Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers last night!

They finally decided at 11.30pm that Emma was having an allergic reaction. After observing her until 12.30, we finally arrived home at 1.30am, to a DARK house, as I had managed to trip the house electrics just after Sophie woke up at 11.30! Why do these things always seem to happen when DH is out/away/I'm preoccupied with something else?! Anyway, DH just reset it and it's been fine since. Electricals are not my strenght, and having a DH to whom they are Im afraid I dont pay any attention to them, so I didnt even know which switch to switch back on (though I did know where the box was so Im not completely useless)! Emma then slept until 9.30am and I woke DH at  approx 1pm for a light lunch. He has had a headache since the weekend which wont shift, and has an upset tummy, and now has a wildly fluctuating temperature as I did 3 weeks ago... At least Emma had the consideration to have her allergic reaction on Monday night, coz Sunday was sick night and tonight I dont know which of us would have gone to A&E with her!

Sophie has now unfortunately graduated from sickness to diarrhea. She was screaming in pain at 5.30am, and the pain has come back several times during the day, when she's been inconsolable until she produces another horrible nappy. I think we've had about 4, plus one in the bath at 6am (yuk!). If I had any disposables of the right size she'd be in them right now, but Im sure Emma's old leftover size 6s would leak badly, so Im sticking with washables. Because she's only on my milk plus water plus (today) icepops, we are back to mustard-yellow nappies - a real blast from the past. She is very prone to nappy rash at the best of times and she is very sore at the moment, poor darling.

Anyway, I'm surprised how well I feel, but I expect it will catch up with me before long. As long as it's not like 3 weeks ago!

Emma still has a bit of the rash, which was all over her body during yesterday night. She has been well dosed with Piriton for 24 hours now, so it's hard to tell whether she's sleepy from that or from the late night. I kept her off school today but I'm expecting to send her in for the final day of term tomorrow. She'll be gutted if she cant go in , to say goodbye to her teacher who is leaving. Im sure she'll tell them all about the ambulance, which I gather was exciting for the first few miles but got a bit samey by the hospital 15 miles away. And she was bored rigid waiting in A&E for so long. I asked her if she wanted to be an ambulance driver when she grows up, thinking that might seem exciting, but she said no, she still wants to be a nurse (and a pilot, and a train driver, and a teacher, etc etc)!