Health Round-up: Chocolate, name-calling & medicinal rollercoasters

So that’s it, Easter is over for another year. How did you fare? Did you manage to ration the chocolate so that your children didn’t gorge themselves to the point of vomiting? I haven’t read any posts about death illness by chocolate so I gather we all got through relatively unscathed.

On the subject of chocolate, I happened upon a post by Renata over at Just Bring the Chocolate which actually brought a little tear to my eye. Taking part in the ‘define normal’ blog hop that’s been taking place recently, A Life With Tubes is a slideshow of photographs of Renata’s little boy Dominic who has an undiagnosed condition and needs a feeding tube to survive. It’s lovely stuff, please do check it out.

Another lady who has been blogging about her son’s condition is Tricky Customer. As I mentioned in an earlier health round-up, her son Sam has ARX. In Diagnosis – what’s in a name? she ponders whether having a diagnosis for his condition has really helped in any way.

Meanwhile, over at Northern Mum, Jane has written a personal message to all parents of a child with hip dysplasia (also called DDH – developmental dysplasia of the hip). Jane’s daughter has the condition and this post is a lovely tribute not just to her but to all the other children who are being treated for and who cope with this condition. It really struck a chord with me too. I’ve written before about how my daughter was born with bilateral talipes (AKA, clubfoot) and has had to endure full leg casts and foot braces since she was three-weeks-old with regular monitoring even now.

And finally, a post by Mum of Three World published last year talks about something all parents with an ill child can relate to: the Calpol rollercoaster. How often do you space out the doses? What if it brings a high temperature down but only for a few hours at a time? How do you ensure it stays effective whilst not inadvertently overdosing your child? It can be a minefield!

Right, you know the score. Come and link up your health-related posts (old or new) using the linky below. I’d love to read about your health-related shenannigans (I’m a bit nosey like that!)

About Laura

Laura is an award-nominated PR professional and freelance journalist. She writes the parenting blog, Chez Mummy and is also the editor of Working Parents United, a website to support working mothers and fathers across the UK.

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