An eventful day

It started with a phone call from Alex this morning to say he was coming home. I was pleased and proud that he'd made this decision as I know Southwestern put a lot of pressure on them to see it through and keep going when times are tough, blah blah! But he had come to realise it wasn't for him and that the credit crunch was making it very tough to sell anything, let alone door to door. So I sent Mick out to get some steak for dinner to welcome him home. He's been living on real rubbish food - cheap pasta with a pack of 18p Asda sausages and tomato sace for the three of them, and greasy spoon cafes for breakfast. So it's time for some good food and plenty of veg from the garden! I am so relieved he is back and even if he doesn't get another summer job, he can do some voluntary work, have a break and a rest and move into his new home before the start of next term. He can help me out too, especially after my op.

So a good start to the day...

But late this afternoon, Laura had quite a bad seizure and we needed to give her paraldehyde and oxygen. It lasted upwards of 15 minutes from when we realised. She was in the lounge with Mick who was watching the golf. She was having a bit of a mardy session and had her head into the back of the chair and it took Mick a while to realise she wasn't just being mardy. She'd been told off and had only just come out of "Time Out" for pouring a cup of water on the floor (deliberately). She'd also refused to stop pulling all the flowers in the garden and so had just been brought in (unco-operatively) from outside. Actually she'd been rather "off" earlier as the Homecare workers had taken her to the park and they said how unhappy she was. She was very happy to come home though, although not impressed with the golf on TV.

So she slept off the paraldehyde and has just now woke up and has gone back into the lounge but has fallen asleep. She wasn't really too happy yesterday either. But I had put that down to this nasty rash on her bottom and the tummy bug. Yesterday I just gave her Diorolyte for her feeds and also two pots of probiotic yoghurt, none of her usual feeds. That seems to have helped settle her tummy as she didn't have any BMs yesterday and the one this morning was normal looking. But the cream from the doctors doesn't really seem to be helping the rash so I am trying metanium again.

The last thing I wanted to do was give her rectal paraldehyde (which melts plastic) when she has an iffy tummy and a nappy rash but I had to, so hopefully it won't have made it worse.

Anyway quite an eventful day, hopefully tomorrow won't be...