While Mummy was away.

When I was away for the weekend in Melbourne Niwa had a little accident.  He jammed his finger in the door at church and had to go to Starship and have his finger nail sewn back on.  He had to have a General and the operation was about 45mins.  He then stayed the night in Starship.  No one told me about this.  On my way home for the Airport on Monday Nikki called me and she said,  "How is Niwa?"  I said "What?" Then she said,  "OH neva mind!"  I was thinking what the heck someone tell me what is going on.  Then she said, "Oh he just hurt himself" and then left it at that.  I was dying by now, wanting to know more but she wouldn't tell me anymore I had to wait until I got home,  only to find my little boy with this plaster cast on his arm.  Uncle Donovan called it his 'Sausage hand' and so everyone was calling it that.  Anyway he has been a 'box of birds'  you would not even know there was anything wrong with him.  These holidays he has gone to the beach, the park, lollie Pops Playland, he has zoomed down Mt Vic on cardboard boxes,  gone to Kiwi Valley Farm and the list goes on.  He is such a brave little guy and has not complained once!  He has since had the plaster off and has a new dressing.  My funny little man,  this time last year it was a broken elbow!

The Funny thing about this was that he was in exactly the same ward as Arama was in and so Keith knew most of the staff there.  When I went back there this week to get it checked,  they were all saying to me,  "I know you from somewhere",  it kinda felt like I was back home.  NOT  hopefully this is the last we see of ward 24A at Starship this year!

This photo below cracks me up as it is just like Arama's sign above his bed,  

the same Surgeon's name and everything.  

TERINA GETS HER ADNOIDS OUT

These photos kinda make me laugh as they are nearly exactly the same as the shots we took of Niwa's trip to the same hospital for the same operation a few weeks ago.  

Her operation was on Tues the 2nd of October.

Above and below:  us arriving at the hospital

Above and below:  In the play room

Below:  Terina with the Anesthetist before her operation

Terina with the amazing nurse 'Jo' who looked after her that day.

Below:  Niwa got a little sheepy,  Terina preferred to pick a Giraffe,  cute!

Me with my special 'theatre' costume on.  Lovely!

The photos below are of Terina after her operation.  She vomitted a bit and took a while to come right.

Below:  Still a bit drugged after her operation, but not too drugged to have a good Kai from this lovely 5 Star hospital LOL.  Don't you just love your kids more than ever when they are sick,  she was such a cut patient.  I love you my little Honey Girl  you are so Delicious!  Her healing process after the operation was great,  much better really than Niwa and back to school less than a week later!

I head there 4 weeks  from today for my surgery  

except its a little more major than Adnoids,  I get to stay for 5 nights.  ARGHH!

NIWA BREAKS HIS ELBOW!!!!

Last Friday night,  Niwa broke his elbow.  I was in the kitchen and  Terina and Niwa were jumping on the tramp.  I could sense that Terina was getting a little too excited and was just about to tell her to calm down when I heard a massive scream from Niwa.  Now Niwa has quite a high pain tolerance level but I could tell by the cry that he was HURT!  Apparently Terina had fallen on him or Double bounced him as she said.    Anyway to cut a long story short,  I was one hour off going out for dinner with some of my friends and that never happened that night. 

I called mum and Dad and they came over to watch the other two while Keith and I took Niwa in the car to ‘Shore Care’.  Niwa the poor Darling was in such agony!  I sat in the back seat holding him in a certain position so that he didn’t scream constantly in the process.    When we got there his pain didn’t calm down.  The doctors gave him pain relief and then gave him some morphine as it just wasn’t easing.  They took x-rays  and found he had broken his elbow and then decided to transport him in an ambulance to Starship Hospital.  

See Keith Mr ‘Camera Man’ (I Phone) happy, taking photos of everything even when his son was in agony.  Crack up in hindsight but not at the time! 

We were at Starship that night until 3am and his accident happened  about 5.30 in the evening.  They sent us for more and more x-rays and then plastered it up. 

The Ambulance arrives!

 Arriving at Starship above.

In the plaster room at starship,  he had perked up a little at this stage after having quite a long sleep.  As you can see by the photos below I was NOT 'perked up' ,  Keith and I were shattered,  it was about 2 am by this stage.  Niwa thought all the things on the ceiling etc in this room were cool,  I just wanted to go to bed!  LOL!

He is still the usual ‘risk taking’ kid that he always was since his little incident,  look at these photos of him on the tramp 2 days after his accident,  you just can’t stop him!  He is still climbing trees, climbing ladders, riding his bike, swinging on swings  and still has  absolutely no fear on the Tramp!

I am convinced he is gonna break another bone before his elbow is healed!  LOL!

Today we went back to ‘Starship’ and he had to get another plaster.  They are a little concerned that he may also have nerve damage,  so we are back there again next week too!  Fun and games!  He was determined to have a PINK plaster,  they said he could choose from Blue, Yellow, green, black, red and purple,  and he was unshaken,  he wanted a PINK  one and there was nothing stopping him! So there you have it and he thinks he is hot!!!

Terina had her operation this week too, blog entry to come and then to top it off Arama got a vomit bug yesterday.  Its times like these I feel so blessed to be an ‘at home’ mum.  I actually love helping my kids when they are not 100%  I just love being able to comfort them like no one else can!  Its such a cool feeling cause no one does it better than MUM.  How blessed I am to be one!