Good News!

I'm touching wood as I type, but we have had some really good news! As any of my readers are now aware, we have had some health issues going on between all of us , bar Bailey. Well ,Yaz has had the all-clear with her hip. Apparently it is loose ligaments and her hip will stablise as she gets older and grows into it...sort of. She just has to keep exercising and she is NOT to pop it out as her 'party trick' on purpose. So no operation is necessary and we are all so relieved. I get myself so wound up and I'm silly because I google to try and find diagnosis's...which is probably the worst thing you can do as you get hit with the worst case scenarios of the conditions! You don't even want to know where I got to in my head with Yaz's hip...but let me tell you I had sleepless nights of worry. Ian tells me all the time not to google it as he knows how worked up I get about things but I guess I like to know everything so that when I am at the Dr.s, I'm all clued up on what they're telling me! I also had some good news with my Haemotologist. My white cell count had gone up, slightly but enough for the Dr. to delay a bone marrow test...phew!!! Apparently I just have something called Neutropenia which comes in three stages-mild, medium and severe...guess which one I have, the severe one of course! It will always come and go and nothing in particlar sets it off so I now have to have 3 monthly blood tests just to keep an eye on the levels as I dropped to quite a critical stage at one point where if I got the slightest infection I could have turned septic!...lovely!!! So at least I know what the deal is and there really isn't anything I can do to prevent it but I just have to be sensible in managing it and getting plenty of rest when I know it's low again, which I can always tell as I just get completely zapped of energy, get headaches and under my eyes turn black, even if I get more than enough sleep! So we're all really happy that we're all O.K. as such and no more worrying...for now anyway!
Ian's hamstring is slowly getting better. He's been very smart and hasn't even tried to have a run around on it. I will try and break some of the scar tissue down now as it's not as painful anymore and get him on the mend as best as can be.
We were really sorry to hear about Dad's incident and pray for a speedy recovery and hope that you rest as much as possible and take things a bit easy! We're thinking of you and really believe that an Aussie holiday will make you all better! ;)
Bailey is in the middle of a dilemma...what to play for a summer sport. He doesn't want to do cricket anymore and we have thrown so many ideas at him and he's just not that interested! He is slightly keen on either tennis or touch football so we will try and get him into one of those. He will also be going back to the kids gym classes next week, which is only once a week and he will also be continuing swimming once a week too. It probably sounds like we're pushing him into doing something but we just want our children to give everything a go so that they know for themselves what they like and don't like. Also his metabolism is a little slower than normal and so he needs to burn things off quicker. Maybe I'm just being paranoid about Australia being the leaders of childhood obesity but we just want our kids to be as healthy and active as can be...for their own benefits. Yaz will try and get into touch footy for summer too and wants to pursue swimming again, which I'm really happy about as she is a fantastic little swimmer but we never pushed her into doing it, she had to want to and now she does. She has given just about everything a go and now knows what she likes and what she's good at.
I have also started back at the gym after having about 3 months off. I did my first workout today and felt physically ill after. It will take me a while I think to get to any decent level again, but I'm not going to push it as I know it's not worth it.
I still haven't got photos of Yaz's new haircut, I'll try again this week.
Yaz had her athletics carnival at school and did exceptionally well in it, despite having the flu! She was off for three days and wasn't right when she had to compete but she didn't want to miss out! She came first in high jump, triple jump and long jump....all with an unstable hip too! She's quite miraculous really!
Bailey had a 'Learning Celebration' at school last Friday. It was a little showcase of the work they've done this year so far and they put together a presentation. He did a speech on why Australia is the Lucky Country and I was very proud of him as he spoke clearly and had memorised almost all of it so had great eye contact with the audience. I'm just so proud of both of my children. They put in so much effort into everything and both really want to achieve high!
I think that's about all of the important stuff. We just want Dad to know that we were concerned and again, hope that you're taking it easy. Let's see if next weeks can be a 'drama-free' entry...it's certainly been a while since I've had one of those!
Wishing all of you good health and happiness xxx