My Nobel Prize will be in the post shortly, as I have deduced a foolproof method to cure hiccups! (Well, it works for me anyway.) And it is simple and easy.
All you do is concentrate very hard on the sensation of the hiccup coming up your windpipe. Just block everything else out and focus all […]

I had a terrifying experience on Friday with my first ever go in an MRI machine. I had this weird tingliness in my right arm and face a while ago, and the neurologist didn’t think it was anything serious, but put me on the waiting list for an MRI anyway. It must have been the […]

Exciting medical news today that researchers have found a possible drug to counteract the cognitive difficulties caused by Down Syndrome.
Researchers gave low doses of a human drug to mice bred to mimic the learning and memory problems in people with Down syndrome. After as little as two weeks, the impaired mice performed as well as […]

We drove out to Mum’s on Saturday and retrieved our eldest child. He seemed rather chuffed to see us all, though Harry wasn’t as excited to see Archie as all his babblings would suggest. Since then they’ve been playing together really well though, so I think they did miss each other. And when Archie was […]

I’ve got the word and today is Insemination Day. If I get pregnant today, the baby will be due on 28 June, 2006 - a sensitive Cancer. Thinking positive here.
Mum is babysitting so that Jan can be present at the (possible) conception. Hopefully some of Jan’s super-fertile aura will rub off on me (she was […]

I was out of the house bright and early this morning for a trip to Fertility Associates. Yes it appears the time may be nigh for a conception attempt. Today they did a blood test and an ultrasound of my ovaries. It is all so scientific! The doctor checked the lining of my uterus (nice […]

I took Archie to the audiologist yesterday for yet another hearing test - we’ve been a bit worried as he has had an ear infection for five weeks now - but he passed with flying colours again. And according to the audiologist there is no way he’ll get any permanent damage from the ear infection […]