Whoops

[nanila]

Yesterday was a little more exciting than I'd planned. I did not, in fact, make it to London for work. Instead, I learnt the following.

1. If you are a pregnant woman and you fall over in a train station, even during rush hour, people tend to get a bit worried.
   
2. Trying to convince people you don't need an ambulance because you're fine (by being unable to walk due to pain) doesn't seem to work.
   
3. Hearing ambulance sirens outside a train station and clocking that they were for me now ranks in the top three Most Embarrassing Moments of my life.
   
4. Riding in an ambulance is an experience whose repetition I'd like to minimise in my future life.
   
5. The NHS carries on being amazing. Special plaudits to Birmingham City Hospital Maternity Triage for a thorough checkup and scanning the baby.

[I'm fine - well, sort of. But if I'm a bit tired and flaky the next few weeks - even more than I have been lately - I apologise in advance. Baby is fine (definitely).]

Comments

[rmc28]

I hear you on 4 :-/

On 3: ever going to discuss the other two? :-P

wishing you comfort and rest

[nanila]

You know, I'm not sure I could recall other mortifying moments off the top of my head. I've probably blocked them out. It would take some effort to dredge them up. :P

Thank you. I'm getting both. I spent yesterday evening after the baby went to bed with my feet up watching the Great British Bake Off and then Raider of the Lost Ark.

[qian]

Eek!! I'm glad you and Baby are OK.

[nanila]

Thank you, that's much appreciated.

[duccio]

Be careful, sweetie. "I'm fine," is a song you want to keep on singing happily, as long as you live.

[nanila]

Thank you, I'll do my best. Am being a lot gentler/slower with my movements now to try and minimise the risk of (further) injury.

[nou]

Eep! Glad you were taken care of properly and baby is fine.

[nanila]

Thank you. I'm glad too, and so grateful for the (brief) scan so we could see baby.

[kerrypolka]

I'm glad you're all right and hopefully not too embarrassed!

[nanila]

Thank you! I'm still mortified, but retelling the story with an attempt to put a humorous spin on it is helping to alleviate the sting.

[doccy]

Hooray for both nanila and baby being fine - but I hope you feel finer-er (...-er?) in the near future :)

[nanila]

Thank you. I'm operating at about 80% of normal today. Yesterday it was about 50%, so this is a considerable improvement.

[quinara]

Eep!! Glad to hear that everything is/will be OK.

This is apparently my medical icon...

[nanila]

Thank you! Everything is much better today (esp my physical & mental condition).

[antisoppist]

Eeeek. Glad you and the baby are fine. Re. 4 and 3, mine was phoning 999 because my then 2 year-old had had a fit and turned blue and having paramedics burst through the front door and instantly administer Calpol. Febrile convulsion. He had a cold. I let him get too hot. And then they took us to the hospital for checks because the NHS is brilliant, and told me not to feel too much like an idiot. As the paediatrician said at the time "well I'd always call an ambulance. We don't take chances."

[nanila]

Thank you. Humuhumu had febrile convulsions once when she was only a few months old, for exactly the same reason. We took her to hospital and of course by the time we got there she was fine. But as you relate, when it comes to babies and toddlers, it's not worth the risk of not going in.

[foxfirefey]

You can tell that I'm an American because the mere idea of sirens coming for me is horrifying because what if my insurance doesn't cover it.

[nanila]

Yes. It is awful to have the mortification coupled with fear of being unable to afford treatment.

[weaverbird]

Yikes! That's definitely the wrong kind of exciting. wow.

Glad baby is fine and that you are at least sort of fine. Hope you can upgrade that to unequivocally fine soon.

[nanila]

Yes, it was all the wrong shades of exciting. I like my exciting to come in flavours that don't involve ambulances and hospitals.

Thank you for the good wishes.

[highlyeccentric]

Eeep! Glad you're OK and the hospital were decent to you.

Is Brum your home base? Brum is my UK base (by reason of boyfriend)!

[nanila]

Thank you!

Yes, Brum is (sort of) my home base. We live in a small village to the southwest of the city. The bloke is a lecturer at the U of B. That's why we're here rather than in London, where I work. In London we could afford a shoebox as opposed to the rather nice cottage we live in up here.

[highlyeccentric]

Aww, lovely! Mancreature kept raving to me about how cheap furniture is, how big his appt is, when he moved up. This is unfair, since I live in *geneva*, which is as expensive as london and harder to find housing in.

In order to ascertain how close our overlap might be: is your bloke a historian of any sort? If so, he probably knows my boyfriend. If not, probably not!

[nanila]

Some people at the recent space summer school were telling me that the cost of living in Switzerland is very high indeed, and then they got into an argument with eavesdropping Norwegians about whether or not Oslo is worse. :P

No, the bloke is a physical chemist, now housed in the Dept of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science. :)

[happydork]

Yay for the NHS, and yay for baby being fine -- I hope your fine-sort-of becomes fine-actually as soon as it can. <3

[nanila]

Thank you. I hope so too. I feel much better today than I did yesterday - estimate I'm now operating at about 80% capacity.

[alwayswondered]

Ack. I'm glad you and baby are okay! The NHS is amazing, particularly in an emergency, and I'm so happy you were treated well. Take care of yourself!

[nanila]

Thank you. I did get a scolding from one of those hard-nosed older midwives for not carrying my green notes with me. ("You have to carry them all the time, not just to appointments! For exactly these situations." So, er, that was me told.)

Am trying not to stress too much about work right now. :/

[alwayswondered]

I know how it is (about work, at least, not about the midwife). I hope you're getting some relaxation anyway. It will all still be there when you get back (as I have recently learnt). Of course that may or may not be a comfort.

[lurkingcat]

Hurray for the NHS!

Glad both you and the baby are fine. I hope that gets more fine.

[nanila]

The NHS is a national treasure. I can't express how wonderful it is to go from a health care system that makes you terrified of getting sick because you probably can't afford the treatment to one that makes you not worry about getting sick because it will be there when you need it.

Thank you. Today is definitely better than yesterday.

[ironed_orchid]

Glad that you are okay.

Does this mean you missed out on Rosetta excitement?

[nanila]

Thank you! I missed out on Rosetta excitement a bit by not physically being at work, but because of the magic of social media, we were all in touch throughout, which was awesome.

[ironed_orchid]

Two cheers for the internets.

[soliano]

So glad you are ok!

[nanila]

Thank you! Recovery at about 80% now.

[lark_ascends]

*hugs you very very gently*

Very glad that the baby is fine and hope that you quickly get better.

[nanila]

*hugs back*

Thank you. Feeling a lot better today. Yesterday was a struggle.

[calissa]

I'm glad you and the baby are okay.

[nanila]

Thank you, that's much appreciated. :)

[chickenfeet]

Glad you are both OK. With you on the ambulance thing. It's worse if you actually need it.

[nanila]

Thank you. It was mortifying; I do hope not to have to repeat the experience for some time.

[pbristow]

EEEP! =8oO

I casually scroll down just to see if I might be missing anything fascinating before I go to grab a cuppa and Do Something Not On The Internet... and you go and collapse in a heap on me! With Ambulances!

Was this in Birmingham New-Vision-Of-Hell Street station, perchance? =:o\

How are you doing now?

[CAREFUL HUGS]

[nanila]

I made it to Moor Street before I fell over. I'm glad of that, actually - I think Mordor aka New Street would have been much worse.

I'm OK, but have been warned off overdoing things as I have an abdominal injury that can't be corrected while I'm pregnant. :/