Firstly i just have to say... I LOVE BRISBANE!!... the weather today is awesome.... so why am i inside?? lol

It's all quiet here at home. The twins got picked up yesterday by their Dad for the holidays. They're staying with his sister here in Brissy, so that should be fun for them. Dylan is having his afternoon nap, although i'm sure I can hear playing noises coming from his room. And Lindsay just got dropped off at the airport, he's off to Victoria for a month. So it's just Dylan & I until Thursday when my sister inlaw and her youngest boy ( she has six kids) come for a holiday.  I can't wait, i'm looking forward to having some adult company and there's talk of going to Australia Zoo. So Excited!

Healthwise, i'm feeling MUCH BETTER... yay!! After two rounds of blood tests and discussions on Ross river fever, Glandular fever, Lymphoma, Bahma river virus, Cytomegalovirus it was found that I have Parvovirus B19!  I'm happy I know what it is and that it's nothing too bad. Parvovirus is a common childhood ilness that is also called "slap cheek". Ofcourse adults cop it worse. I must not have got it as a kid... and i remember the twins getting it in prep, so it's funny I didn't get it then. I guess I picked it up when I stayed overnight in hospital with Meeka when she got her tonsils out, cos we seriously havent left the house since then and that was three weeks ago now... Nevermind, i think i'm over the worst of it, still get tired and a little achy but feeling really good. I think the beautiful weather helps!

Wish everyone happy and safe holidays! Can't wait to tell you all about mine and to read about yours!

Much Love Tracey xox

I just want to feel better and happy, it's spring and there's beauitful weather and I just feel crappy.

After feeling crook and getting anti biotics for my "sinus infection" and then having a bad reaction to them, I broke out in an itchy rash all over on Thursday. I  laughed and thought it was Karma because earlier that day I was enquiring into how to make a voodoo doll so I could stab the crap out of my ex... oh well... thought it might make me feel better... lol... but no, I got a horrid rash instead.

So off to the Docs again on Sat because nothing was stopping the itch and i also had achy knees and I still have al ump on my neck below my ear. So he tells me it could be one of three things... lymphoma... glandular fever or... ross river fever...

What next? So I get bloods taken and should find out mon or tue what the hell is wrong with me. Now my whole body aches, my fingers, hands, wrists, neck, feet, toes but especially my knees and I have another lump just behind my ear lobe. I just feel grose. I've been reading info on all three things and i feel like my symptoms are most likely ross river... well i kinda hope thats all it is.

Thank goodness Meeka goes back to school tommorrow. Dylan gets his picture taken tommorrow too with daycare, so i'm looking forward to that... love pictures. And thank goodness hubby is home... yay. It's only for a week though, then he goes for a month.

Wishing life was easy... Love T xox

So i've had Meeka at home with me for the past two weeks because she got her tonsils out, she's doing really well and wil be fine to go back to School next week.

I got a sinus infection last week and I went to the doctors because I was feeling really dizzy too. So they give me anti biotics and I get worse... much worse. I started feeling nauseas and off my food and dizzy and had diarhoea too. I started feeling a bit better on the weekend and my cousin invited us over for dinner. So we get there and spend and hour or so chatting before dinner is served... a beautiful roast... and i take three bites and feel like i'm gonna be sick. So they ofered to have the twins for the night because Lindsay is away and I go home to bed with Dylan. So I go to the doctor first thing monday and it turns out that iv'd had a reaction to the anti biotics. Can you believe it? I still don't feel 100% but since stopping them i feel heaps better.

And the yesterday I asked the twins dad to start paying the full amount of child support because he's only paying a third of what he should and we're really struggling at the moment. And what can I say, it went down like a lead balloon. He rang at five last night, no happy and could barely speak he was that angry he didn't know what to say.

So the conversation went along the lines of... well if i pay that amount i may as well have the kids... and ... when will it be my turn to have them anyway... So i'm freking out because I wan't expecting that to be the topic but rather a financial negotiation.

Then i entertain his idea of having the kids and ask how that wuould work considering he's working in the mines and lives an hour out of Perth. He then explains how he'll get a job in town and drive the kids 40 min into town and back every day. He also mentioned splitting the twins... unreal man... I laughed and sayed... oh yeah, how would you break that to the other one? My take on the whole situation is that he's not happy i've asked him for the correct amount of child support and now he's trying to worm his way out of it by taking the kids? So i've spent today calling the CSA and the Family relationship advice line... etc I haven't rung legal aid yet but i will because he's coming to brisbane to take the kids to his sisters place for the holidays. Which is next friday. I little worried he may take the kids back to Perth and we don't have any court orders to say who the kids live with. I'm as angry as cos I feel like i'm being punished with the threat of him taking the kids all because I asked him to step up and pay the whole amount for child support. Not right in my eyes. Considereing he makes 120 grand a year.... arrrrr

Meeka gets her tonsils and adnoids out tommorrow after lunch. We have an over night stay in hospital which i'm so not looking forwar to. This will be her sixth op, so we know the drill by now. Hopefully i'll get a lounge chair to sleep in, her last op i got to sleep in a waiting room chair and ended up having to go to the ciropractor to fix my neck & back.

I'm a little scared, only because she got septisemia after she got her kidney out, but they didn't know until over ten hours later. She was only showing a few of the signs and didn't get a fever until they called the surgeon back in at 10 pm. I was terrified, because she was pale and wouldn't wake up and wasn't letting out fluid. And they moved her into a room on her own close to the nurses station...  But once she got the fever they were sure they knew what was wrong and put her on anti biotics and she picked up after that.

Okay, now my stomach is in knots thinking about it, just keep telling myself that this is a completely different situation and she will be fine, it's only her tonsils for goodness sakes... But they're just so huge, they nearly touch her dangly thing and they've told me the main worry is post op bleeding. Okay, that's it i'm going to go and have a cuppa now and play the xbox (starwars lego) to take my mind off it. I'll let you know how she goes. She get's two weeks off school and i've stocked up on the ice blocks, pain stop, jelly, custard etc ettc

Love you guys

Trace xox