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Doctor Google

kasper — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:20:24 +0000

It has been an absolutely bizarr-o week. Hubby has been home due to illness and has totally thrown off my schedule! I don’t know what it is, but when he’s home we both just get so lazy. He drives for a living, so when he’s being plagued by chest pains and dizzyness it’s not really a good idea to have him behind the wheel. I’m quite ticked off at his doctor at the moment. He went in to see her on Monday and had tests done – blood tests and an ECG, and was told that the results would be in by the end of the week and that we’d hear back when they were in. As of yesterday there was no word so being his “secretary” I called to find out what the deal was. I left a message in the morning to have the doctor call us back and found out that she was working until 16:00. By 15:35 without a call I called back to see what was going on. Left another message and was told that the doctor usually returned calls after business hours. Wanna guess? Yup. No call back again. So once again I call back and leave a message on the machine stating that I’d called and left 2 messages, that neither were returned and that we still didn’t know the outcome of the tests and he still wasn’t feeling any better. So this morning I got a call back from the receptionist to tell me that they don’t give results over the phone, that if no call is made then we are to assume that everything is okay, and that the doctor wasn’t in today. Okay, if tests were done for a yearly physical exam then don’t call me back when everything is fine (even though my doctor does), but when someone comes in complaining of chest pains, dizzyness and lethargy a call back should be made. Besides the doctor told hubby that if the tests came back negative then he would be back in ASAP for more tests as there was clearly something going on. WTF?! So instead of the doctor doing her job I now have hubby becoming Dr. Google and he has decided that he has Aortic Dissection, the same thing that John Ritter died of but was misdiagnosed. The worst part now is that his boss has called him back in to work because they’re so short staffed right now. I hope everything goes okay tomorrow. I keep telling him to take it slow and easy and to pull over and relax whenever necessary, but he’s a man and rarely listens to anything I have to say.

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On the mend

kasper — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:15:09 +0000

It was a horribly yucky grey, cold, rainy day today. I don’t know where my brain’s been at lately, but my days are all messed up. I was sitting down to breakfast this morning looking out at the nasty weather thinking “at least I don’t have to go outside today…”. Of course today is Friday, so I have to get the recycling to the curb. DOH! Plus I had to get some yard waste out too. When we moved into the house we inherited a huge mess of branches dumped on the other side of the fence. I think we’re probably better off renting a chipper or something to get rid of them instead of following the city rule of only putting out 3 bundles per week. Especially since after all the lugging from the backyard, they weren’t even picked up! grrr

Finally baby D’s conjunctivitis has almost cleared up. The day after his birthday (April 13th) when I took him into the doctor for his yearly check-up I noticed that he was getting a cold. Hubby was really worried because my Mum had been at baby D’s birthday with serious laryngitis which she got while on a trip to Egypt. He was afraid that she’d maybe given him something exotic. We did mention it to the doctor and he thought it was probably just coincidental. After a week of a fairly bad cough, he started to get a goopy eye. I swabbed at it with a warm, wet facecloth and hoped that it would clear itself up since the eye drops I had from the last time had expired. I had finally had enough and made him a quick appointment on Friday the 25th. Unfortunately his usual doctor wasn’t in, so I had to see his colleague. She seems nice enough, but said that she wouldn’t prescribe drops. I ended up getting oral antibiotics, which the pharmacist was surprised to see I was supposed to administer 4 times a day. She thought that was pretty taxing for an infant and I soon began to agree with her. Luckily baby D liked the medication, but I found his eye getting worse instead of better. It was starting to look like he got punched in the face. The skin under his eye was red and raw. By Monday I called the office again and explained that on Sunday when he woke up he couldn’t even open his eye – poor baby! I asked to have the same drops I had had before re-prescribed. I was very happy to hear that I didn’t have to come back in to be seen or get the script as I live about 20-30 minutes from the office. They called in the prescription and I managed to get the drops after my family dinner Monday night. At the dinner my brother callously asked if I had rubbed my son’s eye in raw chicken. So tactful. But his eye did look terrible. So happily now it’s almost gone, which is great since it’s a serious struggle getting the drops into his eyes. I’ve been trying to sneak them in while he’s nursing, but he’s on to me now.

I have finally updated my Flickr account. You won’t see much if you’re not a friend, so if you’re interested in seeing photos with actual people in them then drop me a line and befriend me.

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Mum where’s my nap?

kasper — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:20:26 +0000

Thought I’d start with DasBecca’s “Big Fake Meme” because I found it so amusing.

1. What song did you discover most recently?
“Stephanie” by Grand:PM. I saw them on Breakfast Television and thought they were great. Give them a listen.
2. What three songs are making the most rounds in your iTunes?
I actually still use WMP (version 9 if you can believe that) instead of iTunes (don’t throw things I just don’t like change) “Franklin” by Paramore, “Pressure” by Paramore, and “Cold” by Crossfade.
3. What song makes you the most emotional?
“Because of You” by Kelly Clarkson. It always strikes a nerve whenever I hear it.
4. What’s the last movie you watched?
“Shrek the Third” Just a few minutes ago actually. I liked it better than the first 2. Great watch.
5. What do you waste time looking at online when you’re alone? PORN? It’s porn, isn’t it?
Er, um. NO. Seriously no. I mostly look up baby stuff lately. Neat gadgets and such. I love this stuff for instance: Boon.
6. What did you dream about last night?
Gladly nothing. I’ve been having pretty bad nightmares lately. I’m so stressed out about returning to work after having baby D, so some of them are with that regard. Some of them are just your average being chased by a psychopathic killer variety.
7. What’s up with all these ads?
I’m just trying them out for the moment. If I can make a couple of bucks while blogging then why not? Besides the canned theme had that section pre-made, so I figured I would fill it.
8. What’s your fondest hope for the next year?
That I can get over this absolute dread of putting baby D in daycare and of me going back to work.
9. What are you wearing right now?
My blue flannel pj pants and La Senza nightshirt. It’s lazy, but what’s the point in getting dressed if I’m not leaving the house?
10. How lame is this meme?
I quite enjoyed it actually. Thanks Becca!

So I’ve managed to add a few things around here and hope to add more stuff as I get time. I was pretty busy this week (as my life goes anyway). Tuesday morning me and baby D went to his second WeeHands class. I’ve been signing on and off to him since he was a few weeks old (mostly just the sign for milk) but thought that a more structured class may be helpful. Last week there were only three of us with our little ones, but this week there were 7 mums and babies. The little girl next to us was already crawling and crawled right over to baby D and was trying to touch his face. It was so cute.

Wednesday I took the little man to the doctor’s for his 9 month checkup. I stupidly thought he had to get another set of shots so I ended up drugging the poor kid only to find out that there would be no shots until 12 months. DUH! Oh well, the good news is that he’s put on quite a bit of weight. His weight has always been low so his father especially has been worried. I just figured (like the doctor) that every kid is different and he’s totally healthy and happy so what’s the problem? So he went from 6.9 kilos in December to 8 kilos. What a little porkchop!

Then yesterday (Thursday) my church mums group started up again. I met with them from September through November to do a parenting video series “Honor in the Home” by Gary Smalley and this time we’re doing “Bringing Up Boys” by James Dobson. I really enjoy getting together with other women, but have to admit that I have to push myself to do it. I’m just not a social person I find.

My only issue with my weehands class and with the parenting group is that they are both in the morning. When baby D and I are home (which is most of the time), then he is totally on a schedule and everything is great. But when I throw outings into the mix it messes everything up. He can’t eat when he usually eats or nap when he usually naps. In fact both Tuesday and Thursday he didn’t have his afternoon nap at all and was oh so cranky because of it. I think it’s important for us both to get out, so I’ll just have to deal with it, but it is frustrating.

So I’m expecting my mum to come down either tonight after dinner or tomorrow morning. She’s bringing the sled she bought for him, which will be useful if we ever get any snow. The house is in pretty good order, but I always tend to go overboard cleaning when I know someone is coming over, so I’m off to clean…

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