We have been in and out of hospital this week as William has had complications with high potassium levels in his blood (potential side effects: death!). He missed his big class trip to the seaside on one of the sunniest days of the year, a trip that many of their lessons for the rest of the term/semester will be based on. Nothing was going to make him happy about that, especially not having to be stuck again with needles.
Matthew has been in the US all week too so it has been extra fun juggling all the children and hearing them moan about how they are missing this or that and WHY DO WE HAVE TO GO THE HOSPITAL AGAIN? I’ll leave you behind next time then, I say, although after this week I rather think they might try to insist on that next time. That’ll teach me for making idle threats.
Today I am home to a gamut of unpleasant email and a huge to-do list. Also there is a whole pile of laundry covered in Eldest Son’s blood because he keeps picking the scab off a ‘thing’ on his finger and when he does, it pumps blood EVERYWHERE. When he did it in the car on the way home last night I could have cheerfully left him bleeding on the side of the bloody (literally) road. This morning before school he was chasing the baby round the house in some very exciteable game when it started bleeding again and it has literally sprayed every downstairs room. It has, however, given the baby something to do this morning – looking for the blood spots we missed on the necessarily quick clean-up this morning. A new, free and time-consuming game. Who said I can’t make the best of any situation?
Pretend prize if you can make the connection with this post and the picture.
Photo: habitue01
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Your post does help to put everything in perspective. Glad that William is home safe and sound. it must be pants missing a special trip. I dont know what has gone on either, I keep my head down!!
I’ve promised him a trip to the beach to make up for it. It wasn’t a great hardship to make that promise!!
Potassium is K on the periodic table! I’m impressed that it even has the correct number of protons and electrons!
I really hope you all catch some luck soon. Wish I was there to take you out for a drink. If you came here, I’d make you some margaritas.
And I’m sorry he missed his class trip. That sucks.
I love that my blog has clever readers! It’s a good picture isn’t it?
And thank you, a margarita would have gone down just perfectly after this week x
Bother. Popped to the post on the K = potassium thang. I was hideously bad at chemistry at school but I do remember that! Where was the pic taken?
Bad luck on missing the big trip – that sucks
It is one of the set of element stones in the courtyard at USF. I might have remember the periodic table a bit better if we’d had something like that at my school!
So all i need to do to entertain the toddler for a few hours is bleed everywhere? Excellent tip *runs off to find sharp knife*
lol.
glad to have been of assistance!
I cheated. I clicked on the photo credit. Otherwise I’d assumed it was something sea-sidey, and was trying to think of resorts beginning with K.
Sorry about your week. Plan that trip to the seaside with him. I’m a huge believer in having something to look forward to. That’s the point of a diary, I think.
I agree about having something to look forward to. We do plan lots of things (even though we miss many of them) and they are there to focus on during the not-so-good days.
It’s amazing how you keep everything together and yourself under perfect control despite the seemingly maddening turn of events lol! I didn’t know that excessive potassium in the body could go as far as to become a life-threatening illness. Thanks for informing us about it.
My pleasure.