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Dec. 17th, 2002
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Dec. 17th, 2002 05:18 pmLemurBaby's first doctor's appointment was today. Sorta, anyways. Kaiser has this group "first prenatal appointment" thing, where they herd us all in to a room, tell us about diet and symptoms we might be experiencing, have us fill out paperwork (why can't they ask for our contact info ONCE and use it on all the forms? Or better yet, just make sure our patient records are up to date?), and give us books and stuff.
I actually already had this particular book, as there were about 50 copies of it used at the local baby thrift shop. Now I know why.
After informing us, they called us out one by one to give urine and blood samples. Fun fun fun.
The main problem with this appointment was that they told me it started at 10. It actually started at 9. The other main problem is that it didn't take place until now, when I'm already 8 weeks along. I haven't received one word of advice about diet/drinking/etc. from Kaiser before today, even though they've known I'm pregnant for a month (and I've known for a week longer than that). For all they know, I'm an alcoholic and I've been out drinking every night. They should provide some sort of information as soon as you come in to take a pregnancy test.
(Have I ranted about this before? If so, sorry. I'm just rather pissed at Kaiser. I'm glad I'm changing insurance in January, and not just because Sutter Davis has a really neato birthing center.)
Ok, I promise to stop ranting about Kaiser unless some new stupidity comes up.
At work, we had a holiday party. I showed up late (as expected) because of the appointment. I'd been told not to worry about the food, that I didn't need to worry about them running out before I arrived. This turned out not to be true - all the main courses except the chicken were gone, and chicken is not really high on my list of things I can eat right now. Had I known this would be the case, I wouldn't have paid the $10 for the meal (yes, we had to pay for our Christmas party! Grrr.).
I did win a little photo album thingy in the raffle. And my infamous ex-coworker (who is male and very much NOT the piercings type) won a pair of earrings :)
Bah. I'm irritable today. This week is just awful, and doesn't look like it will get any better before Friday.
I actually already had this particular book, as there were about 50 copies of it used at the local baby thrift shop. Now I know why.
After informing us, they called us out one by one to give urine and blood samples. Fun fun fun.
The main problem with this appointment was that they told me it started at 10. It actually started at 9. The other main problem is that it didn't take place until now, when I'm already 8 weeks along. I haven't received one word of advice about diet/drinking/etc. from Kaiser before today, even though they've known I'm pregnant for a month (and I've known for a week longer than that). For all they know, I'm an alcoholic and I've been out drinking every night. They should provide some sort of information as soon as you come in to take a pregnancy test.
(Have I ranted about this before? If so, sorry. I'm just rather pissed at Kaiser. I'm glad I'm changing insurance in January, and not just because Sutter Davis has a really neato birthing center.)
Ok, I promise to stop ranting about Kaiser unless some new stupidity comes up.
At work, we had a holiday party. I showed up late (as expected) because of the appointment. I'd been told not to worry about the food, that I didn't need to worry about them running out before I arrived. This turned out not to be true - all the main courses except the chicken were gone, and chicken is not really high on my list of things I can eat right now. Had I known this would be the case, I wouldn't have paid the $10 for the meal (yes, we had to pay for our Christmas party! Grrr.).
I did win a little photo album thingy in the raffle. And my infamous ex-coworker (who is male and very much NOT the piercings type) won a pair of earrings :)
Bah. I'm irritable today. This week is just awful, and doesn't look like it will get any better before Friday.
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Dec. 17th, 2002 10:42 pmDo any of you all experience sleep paralysis?
This is when you're awake and conscious (usually either when you're first falling asleep or when you're waking up), but can't move. It's often accompanied by visual and/or auditory hallucinations and the feeling that someone/thing (usually malevolent) is in the room with you.
I've had this since I was about 12 or so. Very odd experience. It still has the power to really scare me sometimes, but most of the time now it's just an annoyance.
I had a weird one today. I fell asleep in the afternoon at work, and seriously thought for a while that my manager had someone unlock the door of the office and was giving CDs to a client. They had a whole sensible conversation. I was somewhat annoyed that he didn't wake me up, as it was embarrasing to be asleep like that, and he seemed to be giving the client the wrong CDs.
At some point (while I was still paralyzed) the voices abruptly disappeared, and I realized that no one was actually in the room with me. Shortly after that, I managed to snap out of it entirely, and found no evidence that anyone else had come into the room.
This isn't "just a dream". Rather than being in a dream world, you're in the place you really are, just not able to move or interact with the environment at all.
It's really quite odd.
There are certain sleeping positions that tend to trigger it. Sleeping on my back tends to do it. Sleeping sitting up, with my head resting on a desk or something, does it about 50% of the time. This is a bit odd, as it isn't one of the positions listed as typical for sleep paralysis. That one may be situational more than positional, though - I tend to sleep like that only when I'm in a situation that really isn't ideal for sleep, like at work or on a plane. It happens in other positions as well, just not as frequently.
One time it happened on a plane, and I was convinced that if I didn't wake up, the plane would crash, which was pretty frightening as it can be quite difficult to wake yourself out of it.
I've been taking part in this study on sleep paralysis for the past while. It's kind of fun, and a bit of a silly ego boost to think that my random bizarre experiences might actually be useful for a research study.
This is when you're awake and conscious (usually either when you're first falling asleep or when you're waking up), but can't move. It's often accompanied by visual and/or auditory hallucinations and the feeling that someone/thing (usually malevolent) is in the room with you.
I've had this since I was about 12 or so. Very odd experience. It still has the power to really scare me sometimes, but most of the time now it's just an annoyance.
I had a weird one today. I fell asleep in the afternoon at work, and seriously thought for a while that my manager had someone unlock the door of the office and was giving CDs to a client. They had a whole sensible conversation. I was somewhat annoyed that he didn't wake me up, as it was embarrasing to be asleep like that, and he seemed to be giving the client the wrong CDs.
At some point (while I was still paralyzed) the voices abruptly disappeared, and I realized that no one was actually in the room with me. Shortly after that, I managed to snap out of it entirely, and found no evidence that anyone else had come into the room.
This isn't "just a dream". Rather than being in a dream world, you're in the place you really are, just not able to move or interact with the environment at all.
It's really quite odd.
There are certain sleeping positions that tend to trigger it. Sleeping on my back tends to do it. Sleeping sitting up, with my head resting on a desk or something, does it about 50% of the time. This is a bit odd, as it isn't one of the positions listed as typical for sleep paralysis. That one may be situational more than positional, though - I tend to sleep like that only when I'm in a situation that really isn't ideal for sleep, like at work or on a plane. It happens in other positions as well, just not as frequently.
One time it happened on a plane, and I was convinced that if I didn't wake up, the plane would crash, which was pretty frightening as it can be quite difficult to wake yourself out of it.
I've been taking part in this study on sleep paralysis for the past while. It's kind of fun, and a bit of a silly ego boost to think that my random bizarre experiences might actually be useful for a research study.