Disturbing dream (by alaric)

Last night, I dreampt I was having a heart attack - horrid pains in my left arm, then I was taken to a hospital and wired into monitors and had a drip inserted, again into my left arm - then I woke up to find that I'd fallen asleep with my left arm bent into an uncomfortable position and it was in agony!

It always fascinates me, how the human mind manages to weave external stimuli into our dreams like that. The classic case is when somebody is shouting at you to wake up or an alarm clock goes off, and your brain weaves it into your dream for a few seconds before you come round...

Jean Stood Up! (by sarah)

Jean has not yet started crewling though she ended up somewhere today that could mean she has just started but thats not the impressive thing - we were changing her and things for bed and she got upset so we were sitting with her on the floor in her room when she took it into her head to crab her cot and pull herself up so she was standing!!!!

Makes us wonder if she's going to skip crawling altogether 🙂

Why did I eat Meat? :'( (by sarah)

Stupid stupid me!!!

I kept eating meat a little bit here and there and nothing happened - I thought - Yay! The pregnancy has curied me I can eat meat again - then I proceeded to eat meat - not alot but some meat for three days in a row and wham bam thankyou mam - the stomache cramps start - just like the onsort of labour.

The got worse over a few days until the climaxed with the morning of my concert and chior reunion - probably the added stress of having to leave home three hours later than I was expecting (at least - due to Al deciding he was going to work an 11 hr day) and panicking that I wouldnt be able to sing - probably didnt help!

Due to throwing up and 'other' stuff I didnt even get an hours sleep before I got to the Church for the Chior reunion at 9:45 - sigh!

I had to tazke fall dosage of Lopramid just to survive - it was horrible and I am still suffering - I know from the past that I've got at least another week to go.

Becca - time for you to preach at me now!

P.S soz if this is to graphic laughs evilly

My weekend (by alaric)

Friday night - worked until about 10pm, getting things done that were meant to be done for Friday.

Then helped pack and prepare to go into London, a 3 hour drive. Sarah's choir reunion starts at 9:45am tomorrow.

Not sure what time we set off, but I remember leaving a service station at about 3am after stopping for a nap because I was starting to nod at the wheel, but I had barely fallen asleep when I was awoken by Sarah's parents ringing her on her mobile, and found my leg had gone dead from trying to sleep curled up on the driver's seat.

I slept in at Sarah's parent's place, but then had to get up in order to go and buy some baby milk powder for Jean, since there was none there. The little nearby chemist turned out to be shut so I walked back and took the van to a large supermarket, braved the Saturday morning queues, and then brought it back. I spent some time fruitlessly trying to fix Sarah's mother's computer which had come down with Microsoft Windows Goes Very Slowly disease, but there were no obviously out of place malware processes running, and it's slow right from the very earliest stages of booting. Then I managed to grab a couple of hours to myself to do some shopping (a shiny thing to put across the windscreen of the van when parked to prevent it from becoming a solar oven, and part of a wedding anniversary present for my wife), and to go for a walk, before picking up Sarah's brother and going to the choir concert that evening. Then to bed.

Then up early Sunday to pack all of our stuff away and go on a delivery mission of various things to various people as we crossed London back towards home, then get home, do work that needs to be done by Monday, then to bed, now at 1:30am. To be up about 7:30am tomorrow morning to take Jean to nursery, then for a conference call to start the next week of work.

Zzzzzz.....

Dislexia, Dispraxia ADHD and the Autism Spectrum (by sarah)

Hmmm I'm sure there should be some y's in that lot - oh well!

I was bored in the doctors surgery and just couldnt sit still so I went to look at the littloe nhs books they have in the waiting room and there was a book on ADHD - I thought that might be interesting - it turns out that the above 'disorders' are now all lumped together. Now Dyslexia and Dyspraxia I didnt realise had diversified into two distinct groups. Anyway the case studies were depressing as mostly it seemed the childrens distress seemed to be mostly they were surrounded by 'stupid' adults be that perants or teacthers.

I was also a bit shocked that people took kids to the doctors becuase of the 'symptom' I didnt read the whole book but it did throw up some interesting things like the fact it is licky that if you have one then you will have some of the others. Anyway I got intreged as I have sort of ignored the whole thing and even get annoyed when mum tells people about it.

I got a 'diagnosis' of dyslexia and dyspraxia at the begininning of my A'levels after struggling for the whole of my school life, being accused of being thick until IQ tests were done, then of being lazy etc... etc... anyway thats all old hat as they say!

I've started reading up some stuff and was suprised to find that omega-3 is supposed to help alivieta symptoms - I need to go more indepth because this is jusst one paper I've come across - when I'll get all to link at some point though it'll be a pdf. Not having studied in this field I dont know if the journal is any good - but the main contributor is from IC 🙂

This paper basically says that the 'disorders' are actually all just part of a phospholipid disorder which has also been conected to scitzophrenia (sp), bi polar (though I thought they were still arguing about weather this exists!) and other psychiatric conditions. Also that the disorders are associated with digestional track problems - if you know me then that is v.v.v. interesting - now I can see that this may actually be becuase if you have a digestional track disorder you are more lickly to suffer deficiencies - though this hasnt been mentioned yet!

Also if it is a deficiency then it would explain why more 'poor' people suffer from them and the rate of apparent increase (I say apparent becuase I dont beleive its something we can even get close to properlly quantifying) ie we all have bad diets in modern society etc...

Anyway - I'm off to think - especially as with all these disorders (the originals not bi-polar) there are disproportionatly more males affected than females - ie I'm unusal having server dyslexia as a girl which I already knew!