Christmas breezed by without too much fuss (for a nice change) ...
New Years is looking like it is going to be huge...
Yet the lead up to these events, or lack thereof in one case, was... well I can't find one word to describe this time for my family, but we came out the other end of our mostly first world problems relatively unscathed!
My baby girl had been fighting a cough for a week or so at the end of the school term. She is as stubborn as her mother sometimes! She didn't have any other symptoms and it didn't sound like too bad a cough until we hit the last few days of school. I had already booked her in for a Doctor's appointment on this last day, but she woke up feeling worse, so she didn't quite make it to school. Hubby took her in for the last hour of the school morning tea and final parade, but she sat with him the whole time, just watching. Normally we wouldn't have taken her in like this but as we are moving next year, we wanted to give her a chance to say good-bye to friends and teachers.
We didn't know that just over three hours later she would be on her way to the hospital in an ambulance.
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| DD lungs - the wispy/fuzzy bits that look like fairy floss is pneumonia |
Did you know that pneumonia still has a 30% mortality rate?
We were at the hospital for over four hours and she was diagnosed with mild to moderate pneumonia. Which means that she wasn't sick enough to stay at hospital (where beds are like hen's teeth), but she was sick enough to need a check up the next day. However seeing as it was Friday evening - too late to organise a GP appointment now - there was the very real chance that she would be staying in hospital overnight. Which would have been fine if we weren't having a garage sale the next morning, which I was looking after by myself because DH was working! And I would have cancelled said sale, despite the ad in the paper, if we weren't moving in less than a month!
Oh what to do???!?!? We were trying to coordinate picking up DD from hospital, having someone mind the garage sale in the morning for us, who would stay with DD overnight etc, when the Doc came in with good news - the "Nurse in the home" program had received a grant to extend their hours to include the weekend!
This meant DD could go home and would be visited by a nurse the next day, again on Sunday and on Monday we were to come back to see a Pediatrician at the hospital for another chest x-ray and check up.
Did I mention that DD was supposed to go to a few birthday parties on Friday afternoon/Saturday morning?
Yeah, nah....
Did I also mention that we were supposed to have a school friends farewell party at our place on Saturday night? Cancelled!!!
Did I mention too that I also had a nasty cough?
I had been to the doctor a few days earlier but at that stage it was too early to tell if it was viral or bacterial. I was given a script though, which I started taking upon learning DD might have pneumonia. I went back to the Doctor on the Monday because unlike DD, I wasn't feeling any better. So my doctor gave me the same treatment as Hannah, as if I too had pneumonia! He said not to bother with the x-ray, let's just treat it like it is... which meant the super strength adult version of drugs that DD was taking! Oh the joys!
I was given time off work too.... which was great because I had a rental in Brisbane to organise!
Life went back to relative normality after this, well as normal as it gets when you are packing and moving 2000km. Packing, Christmas (presents, parties, punch!) and official unemployment!Yep, I finished my job on 22 December 2012. I have handed over to a lovely lady who I was already acquainted with but wish I had gotten to know better a lot sooner! Funny how life does that....
Unemployment felt strange at first. I don't have my big bunch of keys that went everywhere with me anymore. I would have been on holiday this week, so next week will be the real test of how I feel about it, but honestly right now I feel a sense of relief that it is one less thing for me to think about in the lead up to leaving Cairns.
I am no longer stressed about the move - the house is sold, we have a rental in Brisbane, the removalist is booked. It is all about letting everything take it's course now.
Now that Christmas is over, ANOTHER thing to not have to worry about, it is all about the packing.
And the farewell.
Change of plans with that too, LMAO. We had planned an adults only drinks at a pub in town, but DH got rostered on for work and can't swap with anyone. So that is cancelled! No stress though, all parties were cancelled to make way for a BIG farewell/piss up at our nearly empty house before we leave!!!So that is why I have been MIA on the blog for the last month or so.
Tomorrow I will tell you all how I actually FEEL about all of this! LOL
I actually have a LOT I want to share about my plans and goals for 2013. I am so excited about the future right now, depression seems like a blip in my past. Even as I just typed those words though, I know they aren't true, but I love when true passion and excitement crowd out everything else and your issues pale into insignificance! Until tomorrow...
Yours ready to rock,
Mummy in Disguise
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