Much ado about....

Processing takes time, I'm beginning to see this now. My initial reactions of what the feic was the kid thinking and how I was thankful she miscarried. Also, I guess both myself and Mammy2 were in denial about it being a miscarriage and were of the opinion it was a late period. She had a checkup yesterday at the Rotunda. According to the doctors, it was a miscarriage and she was 7 weeks gone. I'd be interested to see how they do their maths? I've become fairly familar with the workings of my own body with having attempts so its 2 weeks from ovulation to period and 2 weeks from period to ovulation, if your cycle is regular. So if she did the test when she was late, she would have been
only 3 weeks gone? Or something
* head implodes *

Anyways, she's doing better. I'm trying to understand why she was so upset. I guess I can't see it from her point of view. She's 17, with her whole life ahead of her and she's upset about this. I need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture I suppose. I got some good advice from one of the mates, she's very good at advice so I'm going to take it on board. I'm also going to try and get it into my head that the kid is no longer a kid but she's turning into a young woman. The brother rang at the weekend. I haven't heard from him since I asked him over 20 times to put some money into the college fund. Apparently he's getting it sorted. Like I told the sister, I'll believe it when I see it. Its supposed to be going in this Friday. But at least we're talking again, I hate falling out with him. But he is beyond head wrecking at times. Mam wouldn't like us to be fighting over the christmas period either so its worked out okay thank god.

He was chatting away about how our cousin, his half brother has moved in with him for the moment. P was one of the nicer cousins, and is also the brother's half brother. Confused? Good! I may have mentioned before about the kid being abused by one of the cousins when she was about 5 or 6. Not this cousin obviously. P's brother E was the little shit who put his hands near the kid and hasn't been allowed within a 10 yard radius of the family house since. Arsehole. P and the brother were watching Law and Order SVU, cheerful viewing, and the subject of abuse came up. P tried suggesting that the kid led E on. She was 6? And she led him on! I mean WTF? Thankfully the brother threatened to put him through the wall if he suggested such a thing again. Where do you begin to deal with someone who thinks like that? Thankfully I wasn't around or P would be sleeping in a hostel with a few broken bones.

I've put in for Friday and Monday off, as I can't take leave over the christmas. Its a bit pants but I'm looking forward to a couple of days off. I'm under orders to do no work. We'll see! The kid has an appointment to go get an x-ray in James. Everytime she goes to the doctor, she comes out with more illnesses and injuries then she went in with. I blame the doctor, she should stop caring about her patients. Thankfully, the lanky boyf L is bringing her as I told her I didn't think I could face James Hospital. She'll probably come home with crutches. Knowing her. And she'll use them to assuault her Art teacher. That love-hate-hate relationship continues. Her latest project is a poster for Rag Week, to see she is unimpressed with the assignment is putting it mildly. Its still sitting on the living room floor. She also managed to get detention. For not going to Newgrange. I can see the Art teacher being top of her hit list. Maths is going well for her, she has moved on from the evils of probability thankfully. It gave me a headache as well as her.

Christmas shopping takes place on Friday thankfully, finally we can put some pressies under the tree! Yay!