Hospital tomorrow again..

So tomorrow we head back to the hospital for a vision test for Edda. I guess if the initial vision screening is OK, then it won’t take that long, but if something is wrong, it may take 2 hours or so. But now that it’s been a few days since the diagnosis, we also need to talk to them about getting Edda into therapy ASAP. Last Thursday, we could only hear the words “mental and physical retardation” and the rest of the details were a little lost on us like who was going to call when and where these programs were. The doctor mentioned something about waiting lists and we looked on some
web sites and we might not even be eligible because
we aren’t permanent residents or citizens. But I
don’t know if that’s only the public ones or if
there are private ones available as well. We will know more tomorrow.

Trivial Things…

As requested, here’s the summary…

It went reasonably well. Her name’s Anna. She’s a product manager at a wireless startup. She teaches aerobics on the side. She’s a talker that’s for sure. 😛

We met up at Verdi’s, a bubble tea place in downtown Mountain View. She almost got away with paying. That would have been a bit of an embarassment. We talked a bit about our family’s. Apparently her father is from Penang, and went to the same high school that my friend Choon went to. It’s basically a big frat, with social events all around the world. She’s from Toronto and apparently her father had dragged her to all these high school events. Apparently, at some point, she was trying to find a job in Singapore to improve her Chinese.

Other than that, we commiserated on the fact that all of our friends are married and have mortgages. We had a fairly nerdy conversation about computer games. She found out that I was 29. (She’s 32.) She sounded surprised, tho I can’t imagine that she didn’t know. It’s right up on my friendster profile.

I’m unsure about what’s going to happen now. We had a good talk, but dunno if there’s a lot of chemistry. Then again, Choon thinks this is my problem in that I never think right off the bat that I have chemistry with someone. So I’m thinking at least a second date would be in order.

It’s funny how you have to shift your mode of dating when you get older. It’s less about hanging out with single friends than it it trying to make conversation and figuring out something interesting to do on a date.

anyhow. we’ll see.

Stuffing one’s hand in one’s mouth.

As you can kind of tell in Edda’s picture I posted a few days ago, she has started trying to stuff her whole hand into her mouth. I don’t know why this started happening, I figured that her back molars were growing in and that it helped to ease the pain. It makes a big drooly mess, usually slobber covers her whole chin and her shirt. I was pretty sure that she was going to give it up after the teeth came in, but now I’m not sure that it’s going to stop. It’s not really a pretty sight, doesn’t really add to her allure.

Before we went to see the doctor and got Edda diagnosed, I was trying to convince her not to stuff her hand in her mouth, it’s pretty disgusting and a bit germ-y, especially after crawling on the floor. But now that I understand that she doesn’t really understand me as a 21 month-old would so I’m letting it go right now. I think it gives her some comfort and I’m all for making Edda happy these days, so I’m letting her do it for a little while longer, no pestering from me.

While I was dropping Vince off at nursery school this morning, I had Edda in her stroller and another mother looked at her and said, “She’s putting her hand in her mouth.” First of all, it’s hard not to notice someone trying to stuff their whole hand in their mouth and second, I’ve got other things I’m concentrating on this morning, thank you very much.

Donald, a post on the coffee date would be much appreciated. We are all curious…

Such a stressful week.

Well, Edda has been diagnosed as having both mental and physical disabilities. We took her to a specialist at the Children’s Development Clinic at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital downtown and the doctor did a full hour-long assessment on Edda. So what we had suspected for many months finally got medically diagnosed.

So, what will Edda be like when she grows up? Will she walk? Will she dance? Will she talk? Will she read? Well, these are questions I want answered, but I won’t be able to answer for a while. Lots of crying around here, but also some sort of relief as we go forward with therapy, testing, etc, etc.

She’s a happy girl and enjoys being with us. Well see what happens.

I hate Conferences

hrm… okay I went up to a conference yesterday, and I know you’re supposed to go around talking to people, sharing ideas and whatever, but I don’t want to do that at all. I’ve got very little interest in it for some reason. Plus i suppose it doesn’t help when I feel like everyone is talking over my head. Talking about random projects or people that I don’t really know very well.

Today we had another day long meeting with santa barbara folks, and I also had very little to add to the conversation. Dunno. I just sit there, half zoning in or out. It’s sorta depressing. I know my boss wants me to be proactive and talk to people, but it doesn’t seem like me.

incidentally, I’ve got a “coffee” date for Thursday night.

The Best

The best car we drove during vacation is a Benz S320 Series. Wing let us use his car when we were in FL. The handling was perfect and the car hugged on road very well. However, we rent an All wheel drive Subaru in Portland, it was a good car and it was half the price of the Benz we drove.

The best fruit is the papaya we picked up at the Garden in Kawai.

The best Chinese food was in Vancouver.

The best crab was in FL. Wing BBQ them and tasted good.

The best music is the CD I bought in China and I made a copy for MingMIng’s mother

The best place we went is the beach at Kawai