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Oh the fun and games with kids who need grommets.

Finally got through the waiting list, and the operation for grommets + adenoid removal was booked for last Friday. Braeden caught chicken pox (prob from me.. that's another story) over Easter but that was a two-day wonder with maybe 40 spots.

Some people aren't really trying ;-) I was out for the count for two weeks and had hundreds of the buggers. At least three good facially scarring ones - gotta love the deep sod in the middle of my forehead. I could fit a sizeable ruby in that sucker!

But I digress.

We were still on track for the Big Op when suddenly Tuesday morning I was called to Kindy because Brae developed a fever at lightning speed, and the ambulance needed to be called. Much drama later, the doctor diagnosed rapid-onset tonsilitis, and said "Ring the hospital, the operation can't go through."

So I did, and they said "No worries, the op's still on. See you Friday."

Friday rolled around and we starved His Majesty as instructed (turned out much less horrific than we thought), and he passed all his pre-op tests. But the anaesthetist & surgeon decided that no, it was too close to his earlier malady to risk cross infection, so home we came again.

They said we can get re-sheduled for about two weeks time. I reckon they just told us that to get us to leave without having to call security ;-)

But hey, I've been wrong before!

Brae had a WONDERFUL time at the hospital - they have cool toys in the kids' waiting room, plus a TV with a stack of DVD's to request.

Thing is, the double dose of paracetemol they gave him before the "op that didn't happen" meant he fell asleep when we got home at 4pm, and stayed that way until 3am the next day. This set the pattern for a weekend from hell, sleep wise. Managed to get him back to something resembling normalcy last night, whew!

I don't "do" 3am-6.30am playdates!