Well what a week.
 Monday we had a hospital appointment. After taking hubbys cast off last wednesday, the docs decided that because he was still in alot of pain and so that he can start to have a little pressure on his leg when he goes to physio, they decided to give him a boot to wear when he has to move around. This boot he has, has to be inflated when he puts its on then deflated before he takes its off.  Another thing that the docs said was that because he was still feeling pain in places where they think he shouldnt be and his leg was turning purple and red and the skin was shiny, they told us that they suspect that he has something called Chronic Pain Syndrome, so as going to and fro to hospital for his break he now will be referred to the pain clinic too. Oh well prehaps we should set up home at the hospital!!

WARNING IF YOU ARE ABIT SQUIRMISH LOOK AWAY NOW AS THE LEG IS ABOUT TO BEEN SEEN WITHOUT THE CAST....
TO BE HONEST ITS NOT TOO BAD OR PREHAPS I HAVE JUST GOT TOO USE TO IT...



just before you all get confused. this is not his knee, this is his leg from the top break, which as far as we know will stay like this so the hopefully new bone will go around.

  Tuesday Bear spent the morning with his nain and was totally spoilt by all the ladies.
 Wednesday , physio day. The docs on monday have told the team here that they can start loading the weight to up to 30kg, so their exercise was just to get some  bathroom scales and for him to put his foot on these so hubby can slowing start to push his foot down but importantly so he can see how much weight he can do. So this will keep us going till the next appointment in 2 weeks time. Another thing was to pop into the docters surgery on the way home as hubby had abit on his scar where it was abit weapy after the scabs had come off. So there they dressed his leg and sorted out some more medication that he needed.
 Thursday well its the weekly chore of the food shop. When this was done the rest of the day was a rest day well until the rest of the kids come home from school. Beth had her guitar lesson this afternoon. Apparently the teacher says she is very talented and very natural at playing so how proud do i feel as a parent. One of the songs that she was playing normally takes his pupils 3 weeks to get but she got it in 1. So to beth well done you. x

 Friday, today the district nurse was coming to see hubby to change his dressing on his leg, and me and Bear was going down to Little Lambs to join Scented sweetpeas and a few more mums. We took our crochet hooks and our yarn to see if we could pick up any more hints up. Well we did, scented sweetpeas tried her hand at a crochet flower and i tried once again at a granny square all thanks to Kathreen. She was so patient with us as we were not the quickest of learners. But i think i got somewhere whether it stays in or not i dont know, i think it will take a few more tries yet.



the start of my first granny square..

this is another atempt that i done on thursday night, i think they are all double stitches?
still getting use to it, if im wrong a apologise..

 I also had a lovely surprise from sweetpea as she had made a few of us a little something..

can you guess, of course not so i will show you.

sorry i couldnt wait, ive had a nible already, but she made us all some chocy biscuits and they are very scrumy.

Bear had another fun filled morning playing with all his little mates. He seems to be a bit of a hit with the little ladies as at the end there he was running after at least 6 of them ...

He seems to be back to his normal self over the last couple of days which is great. Mind you it would of been about 2 weeks since he was ill. On the way out Bear was playing with his little mates Theo and Esme when they picked up some fir cones 

so here they are a little bit of nature brought inside.

I do hope you all have had a good week  and i also hope you all have a good weekend too x

sneaky

Low and behold i go away for abit and look whats happened, an intruder by the name of hubby has come into my blog and left his mark. Men always have to piss and mark their territory dont they. Anyway i cant complain too much as his message was rather sweet. So thankyou my dearest.

hijacked!!

I have just hijacked my wifes page to let people know that i appreciate all your support and your kind comments, i love my wife very much and im sure she will be surprised when she reads this, again thankyou to all you bloggers out there, we will get there, it will just take abit of time.
The Husband x

what a week

Well as you might of guessed by the title, it has been a tiring week.
The kids are no longer sick but Bear still hasnt really got his full appetite back, but im sure that wont take long to return..
The main things that have happened this week is to my hubby.
Monday came a long and it was pysio day. In all they really couldnt do much due to having the cast still in place, so we really wondered why we went, but at least hubby got to be outside for a while, seeing the sunset and having the wind blow round him even if it was abit of a cold day.
Wednesday was the big day, the day that we had both been waiting for. D day i suppose to find out what happens next. 6 weeks since the last appointment and 3 months since the accident happened. Gosh its been a long few months. But 1.30pm came and we went in to have a x-ray then went back to get the results. Well what can i say the results were not what we were really expecting back. The plaster room sort of went  suddenly quiet as the surgeon spoke to us. The bottom brake had pretty much mended as well as they hoped it would so that was great, BUT the top break was a different story. Sadly the top break hasnt mended at all even after 12 weeks, and the surgeon told us it has really gone back to day 1. Oh s**t that is not what we wanted to hear.
 Now we have to think of what to do next he said, what are the options, well
1 is to prehaps do a bone graft, where they would take a slice of bone from his hip and add it to his leg.
2 to inject this special solution that they get from COWS, yes cows apparently it helps mends bones in someway, they put this magical solution on his bottom break and that worked, but they never put it on the top break, why they didnt i dont know.
3 is to prehaps plate the break at the top but the only problem with that is, they still dont know if the bone will mend even if they did this and the plate would then have to support the whole leg, and the fact that the surgeon really doesnt want to do another op if he doesnt need to.
4 and this being the very last restort, and that if nothing else works, than amputation will still need to be looked at.
So as you can imagine things have turned rather serious and now we are both rather scared about what is going to happen in the future. What ever happens its still going to be a very long time before things start to mend. I cant believe its all gone back to day 1 again. How much can we all handle? What began with an accidently fall over a small fence has turned into a nightmare. This year is going to be a very very hard, stressful, and emotional year.
So this next bit is to Zoe at Scented Sweetpeas THANKYOU  for being a good friend, and for inviting me  out today to Little Lambs, where i got a little bit emotional with you. It definatley pays to talk to someone away from family and just  get out of the house for a little while, a different enviroment, and just go and have abit of free time. Bear really enjoyed being out and meeting new friends, and me and some others friends just sat and chatted and pretended that we knew what we were doing with our hooks and wool. You all say that crocheting is so easy, but if you had sat there watching me and Zoe you might of come away thinking differently he he everytime i tried a granny square i kept losing the inner circle so i kept losing my place, nevermind everyone says its practice so we will just have to carry on and not give up.
Anyway i think thats enough for one night so i hope you all have a good weekend and i hope you all dont get blown away x  x x

its back

just as i thought things were going Beth has just been sick, no school for her tommorrow. All i can say is please dont get to me or hubby, i really dont want me or him feeling or being sick. The house will fall to bits if im out of action....fingers crossed it stays away x

little wonders

For all of you that read my last blog, thankyou for all your kind words cameron has now recovered and is back at school today, but last night just as i thought we were in the clear poor little Bear woke up at 12am  being sick. Poor little thing, considering its the first sickness with him he didnt freak out, he just sat there all calmly waiting for me to clean him up. 10 minutes later he was all tucked up back in a clean bed and lying back down and going back to sleep. Hopefully at the moment he hasnt been sick again, so prehaps its all a 24hr thing.
Anyway hubbys appointment a the phsyio department went ok, they cant really do much until he is out of his cast and the docs say he can start to put a little presure on etc so just have to wait until tommorrow.
While on the way to the hospital yesterday though i saw this amazing site, shame i didnt have my camera on me as there were hundreds no lie hundreds of swans in a field. Round near us the farmers are pulling up leeks and the swans just seem to love finishing off the ends they leave behind. In all the years that i have lived here i have never seen such a wonderful site.
The sun was setting in the sky which left a lovely red glow. It was a real treat for hubby as he hasnt been out side for 6 weeks. I can feel the spring coming, the mornings are becoming brighter earlier and the nights are staying brighter for longer. Snowdrops are budding and hopefully the weather man said the tempertures are set to return to normal by the end of the week. So bring it on let the spring come, i think we all need abit of  spring in our steps.

hope you all had a good weekend

i hope everyone has had a good weekend, mine i have to say has been slightly different.
Everything quiet usual, work which never really changes, food shop like wise never really changes and Saturday night well what can i say. My poor middle son Cameron suddenly woke up, just before i was going to bed. I heard some movement at the top of the stairs and i thought i had better check it out just in case it was Bear waking and walking. Just as i opened the door i knew straight away that someone had just been sick, oh nooooooooooooo! i quickly ran up the stairs to find Cameron, poor thing really wasnt feeling good, his colour in his face totally drained away. So downstairs we came, got him cleaned up and took him and his bowl back to bed, and me hoping that that was going to be it. Oh i was  so wrong all night my poor little baby was being sick, and all night i was there cleaning up after him. Come 6 o clock though my alarm rang out telling me to get up because i had work to go to. No rest for the kids either because i wake them at 6.30am because i have to drop them off at grannies (nains) who luckerly lives in the same village, befor i go to work again in the village. So as you can imagine come tonight im feeling pretty tired, and as for Cameron  well no school for tommorrow as he was sick again late this afternoon. School policy states that they cant be in school until 24hrs after their last sickness. Nevermind it happens and thankfully not all the time. But  i feel that this week is going to be a week i will be pleased to get over as hubby has got psyio tommorrow, and a hospital appointment on wednesday, hopefully we will find out what they are going to do next with his leg, whether it has mended ok or if he needs another op etc its quiet scarey really, especially if it hasnt mended to plan, but we will just have to wait a couple more days, cant believe its been 3 months on the 1st of Febuary.
Well prehaps it could be another chocolate brownie week x
Before i go today, i would just like to say hello to all my new followers, i know that i have only 26 of you, but i do appreciate all of you reading and leaving comments on my blog x

                                                             THANKYOU X X