Deja Vu

Chinese New Year (February 2005)
Daddy and I had known each other for about 3 months. We'd gone out on two "date" dates and were going to have nachos and a movies at daddy's apartment tonight. During the movie, we snuggled on the couch sharing a blanket. I can't remember what we watched, but I remember how comfortable I felt. I ended up spending the next 2 days in the apartment with him. We could not leave one another because we both came down with the flu and were keeping each other alive (sort to speak).

Saturday, June 13th, 2009
I woke up because I couldn't breathe. The room was still dark and the AC was humming rhythmically in the background. It felt as if all the hair in my nose had turned into needles and my uvula was the size of a horse pill. "Yep," I thought, "I've got the cold Bill brought back from China."
Daddy had already gotten over most of his cold, so I took comfort in knowing that this nasty little bug will only last for about 3 days. I grabbed "What to Expect" and read the entire section on "When You're Sick During Pregnancy" and was pleased to know that you will not be affected. It was the weekend, so I thought I'd just ride it out.
When I was putting the book down to go back to sleep, daddy moved and groaned, "My back's killing me...." All the hours of working in front of the computer (and our crappy mattress) have accumulated tension deep inside his muscles. I sat up and started rubbing Tiger Balm on his back. I've got one hand rubbing hard into daddy's back while the other rubbing my leaky nose with a tissue. We were both miserable: he couldn't find a position that wouldn't hurt, and I couldn't seem to find a way to stop sniffling and hacking.

We spent most of the day in bed watching "Band of Brothers". We laughed at how much this was just like CNY 2005, when we first started dating.

At 3pm, the pain in daddy's back got so bad that he could hardly move. We decided to venture out to a Chinese medicine doctor. The doctor listened to our descriptions of the pain and, with one touch, pinpoint exactly where it hurt on daddy's back. He then told us that daddy would need acupuncture. Before he inserted the needles, the doctor grabbed onto daddy's right should with one hand and pressed down on daddy's spine with the other hand. Instantaneously daddy's spine crackled like popcorn and daddy let out a sigh of relief.


The doctor put 5 needles around daddy's right should blade.
It probably took him a total of 5 seconds to do it.
Daddy said it didn't hurt at all.





Then they hook daddy up to a machine that sent out electric current and put a heat lamp directly above the area that was being treated.

Daddy had to stay like that for 20 minutes.




The final step was to put these section cups on daddy's back.

This took another 15 minutes.




After the doctor's, we grabbed some food on the way home and went to bed at 7pm.

Daddy is feeling a lot better this morning (though he's still not 100%), and my nose has stopped dripping (though it's like swallowing glass now). We're still gonna take it slow today, but we also want to get out of the house for a bit. Maybe we'll go get you a diaper change set to put on a dresser.