The State of the Us
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ailbheAstrid's tonsils are still huge - her left one takes up over half her throat when she's awake and upright - so she's sleeping badly at night. This means that she often needs A NAP during the day, and she's emotionally fragile and inclined to whine, get distressed by trivial things, and other stuff I don't usually expect from her.
She's still wearing last year's shoes. She's on the 25th centile by weight, not the 75th any more. She's slept so little in the last year that she's not growing, which is why they're not waiting for her to gain weight before doing the op.
Which is in 5 weeks.
And then there's a two-week recovery period, and after that she will probably go back to being able to stay awake a full 14 hours and only waking 3 or 4 times a night rather than every few minutes. Which will be an enormous relief to me. When one of my children needs a daytime nap without major exertion I worry that they're ill. Which she is, of course.
Emer is beginning to really, truly, honestly READ. When she figures out what something says she takes the information and runs with it, rather than feeling she has to check with someone who can REALLY read. She still can't do sums AT ALL or EVER, though she's perfectly capable of changing the quantities in a recipe, but that's not sums, that's cooking. So that's ok.
Linnea has been keeping her room almost tidyish, and we have a GP appointment tomorrow to discuss getting various cognitive and behavioural things checked out. Her new GP seems far more switched-on than her old one.
I have a new studio and have shaved my head again, and I feel much better for both of those things.
Rob continues to have his job and do his job. He's tired too but in another two months all our problems will be solved, we'll all be full of the joys of life and paraglide down ski slopes while wearing white trousers just like a tampon commercial.
The cats are getting oooooooold. They keep excreting in inconvenient places. There are hordes of younger, fitter cats moving in all over the block and they are ousting our cats from their accustomed place of power.
And Rob and I recently had a 14th anniversary and soon we'll have our tenth wedding anniversary. I can tell, because Linnea will be NINE at the end of the month.
She's still wearing last year's shoes. She's on the 25th centile by weight, not the 75th any more. She's slept so little in the last year that she's not growing, which is why they're not waiting for her to gain weight before doing the op.
Which is in 5 weeks.
And then there's a two-week recovery period, and after that she will probably go back to being able to stay awake a full 14 hours and only waking 3 or 4 times a night rather than every few minutes. Which will be an enormous relief to me. When one of my children needs a daytime nap without major exertion I worry that they're ill. Which she is, of course.
Emer is beginning to really, truly, honestly READ. When she figures out what something says she takes the information and runs with it, rather than feeling she has to check with someone who can REALLY read. She still can't do sums AT ALL or EVER, though she's perfectly capable of changing the quantities in a recipe, but that's not sums, that's cooking. So that's ok.
Linnea has been keeping her room almost tidyish, and we have a GP appointment tomorrow to discuss getting various cognitive and behavioural things checked out. Her new GP seems far more switched-on than her old one.
I have a new studio and have shaved my head again, and I feel much better for both of those things.
Rob continues to have his job and do his job. He's tired too but in another two months all our problems will be solved, we'll all be full of the joys of life and paraglide down ski slopes while wearing white trousers just like a tampon commercial.
The cats are getting oooooooold. They keep excreting in inconvenient places. There are hordes of younger, fitter cats moving in all over the block and they are ousting our cats from their accustomed place of power.
And Rob and I recently had a 14th anniversary and soon we'll have our tenth wedding anniversary. I can tell, because Linnea will be NINE at the end of the month.
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Date: 2013-04-16 01:48 pm (UTC)Made me snort out loud in my office :D
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Date: 2013-04-16 03:15 pm (UTC)I send Astrid healing vibes and I'm thinking of all of you. :)
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Date: 2013-04-16 04:41 pm (UTC)Because Luke isn't hyperactive or confrontational/aggressive, there's no pressure from his teachers to get him on drugs. We just get that "not performing to his potential" thing.
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Date: 2013-04-16 09:50 pm (UTC)Hang in there hon x
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