Sashybo - Back Again

Bluegreen143

Sounds like things are tiring and stressful Sashy. Sorry your hip doesn’t seem to be getting better and you’ve got a sore ankle too. Disheartening when you were doing so well with running! 

At my DC’s school they have to wear a shirt and tie daily which in a way is easier cos when it happens everyday you get used to it fairly quickly and my DS learned to tie his own quickly too. 

beanielou

I would just go with the injection. I have them in both my shoulder and my hip. Also have you tried CBD balm?  It is fantastic. 

jwil

Little miss took longer to toilet train than little jwil.  It's not unusual when they start school as it's a big change for them.

sashybo

Thanks for dropping by all.

I managed to get an appointment with the GP yesterday morning, he was already running 15 mins late by the half 9 appointment! 10 mins per patient is just not long enough. He agrees with private physio that it looks like greater trochanteric syndrome and went through the recommended treatments although acknowledged that I had probably tried most of them by now as it's been going on for a year.

He told me to make an appointment with the physio based at the doctors surgery and have her assess me. He thinks she can also do the steroid injection if she thinks it's necessary but if not one of the other doctors usually does them. He also gave me some anti-inflammatory tablets to try to see if they help at all. I have an appointment on Friday to see the physio so pretty pleased with the speed of that compared to the hospital physio waiting lists. He also said sometimes these things just take a long time to resolve but I feel like I should surely have seen some improvement by now! Fingers crossed the physio will give the steroid injection and that it helps.

Only 1 more week of the running ban to go, I have another phone appointment with the women's health physio next week and will see what she says. I think she wants to re-introduce the running slowly. I'll be going for a run next Friday or Saturday anyway and am quite excited about it which seems a bit sad really. 😂 

Not looking forward to my late shifts as this part of my working pattern involves 4 out of 5 days ( 2 on, 1 off, 2 on) and have a lot of running about to do on Fri/Sat. DH is also working late shifts which is what makes it more awkward. My mum is picking the kids up from school on Friday & keeping them overnight, so I need to drop their clothes off at her house before work plus I also have my physio appointment, luckily my mum lives around the corner from the doctors. On Saturday I need to collect the kids in the morning then collect my older nieces in the afternoon as they are going to babysit for me until my mum arrives early evening as she's going out for the afternoon. Oh and fit in work and keeping the house vaguely presentable and most importantly keeping up with the washing!

Managed to get a washing hung out today as it was lovely and sunny again but there's a definite chill in the mornings now. DD seemed happy at pick up and said she sat nicely for her photo but she wasn't happy about the shirt and tie at all. I think we'll struggle to get it on her tomorrow for the sibling photos. 😩 

Had a quick look at paint colours online for DD's room with DH today, I'm leaning towards a pale pink as it will be easier to paint over in a few years when she grows out of it. Hoping to get her room painted over the October week as we have 2 days off together in the middle of that week. I know how to enjoy myself. 🤷‍♀️ Then we will only need to sort DS's room and it will be quite quick to paint as it's smaller, hoping to do that before Christmas and it would be brilliant to get the new carpets in then too but that's probably over ambitious.

Having a nightmare with OP after cashing out £25, they have blocked my account and are claiming I've been accessing their surveys from outside the UK/using a VPN. 🤔 I haven't. I only got my account back last week for the same issue - I want the reward money I'm owed! They cancelled my reward redemption straight away! There has been a bit of back and forth through email, I don't know if I'll ever see that money 😠 but I won't be doing anymore surveys through them either way. They obviously have a dodgy system but keep blaming me. 🤷‍♀️ 

beanielou

You could always ask people to donate to carpets for the kids rooms in lieu of Christmas presents? 

sashybo

So the outcome of the physio appointment was for me to be put on more waiting lists. 🙄 Apparently they don’t do steroid injections near the hip in the surgery. Physio seemed just as confused as the private physio as the exercises I’ve been given should have worked. Well they haven’t! So now on a waiting list for orthopaedics and another for hospital physio. Won’t hold my breath on either tbh.

Anti-inflammatory tablets did help my hip pain but gave me a sore stomach and heartburn so had to stop taking them.

DD also woke me up at 2am on Friday with a sore stomach and was sick, then woke me again at 5am to be sick again. Luckily made it to the bathroom both times. Later that morning she had a runny bum. Obviously kept her off school so had to ditch her at my mum’s quite early so I could make my physio appointment as DH was going to work.

Luckily DD was fine and had no more symptoms so my mum was able to take her to collect DS from school.

My twin nieces watched the kids for 6 hours today and think DD has scarred them for life. Doubt they will want to babysit again!! 

I have started a sourdough starter to see how I get on with it. On day 3 now and it stinks! Apparently this is normal so hopefully it will turn out ok. Sourdough bread is so expensive to buy so I thought it was worth a try.

OP are still ignoring me. 😡

Sun_Addict

My DD was later than DS with potty training and walking. 

Yeah Rick does like the sound of his own voice 🤣 He does a few with no talking though. 

Bluegreen143

It’s interesting to hear that, I always heard girls were easier to potty train than girls. My kids were the same age but my daughter definitely did take to it much quicker with few accidents whereas my son took a while. She did take longer to walk though. I’ve also found her sooooooo much easier to teach to read (in that she doesn’t resist lessons and actually enjoys/requests them unlike DS who was definitely very resistant at her age, though he can read well now at age 8!).

Sashy, that’s really rubbish about your hip. I know you’ve been really fed up not being able to run. Have you been able to get out running again or is that on standby for now? 

sashybo

SA, so many people told me it would be easier potty training DD - nope! She’s been much harder work than DS & I thought he was stubborn at the time! She’s getting there slowly, she’ll be 5 next month. 

Both kids were about 18 months before they decided to walk! I think I just have lazy kids. DS is only just starting to get to grips with reading as well & he’s 7. Like Bluegreen I’ve found DD more interested/willing to learn to read and think she will take to it quicker.

My 4 week running ban ends in about 5 days so I still haven’t gotten out for a run. I’m speaking to the women’s health physio again this week (she was the one who asked me to stop running for 4 weeks). I’m going for a run at the end of the week regardless, I need to do it and also the outlaws will be here by then so I’ll need to run away from them/get some stress relief!

sashybo

The outlaw visit was stressful, DH was very tense the whole time they were here. They just don’t seem very interested in our life and we don’t have anything to talk about with them apart from the kids.

Speaking of the kids they were still favouring DS and quite negative about DD. She wouldn’t let them ignore her though and just kept chatting to them. I’m glad she’s too young to really notice their attitude, they did soften a bit towards her eventually. 

There were still quite a few comments made though i.e. I was going for a run and MIL asked why I started doing it and I said partly to get a break from the kids and she replied oh yes, one in particular. 🙄

DD was ill at school on the Friday & I got a phone call to pick her up half an hour before we were going to go out for lunch with the outlaws. School had had to clean her up and change her whole outfit including shoes. 😱 She skipped out of the door and seemed fine!

Outlaws were not best pleased that she then came with us to the restaurant. 🤣 Again it was can’t your mum watch her? Well no because she was out! She doesn’t just hang about on the off chance I need childcare! Then the outlaws have the cheek to say we take advantage of her and she shouldn’t help us so much! Most of the time it’s so I can work!

They also constantly ignored things DH told them, like what time he could pick them up (oh we’re at the station, we’re getting this train when he’d told them a later time) and that he couldn’t drop them off at the airport as I was at work and he had both kids in their car seats in the car so no room for another 2 adults.

I avoided them as much as possible tbh otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to keep my mouth shut. Hopefully won’t have to see them again for a good long while.

DH is utterly fed up of them both and I think would quite happily never see his dad again.