that in a good way. They should not have let her go when she was being so sick let alone after such an op, itself is pretty horrendous, bless her. I'm always very sick after an anaesthetic, but those anti sickness drugs are wonderful (used to be given by injection), I hope she starts to feel so much better soon.

Gailey, my girl, you are not eating enough, let alone enough of the right foods. Not eating properly can lower your mood, cause irritability and feelings of stress. You need vitamins and minerals as well as all the other goodness from food. You are a bright, intelligent woman and know about food, so please, please don't abuse your body by not eating. You are like Kidcat, always thinking of your family and putting them first, if you don't put yourself first in this matter, then you will get ill and what will your family do then.

Kidcat, I know your daughter is a real support and it seems like she's just exhausted like you and is in hiding, but you can't keep this up, as others have said, we are very worried about you.

Shegar, I hope you're ok, have you seen your doctor again.

Pooky, years ago we went on a day trip to Iceland one February, a birthday gift for ex, and it was magical. I love snow, and to see the Gulfloss (sp) falls (all frozen), and geysers was amazing. Exhausting day, but I will never forget it. In all the photos, I'm beaming.

Byatt

Kidcat, it's a tightrope walk...I think you are such an amazing mother. xx

stiltwalker

She sounds like me in regard to the blokes kidcat - you would not believe the list of losers I can call ex boyfriends (and even an ex husband!!) Never dated a gay guy though, but can add a drunk to the list. Really hope she will come around and see sense sooner than I did - sadly I was 30 before I got sorted and got together with my lovely DH. He may look like one of the hairy bikers, he may need some (ok, quite a bit of) prompting in the housework department and his idea of cooking may be sausages and oven chips with a side of baked beans but he is worth infinitely more than anyone else I have ever dated.

Big hugs X

wondercollie

nuttyp, my youngest had a septoplasty and had to be re admitted. He developed a bleed after vomiting. The morphine slows down and stops the bleeding. Anti nausea med are best going in through an IV, they work faster. Zofran and Maxeran are life savers. If there is bleeding there is a good chance they will use liquid cocaine.

I think they should be keeping the ENT patients in overnight. I don't mean the tonsils and adenoids but thyroids and anything involving the nose. The noses? We have one surgeon that sends all nasal surgeries home 2-3 hours post op and one that keeps them all overnight.

kezlou

Nutty poor dd at least now shes being watched over by the experts. hopefully she will feel better in the morning. Try not to worry hunni xx

Pink debster molly, shegar and nana hope your feeling better today x

Hate the spotties stilty, get plenty of calpol and calomine lotion in really helps sooth the skin.

Thanks peeps not sure about being brave.
Petrified and shaken and thats just me lol.

SDG31000

Morning all

Just a quick pop in as I need to get ready for work.

nuttyp I hope your DD recovers quickly

kidcat Get well soon and get back to the Doctors please xxx

stiltwalker Try bicarb in a bath of lukewarm water. It was a godsend when DS2 got chicken pox. He spent hours every day in the bath and it really helped.

Well done kezlou :T

I really don't want to move today. It's grey and wet and miserable. However if I stay here I have masses of laundry and sewing to look forward to. I need to get more stocking fillers and a red sheet for making stockings. I can get a kingsize red sheet for £8, much cheaper than going and buying a length of cotton fabric.
Time to put on my big girl pants and get moving.

Take care everyone xxxxxxx

kidcat

Morning toughies - Just for continuity purposes I posted last night which a few people have responded to, I then deleted my post as I was concerned that DD may see it - she knows you are the people I turn to when in trouble so its a possibility she would go looking.

Thank you all for your input and thoughts.

Stiltwalker - I was supposed to be doing kidz up north too, not sure I will make it now but if your spotties arent too bad and you do get there, if I go we can wave and we race about manically hope the spotties manage a non sickly set of spots - my eldest breezed through it, the others not so much so, DS15 was admitted to hospital by ambulance and DD7 had a really bad batch too, I think its obvious which way they will be from the beginning though, DD19 was fine right through whereas the others were awful from the get go.

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Morning all, it was very cold here last night (well, by Hampshire standards anyway!) and I took the first hot water bottle of the year to bed and I'm glad I did as I woke up in the early hours very cold and actually cuddled it to get warm and woke up with it still on my tum this morning, I think winter is near!!!

NUTTY I hope little miss Nutty is much recovered today, and is OK to come home poor kid, and hope you and Mr Nutty are going to have a less fraught day today.

STILTWALKER Helen, hope the poor spotty kiddlers are not feeling too much under the weather with the dreaded Chicken Pox and that they aren't too grumpy for you both. Have your parents had chicken pox as children? if they have the same virus can activate the dormant virus left from the childhood illness and there is the possibility of shingles. I thought I'd flag it up although I'm sure you know already.

It's very dull and grey here today and we're forecast much rain so I'm having a domestic day and making bread and doing the ironing and all the other little jobs that can be done indoors, have a good one everyone, Cheers Lyn xxx.