I had a busy afternoon yesterday. First I had to take Megan for her diphtheria, tetanus and polio booster, then we all had to go to Megan’s school for a meeting with her form teacher and head-of-year about the problems she’s having at school. As expected the jab was a nightmare. All the kids had it at school several weeks ago, but Megan had gone into meltdown and got so upset they couldn’t do it so they asked for me to arrange to get it done at our GP’s surgery. Megan has a fear, not so much of needles, as of pain. She can fall and hurt herself and deal with it just fine, it’s anticipated pain that is such an issue. If she knows it’s going to hurt, even slightly, she just goes into a panic. We had discussed the jab several times in advance and talked about situations where she had hurt herself and dealt with it OK and how the jab wouldn’t be as painful; about times in the past where she has had to have needles and it hasn’t been nearly as bad as she thought it would be. It was all a complete waste of time! As soon as we got in there she started to panic. I had warned the surgery in advance and the nurse who gave her the booster was so patient with her. After about 10 minutes of persuading, it was done. I’m always really torn, I do feel sympathetic – while completely out of proportion, Megan’s fear is genuine. On the other hand I always end up feeling very frustrated and cross with her and have to bite my tongue not to tear a strip off her.
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I love gadgets and gizzmos. I also love them on my blog and have installed an mp3 player on my sidebar. I’d like to try and change the music regularly. probably a couple of different tracks of 4 or 5 different albums. I spend a lot of time at my PC and every second of that is plugged into some music! Hopefully people will find stuff that they haven’t come across before but also maybe you’ll hear something and do a “if you like that, you’ll love this” kind of thing. More tripe »
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For years I have been joking that I can’t wait for hot flushes, being so nesh it might be nice to be warm for a change. Well they say “be careful what you wish for” and it’s come back to bite me in the arse! They started very gradually after New year. So gradually that I wasn’t sure if that’s what was happening. One night in early February David and I went out to the local folk club. We saw a great band, Uiscedwr, and had a nice night out. I’d had a couple of ciders and was pleasantly mellow. Unfortunately the cider meant I woke up about 3am, busting for a wee. I slipped out of bed and went to the loo and as I headed back to bed it was like someone had turned a flame-thrower on me. I had just enough time to thing “I think I’m going to faint, I need to get back to bed quickly” and that’s the last thing I remember until I heard David calling me.
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So here we go again, back on the blogging merry-go-round. it has been a long, long time since I blogged regularly and, as ever, I’m making no promises! I do still have the old database from my previous blog however I think I would like a fresh start. Quite apart from the nightmare of converting them!
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