Thanks to Lisa sending me an email(notice you other tarts didn't bother telling me, whilst you were sniggering still over the fact I forgot the link in the first email)informing me that posting comments was limited, unless you use wordpress or have a google account, so instead of thinking no one loves me and didn't want to comment, hopefully I've got it right now and comments good or bad can be left(phew)
It's wet, it's miserable, it's dark and gloomy, my most hated time of the year by far. I detest winter/colder months, with a passion. There's nothing fun about stomping about in the rain getting from the house to the car, to kinder/school/work/Tafe with a bunch of kids who love nothing more THAN to stomp around in the rain. Although for some odd reason I do like sloshing around in the chook pen in my gumboots, raincoat and beanie on my head.
Ahh now that's a positive aspect of winter, I can wear one of my vast array of beanies(I think I need more options/styles though) every day of the week, not caring what my hair looks like underneath and not bothering to comb or style it after having a shower, bliss is jammies and beanies at the same time.
Today is Tuesday, it's dancing practice for Liv, so at the moment I'm cooking up a storm, not as gastronomically delightful as Nic's creations but it's a nice hearty winter meal. Devilled Snags with mashed spud, made into a pie, a bit like a cottage pie really, so all mister lazy bum has to do is put it in the pre-heated oven, so the poor kids aren't still starving by 7pm.
And just to prove that women are better than men, I'm dying my hair and posting my thoughts on here at the same time, pfftt can't see men multitasking to that point.
See I told you my thoughts were mindless and rambling.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Daisy's Head
Let me tell you all a story about a little girls misfortunate infection she aquired from one of her beloved Guinea Pigs(this is to be sung to the tune of Harper Valley PTA).
Wayyy back in January on the 26th, I noticed a slight rash on her right temple that resembled a patch of excema. Off to the Dr's we went, where he diagnosed Exzema, and prescribed a cortisone based cream. At this first appt, I asked if she had school sores by any chance as a good friends 3 boy's had just been through it and she'd been in contact with them, he assured me it wasn't. About a week later after it spreading and me stopping the use of said cortisone, we went back again, where he said it was now fungal and prescribed Canesten or Lamisil, I had Canesten at home so started with that, 48hrs later it had spread even more, so we went back to the Dr's but saw our regular GP(George) this time.
George diagnosed School Sores, which had gotten infected and turned into Impetigo, and had spread up into her hair line and beyond and with the administering of the previous meds, it was a nasty looking mess of scab and creams. So she was put onto her first bottle of Antibiotics. Well 6 weeks later, 3 bottles of antibiotics later, numerous Dr appts to have the very large scab removed and no improvement, George decided to send us off to the Childrens to see a Paed specialist. We got an appt for the Dermatology clinic through A&E for the next day, went back in again to be told after approx 10 Medico's had looked at her "interesting" head that she didn't have Impetigo at all, but had Tinea Capitis, which was transferred by said Guinea pig and therefore wasn't contagious in any shape nor form, yet she'd missed the last 8 weeks of kinder/daycare and was basically locked away infront of the tv.
Prescribed Griseofulvin some foul tasting concoction the chemist came up with. Have been taking it for the last 6 weeks, and had a follow up appt on Wednesday. She's onto her 3rd and last bottle, with an appt to go back in 3months, if I think it's necessary.This is what I wrote on a forum yesterday about it.
"It's healing, almost all the scab is gone, it's still quite pink/raw looking though and hasn't reduced in size. She's on her last bottle of oral anti fungals and once this is finished shouldn't need any more. Has to go back to RCH in 3months if I think she needs it, but if it's healing nicely I can cancel it. I asked them how long it would take for the whole wound area to clear up, they estimate approx 6months and once it does we'll be able to tell if it's done any permanent damage to her hair follicles and whether the hair will grow back.
If the hair doesn't grow back, then she'll either just have to deal with the bald spot or style her hair to camaflouge it, until she's older when they can perform some plastic surgery, to reduce the size of the scarring and bring the hairline down a bit. But that's further in the future and currently it doesn't bother her in the slightest."
And now for some pics of her delighful head.
And this is what it looks like now.
After looking at all the pics, that's a huge difference.
Thank you all for reading my first blog, which is more like a mini novel lol
Wayyy back in January on the 26th, I noticed a slight rash on her right temple that resembled a patch of excema. Off to the Dr's we went, where he diagnosed Exzema, and prescribed a cortisone based cream. At this first appt, I asked if she had school sores by any chance as a good friends 3 boy's had just been through it and she'd been in contact with them, he assured me it wasn't. About a week later after it spreading and me stopping the use of said cortisone, we went back again, where he said it was now fungal and prescribed Canesten or Lamisil, I had Canesten at home so started with that, 48hrs later it had spread even more, so we went back to the Dr's but saw our regular GP(George) this time.
George diagnosed School Sores, which had gotten infected and turned into Impetigo, and had spread up into her hair line and beyond and with the administering of the previous meds, it was a nasty looking mess of scab and creams. So she was put onto her first bottle of Antibiotics. Well 6 weeks later, 3 bottles of antibiotics later, numerous Dr appts to have the very large scab removed and no improvement, George decided to send us off to the Childrens to see a Paed specialist. We got an appt for the Dermatology clinic through A&E for the next day, went back in again to be told after approx 10 Medico's had looked at her "interesting" head that she didn't have Impetigo at all, but had Tinea Capitis, which was transferred by said Guinea pig and therefore wasn't contagious in any shape nor form, yet she'd missed the last 8 weeks of kinder/daycare and was basically locked away infront of the tv.
Prescribed Griseofulvin some foul tasting concoction the chemist came up with. Have been taking it for the last 6 weeks, and had a follow up appt on Wednesday. She's onto her 3rd and last bottle, with an appt to go back in 3months, if I think it's necessary.This is what I wrote on a forum yesterday about it.
"It's healing, almost all the scab is gone, it's still quite pink/raw looking though and hasn't reduced in size. She's on her last bottle of oral anti fungals and once this is finished shouldn't need any more. Has to go back to RCH in 3months if I think she needs it, but if it's healing nicely I can cancel it. I asked them how long it would take for the whole wound area to clear up, they estimate approx 6months and once it does we'll be able to tell if it's done any permanent damage to her hair follicles and whether the hair will grow back.
If the hair doesn't grow back, then she'll either just have to deal with the bald spot or style her hair to camaflouge it, until she's older when they can perform some plastic surgery, to reduce the size of the scarring and bring the hairline down a bit. But that's further in the future and currently it doesn't bother her in the slightest."
And now for some pics of her delighful head.
And this is what it looks like now.
After looking at all the pics, that's a huge difference.
Thank you all for reading my first blog, which is more like a mini novel lol
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