In a postscript to today’s entry –
All the books tell you that towards the end of your pregnancy, your body will be flushed with a hormone that loosens your joints. This is for the purpose of giving your pelvis some elasticity so a giant melon with arms and legs can pass through it, but of course it cannot be selectively applied to only the pelvis by your limbic system. So it gets spread all ’round, and you end up with loosey goosey limbs.
Now lemme tell you how effective a person’s locomotion will be when she is operating a bag made of skin that is filled with bones that are connected by rubber bands. Loose rubber bands. Loose rubber bands that hurt when they stretch out too much.
I ain’t so fast these days. I feel like a Slinky. Once I walk for a few minutes, I start to get the hang of this new body, but those initial steps when I first get out of a chair that I’ve been sitting in for a while are not graceful. Nor are they totally comfortable. A pregnant woman in her last week or so of pregnancy is not built for doing much. Besides complaining.
I had no idea about this end-of-pregnancy hormone thing, and I have to say – it sounds pretty scifi to have your bones all sorts of loose.
Ja(c)k\’s probably being all nice and letting you finish your work week, and after allowing you to sleep in a little on Saturday I bet he starts knocking… 🙂
You made me think of Gilderoy Lockhart\’s spell-gone-wrong that took away all of the bones in Harry\’s arm. Let me know when we need to call Madame Pomfrey about getting some Skele-Grow
No limbo lady!
lol…i agree…
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