Today he is a lot better. He had a couple of days of runny nose, temperature and wheezy breathing and today his nose has almost dried up. He is wheezing more today and off his food but I think he has got over this very quickly.
In general Alex doesn't seem to get sick as often as other kids and when he does he seems to get over it quicker. The exception being anything that hits his lungs, that's what worries us about colds. We credit the INIS trial for his strength. Alex joined the trial when he was in the NICU and he was very sick. He had a staph infection and was on 3 different antibiotics at the time. We don't know if he got the IVIG or the placebo but pretty much straight away he 'turned the corner'. The nurses in the NICU used to talk about babies turning the corner and I guess we took it as just a reassuring saying that things would get better but when Alex joined the INIS trial he didn't just turn the corner, it was a high speed handbrake skid around a sharp U-turn bend! Ever since whenever Alex resists something or gets over something quickly we put it down to an immune boost from the trial. He is due for his 2 year corrected assessment for the trial in about 3 months, that's probably why this is on my mind now :) Before then he has his second birthday! We don't have any plans for that yet. Been more preoccupied with his hearing test tomorrow. I guess once that is over we can start thinking about his birthday.
I've been having constant headaches for the last few weeks. They started the day I had my hair cut and got my new monitor. The first night I put it down to the fumes from the hairdressers. When the headaches continued I was worried it was my new monitor. Then the tooth ache started. I think either a filling or the tooth around a filling cracked. Today a bit of the tooth broke away and the headache almost went away too. So I guess the headaches are linked to the tooth and both are feeling better now except when I eat or drink anything. I have to wait 3 weeks to get in to see the dentist :( unless they have a cancellation before then.
My new monitor is beautiful! I was using a 17" Benq LCD and it was great but just not big enough for photo work. So I spent a few months looking at larger LCDs and finally got a 22" wide Benq. It went back the same day! It had 2 dead pixels, one right in the center, and shocking light bleed. Instead I got a 22" wide Samsung LCD. It is perfect! I'm not sure I have it calibrated correctly yet. My old monitor was a perfect match for the prints from the lab I use. This one is still too bright, I'm having trouble getting the blacks black enough and I'm not sure about the colour cast yet. I guess I wont know for sure until my next print order. Still the 1680x1050 res is really nice and I can have multiple documents open at once side by side.
Alex had his haircut when I went to the hairdressers. It was sad to see his curls cut off but since then his hair has thickened a bit which is good. Afterwards his Dad and Grumpa took him swimming while I had my hair done.
No my hair isn't really pink, it's mostly blonde, some of it is almost white. I wanted to get rid of the last of the brown dye, which was going red. I took these photos to show the colour of my hair but then I couldn't get the colour to look right on the new monitor so I decided to play with pink.
I made Alex's icecream with mashed banana today. I haven't had much luck getting him to eat banana so I thought it would work in icecream. Nope he didn't want any. Hopefully tomorrow he will like it. It really is very sweet, I'm going to try just half the sugar next time I make it.
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