The 37th Week

The number of medical examinations are increasing. We have to visit the doctor weekly and the obstetrix as well. The doctor examines the orifice of the uterus, the baby movements, appraises the results of the examinations due like ultrasound, blood taking, antibody, water test, NST. The obstetrix examines the baby’s cardiac sounds and movements (he’s still very active), the tightness of the placenta. This called non-stress test and lasts for about 30 minutes. It’s plain to be heard how the baby wriggle inside the womb.
But this is not everything as regard doctors and public health institutions. Krisz sprained one of his knee last Sunday. He missed his footing, he stepped on a block of wood in the forest and his knee-cap left its place. He reduced it (three times) but hardly could stand on it and it swelled up very much. We hurried to the all-night service then to the hospital where a lot of blood was drew off under his knee-cap and he got a plaster bandage. It’s from ankle to less under bottom. He has to wear it for 3 weeks. We’re at home together, he’s not allowed to move with it, he’s confined to bed. This kind of accident / any kind of accident never come in good but it’s the worst possible. I would need his help at this time most but I have to do things somehow without him. He can’t drive, I’m the driver to everywhere. Fortunately, there’s just enough place for my belly behind the steering wheel. I have to give him an injection into his stomach every day against trombosis. At long last he can rest up.