This Friday was Jessie’s last visit to the Westmead Childrens Hospital for her check up on her finger. She was a good girl and was very excited to see the Doctor although she did keep refering to him as a Dentists.

Dr Lawson look at her finger along with her Shrek bandage on her little toe and also performed some dancing and explained that she liked to read books now as well. I also ask if he could look at her legs as Jessie has always walked around on tippie toes, he checked and said there was nothing wrong with her legs or feet and most likely just a habit she had.

Dr Lawson always enjoys a visit from Jessie as she gives him a good show and he was sad to say she was fine and that he would not need to see her anymore. Yeah great news so from Mothers Day 2009 to the 22nd of January 2010.

Done.

Jessie said she was a little hungry and thirsty so I said we could go down to the hospital cafe and get a drink and something to eat. So Jessie had the following…

• Banana Up and Go
• Ginger Bread Man
• Strawberry Yoguart
• Some of my baked beans

She was pretty much finished and was playing by going back and forth to one of the office windows, which had various drawings and toys in it and having a few baked beans in the process. I was cleaning up the table and starting to take the rubbish over to the bins when she was getting her last mouthful and she tripped over and banged her mouth on the chair next to us.

Big crys and a mouthful of blood…

I grabbed a pile of napkins out and started to wipe out her mouth and yes the blood just kept on coming. Thought it was best to go to emergency seeming they were just upstairs and get one of the nurses to have a quick look. I couldn’t really feel her teeth being loose but there was still some bleeding happening.

So close one injury file and lets open another one.

I’ll be brief now..

After going though the usual emergency room process (did I say usual, there should be nothing usual about it) we saw one of the dentists and the damage wasn’t to bad. She had cut the small piece of skin at the front top of your mouth / lip, (go on see if you can feel it with your tongue, I know your doing it) this was the cause of all of the blood. No bleeding of the gums so the teeth should be ok and none of them felt loose to the Dentist.

Only other thing that may happen is that she will get a bruise on the inside top lip of her mouth and a small chance that the teeth may darken. She may also not want to eat hard foods for a while.

So a good start to Friday.

What can you do?

If you read my post from the other day called “Way to start Friday” you would have read how our credit cards have been stopped after the Federal Police advised Westpac that our cards had been compromised in some way. Looks like this is the related news story from the Syndey Morning Herald advising that a lot of customers and other banks have been hit as well.

Police warn of new card fraud scam

Credit card and EFTPOS card holders have been targeted in a new ”skimming” fraud scam.

NSW Police have alerted banks and other financial institutions that they have formed Strike Force Wigg to investigate the use of skimming devices, which allow card data to be covertly captured then used to withdraw funds from a victim’s account.

Commonwealth Bank spokesman Steve Batten confirmed financial institutions had been advised of a security issue on Friday but he had not been told if his bank’s customers were affected.

”We will monitor potentially compromised accounts and contact customers to change their PIN,” he said. ”If this is not done in 24 hours, we reduce the amount that can be withdrawn from an account.”

Card users are advised to check account statements regularly and report any suspicious transactions.

Full story can be read here.

You do really hope Australia starts to get up todate with the latest security for cards, we have the chips so lets start using them and get ride of the magnetic strip altogether.

Some nasty little piece of work has just been trying to hack this site. Not sure if it was the same source as last time or not. Just to let you know I have your ip address and the injection code you tried to use.

Luckily the updates and security enhancements have stopped them this time and nothing appears to be a miss.

The attack came from Belarus with the details below.

What can you do?

Getting ready this morning and managed to just miss the bus as it went pass on the otherside of the road. I had to grab the rubbish bin that was laying on its side on the driveway. (Thanks garbos) So I went back inside and finished turning my phone on to find that I had received a SMS last night at around 8.46pm from Westpac advising that my credit card was at risk of fraud.

So on to the phone and internet banking to see if any money was gone as we had this happen to Karla’s VISA card last year and around $1,500 0r so was taken from the card. Luckily nothing was taken out, but I did have to endure the Westpac blurbs for several minutes while waiting for a support person. I don’t really care that your there for me Westpac, you raised interest rates higher than the RBA, so your not my friend, get it.

Turns out that the card has been stopped as Westpac received a list from the Federal Police with our card number listed on it as number that has been compromised so where? So the card or cards have been stopped and new ones issued.

So we need to get 4 new cards as both the MC and AMEX for both Karla and myself need to be replaced. Plus we need to contact everyone who takes payments from these cards within 10 days otherwise we will get hit with fees. Yeah as Sophie would say.

Karla was also trying to get ready to take Jessie and Sophie to daycare, Jessie is in today but Sophie is not, she is also going to have a chat with the centre manager as there is a new person in the babies room whom we new  nothing about and hasn’t made a great impression on us yesterday.

So late to work once more….