Here’s a basic rundown of what’s been happening over the past six weeks:
- Rie has been sick. Sick. Every day/all day. Sick. Fortunately, she is either getting better, or just handling the sickness better because she is able to communicate beyond grimaces, and can eat a wider variety of food. This is not to say that she is over her sickness. She still feels various levels of nausea throughout the day (as demonstrated today when we went shopping for a new computer chair and she had to throw up in a fifth floor bathroom at the store).
- About a week ago she developed a very severe rash that covered most of her upper body, especially the stomach. The rash wasn’t due to stretching, as she still hasn’t gained much weight and isn’t showing yet. But she is eating more. Anyway, we went to both a general practitioner and her Ob/Gyn four times over three days and they were able to get rid of it through a series of ointment and IV treatments. This was perhaps the low point so far. She was unable to sleep at night, thus by default, I was also unable to sleep. Days were spent sitting in the apartment with the curtains drawn. Let me tell you, Sitting in a dimly lit apartment at 3:00 in the afternoon will drag anyone into a depressive state. Thankfully, things are much better now and we actually venture out sometimes (like today when she threw up in a fifth floor bathroom at the store).
- We had a chance to see an ultrasound of the baby. Actually, the doctor said the ultrasound was being done about two weeks earlier than usual because last time he mistakenly told Rie that he would do an ultrasound on our next visit. So he did one for us to see. It was pretty amazing. On our way back from the doctor, Rie threw up in the gutter about 20 meters from or building. In mid-sentence she just stopped, bent over, did her thing, and resumed the conversation. Very weird.
- I’m doing three presentations this spring (one in Osaka, and two in Nagoya (between Osaka and Tokyo)). I just decided to do them this last week, so now I have to put together what I’m going to say and try to get an open source website going.
I know it’s been awhile since I updated, and to tell the truth, I haven’t been doing anything except watching DVDs , surfing the Internet and taking care of Rie. I was just feeling really down, and didn’t feel like writing about anything. But things are better now. This Wednesday, we will go in and have a 3-D video and image taken of the fetus. I’ll try to get some good scans of the image to post here.
