Another excited mummy!

[Ann]

Following on from Ali's thread 'Excited Mummy' - It is an exciting day for me too. Number one son is just a bit older than Harris - he's 21 and today is his first time in theatre. Apparently he has to tell the surgeon how to do a hip operation. He's also been told he can help - I told him he'll probably be mopping the surgeon's sweaty brow! I'm just so proud :D:D:D - seems only yesterday I was changing his nappy! . . . . . I just hope he doesn't look on here - he would be sooooo embarrassed!!!! :)

[Sezra]

Gosh you must be very proud! Hope it goes well for him. :)

[Cockapoodledoo]

Ann you have every reason to be excited and proud! You must let us know later how he gets on. :):D:)

Karen xx

[Ann]

Yes I must say I am Sarah. Can't wait for him to skype tonight. Exciting times. - and to think his grandma (my mum) was known to faint at the sight of blood.

[JoJo]

I am impressed .. real life Holby .. be proud .. be very proud :) :) thats your baby :)

[Ann]

Ann you have every reason to be excited and proud! You must let us know later how he gets on. :):D:)

Karen xx

Thanks Karen. Will do. x

[Ann]

I am impressed .. real life Holby .. be proud .. be very proud :) :) thats your baby :)

Thank you JoJo. Yes - I am a fan of Holby! - . . . I wonder why!?! Tom doesn't watch it though. Very strange feeling, he's part of pretty amazing things that I have no real knowledge of, and yet as you say he's still my baby!!!! - God pleeeeeease don't let him look at this!!! He would be squirming like a little cockapoo puppy :laugh: Embarrassing mums eh???

[Jedicrazy]

Ann, how proud you must be...your baby is all grown up and helping others have a better quality of life. Brilliant!

[ali-s.j.]

Wow, is he at the Royal Infirmary? What an amazing thing to do! Does Tom want to go into surgery eventually? Just as well this isn't facebook :D

[Ann]

Thank you for those lovely words, Clare. Yes, I'm a sickeningly proud mum - usually manage to rein it in a little. I do feel today is a bit of a red letter day though. Can't wait for number one son to skype tonight - hope everything went well.

[Ann]

Wow, is he at the Royal Infirmary? What an amazing thing to do! Does Tom want to go into surgery eventually? Just as well this isn't facebook :D

Hi, Ali. He isn't sure yet - still plenty of time to decide. Yes he is at ERI today.
As for Facebook - they were warned about that when they first went to uni. Tom avoids it like the plague - things can come back to bite you on the bottom!!! :D

[wilfiboy]

Hope all went well, what an exciting time fro him and you.... I watched some of that documentary about junior Drs and a girls mum said " I just cant imagine her... I'd love to be a fly on the wall" ... I could nt help but smile...your kids going off and doing fabulous things and living lives you almost cant imagine :D

[Ann]

Thanks for that, Karen. Yes, I watched that series. I too thought I would like to be a fly on the wall - but after hearing the finer details of the ops I'm not so sure now!!! 3 arthroscopies, 2 knee replacements and 1 new hip - they don't half go some! A red letter day indeed. All went well and number one son enjoyed it - apart from the fact that the crocs he was wearing were too tight. He says he still can't feel his little toe! Concerned mum told baby he could get gangrene by cutting off the blood flow like that - he replied that they had probably pressed on a nerve - I just about stopped myself from going on about the gangrene thing, as it dawned that number one son is more knowledgeable than me!:laugh::laugh:

Thank you everyone for your lovely messages yesterday. Excitement is now subsiding and normal service will be resumed. :)

[wilfiboy]

Good lad .... Im not particularly squeemish but I can remember doing a stint in A&E and in a warm room without windows, no breakfast, early in the morning watching them take skin off for a skin graft and coming over all queezy and also hating when people in cubicles had to remove their home done bandages.... not being quite sure what was underneath or if something was going to fall off :o:D

[Ann]

Ugh! :D You have a stronger stomach than me Karen. I take it you are in the medical profession? I really don't like bodily fluids in any shape or form. I always used to leave Tom holding the little hat thingy when mum was sick in hospital whilst I would head for the corridor. There was no point in us both being sick. Hopeless! Mind you I remember a dinner lady arriving at the staffroom door with a child and another dinner lady following behind holding the top of his thumb - the deputy head went a very strange colour. Horses for courses I suppose. :)

[Ann]

Ah! Just looked at your 'About Me' Karen. You are in the medical profession! You definitely have a stronger stomach than me. Much as I would like to have been a nurse (it appeals on many levels) I just would not be able to do it. That probably sounds a bit feeble to you. I am such a wuss. I have friends who, to this day, will not believe I ever changed a nappy! I'm happy to report though that I have no problem with needles.