forecast: isolated, gloomy, yet GOOD
i received some great news today.
a friend who was meant to visit hong kong and stay with us for over one week IS NOT COMING.
i didn’t word it as great when i heard the news, but you know what i mean.
i have been busy planning my in-laws schedule for when they arrive, and it is looking good. sebastian’s birthday party, american thanksgiving, rainbow restaurant, american peking restaurant, the annexxe, etc.
i "test drove" most of the planned activities on pam and frugal blake, and my in-laws will be the final run. the extra visitor was surplus. a test test drive, if you will.
anyway, i am chuffed. previously, the room was being vacated the day before one of my sisters in law arrived, now i have time to sort through it, should i choose. (i don’t, but it is very nice to have the option.)
i love having guests, but i also love having time. this is good.
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jasper needed an emergency trip to the doctor today. this morning i spent the day at sebastian’s school (first at the playground with his class, next covering books in the staffroom. ahh, do you envy me my glamourous existence?) i rode home in the school bus. sebastian gave me permission. we sang the "wheels on the bus".
when i got home, jasper’s wheezing was worse than ever. you know that sound when a small bit of something that won’t break down is stuck in and rattling around the blender? that was jasper’s chest today. huge warning bells.
i got him an appointment with the person i consider to be the best paediatrician in town, and off we went. in the waiting room i found my good friend and neighbour, and her husband, and two of their three children, who are suffering from the same thing.
everyone in the waiting room could hear jasper wheezing. and of course, he was furrowing his brow and looking very confused, as jaspers do. concerned, and a little bit scared. tonnes of public sympathy for jasper. he started whinging and refused his bottle, so i gave him a cup of warm water, and i’ll be ding dong double damned if he didn’t enjoy the gulping concept. he got a lot of the water down his dungarees, but he also got a lot down his hungry yap.
have i mentioned that jasper of the cavernous mouth now only takes 100mls of his bottle? he prefers to take the rest of his nourishment through rice cereal and broccoli/pumpkin/sweet potato/spinach, what have you name it.
the doctor wasted little time…mine or his. he is a very good doctor. i knew it would be important so i mentioned that jay was a preemie, and the doctor declared that just looking at him, it was impossible to tell that jasper had been so premature.
why was he premature?
this one always makes me pause. i didn’t do anything wrong. i didn’t do anything wrong.
i settled for telling the dr jasper was a triplet.
a pause.
"and the other siblings?" he asked so delicately.
i hastened to tell him they had also survived.
"wonderful! fantastic!" he exclaimed. he then suggested we all get flu shots. as a celebration, possibly.
jasper is now on a nebuliser three times a day and is also on antibiotics for the next week. he hates the nebuliser and we have learned that jasper can cry for 30 minutes straight, while we are giving him the drugs.
so this is monday. we don’t have guests, jaspers lungs are going to get better, sebastian’s speech therapist is coming tomorrow, the girls are eating more and feeling better…all this is good.
