Testing my New Blog!

Hi There Everyone,
wow...look at my new blog. I am rather excited....dear Teresa did this for me....of course she asked me how I wanted it...but the end product so far is great...so I thought I would test my blog out! Do ya'll like it? I do...thanks Teresa so much for doing this for me...it is great. Now I just need to get family photos up and so on.

Update on my health...I ended up having the reaction to my IVIG which was the aseptic meningitis....I have had a hard week with pain through my eye balls and temple area and neck stiffness and back pain and fainting, hot flushes and ringing in both my ears...it has been horrible. We rang the hospital a couple of times this week because it was just so bad but there is not much we can do about it. I have had some steroid treatment to decrease the inflammation.....and pain relief...which was not working mind you....however, with that all said...today was a better day for me...I think yesterday I woke up and thought, "the reaction has turned the corner"..and today the pain relief is working and the pain has decreased again...so what a relief that this will be over soon.

We had lunch with Isaac's great Nanna today...Alan's Nanna...it was nice. I enjoyed lunch so much...it was a chicken dish..beautiful...so she gave me the recipe and I think I will try it. We don't get to catch up too often because she is so far away from us. It was nice for us to see her. We go to church in Woodville which is about 45 min from our home and she lived a further 25 min from there so we went there after church.

Poor Isaac has not been 100% the last couple of days. He has a cold again...but he also seems to have a problem with his bowel. I talked to the paediatrician and he thinks that Isaac's brain has learnt to give him the wrong cues with his bowel..so it is not going at the right time and is letting everything build up...I won't go into too much detail. Isaac had to have a laxative sachet on Saturday to help clean him out and then tomorrow....and then start a bowel softner regularly at a higher dose than what he has been on and this problem with the receptors of the brain and bowel should re-set itself in about 3 months time. Poor Isaac gets a belly ache and he doesn't much like this stuff that helps clean him out. I know that no person likes these things....these sachets. I used to work in Gastroenterology as a registered nurse and was always giving out bowel preps for patients having colonoscopies and they were not pleasant for the patient to go through at home before the procedure. I will do relief work there now but not permanent...like before Isaac was born...I work in a whole variety of wards right now.

Alan is doing well. He has been busy with lots of work. He has church work that he is doing....and his new business and his work that he works with right now. He does technically have Monday and Wednesdays off for family days...making the most of us all being together and we like that...but he often does some work on those days when I am resting and Isaac is at kindy.....

Ah yes....just in case anyone gets confused with my new blog and signing the guestbook type thingy....it is not called a guestboook but at the bottom of my entry it will have "comments" written..of what I can remember...and you click on that and it will come up with a box you can comment in....you can write in that and if you don't have a blogger account or google account...then just select "anonymous" and then you just type in those letters that it asks....and publish it....follow the prompts...that is so people who don't have those accounts can sign and let me know that you have been here.......I love seeing little messages. It encourages me.

Ok, got to go...that is my first blog written! How exciting. Have a good night or day....
Love Charisse