The eco warrior

School this morning, by myself this week so there's more to do and finding Reuben's glasses and the car keys was a challenge. Actually, there's always something amiss: the orthotic inserts to his high top Converse, the glasses, the hearing aid and spare batteries, and the feeding tube supplies, but at least now I no longer have to carry a suction machine and spare battery, a Little Sucker aspirator, 10 catheters, a wad of gauzes, sterile suction water pots, sterile salines, sterile gloves, a manual sterile suction mock up for if the machine fails, a speech valve around with me absolutely everywhere we go. That's progress. It makes me smile a little wry one when i hear parents complain about the amount of gear you have to lug around for a typical baby. How much easier the trip to the UK will be with only 35 feeding bags, 35 vent bags, 150 cans of special antireflux formula, a feeding pump and stand, a pulsox machine, 10 bolus feeding tubes, 10 continuous feeding tubes, 10 feeding syringes, distilled vinegar and 10 suction water pots to fly with. Sorry boys. Never much room for diapers and clothes. ;-)

I hate to think of the carbon footprint we've left due to the inability to recycle contaminated medical supplies, but I have sincerely tried to an almost obsessional degree.