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The one where I act like a mama bear

Posted on January 31, 2008

Squidge had an appoint­ment with a gp today, not her reg­u­lar one as she was booked until late next week.  Squidge has been limp­ing for about a week and a half.  I went to see her gp a cou­ple of days after the limp appeared and was told to give it a few days and  if it was still there to come back.  Still there I came back.  So what hap­pened when we get there? 

GP: I can’t see it.  Are you sure she has a limp? 

ME: It’s her left leg, there you see!  SHE’S LIMPING. 

GP: No sorry can’t see it.  It looks like nor­mal tod­dler walk­ing to me.

ME: You mean most tod­dlers walk like they’re drag­ging their foot behind them??  She has a limp.  She’s had it for over a week.  Dr V saw it and said to come back if it didn’t go away.  (mean­while Squidge is run­ning around and we’re look­ing at her) I know I’m not imag­ing this because peo­ple– STRANGERS say things like “does she always walk like that” and “is her leg OK? It looks like she’s limp­ing” or ” are you OK sweetie, do you have an owie on your leg”!! 

I begin to pack up my things and thank him when there’s a knock on the door.  It’s Dr V our usual doc, YAY!! So he asks her about it and she con­firms that yes Squidge did have a limp last week and that she thought if it didn’t go away it was tod­dler hip dis­place­ment (or some­thing to that effect). So he’s refer­ring us to see an pedi­atric orthopaedic spe­cial­ist.  It’s a good thing Dr. V showed up when she did because I was going to walk out and make another appoint­ment with another doc and I would have con­tin­ued to do that until some one lis­tened to me.   I’m  with my daugh­ter all the time and I KNOW when some­thing is wrong– don’t f%#k with me regard­ing my daugh­ter– I’ll cut you!! Grrrr!!! 

I get a lit­tle  frus­trated with the docs here in the UK.  Please don’t get me wrong I am sooo grate­ful for the National Health Ser­vice.  I don’t have the think about health-care and health costs.  If I have a prob­lem I just call and we’re usu­ally seen in a cou­ple of days.  My frus­tra­tion comes in their reac­tive atti­tude towards medicine.  It’s a lit­tle dif­fi­cult adjust­ing to a dif­fer­ent way of doing things.  In the US they’re much more proac­tive.  If I brought Squidge in for some­thing they’d be all over her.  At the end of the day I pre­fer the NHS because  at least I HAVE health cov­er­age.   Any­hoo rant  over hope­fully we’ll have an appoint­ment with the pedi­atric orthopaedic per­son sooner rather than later.

As for those that asked about how Squidge got her limp.  I don’t know, she just woke up one morn­ing with a limp.  She’s not com­plain­ing, doesn’t wince in pain and con­tin­ues to run around and play like she nor­mally does.  All I know is that I can’t stand to look at her when she limps, she looks bro­ken and it breaks my heart!

I’ve been work­ing on get­ting my pho­tographs in  order.  I take pho­tos almost every singe day but I haven’t printed any since June.  I also want to frame them and hang them on the wall by the stairs.  So off we went to Ikea to pick up some frames-I want them all in black frames and knew that Ikea would have some­thing I liked.

I still have another 10 or so to frame but ran  out of money. I’m kick­ing myself for head­ing out to Ikea with­out my debit card!!  I also picked up an 8x10 frame for the ‘pro­fes­sional’ photo I had done on Fri­day.  Yes folks it’s only taken us 19 months to have a pro­fes­sional  photo done.  From what I could see all  I need is a black and a white sheet and I can do what they do!  I’m sure you guessed it folks, I also picked up a white sheet (a fleece blan­ket actu­ally) while I was at Ikea. 

Just some pho­tos from Head over Heels (did you know that Melanie Brown took her kids there when she was in Man­ches­ter– Oooh la la!) yesterday.

Bling!

Posted on January 30, 2008

Ooooh how I’ve wanted me some blingy bling!! I read blogs and see bling being given away and quickly scan to see if my name is on the list of recip­i­ents– it never is. HA!! That has all changed. A while ago Cami said I had mad skillz– I was soo happy to get that bit of bling. There my lit­tle bitty bling sat all alone. Then sud­denly– I have two more shiny bits of bling all on the same day!! Woohoo!!

The first one is from Troy– click on the bling and you’ll be taken to his won­der­ful blog. He’s funny and sar­cas­tic and a must read! He’s also Cana­dian, don’t hold that against him.

The sec­ond one is from Jenty. She takes fab pic­tures and lives in South Africa. I love the insight she gives into SA life.

I sup­pose I should pass this on but I’m a bit tired so I’ll get to it soon– I promise. Thanks Ya’ll for think­ing about me and giv­ing me some BLING.

Squidge still has her limp– she looks soo pathetic when she it try­ing to run. We have an appoint­ment on Thurs­day and I hope it will get sorted then. We still haven’t found an after­noon tod­dler group we like so we went to Head over Heels today. Some­thing new on the Squidge devel­op­ment– fear. She was afraid to walk across some of the areas today. Usu­ally she’s fear­less and runs around like crazy. I’m hop­ing this is a tem­po­rary thing!

We do the whole ‘where’s your belly’ thing.  It’s really cute except after she shows me hers she wants to see mine.  That is fine and dandy when where home.  When we’re in Sainsbury’s it’s a lit­tle bit embar­rass­ing.  She’s a stub­born lit­tle girl and will not be happy until you show her your belly.  I thought that I had lost all sense of embar­rass­ment when I breast­fed on the steps of shop on a busy road dur­ing rush hour.  Appar­ently there are many lev­els of embar­rass­ment and I’m sure there are more to come!!!

Lickity! Lick! Lick!

Posted on January 29, 2008

I  baked a cake on Sun­day to take to Joy’s house.  

  Boston Cream Pie– it was a bit nerve wrack­ing as Wal said it smelled like wet dog.  Not exactly what you want to hear when you’re tak­ing a cake you’ve never made before to a friends house.  A new friend who might not appre­ci­ate a wet dog smelling cake!!  All was well and every­one pre­tended that the cake was yummy.  Thanks Joy and Co!!

One of the mostest bestest things about bak­ing with kids (BWK) is that they like to lick the bowl.

I went to the walk in cen­tre at With­ing­ton com­mu­nity hos­pi­tal because of my wrist.  The diag­no­sis is ten­dini­tis.  I was told I should rest it. No cook­ing, clean­ing or lift­ing Squidge– like that’s going to happen.

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