会社で3時頃から頭を動かすとふらふらし出す。軽いめまいだ。卒倒して椅子から落ちてお腹でも打ったら大変だからしばらくデスクの下の床に座って休む。よくならないので早引きしようと立ち上がるが、ふらっとして、危ない。真っ直ぐに立てないのだ。少し休むことにしてデスクに戻るが、どうしたのかわからない。怖くなって涙が出る。Edが持ってきてくれた水を３杯一気に飲み干す。じゅんこさん、社長、さかもとさんも心配そうに来てくれたので、下まで送ってもらってどうにか帰宅。
助産婦ヘルプラインに電話したが、終了時間5時をぎりぎりで回っていたので連絡つかず。ベッドにそのままなだれ込む。横になっていると大丈夫だが、トイレに立ち上がると、もう、頭にスピンがかかっていて、だめだ。JasonにSOSを出し、帰ってきてもらい、Royal London Hospital の出産病棟に電話して、病院へ。
病院に向かう車の中で、激しい吐き気に襲われる。病院の入り口で座り込むと、車椅子で出産病棟まで運んでくれた。（産まれると思われた？）医者を待っている間に、赤ちゃんのモニターチェック。この間に、数回戻す。検尿に立ち上がるとまた吐き気に襲われ、トイレでも戻す。悲惨だ。
ようやく産婦人科の女医さんがやってくる。後から考えると、「動く」と、頭がふらふらするために吐き気を催すが、横になっていれば大丈夫だったのだが、この時点では自分でも症状が把握できず、うまく説明できなかった。めまいと吐き気の原因が不明の上、吐き続けて脱水症状になると困るので、様子見のため、一泊入院することに。貧血チェック（過去数ヶ月の血液検査では全く気配がないので急に貧血になることはないらしいがとりあえず）のための採血をし、吐き気を止める注射をお尻りに打たれ、入院のため出産前病棟に移動。
吐き気はすぐに収まる。Jasonは帰宅。パラセティモ（バファリンみたいな痛み止め）を２錠飲む。夜勤の助産婦が赤ちゃんの心音チェックと触診に来た後はそのまま寝た。
I started to feel dizzy at about 3 o'clock at work, especially when I moved my head. I was scared that I might pass out and decided to sit on the floor for a while. As my condition did not seem to improve, I was going to go home. But when I stood up, a mild dizziness struck me. I could not stand straight. I felt really helpless and scared - what is this? Is my baby ok? A couple of tears fell on my cheeks. Ed brought me some water and I drank it up in no time. Junko, Sakamoto and Yamagami came to check with me. I managed to take a taxi home with their help.
Called Midwife help line. But no answer as it was just 5 o'clock, their closing time. I fell into bed. While lying down, I felt ok but once stood up, my head started to spin! I made an SOS call to Jason. He came home, rang the Royal London Hospital. He was asked to bring me in.
On our way to hospital, I started to feel sick and wanted to get off the car many times. As soon as we arrived at the main entrance, I could not walk and just sit down. I was carried to the Labour ward on a wheelchair. (The receptionist may have thought I would be in labour soon!) While waiting for a doctor, the baby's heart rate was monitoring. I vomited a couple of times. Terrible....
Doctors did not know the cause of my dizziness and sickness. When looking back, I can tell that I felt sick only when moving, but at that time, I could not analyze the symptoms to tell the doctors exactly what was happening. Since they did not know the cause, they decided to keep me for one night, they wanted to prevent me from being dehydrated by vomiting. I got an injection which stops feeling sick and I was taken some blood samples to test anaemia (this was really unlikely as there had been no signs of anaemia at all in the last couple of months and anaemia do not usually happen over night). I was moved to the Antenatal Ward.
The sickness went off soon. Jason went home. I was given 2 tablets of parathetemol. A midwife came to check the baby's heart beat. Then I fell asleep.
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