Voice of Will: She's off to TESOL

2006-03-15 - 11:56 p.m.
So my wife has been gone for 2 days, and I'm so lonely I can't sleep, feel like crying over simple things, and then yelling at the kids for... well being kids. go figure.

My wife is a member of a professional organization and as such she attends their annual convention. Two years ago it was Long beach, last year it was San antonio, this year it is Tampa Bay.
We knew it was coming, we planned our classes so it was ok for her to miss a weeks classes. We had everything planned for. Well almost.

My wife gets motion sickness. Now I don't mean the simple, the car is going around curves, lower the window I can take a pill for this kind of motion sickness. No, she has to be different. She suffers from situational vertigo (I think it is a made up term, but she disagrees). Waht this means is she will get hit with motion sickness standing still, or moving and can't take the pills because she will vomit them up. So we need to get a slow release medicine on a patch for her to wear. Simple enough right? In the states it was go to the dr get a perscription and have it filled (you can't buy patches over the counter.. not sure why) In china? Get out of town.

If this were beijing we would be able to get them. In fact the last time criss was in beijing she got patches. but she has used them up. So we go looking in zhengzhou. Shouldn't be that hard in a city of 8 million people right? wrong. It took 3 weeks, and looking in over 50 different pharmacies to find one place that sold patches. And when we have a chinese person read the instructions they are for "muscles aches, or making hurt places feel better" not motion sickness. According to the doctor they are a "traditional" chinese medicine for motion sickness.... well we hoped it would work.

I found out today it did work... sort of. Crissy had a very turbulent flight from zz to beijing, and a lot of turbulence from beijing to newark. it seems that the gods of the weather were at work, very windy, and a massive cold front moving into new york area when she arrived. but she didn't vomit, or feel like she was dying. But she did get a real doozy of a rash on her tummy.... rash or motion sickness????
So right now she is in Tampa bay florida attending her confrence. I'm in china with the kids trying to fly kites. (we've been watching a lot of mary poppins......)