8th Sept '09
Last nite you were brewing a bit of a temp. but it went away after bout 30mins and you had a settled nite. This morning you were booked in for your 1st immunisations with Anne Deegan the nurse in Emersons surgery. I dread needles but i was gonna be strong for you, god knows all the needles you've had to date!
Anywho, in the surgery i told the nurse you'd a temp last nite but it went after 30mins, so she checked you again and double checked 5mins later and you'd none so she administered the needles! You were fine gave a little whimper but all was grand in a few mins.
That night you were brewing another temp but i put it down to injections and just gave you calpol every 4-6hrs and you were doin ok, temp was kept down but kept coming back up coming up to 4-6hrs later. Was it more than just the immunisations???
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Missing your Mam xox
This was my 1st weekend away from you and i was dreading leaving you for 2 nights, was gonna miss you and abigail terribley although i'm used to being ok leaving abigail for short breaks, she's an independant little madam. Shirley was so excited bout having you for the day, you could see it in her eyes that morning she couldn't wait to have you. Abigail went off to school and your nanny Tina took you both after lunch til your dad came home from work. Shirley sent me pics to my phone to let me know you were fine, drank your bottle, changed you i think 3 times ;-) and you'd panned out again. Your were a little bugger re- nappy changing time, you'd always trick us into thinking you'd finished and wham you could end up drinking yer piddles ;-) Sometimes i'd be only shutting your nappy when you'd load up more poo for me to change!
I plagued your dad with calls all over the weekend and although i'd a great wkend i sure did miss all three of you something shocking. Your dad was so nice he treated me to a facial and massage for the saturday for all my hard work and good care i'm doing with you xox
Back to Crumlin !!!
It was the day after your christening so a few of us decided to go for dinner in Edenderry Golf Club, although the food was lovely the service was snail slow and disaster, your dad when eventually got his dinner sent it back. Rosaleen, Luke, Maggie, Johnny, Liam, Sheila, Sarah, Mammy, Me, your Dad, Teresa, Abigail, Shirley, Andrew & Kids, all arrived out after we'd booked it that morning, you think they would have been grateful for the large booking!
Anywho on the way back in Crumlin called wondering what time we were gonna be up at??? News to us, apparently your stent procedure had been booked for 2moro so you would have to be admitted 2day. Big rush around then to get all your things together, arrange for abigail to be taken care of (which was never a problem) and get ourselves in order, janey it was all go. Got you up anyway that evening and checked in, in the A&E, they put us on St Peters Ward.
Anne & Alan put us up for the few nites in their place in Dundrum, hated leaving you that nite but nurses were very reassuring that they'd look after you really well and there was no need for us to stay when we were only 10mins down the road, it was still heartbreaking leaving you tho. During the night they moved you out to St Teresa's coz they were wary of your heart condition, i was glad in a way, you were back in commom ground.
Procedure went well, felt like ages while you were down there, i gowned up going down to theatre, god it was massive, they put you asleep in my arms and off i'd to go then til they were done. You were in so much pain afterwards, i really felt for you, they had to give you meds every few hrs to put you ay ease, could only imagine, well i couldn't actually - it must have been awful having they disturb yer little manhood ;-) thank god for short term memories of pain for babies. Was dreading when you would start to remember the hospital as a place where all they do is take bloods or bring you down for procedures.
Even a mention of word home and you were dressed and ready, waiting on discharge ;-) loved the ppl there but hated being there. Only comforting thing bout you being there was that you were in the right place for care and improvement on quality of life. All the same we were delighted to get you home on the Tuesday, 1 day after your procedure, you were such a brave little fighted xox
Your Christening Day
Got up early this morning to get ready for your baptism, we bought you the cutest most handsome suit you've ever seen along with socks, bibs, shoes etc you were ready to be fully kitted out. Fr Ruari Nolan (a friend of the family) baptised you and we had the whole chursh to ourselves. Local priest wouldn't baptise you at a time dat suited us so me, your dad and ro, ro arranged Fr Ruari.
We debated long and hard about the afters of your christening (@ home, bbq, marque, meal 4 family, buffet and god only knows how many other options) anywho we decided we wanted to cleebrate so that everyone could come and we got to show you off to all our friends and family and extened families. So venue was Donoghues Function Room, food by tina & ray and deserts by the one and only Emealda, music was by John & Albert. Everyone helped in cleaning the function room (scrubbing it) and we all had it decorated beautifully for you.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Your 2nd B'day Party
Today you had your 2nd b'day party invite from our neighbours, it was Sean's 7th Birthday. From what i can remember you slept the whole time but every1 doted on you the whole time we were there and abigail had a great time. In such a short space of time you sure were getting around lil man and you were getting to meet loads of ppl. xox
<<<<<<< on your changing unit ;-)
1st OPD Appointment
Today was your first appointment in the POD, Crumlin in Fergal Quinns renal clinic. This was my first recollection of meeting Fergal and he was so nice to us. We discussed your condition and progress with him and he filled us in on what options we have to fix your problem.
Your kidney diagnosis was multicystic dysplastic kidney and right pelviureteric junction obstruction, in english this meant your left kidney was almost non existent consisting of just cysts which would disolve over time and your right kidney had an obstruction at the tube connecting the bladder to the kidney. Well this is what i understood it to be anyway. Fergal said the best way to resolve the abstruction would be kidney repair surgery but due to your underlying heart condition a temporary stint would be a better option at this time. A kidney stent (ureteric stent) is a plastic tube-like device used for internal drainage between your kidney and your bladder. When you've had your OHS they'll consider repairing the kidney, so that was the plan of action and Fergal's team will be in contact soon to let us know when the stent procedure will take place. We were dreading the thoughts of u having to go for this procedure but if it helped then let them work away to make you feel better when yer piddling ;-)
YOUR 1st HOLIDAY
We got to take you on your first holiday to tramore this wkend and we had such a great time with you and everyone. Imagine only just over a mth old and you were on yer way to the sunny southeast, that is Tramore. This wkend was the first time you had reaction smiles when someone chatted you, you had smiles all wkend for everyone, it made us so happy that outside that sick heart of yours you were beaming with delight of all the attention you were getting, spoiled rotten i said. Well what other way could we be with you other than spoil you, you were so deserving of being spoiled.
On this wkend was Tony & yer granddad kelly who unwillingly had to share the sofa bed in the sitting room (think your grandad ended up on a single blowup bed on the kitchen floor. Myself & maggie shared the twin room with you in between us in your buggy (bed), rosaleen, luke & your big sis abigail had the main bedroom which was ensuite (they alway get the best room)! Sheila, stan & your dad came on sunday, your dad shared a single bed wit me while stan n sheila slept in the blow up bed. Monday morning i never heard so much giving out bout tony and yer grandad's snoring, stan & sheila said they never got a winks sleep, all i could do was laugh. To anyone reading this you are reading right, 9 adults and 2 children in a two bed house in pebble beach!!! only us could manage that one ;-)
Yer dad was in charge of you on the sun nite and we woke d next morning wondering how you didn't wake??? Maggie had got up during the nite, had you fed, nappy changed and back in bed without me & yer dad noticing... My excuse was that when it's my nite off i go into a deep sleep so i'd never hear ya but yer dad had no excuse he probably heard ya but let maggie do his job ;-)
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