The article about me in The Age

I was apparently on page 3 of The Age today.  I have only seen it online - Patrick is going out now to buy the paper.  Here is a link to it.   I realised it must be in a prominent position when I started getting phone calls from friends this morning saying they saw it.  I also got a call from someone from Today Tonight current affairs show on channel 7 - but they woke me up.   I told them to call me back at 11:30am but they never did.

I also forgot to mention on my previous post that I had a chest x-ray last week and it is all clear.  They only did one xray and I had to wear a lead skirt to protect the baby.  Anyway its all good.

Entering week 19

It's been eight weeks since my last post.  So much has happened and I haven't posted for so long.  During the first 6 weeks I was going through withdrawal.  I had to ween myself of the fentanyl patches that I was on for pain and it was a terrible time.  That on top of suffering from morning sickness and low energy - I didn't feel like blogging.  Then after that I thought probably nobody bothers reading my blog anymore since I've left it for so long.  In any case I promised Paul, my twin brother that I would update my blog and I do want to get back to blogging too.  

As of tomorrow I will be 19 weeks pregnant.  I get a weekly email from a site called babycenter that I'm registered with.  They tell me exactly where my baby is at each week and what I can expect to feel.  So this week my baby was the size of a bell pepper but as of tomorrow it will be the size of a large heirloom tomato.  I'm not sure what that is but they tell me it is 6 inches head to bottom.  I found out the sex of the baby but Patrick didn't want to know so I have to keep it a secret.  

Patrick started a new job this week and I am back at work part-time - 2 or three days a week.  

Yesterday I had 2 phone calls from people wanting to interview me.   One was from The Age newspaper and the other from Cabrini Hospital's newsletter.   Today The Age reporter interviewed me in the morning and just now I finished a photo shoot.  There should be a big story in the Saturday Age and I'll send a link if it is published online.  Cabrini want to do a story on me because they see me as a success story.  They interviewed me on the phone and will do the photos in August.  I guess I do have a good story but my main reason for doing the interview for The Age was to spread the word about the dangers of asbestos.  That is the angle they are supposed to take but we'll see how it turns out.  The photographer was keen to show off my belly in the photo.

I also had a phone call today from the woman I mentioned in my previous post from Adelaide who had mesothelioma and was pregnant.  She had her baby now already.  We spoke for a while and she seems lovely.  We will catch up with her when we make a trip to Adelaide in August.

I got an invitation to be facebook friends with another Anita Steiner from Uruguay.  I've always wanted to meet another Anita Steiner. I googled and there are a few of us out there.   There is Anita Steiner the professional cyclist, the Rabbi, the author of children books, the artist and the list goes on.

Well I won't go on but I will post again soon (I know I shouldn't be making these promises).  Perhaps I'll post on Saturday with a link from the article in The Age.