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fredag den 16. januar 2009

Sundhedsplejerskens første besøg - The Health visitor’s first visit.

Det er tidlig morgen. Jeg er stået op for at tage imod Arthurs sundhedsplejerske. Hun skal komme for første gang, for at se til Arthur. Jeg har lavet the og sat kager på bordet.

20 minutter for sent kommer Hanne Dorthe. Hun er perfekt - Som en sundhedsplejerske skal være - Lige efter mit temperament. Vi finder hurtigt hinanden, taler i tusinde år om alt mellem himmel og jord. Hun noterer ned i Arthurs bog, at han vokser og trives som han skal. 
Jeg fortæller om Arthurs rystelser, hun er helt uforstående. Jeg nævner sygeplejerskens kommentar, men Hanne Dorthe ved ikke hvad "Et umodent nervesystem" betyder. Hun fortæller, at mange børn har uforklarlige anfald.

Halvanden time senere går Hanne Dorthe og vi aftaler at ses snart igen.  

The Health visitor’s first visit.

It’s early morning. I woke up early because Arthur’s health visitor is coming today. All newborn babies in Denmark has a health visitor attached the first year of their life to check that everything is okay and to keep an eye on the babies wellbeing. It’s her first visit so I made tea and put cookies on the table.

Hanne Dorthe arrived twenty minutes late and she was perfect – her temperament and everthing about her was exactly as I hoped it would be. We could talk for ages about everything and nothing and she wrote in Arthur’s journal that he thrives just as he should. I told her about Arthur’s tremors which she had never heard of, nor had she heard of an immature nervous system. But she explained that babies often had unexplainable attacks.     

She left after one hour and 30 minutes..

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