What a day! Weatherwise it has been a good one. Sun shining
and pretty warm with only a couple of the teeniest lightest showers - more like
a spray mist than a drizzle.
Healthwise things have been less good.
The day started well. We decided to have the morning by the
pool as the kids were booked into horseriding in the afternoon.
Miss T and J were booked for a pony and horse ride
respectively. Miss T had enjoyed her first ride so much that we opted for a
longer 45 minute ride so that she and J could go together and do the route
along the beach.
D had asked to have a lesson so he was in the paddock. We've
been so impressed with the horses and horse trainers here- they are like horse
whisperers so in tune with the horses. I've been impressed with how they manage
to keep the horses calm even when a speedy big delivery lorry rattled past so
close.
Things didn't go so well for D today. With a helipad on site
we've seen a few helicopters around but one decided to inexplicably do a detour
today and fly low over the stables.
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| brave boy: splattered with dirt |
D's horse bolted throwing him to the ground. Where the
soothing voice if the trainer would ordinarily be enough to have calmed the
horse, his voice could not be heard over the noise of the helicopter.
Poor D landed on his head, with bruises to his thigh and
back too.
Amazingly he continued his lesson once the horse had calmed
down but afterwards realised just how much his head was hurting.
We ended up calling the doctor to check him over and he
decided D would need to go to the hospital to rule out serious head
injury.
The latest I've heard is that he's had a CT scan and X-rays
but they are keeping him in overnight for observation.
Meanwhile the rest of us headed to dinner. We'd had a
brilliant MTX experience today with Miss T's favourite person, Abhisek,
distracting her whilst we did the injection. Totally over and above the call of
duty - this guy has been amazing from the moment we arrived and Miss T adores
him. We were so pleased about how well her injection had gone.
But as we arrived to dinner Miss T complains of not feeling
well. Thankfully she's been well last week after her MTX but Today she vomited
at the dining table in the restaurant much to the horror of those around
her.
I did explain to the waitress that it us not a tummy bug or
illness that caused the sickness but that it was caused by her injection.
She then promptly drifted to sleep on granny's lap.
She's gone to bed without dinner and I'm hoping by the
morning that she'll feel fine.
9.30 and it's my bedtime. Eyes drifting closed.
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| after the accident |
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| afternoon tea crepes and cookies |
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| Miss T with Suzy the pony this time |
