Urgh sort of day!!!

Yesterday Drama Teen woke up with a blinding headache and I had to keep her off school. She was obviously ill and spent most of the day complaining of being either too hot or too cold, or sleeping, poor thing. There was no improvement by the evening so she has been off school again today.

She didn't wake up until well after I'd got Little Prince off to school. When she did get up she told me she had lots of spots on her tummy and they were starting to be itchy!! Uh oh!!!! I sent her to get dressed while I rang the doctors, she wasn't pleased that after rushing to get dressed we couldn't get an appointment until lunchtime!! The doctor had to get a second opinion, from her colleague, but between them they decided that Drama Teen has Chicken Pox!! At almost 15, she is not having a good time with it!!! She insisted that the doctor gave her some Calpol as she doesn't like swallowing pills! The Pharmacist laughed and said she would have learn as they don't make contraceptive pills in liquid form!!! Not really what I want saying to my 14 year old, but she wasn't listening as she was feeling quite overheated and faint! She has announced she feels cr*p and looks cr*p and that she isn't leaving the house until the visible spots have gone!! She liked the idea of a week to 10 days off school, until the meanest Mum in the world rang school and asked them to send work home for her!!!

The next "urgh" of today is our boiler!! It has been cutting out for the past few days, we press the restart button and it comes back to life, only to cut out again. And the times between "cutting outs" have been decreasing rapidly!! The boiler engineer checked it out and we have a ruptured internal fuel line. He was all set to replace it, but needed to turn the feed from the oil tank off, but he couldnt' as the cut off valve and oil line were buried by the builder when he built the new garden wall!!! So he crimped off the internal fuel line to the cooker part of the boiler (its an Aga-like thing) so that we could keep the central heating going. Trouble is about an hour or so after he left, it started cutting out again!! Its freezing!!!!! I've got in touch with my Handyman to come and dig out the fuel line, so that when the boiler engineer comes back he can fix the faulty internal fuel hose and we can be reliably warm again!!

The final "urgh" of the day is that I've got an upset stomach and feel yukky too!!! Hopefully tomorrow will be better and brighter!!!