On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> At least I can still move around without pain or back ache. And that
> is really amazing considering the bulge on the front. But how do I get
> around shopping and simple household things that require an anormous
> amount of lifting and shifting stuff that can be rather havy? So where
> theory might be easy its a bugger to put it into practice all the
> time. And being also very impatient by nature doesn't really help.
I'm a lot more impatient than I used to be, so being very impatient by
nature must mean you're INCREDIBLY impatient now, or at least that's my
extrapolation. Shopping is getting just a little harder each week. I
might have to tell Dan that he has to buy the cans of soda for the rest of
the pregnancy sometime soon. (That's the worst as far as being heavy and
awkward to lift in and out of the cart. That and the 10-lb boxes of
baking soda we buy to use for cleaning purposes, but I can send him out
for those, as well, and I don't think it'll be an issue for a couple
more months, considering our current supply.)
My biggest problem while shopping is that they put things that I want up
on high shelves. One of these days, I'm going to have to leave the cart
in the middle of an aisle and go up to the customer service desk and ask
for a store employee to help me, if a tall person doesn't come along soon
enough. (Or maybe create enough of a scene to get a store employee there,
but that might not go over so well. Passively blocking the aisle might
work....)
Julia
