Hope everyone out there is managing to enjoy the Summer holidays.
Mine have been pretty stressful so far, with hospital visits, kids birthdays, homework and a poorly hubby.
Yesterday was my youngest son's 9th birthday, not easy to keep him (or his brothers) entertained when I am on my own, hubby works long hours and travels pretty far to get to work.
I ended up getting a couple of my son's friends to meet us in the park, the plan was meant to be a birthday picnic/party but basically turned out to be me bringing cakes & cookies for everyone and that was it.
Oh well at least my son did not seem to notice and seemed to have fun.
We went out for pizza when hubby got home and came home for birthday cake so all were happy oh and he loved his presents so seemed to be a good day overall for him.
It was even more of a shame hubby was at work because having carried on going to work all last week despite really not being well with a weird rash that seemed to move around his body, swollen hands and night sweats.
I was then woken before 6am on Saturday morning by hubby in a bit of a panic as his lips were severely swollen and hurting him, as were his hands and feet, so we had no choice but to rush off to A & E.
As our 2 other boys are older we were able to leave them in charge of the younger one for short space of time.
We arrived to a very busy A & E which was mainly busy to to the 3 young men being treated while being escorted by 3 policce officers each!
When we did get seen by a doctor they became very concerned about hubby's swellings (lol sorry not sure how else to phrase it) their main concern was the possibility of his throat swelling up too and affecting breathing as he was complaining of a bit of a sore throat.
Obviously one thought was it was some sort of severe allergic reaction, but that was ruled out as it would have shown sooner and because we had not had anything different food wise or anything.
As we knew we were going to be there a long time I phoned hubby's parents as he thought they might be able to have the kids stay at their house overnight to make things easier whether hubby had to stay in or not.
In laws were able to come over, they took the kids home with them as father in law wanted to get home as he had work he wanted to finish.
I kept updating the inlaws by text as I did not want to leave hubby for long as we had no idea what was wrong.
When I did phone in laws back they said they would need to bring the kids back in the afternoon as they had made arangements to go out for dinner, so I then had to phone my parents to see whether they were able to sit with the kids at our house from 4pm (the latest inlaws could be with them till)
Luckily my parents were able to do so or I would have had to leave a very stressed out hubby alone at the hospital.
So hubby had various tests including 2 ECGs as they were a bit concerned after the first, a chest x ray looking for infection, countless blood tests which showed nothing apart from something being slightly raised which they thought might indicate some infection somewhere but they were unable to see where. He was given an intravenous dose of antibiotics just incase as well as steroids, fluids and Piriton.
We were kept on the emergency observation ward where hubby was seen by more doctors and nurses who referred to him as "Our mystery man"
His swollen lips kept getting better then getting worse again and the weird red patches were still moving around his body.
In the end we were sent home with 5 days worth of steroids, 7 days of hydrocortisone tablets and told to wait for the results of the blood cultures they took to see whether they could find any infection or bug in hubby's blood (Of course we have not heard anything) we got home 11 hours after we had arrived at hospital.
Hubby spent pretty much the whole of Sunday asleep in bed so that was our weekend.
I managed to convince him not to rush straight back to work first thing Monday, I understand he worries as he does NOT get paid ANY sick pay (Yes even if he is ill enough to be hospitalised!) but it does not seem to get through to him that carrying on going to work when ill till he gets to the point of needing to go to hospital for emergency treatment is worse!
(This is the 3rd time this has happened by the way)
So he went back to work yesterday, much to our youngest's disappointment.
He came home totally exhausted bless him. We are just hoping he does not get worse again after his tablets finish this weekend as we still are none the wiser as to what it is.
Anyway onto the baby making mission, today is day 31 in my cycle.
I have received an appointment for my first test, this is the internal ultrasound scan which I will be having in 6 days time.
This month I have not used any ovulation prediction tests at all, I had run out and was so disappointed last month I basically thought sod it as they were not helping me and had just got my hopes up yet again.
So this month I just tried to judge it myself and try to relax a bit.
It is hard, if not impossible to say when my period is actually due as I am now completely irregular, but the fertility calendars I have been using are going by average and saying it is around next week so about 5 days time VERY roughly!
But this morning I woke up with aches and pains and spotting when I check myself so I am not getting my hopes up (Not that there is any point doing that anymore anyway)
TRYING to think positively, IF I am starting another cycle it does mean I can get my blood test and scary xray done before we go on holiday as if I don't start until we are away it would mean having to wait yet another whole month/cycle before I can have them done as they need to be done at certain points in my cycle.
So .............
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