whizzing by with a quick ten..

1. So if you read my little bit ranty post about the NHS you would probably ascertained that my son has fractured his wrist! Made me laugh when the pead's first words to me, having seen the x-ray, was 'well, essentially he has had a break…but the good thing about kids is they have bendy bones!' Yes. Indeed. Wish i still had bendy bones. 

2. Thinking we needed to add a few 'other' ailments to our impressive decemeber list so far…vomits, flu and fever and now broken bones. Sorted. 

3. Do you fancy going to vote for my blog on Dorset cereals? being honest with you..i have no idea when i actually entered it but someone navigated to my site from there and i realised that i was acutally in a competition. Now to find out what i win. Click on the icon to vote xx

4. have you seen this video? Makes me chuckle. When we were first married we watched a lot of the Simpsons. Its windy out there!

5. Slightly different …saw this tweeted by Stephen Fry. really really enjoyed it. the animation is so cool to. How did he write so fast? …heh heh.

6. The children this week have christmas parties, trips out with school and 'watching a video' day it would seem. Im wondering why we have to brave the school run for this? Not that i mind them having down time at school….but maybe we could start it at say…10am?

7. You think asking Santa to fix my freakin' car key fob would work? so i dont have to actually put the key in the lock to unlock the car whilst juggling small toddler on my hip and trying to stop slightly bigger toddler running into the street….No? Ive been good tho!! 🙂

8. One novelty factor of waiting to be seen in the hospital this week was that it gave my youngest an opportunity to beg food from other patients, dart into closed curtain examination rooms, try to get into the large store trolley things they use in hospitals, try to escape into the minor injuries corridor, outside, offices, behind reception, into triage…whilst being chased by older sister, injured brother and mother. Yep Benny Hill..you got nothing on this chase!

9. We listen to radio 2…particularly in the evening when Simon Mayo comes on. However not so great is that one evening the kids all chorused along with the 'HOMEWORK SUCKS' segment. Yup gonna be great when they repeat that at school!

10. Thinking about booking tickets to see Coldplay next year. Would love to go but slightly frightened by the fact that we may get vertigo because the seats we can afford would be nudging space and also that we would be paying almost £100 a ticket. Gulp. 

Speaking of which and leaving you with this… one of my favourites. the kids like the bit where he starts leggin' it..lol

linking in with the ladies…check it out…

hannah

Lucy

Helen

Jo

a couple of those ladies are in the land of vomit right now and we ALL know how crap it is there…so give them some love 🙂

no time to spell check this baby…i need some sleep..although sharing a bed with a 9 year old who can't get comfortable because of their painful arm and in the next room to a baby with a horrendous barking cough…probably not so much huh….

🙂

x

this week a song that means something special. I actually think that would be impossible for me…i have so many songs that are in my history that when i listen to them i can be transported back in time to that special moment. My kids all have songs that have meant something to me as i was carrying them or when i had them. Those songs have been used on little video clips that we have done for the kids and been played many times as they all know them as 'their songs' 

A fact they love now but im sure they will be suitably teenager-ish about it later on in life and we will get the eye roll and 'awwww…muuum' 

So because i really couldn't choose just one special song for me. Im going to use this oppotunity to share this song. I heard of this on the Chris Evans show and he plays it every morning at the same time and because of the time it is i am generally always by the radio and so get to listen to all of it…

It was part of a documentary that i haven't seen, its about the formation of a choir from the wives of men in the military in this country. it is so moving and touching. Regardless of your political feelings towards the fights that the military are involed in its impossible to not stand in admiration for those who live their lives so much of the time away from their partner…and not even knowing with complete certainty that they will return…

anyway…

***Forgot to add – you can pre-order this song on Itunes  - its aiming for the chrimbo number 1***

So i have been thinking this evening how bloody good it is that we have a National Health Service in this country. Doesn't matter WHO you are, WHAT you have or don't have. You can come, get cared for, get treated and walk away with all your pennies in your pocket and no big bill following you out the door. 

Because health is a leveller…We all have it, we all need it and we all need to look after it and occassionally have it looked after for us…and i like that in this country because of our NHS we are all level..

yeah yeah yeah…there are private hospitals..you can jump queues by seeing Dr's privately…yadda yadda.

You wont tell me something im not aware of. BUT if you need specialist….specialist care…you won't get that in the private sector….like ECMO (google it if you are interested). I think there are maybe 4 centres in the entire country that offer it and lets see the privateers throwing their principles away when their relative needs that treatement to stay alive!!

Don't get me wrong, as a worker in the NHS it can drive me CRAZY. We are under-staffed many times, struggling often to get the resources we need to provide the sort of care we should and sometimes we can feel royally dumped on by the higher echelons of management. But the management/worker quarrel is boring and will be with us forever *yawn* 

BUT anyway the reason i felt like this today was as a result of visiting our local peadiatric hospital with my son who had fallen at school and hurt himself. We were seen by approximately five or six different members of the healthcare team and and my son was treated with respect, humour and sensitivity. The peadiatrician spoke to my son first before he explained what had happened to me. 

He received appropriate care for what turned out to be a fractured wrist. The pead explained the reasons why they were splinting his wrist rather than using a cast, then we were discharged knowing we could return if we wished to, whenever…"free at the time of need"

If you fancy leaving a caption for this one please do in the comments, if you want to see more captions then click the link below and check them out on mammasauras blog. 

This is my daughter climbing on the stool when it is under the kitchen top…just in case you couldnt tell 🙂

oh and why not click on the dorset cereals icon to the left over there and go vote for my little blogola. 

Fanx 

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