"Mum! Juliet has hurt herself"

I don't not what it is about dads going away for work but it seems like the disasters aways happen during this time. Last week was one of those weeks but luckily Damien was on his way home and we live so close to family that are great helpers. On Friday night Rory was cooking dinner. He enjoys making up his own dish. Juliet was wanting to help so she ended up stirring for him. Every thing was going okay then I had to go to the lady's room. I heard Juliet screaming but thought it was just the children fighting until Rory yelled out, "Mum! Juliet has hurt herself." She had knocked the pan off the stove and spilt it all down her legs. She had pulled her pants down to her ankles before I got there. She went straight into the bath and I put running water on her legs. Nanna, Grandad and Aunty Sarah were there within minutes to help me. Damien was driving through Pt Augusta on his way home.

Juliet's first concern was that we wouldn't have anything to eat for dinner. Then it was that Rory would be angry with her for spilling his invention. Next came ,"I want my daddy!" Whenever she hurts herself she asks for her daddy. I ended up ringing the ambulance after Nanna suggested it. The ambulance crew were great. They tried to keep her mind of the pain. They gave her a green breathing whistler to use as well. It kind of works like the gas when you are in labour. She really enjoyed it, they had to take it off her at the hospital she wasn't very happy with that. She was still in a lot of pain so they had to give her painkillers through the nose and put a pad with a special gel on it on her burns. Damien got some stuff for us and the came straight to the Lyell McEwin Hospital.

She had to be transferred to the Women's and Children's hospital so the burns unit could treat her. She had some more painkillers through the nose in ER before going to be treated. I'm not sure if it was her nerves or if she could still feel all the pain but she would scream every time they touched the burns to get rid of the dead skin. Her right leg had a burn the size of a 20c piece, the left leg was much worse. She has special pads on her burns that contain silver to heal the healing process and to keep out germs. We have to keep the pads moist so they don't rust. We will be off to the hospital tomorrow so they can see how the burns are looking and to change the dressings.

I am so glad it wasn't at the beginning of the week. I'm even more grateful for the priesthood on the earth and that I have family members who hold it. The priesthood blessing she received was such a comfort to me and helped me through the night.

Thank you so much Nanna, Grandad and Aunty Sarah for dropping what you were doing to help us out.

Juliet was given a trauma bear by the ambulance crew.

Juliet found it very comforting throughout the night.

Juliet's leg covered with the dressings.

AUNTY SARAH IS HOME. YEAH

School holidays brought much excitement to the children. The highlight would have to be Aunty Sarah coming home from Karratha. The boys were sleeping over Nanna's house on the Thursday night( the night Sarah was coming home). They went to the airport with Nanna and Aunty Tamera. They were told that they were picking up a friend of Aunty Tamera's with green hair. As soon as Rory saw Sarah he knew that was why they were there but Isiah hadn't noticed her because he was busy looking for someone with green hair. The next day she came around when the boys were dropped off. It was great to see her. When Juliet saw her she screamed out, "Aunty Sarah!!!". She then ran up and hugged her. Charles was very happy as well. Anabelle was not sure what to make of it all. Life is now a bit more peaceful for me. I no longer have to listen to, "When is Aunty Sarah coming home?" and "Is that her plane?" Instead I get, "When are we going to see Aunty Sarah next?"

WELCOME HOME AUNTY SARAH. WE LOVE YOU

The ADVENTURES of RACING ROCKET RIGER TIGER

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE LIVED A SUPER HERO NAMED RACING ROCKET RIGER TIGER (RRRT). HIS SECRET IDENTITY WAS RORY PILKINGTON. HE LIVED IN THE TOWN RAGERSVILLE. HE HAD A PET TIGER CALLED RIGER. THEY HAD A SUPER MOBILE CALLED THE ‘R MACHINE’.

ONE DAY RRRT WOKE UP TO THE SOUND OF SCREAMING PEOPLE. “I WONDER WHAT’S ALL THE NOISE” SAID RRRT, “WE BETTER GO CHECK”. SO THEY WENT TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND AS SOON AS THEY WALKED OUT THE DOOR EVERYBODY WAS ASKING THEM TO SAVE THEM FROM THE EVIL VILLAIN ‘DOOMGA’!

THEY QUICKLY GOT THE R MACHINE BY A REMOTE, AND GOT TO WORK. FIRST HE GOT THE LASER BLASTER AND TURNED IT ON TO SLEEP MODE. THEN FIRED AT DOOMGA .SADLY HE MISSED. HE FIRED AGAIN, HIT! THEN HE SENT OUT 12 ROBOTS (HE HAS MADE THEM ALL 90,000,000 AND 9,000,000 BEING MADE). HE GOT THEM TO PUT HIM IN A CAGE.

AFTER THAT THEY WENT TO RRRT’S SECRET UNDERGROUND HEAD QUARTERS (RSUHQ). “PUT HIM IN THE PRISON” SAID RRRT, “WE’LL QUESTION HIM WHEN HE WAKES UP”.

WHEN HE WAKES UP THE PRISON GUARD SEES HIM. HE CALLS RRRT WITH HIS COMMUNICATOR, RRRT GETS RIGER TO GET HIM AND PUT HIM ON THE TRUTH MACHINE (IT MAKES YOU GLOW BLUE IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH AND RED IF YOU ARE LYING). WHILE THEY WERE QUESTIONING HIM THEY FOUND OUT THAT THE BOSS OF THE BAD GUYS WAS GOOWGUY AND HE WANTS TO DESTROY RRRT AND ALL THE SUPER HEROES, SO HE CAN BECOME RULER OF THE WORLD. “WE MUST NOT LET THAT HAPPEN” SAID RRRT, “CALL THE SPY ROBOT AND GET HIM TO WARN ALL THE OTHER SUPER HEROES, AND PUT DOOMGA IN THE GOOD MACHINE THEN WE’LL USE HIM TO BE THE MESSENGER”.
AFTER HE IS FINISHED IN THE GOOD MACHINE THEY GIVE HIM A NEW NAME “HOW ABOUT MESSENGEGA” SAID RIGER. “GOOD THINKING” SAID RRRT, “THAT WILL BE IT”. NOW HE IS THEIR MESSENGER THEY WILL GET HIM TO GIVE A MESSAGE TO GOOWGUY, “TELL HIM THAT WE’RE MUCH TO POWERFUL AND TELL HIM IF HE ATTACKS HE’LL DIE THEN ASK HIM WHERE HE IS GOING TO ATTACK THEN COME BACK HERE AND TELL US ALL THE INFORMATION YOU FOUND OUT”
WHEN HE GOT BACK HE TO RSUHQ HE TOLD RRRT THAT GOOWGUY BELIEVED WE ARE TO POWERFUL AND FIRST HE IS GOING TO ATTACK MOVERSVILLE WERE JOGOMAN (JOSHUA SERLE) LIVES. “HE’LL SAVE UP HIS ARMY THEN ATTACK US” SAID MESSENGEGA. “WE’LL HAVE TO HELP JOGOMAN HE HAS BEEN MY BEST FRIEND SINCE WE WERE KIDS AND RIGER HAS ALWAYS HELPED US” SAID RRRT.
WHEN THEY REACHED MOVERSVILLE THEY WENT STRAIT TO JOGOMAN’S HOUSE. JOGOMAN GREETS THEM HAPPILY AND THEN THEY TELL HIM THE NEWS JOGOMAN SAYS “LUCKILY I GOT A TIGER LIKE RIGER HIS NAME IS JIGER, I ALSO MADE SOME ROBOTS”.
BY THE TIME THAT GOOWGUY PLANNED TO ATTACK EVERYBODY WAS READY. BY THE TIME HE ACTUALLY GOT THERE IT WAS 9:45am.

TO BE CONTINUED

"It's all about Charlie"

Last week was a very busy week. Sundays are usually busy for Damien and this one was no different. By the time he got home we only had a couple of hours together before we were of to our nephew's baptism. It was great to see most of my family.

For those of you that didn't know we noticed some lumps on Charlie's head a couple of months ago. We saw Dr Graham a month and a half ago and he had no idea what they could be. He sent us of for a ultrasound. That showed that there were more lumps than we could see but they had no idea either. So we were sent to a paediatric surgeon, who also had no idea, a month ago. He wanted to wait a month to see whether they would go away. He had said one of the things it could be was a skin condition that would go way. So Monday Charles had another appointment with the paediatric surgeon to see what was happening with them. In that month another one had appeared and they looked slightly larger to me. The surgeon decided that he would do a biopsy to see if they could find out what it was. They don't suspect anything to concerning but we just want to know what is happening. An appointment was made for Friday to have this biopsy done. Charles had a cold so I was hoping that he would be ok for Friday.

On Tuesday Charles' cold had gotten worse. He was running around fine in the morning except for his cold. By the afternoon he started to sound asthmatic. I decide to take him to a doctor. I was told he needed to get him to hospital because his breathing wasn't to good. The others all ended up at Nanna's (Thanks Nanna). We were there from 5:30 to 10:30. The doctor spoke to us about asthma and gave us information to read. The main reason we were there so long is they wanted to monitor he to see how the treatment went. If he hadn't gotten better then he would have been in overnight. The children didn't get to bed until 11 at night. The poor things.

On Wednesday Isiah had an assembly item. We did offer a sleep in but Isiah was so keen on doing his assembly item. He has been learning about space this term and they were singing so song about it. I was fun to watch.

On Thursday I had an appointment.

On Friday Charles had his biopsy. We left home just before 7am to be at Parkwynd Hospital at 7:30am. He didn't go in until 9:30.He had to fast for the biospy and didn't start asking for a drink or food until about 20 mins before he went in. About 30 min later he was back sleeping. He slept on my lap for about 45min. He wasn't worried about his head at all. He was complaining more about the needle in his hand for the drip. He was finally able to drink when he woke up and they got him a sandwich once he was ready to eat. It was 2:10pm before we even got home. Anabelle really didn't like it. She was all over me for the rest of the day. Rory decided that this week was "all about Charlie." He also says "Charlie is CRAZY!"

Saturday was spent watching Rory, Isiah and Juliet play soccer.

I am so glad that week is over. I don't know what we would have done without Nanna. She helped out so much this week. Thankyou Nanna.


Charlie's hospital name band. He kept telling me it had his birthday on it.


The bandaid is where they did the biospy.