Lately I have been really busy at work, and having a lot of fun with it. I've also been really busy at home. Holly has been so miserable that I feel bad going to work every day. I wish I could just stay home with her and let her sleep. Neither one of us can wait for Auria to be born. So today, I'm working hard, making some good progress on my current project (a web application, lot's of fun) and I get a phone call. These days any time I get a phone call my stomach leaps up into my throat and my heart skips a few beats. It could be Holly calling to tell me that it's time. I missed this call and got an email from an AF sergeant that I work with telling me to call Holly immediately. So I run to the phone and call her and she tells me that she fell down the stairs! Inside, I panic, outside I calmly ask her some questions. I never want to freak out because I don't want to make her freak out even worse than I'm sure she already is. I can't get home for at least 45 minutes and that's if I speed. So I run back to my office, let the appropriate people know that I'm leaving and why and dash to my car. When I say dash, keep in mind that if I park as close as I can, my car is still half a mile and about 200 stair steps away from me. So I get home as quick as I can and we take her to the hospital. We were there for almost 6 hours and thank God everything was alright. Both she and Auria are healthy and unharmed by the tumble. Yesterday we went to the doctors and Holly said she was exhausted and that she could really use some sleep. The doc gave her some sleeping meds that are safe for the baby so Holly's body can rest up. I guess that this medication is what caused the problem today, or at least that's all we can figure. It had some strange effects on her. Last night at 9:45 (two hours after we went to sleep) she had to get up to use the restroom. She's halfway there when she stops, says "Whoa, I've never seen that before!" shakes her head, then continues ambling toward the restroom. I didn't find out until today what she saw for the first time last night. I read the paper with all the information on the medication right after getting it and it said that sometimes if given to children with ADD or ADHD it can cause hallucinations. I guess Holly has ADHD or something because in her eyes, everything was edged in red and blue bubbles. Kind of a weird sight, probably would have made me stop and shake my head too. It made me think of an article I read in a science journal about a year ago about how your brain composites images from about 12 different layers of imagery. Each layer contains different information on the world around you and one of those layers was edges. I just found it interesting that she was only hallucinating on a single layer of vision, not all of them. I wonder if those scientists that are into that have ever checked out hallucinations and their effects on a person's image composition process. Ok, enough geek talk. Almost, just for posterity I'm going to post what I am currently researching so that in a month I will remember to check my google journal for all the cool notes I'm entering.
Dojo (AJAX toolkit), JSP, Java ServerFaces, JavaBeans, C#, ASP.Net
Sometime in November I might even get to study my language. That will be nice, it's been awhile since I got to study that.
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