When Friends Come to Visit
We’ve had our friends Robbie and Kylee staying with us for the last three week.
They’ve left now and flown back down to Sydney for some more adventures. It was fun having them stay and the girls really loved having some other people around.
Here’s a little story from the last three weeks.
The girls and I had been out for the afternoon and as we arrived back at the house Robbie told us that Kylee had some strange itchy lumps on her body and was having difficulty talking. They suspected she’d been bitten by something in the garden, but weren’t sure what. It was obvious that she needed to go to the hospital. So Robbie, Kylee and I jumped in the car and headed to the local casualty ward.
To cut a long story short, when we got to the hospital she was having real trouble breathing, they pumped her full of anti-histamines and adrenaline and was released from the hospital about 8 hours later.
She was lucky though, the doctors said if we had been another 40 minutes or so she might have not been able to breath at all.
An “acute allergic reaction to whatever it was that bit her”, they said. Could have been a spider or an ant.
We suspect it was spider though, and I took this photo of a spider that was on the chair that she was sitting on in the garden.
We had pest control out to the house two days later and had the inside and out treated for bugs.
In other news,
- we had a family picture taken yesterday by a proper photographer, so stay tuned for that to appear on the site soon.
- I sold my two old computers and got a brand new super-cool laptop that I now love like a third child.
- My Mum will be here from England for two weeks this weekend, and I’ve got the whole time off from work, happy days.
