Emergency

We had our first trip to the emergency department last night. Harrison woke up unable to breathe. With all the terrible flus around, and 4 toddler deaths in Perth this winter we decided to rush him to hospital. Luckily we're not far from the children's hospital (Princess Margaret Hospital in Subiaco) and their emergency department is fabulous. That's the same hospital that drew blood from him in 5 uneventful seconds last year, after I'd spent 4 days going back and forth to pathology labs having nurses repeatedly try to get needles in his emaciated veins for hours and hours.

Turns out Harrison has croup and should be better in a few days.

Chocolate scones

Simon took Harrison to watch the splashes and crashes at the Avon Descent on Sunday (I had the flu so stayed in bed). Mel provided rocky road (aka chocolate scones). Harrison looks much healthier in the August 07 photo than he does in the October 06 one. He's also about 4 kilos heavier.

Health houses and handbags

Mum and Dad have both been keeping the Toowoomba medical fraternity busy lately. Dad with his diabetes (he's now on insulin), and Mum getting tested for a hereditary thyroid condition that it seems most of her family has. Dad also has to go back to the sleep specialist as his sleep study showed up some issues.

Paul and Anna have moved into their house, but their blog doesn't yet show the updated photos (see the link on the side bar). Madonna and Peter are also in their new house, which apparently is beautiful (they raised an art deco home and built under it).

Simon's marking exam papers at the moment, as well as looking at final proofs of his admin lawbook, and doing the update on his native title book. Plus he's going to Brisbane in mid July to teach an intensive Masters class at QUT. The good news is that he has a fairly light teaching load next semester, and those books should be finished once and for all in the next month. So we look forward to seeing him at dinner and on the weekends. Harrison is starting to think Daddy is just someone who visits occasionally!

I bought two dresses for Denis and Tracey's wedding (a girl needs choice, after all!), and I'm going to try my hand at making a handbag for them. Might have to ring Rosie for advice.

Clean bill of health

Dad's angiogram last week went well - he didn't need any stents, nor a bypass. He doesn't yet have his sleep study results, and it sounds like his diabetes is worsening, but at least the heart is pretty good.

Dad's angiogram

Dad is booked in for a sleep study and then a day later an angiogram (in late April).  Mum sounds a bit worried about it all, especially since both Dad's parents died fairly early with heart problems...  Hopefully the fact that he hasn't yet had a heart attack bodes well and means they will be able to take corrective action such as putting in a stent.  Dad would have a pretty good diet already since he's diabetic, and he has exercised frequently for the past decade or so since moving off the farm.

 

I had a sleep study last year (my dear husband complained that I kept him awake at night).  It was really interesting, and quite a holiday for me - I was given dinner, read a magazine, and the nurses fussed around wiring me up for monitoring before I settled down for the night.  The room was really dark and silent.  Best of all, I knew there would be no little person calling out "good morning mum" at 6am, and no stressed out person tossing and turning beside me.  The nurses said I slept like a princess and I had to be woken at 7am so I could go to work.  When the results came back, they showed that while I did snore, it was well within normal range.  The specialist facetiously said that sometimes it's the sensitivity or sleeping habits of the partner that's the problem....