hi all,
in the first few days of this year my wife and I got the feeling that 2006 was going to be a fantastic year for us... how wrong we could have been.
for starters I fell ill after exhausting myself at work only to pick up a warning from my boss on my return. (did 250+ hours unpaid overtime in 5 months to get a project completed on time).
then the company got taken over in feb and all the hard work I had put into the project suddenly was not needed anymore (despite my boss knowing since september last year that the take over was going ahead, he still let me put the effort in
)
I was told a the end of the year that I would be taking responsibility for all of the companies sites (it's a bit complicated as I was already the IT Manager) and would also recieve a nice salary increase. However when the take over was annouced I has taken aside and told that I wasn't going to get the pay rise and that the IT Managers role in my company was being changed so that I would report of the new companies existing IT manager, oh and that the role would be based out of Bristol.
Around the same time my wife and I fell pregnent with our third child, but due to complications we lost the baby.
shortly after that would 5 year old contracted pnumonia and was rushed into hospital followed a day later by our 14 month old who fell down the stairs and knocked himself out after the stair gate collapsed. (they have since both made full recoveries)
within a week of that both my father and my uncle were diagnosed with prostrate cancer. My father had 82% cancer of the prostate but luckly after the operation to remove it he has made a complete recovery and the cancer has not spread. My uncle isn't doing so well though and has to go back in to hospital to get some cancer removed from his bowel.
Then my grandad died of lymph node cancer
finally after the funeral we fell pregent again but my wife was finding things pretty hard going and also my dad was still recovering from his operation. With things at work going from bad to worse on a daily basis I decided to resign so I could be there for my family (and to avoid getting the push through lack of motivation).
then on monday last week, we had our 12 week scan and the baby was looking great, prefect infact. the next day my wife started complaing of stomach pains and cramps and we feared the worse. Our GP told us that my wife had IBS (which she has had all her life and she kept telling the GP that it wasn't the same pain) and sent us on our way. Within two hours she started bleeding so a very quick drive to the local hospital we eventually find that there is a bleed behind the sack and the placenta. They kept my wife in hospital over night to moitor things and then did a scan on wednesday morning only to show that the baby was still alive and kicking. However we now have a high risk pregnency and are going back into hospital tomorrow morning to have another scan to check if everything is ok.
and to top it all off, i've now fallen i'll and ive got a job interview at 11 this morning... typical!
so as you can see... it's not been a great year so far for family robdav.
how's your year so far?
in the first few days of this year my wife and I got the feeling that 2006 was going to be a fantastic year for us... how wrong we could have been.
for starters I fell ill after exhausting myself at work only to pick up a warning from my boss on my return. (did 250+ hours unpaid overtime in 5 months to get a project completed on time).
then the company got taken over in feb and all the hard work I had put into the project suddenly was not needed anymore (despite my boss knowing since september last year that the take over was going ahead, he still let me put the effort in
) I was told a the end of the year that I would be taking responsibility for all of the companies sites (it's a bit complicated as I was already the IT Manager) and would also recieve a nice salary increase. However when the take over was annouced I has taken aside and told that I wasn't going to get the pay rise and that the IT Managers role in my company was being changed so that I would report of the new companies existing IT manager, oh and that the role would be based out of Bristol.
Around the same time my wife and I fell pregnent with our third child, but due to complications we lost the baby.
shortly after that would 5 year old contracted pnumonia and was rushed into hospital followed a day later by our 14 month old who fell down the stairs and knocked himself out after the stair gate collapsed. (they have since both made full recoveries)
within a week of that both my father and my uncle were diagnosed with prostrate cancer. My father had 82% cancer of the prostate but luckly after the operation to remove it he has made a complete recovery and the cancer has not spread. My uncle isn't doing so well though and has to go back in to hospital to get some cancer removed from his bowel.
Then my grandad died of lymph node cancer
finally after the funeral we fell pregent again but my wife was finding things pretty hard going and also my dad was still recovering from his operation. With things at work going from bad to worse on a daily basis I decided to resign so I could be there for my family (and to avoid getting the push through lack of motivation).
then on monday last week, we had our 12 week scan and the baby was looking great, prefect infact. the next day my wife started complaing of stomach pains and cramps and we feared the worse. Our GP told us that my wife had IBS (which she has had all her life and she kept telling the GP that it wasn't the same pain) and sent us on our way. Within two hours she started bleeding so a very quick drive to the local hospital we eventually find that there is a bleed behind the sack and the placenta. They kept my wife in hospital over night to moitor things and then did a scan on wednesday morning only to show that the baby was still alive and kicking. However we now have a high risk pregnency and are going back into hospital tomorrow morning to have another scan to check if everything is ok.
and to top it all off, i've now fallen i'll and ive got a job interview at 11 this morning... typical!
so as you can see... it's not been a great year so far for family robdav.
how's your year so far?
