2008 May « Aria MacDonald

Thanks Chris for your question after my last post. We are more than happy to answer questions, thank you for following Aria’s progress!
Just as I was typing this Aria is telling me that she wants more of her toast for breakfast. Whenever we have food Aria has to be in on the [...]

There have been a few ‘firsts’ in our house this week. Some we have experienced before with Aria, others we haven’t.
Asher got his first tooth this week! So excited, and he has been an angel, not problems at all. I was so excited about Aria’s first tooth too, it was the first [...]

There were angels in my garage yesterday in the form Nana and Poppa MacDonald. Hamish’s mum and dad spent a good couple of hours in there sorting thru our rubbish and treasures and we can now get a car in there! This is the first time Hamish and I have ever used our garage [...]

Aria is coming home this morning after a fairly long period of observation, she has been fine and is improving.
Thanks to everyone for their kind words and support.  Some lovely person left a batch of very yummy muffins on our doorstep which were gratefully received and my friend Sarah made me yummy pizza for tea [...]

We went back into Starship early this morning for a CT scan to see what was going on with Aria’s brain (not a CAT scan - confusing). The good news is that it was clear! The bad news is that she wouldn’t go to sleep for it so we had to put her [...]

Yes, no time for sitting around feeling sorry for yourself around here.
Aria was taking back to Starship via ambulance last night. She started convulsing and screaming late last night so we rang the ambulance. It was awful and scary and so very terrible for her.
She is ok now, it pretty much lasted [...]

Ever get that feeling that you are running on empty?  Part of me (actually most of me) doesn’t even have the energy to update this site.
Anyway - we are home and Aria is much better and we are on once daily ABX.
I just feeling like crawling into a corner and….well not sure what.  Anyway this is probably [...]

Turns out Aria is sick from the disaster with her central line yesterday.  Well it is looking fairly likely that is what happen.  This morning she is culturing a gram negative bug in her line, which means it is a gut bug and different from the bug she had in her line last week.
This just [...]

Did you notice that I put a question mark at the end of the title of my last post?  Aria is back, but back in hospital
I was so confident today that she was better I rang the lovely Gastro Reg and told her we might not need our clinic appointment on Monday.  Later [...]

I think Aria might finally be on the mend.  Today she is much improved and happy and smiling.  Still a little unsettled and senstive but still closer to the happy and healthy Aria we know.
It has been a really stressful couple of days.  I won’t go into the details, it is fairly boring but trips [...]