PP's hands are still swelling, and I wonder if this is the dreaded pre-eclampsia? The doc reckons not, as she has no protein in her pee. (We had asparagus for supper last night, which might have confused the test more than somewhat...)Pre-eclampsia is A Bad Thing, though presumably not as bad as eclampsia itself, an affliction now obscured by its grander cousin.
Speaking of words only used as diminutives, Eleanor Bron started a campaign some time ago to encourage people to use positives, such as trepid, corrigible, defatigable and so-on. Perhaps we might start the same for pregnancy, rescuing eclampsia from prefix obscurity.
A doomed campaign? Come to think of it, whatever happened to the effable Eleanor Bron?
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