Dim Sum Mum - Tess' Little Pieces:

May 30, 2005

magnificent has provided a succinct and accurate summary of our weekend on his blog, so i will write about: unsolicited applications.

word has gotten out that our embryos are "on the market". mc and i have received emails from people who had heard through friends that we were donating our embryos and wanted to suggest themselves, and also from other people who had read on the adoption agency's board that the embryos were up for adoption, and even though they did not want to submit their name via the agency, they did a google search for lyons hong kong...and voila, found our email address. contacted us privately.

these "rogues" are not bad people. you have to admire initiative. but as potential couples get more and more creative (and bend agency rules), it does strike home that there are a real shortage of embryos as opposed to the couples desperate for a chance to adopt them.

one couple got a little over enthusiastic, and after i replied that we were going through an agency, kept sending me pictures of their house (repeatedly) and their wedding album. (they have been married for 10 plus years, why are the most recent pictures of their wedding?)

so it's a bit overwhelming right now, and we just have put the topic to the back of our vomit soaked minds and will focus on it when we again have the strength.

two more topics to handle before leaving for holidays: 5,555 - talk to the doctors about the possibility of reglan for the babies. we need to determine what is causing this vomitting. gag reflex? overfeeding? where does it start, and why is it happening.

5, 556 - they need to see a dietician. they're sick of milk, and want tasty food. however, topic 5,555 results when they eat food. but minus the milk and protein, they are missing out on some nutrients maybe (they find a lot of fruits too acidic) so i should probably get on a diet.

tomorrow is a landmark day...

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Ok, unsolicited thingy: the reglan.

I did fine using it many years ago & had no reaction to it at all previously. Cut to surgery not that long ago, when I was given it. Woke up that night to my body being rigid & unable to stretch out for relief. Wound up in ER with morphine & valium, and large does of pain killers and valium for the days to come. Have you had every single muscle in your body contracted for hours? You can't walk for days afterwards. ER was very surprised that I'd been given it, because it isn't used that much these days because there are apparently better things, and there are people who have bad reactions to it.

Now, there is very little likelihood that this would happen to anyone besides me, because I'm just that weird, but keep an eye out if it is prescribed, because my reaction wasn't immediate, and ask if there is something ELSE that would do the same thing that may not give you an adverse reaction like I had, if your babes turn out to be sensitive.

PSA over.

Posted by: Boulder | May 30, 2005 at 12:38 PM