update on us all!

The blog for Josh does seem to keep being hijacked by the rest of us mainly me!

i am starting to hobble around a bit and the swelling in my foot has gone down a lot, but i can't get a shoe on or drive and its is still painful especially on the foot pad. it seems perhaps the radiologist in Southend had looked at the xray without reading my notes and the pieces he saw were most likely on the outside of the foot. finally we got them to send the originals to the local hospital and they repeated the xray and can see nothing now, they also did a CT scan of my foot and are sure there is no retained glass. The piece local a&e saw is most likely bone from an old injury, it was close to the injury though so confused things further! He also thinks the discolouration is due to perhaps bruising and normal healing and it is not unusual for a bad injury in this location to take 8 weeks. Shame that the dr before i saw gave me anti-biotics that made me very sick for a supposed infection! i am doing lots of physio on the foot and making good progress if a little frustratingly slow.

Ethan is settled at school and a little less tired this week. Tom has a cold and is very busy at work.

we are both tired due to Josh waking in the nights. night before last another full change at midnight as diarrhea up his back etc, 2 nights before that awake from when we went to bed til 2.30am with tummy ache and then just wide awake. He too has a bit of a cold and is off his food, so perhaps its related. G.O.S appointment is in just under 3 weeks now so we can finally chat all this through