Our Week Update

*** Please note this was written about an month ago and I forgot to upload it ***

14th November 2021

Hey!

I thought I’d try and write a weekly up date on how our week has been as to be honest, this week especially, it’s been difficult to sit down and write what we’ve been getting up to.

Monday

Today was AJ’s first day at an after school club. I won’t lie and say I wasn’t nervous because I was. I think it’s just purely because of his needs and how he can struggle with change in routine. We had prepared him for the last few weeks that it was coming and he was quite excited to go. It felt weird going to only pick up J as it’s usually the pair of them. It was nice being able to spend time with just J, even if it was just an hour. When I went to pick AJ up an hour later, he came out with a big smile and told me how much he enjoyed it. He also wanted to look at joining some other after school clubs. Tonight, I felt really proud of him for going out of his comfort zone.

Tuesday

Today, J woke up complaining that his chesty cough was annoying him and started to hurt. He’s had a chesty cough for 2-3 weeks that didn’t seem to be getting any better. I had taken him to the GP on Friday who ruled out a chest infection. I decided to give his consultant a ring (he’s under a consultant for his asthma) as he never complains when he has a cough. She rang me back an hour and asked if we could attend the day unit for him to be assessed after school. Sure! After I picked him up, we headed straight to the hospital. After she assessed him, she decided to prescribe him a short course of antibiotics, followed by placing him on long term antibiotics for the winter. After getting home, I tried to administer the first dose. To be honest, I felt I was wrestling an alligator trying to get the antibiotic into him.

Wednesday

I started the day at 2 this morning. J woke up and struggled to settle back to sleep. I don’t know why, but was a bit worried as I was due in work at 9. Managed to get him back down to sleep around 4, but then struggled to get back to sleep myself. Just as I managed to start falling back to sleep around 5:30, AJ then woke up for the day. Decided there was no point in going back to sleep and took him downstairs. After getting the boys to school, I headed to work for the day. It was quite busy and the muppet I am, I forgot to attend my booster jab appointment. After finishing work at 3, I headed to the school to pick the boys up. It was also the day of the book fair so took them along. We did it when AJ first started school and wanted J to get the chance to experience it as well. We weren’t able to do it last year when Harry first started school due to covid. Both boys enjoyed it and both got a new book to read at home as they both have started reading a lot more at home. AJ also brought himself a poppy with his pocket money so he could wear it at the remembrance assembly tomorrow.

Thursday

Today was my day off work as it’s my week to work on Saturday. After dropping the boys at school and honestly it feeling like one of the worst drop offs in while due to AJ having a meltdown, we waited in Jim’s medication as since the pandemic started, we’ve been getting his and J’s medication delivered and continued to do so. Once the medication turned up, we headed out to the local supermarket to pick up extra food as we had been asked to supply AJ with extra snacks for school. Honestly, this child could eat for England. After we got back and put the food shopping away, we chilled for the rest of the day until it was time to pick the boys up from school. I honestly live for the day where I can just put my feet up for a few hours and just relax. Today was one of these days, but I was also really tired as the boys had gotten me up at 2 again. After school wasn’t any better as AJ had a meltdown near enough the moment he got in the door from school. I think it was purely because he was tired and needed some sleep.