Finally

My poor boy has had a completely miserable day
"the worse day of my life"

All because of a mouth ulcer. A mouth ulcer had him crying himself to sleep last night, crying in the night, and he woke crying. He has spent a lot of today draped over me, crying. It really is hurting him so so much. I never knew an ulcer could feel so bad. And he's a brave kid (well for a male, y'know)

He was shattered and also very stressed and anxious, as he always is about medical things. We visited docs who prescribed some steroid lozenges things that we can't get the hang of at all. He refused point blank when we first got them as 'they might be the same tablets that that other doctor gave to Michael Jackson'!! I later had to hide all the mirrors in the house as he was compulsively ulcer checking.

He had calpol again before bed, he calmed again for a bit. His final words before sleep were 'you look pale mummy? Are you feeling ok?', and then 'I feel a bit better now'.

It was bliss to see him finally sleeping.
Please let tomorrow be better