Inconvenient Annoyances

sending good wishes for her speedy recovery!! 

I phoned MIL yesterday, b/c I thought playgroup was on today and I wanted her to know Aillidh wouldn't be coming b/c I wouldn't dream of exposing young children to this - plus at lot of the mums there are now pregnant or have young babies. 

She completely fobbed me off.  She said, 'Mind you, all the kids up the road have runny noses.'  Um, does my daughter hang around the kids up her road?  Don't think so!  In fact, my daughter has been around NO other children since Roisin was born, b/c all the playgroups went on Xmas break and she missed the last ones b/c we were too knackered to make it.  We haven't even been to a mall or taken her to church, fgs!  Teh only places she's been are parks and other open spaces like that.  Accepting the two times FIL hacked all over her.  But that was okay b/c he wasn't coming near the baby?  Thanks a lot!  Just make a small child terribly ill and possibly her newborn sister as well.  This type of s*it could REALLY damage a newborn.

And she hasn't got a runny nose.  She's got a nasty chest cough thanks to him.  I've been up since she woke and haven't left the flat at all.

She's still moaning away in her cot in between cough spasms. 

I hope the doctor can help her somehow, b/c she needs some sleep. 

 

Don't you wonder sometimes what it must be like to just go through life TOTALLY clueless?! 

I'm sorry Expat that you and your little ones are going through all of this because of their ignorance. I hope they start feeling better very soon! Ugghh, I don't get it when people are sick and they run amuck giving their crap to everyone else. 

the cold's settled in her chest and she has a chest infection. 

trying to get the anti-biotics down her was EPIC!  she's still up, repeating, 'night night' but not coughing as much.  she's getting the full whack of her meds in a bit.

if she's not improved by sat. they want to see her back b/c apparently pnuemonia is making the rounds in children this time of year.

I hate to hear it is in her chest , but glad to hear she is on antibiotics, hopefully that will knock it out quickly and she can get back to feeling like her old self. Being so little it just takes it right out of them.

SENDING GOOD VIBES YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gah!  Like others have said, that's so incredibly inconsiderate.    I'm also sending my good wishes for both of your ickle ones, expat.  Hope things get better with them soon.  Honestly...that makes me a bit angry just reading about it!  I can't believe some people can  be so thickheaded as to endanger kids that small.  I always refuse to go near small children if I'm at all ill...including the parents.  Hell, even with childless adults I say "Oh, don't come too near me, I don't want you to catch what I have."  But anyone with kids...I'd just tell them not to come cause I wasn't feeling well and didn't want them to get it too.  It just seems like common sense.

Which is my inconvenient annoyance for the day.  Actually, it seems to be more of the theme of my life.  People who completely lack common sense.   

She's back to the surgery w/Andrew.  NO improvement.  3 doses of her antibiotic and she's worse.  Temp back up to 38.2, cough still there and her breathing is raspy.  The GP thinks it's pneumonia and wants to phone ahead to Sick Kids (sorry, that's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, for htose not in Edinburgh) so we're not stuck waiting for hours.

Now I'm REALLY pissed off!   

This poor kid has NEVER been this ill.  She's just a shell of herself.  Laying in cot moaning b/c she can't get any sleep and coughing, coughing coughing.  Robutussin did NOTHING for htat cough.  She hasn't slept properly in days, and she's again refusing fluids.

'It's just a cold.'  Well, sure, maybe to a grown adult.  To a child, it can be far, far worse. 

Oh Leigh, sending good thoughts to your little girl and family.  How is the baby?

She's sneezing a lot and her nose is stuffy.  So I'm watchign her like a hawk, b/c it's nearly the weekend and if she falls ill at the weekend the doctor told Andrew to take her immediately to Sick Kids. 

 :\\\'(

Praying for a speedy recovery for Aillidh... 

Oh, Leigh....AARRGGHHH!!!! 

I am so incredibly sorry that she's so ill.  Prayers for your wee girls, Aillidh that she improves soon and Roisin that she avoids getting this.  And for you and Andrew for strength and comfort.  It's so scary when the little ones get sick like this....

 

it's pneumonia.  but they feel it can be treated at home.  she's been given something for hydration and a jab of antibiotic.  she also has more liquid antibiotic and it seems to be going down a little better.  she's also got some cough syrup that tastes pretty good 

hopefully this will knock it out but she's moaning in her cot. 

we're still keeping roisin and her apart and hoping for the best w/regards to the baby. 

maybe on sunday we'll put them back together, or when her cough improves a bit.

Having to get up at 5am to get to work for 7:30 am for patients not show for their SCHEDULED IN ADVANCE 9AM appointment till 2pm

I could have had some sleep , I could have saved money on the fare , I could have taken in my daughter to school..but NOOO I have to wait in an empty clinic for these folks to show

Driving three hours to Nashville to visit friends, only to immediatly get lost and when I turned around my car I accidentally ran off the road into a ditch and I couldn't get it out. I was in a sort of issolated area, no clue where I was, and not one person stopped to offer help.

So I called AAA in Knoxville. The office there transfered me to Nashville. The lady in Nashville put me on hold and then transfered me back to the Knoxville office. I told my whole story to the knoxville person, who eventually figured out I needed to talk to someone in Nashville. (I thought I was talking to N'ville) so then the K'ville person transfered me back to N'ville, who accidentally hung up on me. 

After 20 minutes, some one finally called me back. They said they would have someone for me in 45 min. After waiting for 1hr and 15min, I called AAA again, just to ask if they had forgotten about me. After transfering back and forth ten more times, I finally got to talk to someone. They said I was next in line.

A few minutes later a police car showed up. Apparently one of the people who couldn't be bothered to stop and see if I was ok, decided to call 911 for me.  Then the AAA guy coming to rescue me finally called to see where I was located. Apparently since I was in Nashville, he couldn't help me since he was only a AAA dude for Franklin. (I was right on the border between the two)

Meanwhile, the police officer is on the radio and decides he needs to search my car. So after looking through all my stuff, and finding an (unopened) bottle of Malibu in my trunk, I had to do a alcohol breathing test thing. (must have been a slow day for him....)

After two more hours, and about 10 more phone calls, some one from AAA finally came and in about two seconds had me out of the ditch.

I was only four hours late getting to my friend's house. 

Had to get up at 3am and ask my neighbour to turn his music down.