Sleep it off..

It's the start of the 10th week and I'm frightened for Rachael's health. She's lost 5 pounds from nausea (and probably the lack of tasty options for food she can eat without hurling). Yesterday we went to the doctor for help and he just seemed to make it worse. It seemed like the doc was going to more trouble trying to bring his student Rosy out of her shell more than he was really trying to diagnose anything for Rachael. That's a male doctor for you anyway. They're not very good listeners. He didn't even know that Rachael was Vegitarian (look at her folder for goodness sakes).

To make things worse, when we went to the doctor, they reflex jerk gave her a shot in the bum for nausea. Next thing I know, it's just Rach and I on the floor.. Rach vomiting what little fluid she had left in her body. She needed water desperately and the doc said to take little sips. The shot was supposed to help nausea, but she's still not eating. Everytime she nibbles a cracker, she burps and reflexes like it's gonna come right back.

She's sleeping like a baby, but she needs to be fed. I'm really scared. I don't know what happens to a person when they don't eat for so long. I know when I do that, my body starts to attack itself. I've come to believe that this is no place for vegitarians. America is so damn meat focused, it makes me sick. That hospital that Jenny works at would be ideal right now. They wouldn't try to stick her with a needle before they have time to check her out. They wouldn't stick her and nudge her out the door. They wouldn't tell me to feed her chicken broth and then shrug thier shoulders when I tell them she's a vegitarian.

I guess there's no place like OZ for that kind of treatment, and so we may have to head back home sooner than we'd planned. I don't care if we can afford it, or if debts here aren't paid off.. I need Rach to be well. I can't let her suffer under a system that's so incompatible with anyone but a cookie cutter cholesterol guzzler. The medical profession seems to be established to cater only to fat lazy heart attack patients and drug induced hemopheliacs and I'm sick of it.

Or maybe it's just me..
-len