Kai@Chicago

01.10.2010

年前一懷孕四月大的朋友因血液檢查疑似有艾德華綜合症(是一種比唐氏症更嚴重的病症)，醫院臨時安排羊膜穿刺。一般血液檢查對於此種病症的準確度高達95%，也就是只有5%的機會羊膜穿刺結果是正常。

好運的她竟是那5%，孩子一切正常。感謝上天！ 不過也因此錯過了來我家跨年的機會，一家三口在家過年。

美國醫療系統真的是貴的離譜。半年前為了去埃及到醫院打預防針，諮詢費$75，A型肝炎第一劑$120針劑費+$20注射費，為達終生免疫之功效，半年後要追加第二劑。今天去打了第二劑，又是$120+$20。

所以我們倆人加起來，光是A肝疫苗就花了($75+$140+$140)X2 = USD $710 兩萬多台幣。離譜吧？

This morning Tze told me that he had a wield sleeping experience last night.  It felt like he was pressed by something that he could not move for a while.  I was scared at first since it sounds very much like "ghost pressing on body" I heard before in Taiwan.  The last thing I'd ever want to think about is anything associated with ghost walking around in my house.  After all, I spent most of the time by myself living in this place.  Googling online, I found that it seems what he had last night was a sleeping paralysis condition which is quite common.  Most people will experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice in their lives.   In Chinese culture, sleep paralysis is widely known as 鬼壓床, and in Japanese it was called kanashibari.   Hopefully I will never have that experience.  Yuki will be here protecting me...

Here is what I found about sleep paralysis:

最近迷上拉丁舞 尤其是Salsa
不過老公很不開心他出差時我一個人跑去學跳舞
突然發現  原來男生吃起醋來  那勁道比女生還厲害