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15 years 6 months ago #1550 by alisonp
MOTHERS DAY was created by alisonp
Happy Mothers Day everyone. Hope you got loads of pressies, flowers, breakfast in bed and lunch somewhere nice - well, my kids managed the pressies bit anyway!

I am a bit GRRRR about ITP today. Having looked a bit dodgy all week in terms of bruising, Dougie now has petechiae all over his chest and legs, so is clearly a bit deficient in platelets today. Think I might see if I can get him in for a blood test tomorrow. He seems to have a definite pattern to his count at the moment - a week up with no symptoms, a week somewhere in the middle with very few symptoms, and another week or two somewhere under 30K or so with quite a lot of symptoms. Oh well, I guess its better than the summer when he was just permanently at the bottom ........

Ali :angry:
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15 years 6 months ago #1555 by Joya
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Do you celebrate mother's day today? In Holland it's the second sunday of may.. :P I thought every country had the same date.. LOL

I hope Dougie will get better soon!!

Xx
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15 years 6 months ago #1558 by alisonp
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Hi Joya

Yes, today is Mothers Day in the UK. I had thought it would be the same date everywhere too, so I've learnt something there! It never occurred to me that it would be different dates in other countries. How ignorant am I????

I am sure that Dougie's counts will improve soon - at the moment for him, a low count is usually followed by a big bounce up into the 100s. Something to look forward to eh.........

Ali

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15 years 6 months ago #1559 by alisonp
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I had forgotten I knew this.

Mothers Day in the UK is really Mothering Sunday - the 4th sunday in Lent. Its when people used to go back to their "mother" church rather than the local one where they were living - apprentices and servants were released on this day to go to their mother church so this probably meant that mothers met up with their children. I think that the existing date was "hijacked" by the more recent Mothers Day - apparently it had nearly died out as a relevant date, but was revived by american and canadian soldiers serving here in WW2.

I still can't explain why it had never occurred to me that the date wasn't the same everywhere though.........

Ali :ohmy:
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15 years 6 months ago #1568 by Julianna
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Never mind Ali! Happy Mother's Day to you...

It is in May in Australia too. Thanks for that history ~ I had no idea. Very interesting. Hope u have a lovely day.

Jules
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15 years 6 months ago #1572 by lucidawn
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Well, I have an idea. Lets have two mother's days, and we all get presents and breakfast in bed on BOTH days! Oh poo. My kids always forget me, and I have no hubby right now, so I guess I'm bolted (as opposed to screwed:). (I don't mean that in a nasty way, btw).

I'm sorry about Dougie. I hope you get some platelets for him for both Mother's Days!
Donna Ingold
Mom to Kelly 22, Karen 21, Josiah 19 (Congenital Heart Defect, MS), Timothy 17 (Chronic Refractory ITP-dx 5/03, Asthma), Isaac 15(blind left eye).

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