Another trip to the doctor’s today for Millie – quite separate from the hospital one on Saturday.  This one was a three and a half year check-up. Most children don’t have one of these, but Millie does because of her premature birth.

And once again she’s fine.  The doctor was initially curious to know why the girls were there at all – she had to read Millie’s notes to see why.  Apparently they can usually tell a child was premature by the size of their medical file, but Millie’s file is normal one containing just a few notes, unremarkable except for the bit at the top of her history – the part that presumably says ‘Born three months premature – whoa!‘

The doctor told us nothing we didn’t already know, but it’s always nice to hear it from a professional.  Millie remains a little scrap of a girl, tipping the scales at 24lbs and barely nudging 91cm on a ruler (for comparison, the Bubbah, who’s more than two years younger, weighs something like 18lbs!), but otherwise fine.

Actually, the doctor said she was better than fine, she said she was ‘very unusual‘, which I take to mean ‘unbelievably lucky,‘ and again, we already knew that.

Something else unusual, albeit of a less welcome nature, is the ongoing wet patch on the carpet in Millie’s room.  Just by the door is a small damp spot.  The carpet’s damp as are the floorboards underneath the carpet, as though someone had spilt a glass of water there, although nobody remembers spilling anything there (well, that’s not quite true – Millie ‘remembers’ spilling half a dozen things there, but Millie ‘remembers’ a lot of things) and it seems to be taking a very long time to dry out.

I checked the ceiling downstairs for any damp and there isn’t anything obvious.  We lifted the carpet up last night to give it a proper chance to dry out, but the Lovely Melanie put it back down again and the dampness is still there.  I’ve lifted it back up tonight and issued firm instructions that nobody – and I want to make this absolutely clear – nobody is to say Jehovah put the carpet down until it’s dry again.

Hopefully this’ll be an end to the matter, because otherwise I’m damned if I can understand how water could be leaking up through floorboards into the carpet and not down through the ceiling…