What a Day!

I promised Simon that I would write on the blog, so here goes:

Hello folks, I know it has been a while since I have written to you, it is not for my lack of wanting to share but more my finding others things to do that seem to be more important at the time. The fact that I have this evening polished off two glasses of wine and 1 bar of chocolate may give some indication of the day I have had. Well as you all know Wednesday's is hospital day, but today I did it alone as Simon was down south helping out with some abseiling and getting a well deserved break! Normally we leave the house at 8am, needless to say I found out on my own, we left the house at 8:30. On a funny note, Oliver's favourite book of the moment is "The Wheels on the Bus", which he himself picks out of the bookshelf and so whilst trying to eat breakfast this morning, in between mouthfuls, I was singing the song whilst reading to him. In fact he will not sit still for any other book at this point in time. Speaking of sitting still, that is not his favourite activity at the moment, his favourite activity is trying to walk - evidence of his broken wrist, which by the way is mending nicely and his cast will come off in 2 weeks - yay! Oliver is managing quite well with his cast on though and continues to crawl, the most frustrating thing is that he wants to constantly be helped to try and walk which can become tiring after a while.

Anyway back to our day. By the time I got to the hospital I was exhausted. We spent a bit of time waiting around to check on Oliver's arm, but not much time waiting on Ward 3B which was good. Oliver did not have treatment today as he has missed his third week of treatment for a couple of cycles and could therefore not have treatment today, however the obligatory finger prick was still taken. I dont even know what his blood results were, but Dr Angela said unless I had any concerns that we could go, so I didnt argue with that. As a side note, Oliver almost choked in the car this afternoon as I had taken his bandaid off his thumb earlier and it continued to bleed so I reapplied two bandaids which he proceeded to bite or suck off and try and swallow, luckily spitting it out and me reaching over and retrieving it at the traffic lights.

At the traffic lights you say, you might ask "Where were you headed?" Well we were headed to Edgewater to the home of our very delightful cleaning lady to get the set of keys to our house which she had used to enter our house earlier today and clean because my set and my mums spare set I could not get to work in our front door. However whilst on the way to her place, Mum phoned to say that she had got into our place using her spare set - so who knows? Simon has had trouble with his keys for a little while, but today is the first time I have had trouble with mine. So after having been out all day and getting home after 4 to find I couldnt get into our house, was none other than frustrating. I must say though Oliver is a blessing, he was so good and let Mummy put him into his car seat again and drive to Nanna's to hang out there till a suitable solution was found.

After the hospital, we had a birthday lunch for Elisa who arrived home from Sri Lanka yesterday at Kathryn's place which was lovely and the highlight of my day. Anyway the day ended with getting home at 6:45pm, Mum helped me to feed Oliver and get him ready for bed - thanks Mum and by 7:45 I had the house to myself and a bottle of wine to finish, having done precisely that whilst watching 'Criminal Minds', my favourite show, I opted to write on the blog whilst having a cup of tea and ofcourse finishing off the bar of chocolate that I started whilst on route to Mums today after not being able to get my key in the door. I know this reeks highly of my comfort eating and drinking - sorry you will have to forgive me for that.

All in all I survived the day, hospital and all on my own, so I am proud and I have plenty of stories to tell Simon when he arrives home tomorrow night.

Thank you for following our little mans journey.

Lots of Love

Karli