Month: October 2004

As I’m sure you can all guess things here are plodding along quietly and there really is nothing much to tell as 3 weeks have gone by since our last entry. After our scan on Tuesday 5th October, Massimo and I spent the following day with Granny and his new physiotherapist came to see us. The most important part of the session was that Hilary (the Physio) saw him for the first time NOT on PICU and extremely ill, but happy and smiling and on a mission to show off ever so slightly. We also discussed my new difficulties in handling Massimo and the imminent birth and the difficulties that this new addition would add to our daily lives. Continue reading “All quiet on the western front”

Sunday was spent trying to sort out Massimo’s room in preparation of having to share it with his little brother. We, or rather Justin, with Massimo, Jasper, Horace and I “assisting”, put up a couple of shelves and rearranged a few things. The room is beginning to look a little better but there is still a long way to go. We also popped out to Dish Dash to meet Patrick and Ana – the new owners and long-standing friends of ours – for a coffee. Unfortunately the minute I stepped out of the house I was assailed by Braxton Hicks contractions (pre-labour practice contractions often brought on by mild exercise) which made the short walk to Balham seem like a marathon. On our way back from coffee, having sufficiently recovered, the contractions started again, but this time the little boy decided to add to it by kicking me really hard somewhere very painful. J thought my yelp of pain an indication that I had gone into labour and I was too winded to respond for those few seconds of sheer panic! We have decided that this is nature’s way of telling me that I need to seriously slow down and above all cut back on certain activities like picking Massimo up, especially off the floor. The last thing we need or want is another premature labour especially not one that is self-induced! Continue reading “30 week scan”

Thursday was, for me, quite a difficult and tiring day. At first Massimo’s health visitor came to see him and we had originally planned to give him his 3rd set of baby immunisations. Due to the chemotherapy we had to stop giving Max any of his injections and we could only start again 6 months after the last dose of chemotherapy which was in February. Also we plan to give Massimo a flu jab and then his MMR. The plan is to get these done in the next 10 weeks before baby n.2 comes along and all hell is let loose!! The health Visitor came empty-handed, however as the old vaccination has live polio and it was felt that as Massimo is possibly still immuno-suppressed. or at least is a little delicate, it would be best to wait for the new vaccine. As she has taken over from Massimo’s original health visitor she hadn’t met Massimo before so she stuck around for a while to chat to me and watch and play with Max a little. Once she left, a client of mine came round. For some extraordinary reason I thought a little work would be healthy for me, so Mark kindly came round with all the paperwork so I can work from home. Once we’d had a good catch up session, both socially and professionally, I had time for a quick bite to eat before our next visitors. Continue reading “Health Visitor, Occupational Therapists and Wheelchair Services”