Archives: impetigo

Actually got back to decorating again last night. As usual – not much, but the act of actually doing it is encouraging enough. At this rate I shall be in a position to finish off the skirting boards, if not this week, then certainly next.
Eve slept through in her own bed last night – something she’s not managed for… um… well, probably since we got back from holiday. She also had a much better day in general. She’s been off form with teething & impetigo. Her favorite word of the past week or so seems to have been, “Nyeurk!” – as in,
“Are you OK Eve?”
“Nyeurk!”
“What’s that in yer mouth Ev…”
“Nyeurk!”
“Would you li…”
“Nyeurk!”
“Could y..”
“Nyeurk!”
“EVE!”
“NYEURK!”
sigh
Hopefully she will be feeling less nyeurky now.

Feeling better? Marginally. I conceded to feeling awful yesterday, & went to bed early, in the hope that I was just run down. Had a good nights sleep & …well, I feel better, but not great, by any means.

Jack slept a bit better last night. He woke at 3:00 & 3:30. I think dreaming is disturbing him at the moment, but he’s not specific about it. He certainly would like me to sleep in his bed, but I tell him I’d be too noisy at the moment (I would – coughing & snorting). I think he settled off OK again, but he must have stirred again as when I got up this morning he was sleeping against his bed like he had been sitting on the floor next to it to watch down the corridor; this was what he was doing when I first went to see him at 3:00. Oh, I put Eve back in bed properly then as well, as she looked to be straying to the point where she might fall out of bed. Unlike Jack, her bed is off the floor.

Eve has a spot of Impetigo at the moment, poor girl. She cannot go to playgroup or college. She is mixing with the kids on the street, much to my general concern, but you can’t stop that. She’s started saying to Louise, when she is told that she can’t do something that she will be able to, “when me chin gets better” (accompanied by vigererous head nod). She still uses ‘me’ for ‘I’, but on the whole she’s very acute with her language nowadays. You take such things for granted. She’s full of life is Eve, running, jumping & all that. She does not like animals so much though; anything larger than a medium sized dog or a cat freaks her out a bit. In a way, it was a good thing that there were not hoardes of animals at the Agricultural show this weekend.

All awake as I left this morning again. Unlike last – was it Thursday – no one was crying.
Eve most certainly is getting better now. She had quite an appetite yesterday & she slept through the night. Jack is a little off colour again. I think the cold ran him down last week as he got a spot of impetigo again. What looked like bump on his eye became a little sore, which only got a little bigger before we decided to get something for him. As it’s on the eyelid, it’s a bottle of medicine. Went late to the surgery on Saturday. It was shut, but Louise saw a pharmacist waiting to leave who is also a mother whom she know. She let Louise in to the surgery & she got a prescription from a Dr who took pains to point out how lucky she was to have seen him. It’s true – we were very lucky there as if we’d allowed the rash on his eyelid to get any worse (it was only tiny at that point) Jack could have been in quite a bit of discomfort; pain, even.
Jude is growing. I wonder how much he weighs now. Louise was speculating 9lbs… I guess it’s distinctly possible. Jack has grown as well. At first we though he might just be looking a bit skinnier because he’s been under the weather with the cold he got from Eve, but looking at him again yesterday, he was taller. Noticeably having that little more clearance looking onto tables & the work surface in the kitchen. Able to reach higher that you’d like him to have the ability.
brain has started drifting – I stop typing today

nurgh – this does not feel like Tuesday – my body clock is convinced we’re later in the week… must be the working Saturday that done it.
Well – having been to the doctors (we still had to wait 10 mins after I arrived for Jack’s appointment) he ‘officially’ has impetigo. His friend Jessie has the same thing, & we saw him arriving as we left. Actually he had the same sort of over ebullient hyper that Jack had as well – lurching round his mum with a cheeky grin. Louise says that she was glad that I arrived when I did as Jack was starting to try to be naughty to provoke her – which he had been doing a lot that day. He calmed down a bit when I arrived & wriggled about on the chair next to me jumped on me a bit – but for the most part stayed with us & didn’t run about (which he has done on previous visits). He also told a lady who came to sit near us that, “When you get really really really old… then you turn into a baby again!”. Not sure at all where he got that one from – that’s not very CofE (as per his school) – sweet tho.
We popped in on his school on the way home to pick up his ‘Santa outfit’ which he was to be wearing at the school concert that evening. One of the teachers we say said that it was a shame & all that & she hoped that he would be better enough for their Xmas party on Thursday. Louise hopes so to as she has her weekly midwife visit then, & it would be all the easier with just Eve to manage. Jack was apparently to be one of the Santas for the ‘I saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus’ routine… as was Jessie – they were going to be 2 mummies without Santas that evening…

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Definitely a morning to be asleep, rather than writing, & going to work? Out of the question… funny how I’m doing both then <sigh>.
Quite a pleasant Sunday all n all we seem to be doing quite well at them at the moment. At home – no adventurous wandering – we did that Friday after I got home from work – dashed off to Burnley on the bus with Louise & Eve. Louise’s mum picked Jack up from school & took him to Bradford to see the Xmas lights. That was the plan anyway, but they only got as far as Halifax & looked at some lights there… Louise’s mum seems to say that it was Jack who wanted this, but… perhaps not. We got a few bit of Xmas shopping done in Burnley, but not that much really.
Tried to fix the old Dyson by taking out the bit of shorted wiring, but it did not work. The wire going ‘bang’ has either had a more serious effect on the wiring or the motor… ah well – I tried a little bit.
Jack’s bang on the head mentioned last week needs to be looked at further. I thought it odd that an area that looked like a recovering bad graze had no bruising associated & have been keeping an eye on it. Just past his hairline, there is this area of scabbing dry skin… & it’s starting to behave more like an infection (getting a little bigger) – so he’s going to school this morning, just to check with the teachers as to whether it’s OK for him to be there. He is likely to be going to the doctors at some point in the day. If he cannot go to school, then that blows his appearance in the school Xmas presentation – which is a bit of a shame – I was kinda looking forwards to that. Not sure how Jack will react to this as I’m sure he would like the opportunity to show off.

Train home

Phoned in on home to see how things were doing. Merry hell – Jack was playing up by the sounds of it – Louise is tired because Eve was at 6’s & 7’s in the night – making a fuss & wriggling about, so she did not get the nights sleep she needed.
Jack has not gone to school today as they suspect impetigo… poor lamb. He has a doctor’s appointment at 2:45, (someone cancelled) so I will go there directly from the train. In all likelihood they will not have seen a Dr by the time I get there – it’s just the way the surgery runs, but you never know! Jack confessed while on the phone, in whisper that I was just about able to catch, that he was ‘mad’ (angry) today – thus his bad behaviour with Eve & Louise I guess. Interesting that he confessed this… but what he is mad about? I don’t now, & if I get a chance to ask him, I don’t think I’ll get a straight answer. Perhaps it’s just not going to school that has set him off? He does like his routine. He will also, as mentioned, miss his school concert.
Eve is also delicate for the same reason that Louise is – she will not have had a good night’s sleep, & on top of that, she has not had a sleep in the day for a few days now. She can do this; miss daytime naps, but she does need to ‘catch up’ every few days to with a daytime sleep. Jack being at home will rule that one out, as she will want to play.