The trip to Gothenburg for the second eye

Yes, then it was time for us to get on the plane from Umeå to Bromma and then continue with the next plane to Gothenburg. When you are not used to flying, you feel like two farmers lost among all the water-combed nice people from the big city. You could easily quickly point us out as newbies just by looking at our spinning heads and confused looks that scream what do you do here? hahah oh my god.

Freja thought it was insanely exciting, we went with a GOOD air-propeller plane that lived like a rascal's. Personally, I think it's like flying...it's smooth as hell, but god, you're helpless up there, like a life jacket...why then? Give me a parachute if I'm going to have a chance to survive hahah.

But anyway it went well, insanely scary to both take off and land and my stomach acid basically wanted to throw up at any moment from the rocking.

We paused in Bromma to kill some time so Freja could occupy herself in the best way she could.

The next plane on to Gothenburg went well too, we had sun above the clouds and underneath it was gray and dreary, from a colder Norrland to a humid rainy Gothenburg with 13 degrees...was sweating to death...saw how many people like completely with down jacket, they are not wise, we left our winter jackets at home hahah.

Then there was a taxi from Landvetter to the hotel. This hotel is so nice, wow I say. Nice room, lovely atmosphere and nice staff, but I say the food... oh my god, they have such good food there, that's when you really want to lick the plate.

We mostly chilled when we got down, took a detour to the shopping center which is next to the wall and bought a bottle of bubbly and some snacks, Freja wanted her cheese rings. Also visited bastard burger, it was good but so little food for insane cost, well thumbs down for them!

The hotel had a spa bath and a sauna, so we ended the evening with a bath and a sauna, so nice.

The next day there was a medical examination and the time was only in the afternoon so we thought out a suitable activity for Freja before it was time for the examination so we went "by train" as Jonas says hahaha. The tram is smooth as hell, you can probably never blame work-related delays when you have such good travel connections to be able to get to work.

We visited the universe, tropical rainforest and aquarium with lots of exciting animals, Freja thought it was WOW above all in the rainforest on the bridges to scout out, I myself was dying of sweat there no matter how fascinated I was. Found a little monkey with whom I became friends, perhaps the only living individual who understood me :)

Down in the basement of the universe there was a playground for smaller kids, Freja wanted to talk facetime with her older sister and show her around and she climbed into a boat and was going to ask Elza where the phone disappeared into a crack, Freja screamed in despair, she screamed down in the slip-how are you Elza down there, I didn't mean to lose you. Poor desperate children. I had to tell a member of staff that my phone is lost inside the boat so she had to call the caretaker, apparently this wasn't the first time they had to unscrew the front. Yes, the phone came out and my other daughter had finally hung up hahah. Yes, my God, what a circus and Freja was so sad because she lost it.

Then it was time to eat, so it was Mongolian food, yes like regular Chinese food, it was delicious!

Onward to examination and when we arrived it turned out that we were in the wrong hospital, oh my god so it was to book a taxi and go to the right hospital.

First, Freja got to meet a woman who was going to do various examinations, then she got to meet the doctor Alf, they wanted to be two who examined to get the best equal results. Freja was good as usual but you mustn't forget she is 4 years old and gets bored quickly so there was a lot of nagging and bribery with if you are good now and do as the doctor says we will go to the toy store.

What's wrong with the eye is that she sees worse, the strong eye takes over and eventually you don't want to use the other eye. Freya's operated eye is now the stronger, the doctor's goal is to keep them as balanced as they can. Freja is going to try a new eye prescription with the hope that it will turn around...you can give it a frame of 4-6 months, if it doesn't go up, there will be an earlier operation on the eye. We want her to have her eyesight as well as she can and we want her to be able to drive a car in the future, for example...yes, it's a bit nervous about her eyes for her future.

We finished at half past five in the evening so it was time to get back to the hotel for food and a spa bath. I called Sykurresor directly and booked our trip home, SAS, and there were no plans until 19.25 in the evening, so we would arrive home to Norrland late.

Really good food and not to mention their hotel breakfast, nom nom nom - 10 out of 10 points!

At breakfast the next day, Alf (the doctor) called, he was a little worried about Freja's results on one eye and wondered if we could come an extra time because he wanted to double check it and now he was sitting at the hospital we went to first when it was wrong so we went there after breakfast. He double-checked and indeed they had gotten the wrong result so now he adjusted it so it was correct because it would have given Freya trouble if he hadn't corrected it. The thing is that since her lenses are crooked, it's a bit trickier to get the right visual acuity and it's quite important otherwise you don't feel well and get headaches etc.

We had many hours to kill the next day, so then it was a trip to the Museum of Natural History in Gothenburg! Museums always go home, I love them, educational and great energy. It was crazy with stuffed animals to look at, the coolest was the blue whale that you actually had open to sit and have a coffee in but they closed it at the beginning of the 20th century because they found a loving couple in it haha so now they only have whales open when it's an election year in the country on election day itself :)

Then the phone rang at 15 in the afternoon that the SAS plane from Stockholm-Umeå was cancelled, well what do we do now? I had to call medical travel and try to solve this for a short while, then it rang again that they changed our trip to Sunday morning... SUNDAY, no they don't go, who will pay for two extra days? Medical travel was very helpful so what we could solve was to take the night train from Arlanda to Umeå with our own sleeping car. Yes, it had to be, we had to come home.

Yes, then it was even more confusing to arrive at an airport - Landvetter. Two idiots who don't understand how to do it, buy two bottles of water to immediately pour out because you weren't allowed to bring them inside the check-in...oh my god how stupid of us.

On the plane they offered coffee, but not that they offered water to our 4-year-old, but we had to buy it for 30 bucks...so bad and stingy! BRA flights of course offered water, they had cardboard cups that they filled up if you were thirsty...but SAS offers coffee or tea but not water, thumbs down!

The journey took 40 minutes, insanely fast..then we had 1.30 in time to kill at Arlanda before the train was due to leave. Freja was completely finished and luckily we have a carriage that she rode in because she fell asleep quite quickly.

The train and the pram were cramped and awful, Jonas had to lie at the top, but I chose to lie at the bottom with Freja because she slept when we got on the train and didn't wake up when I put her down, so I was afraid that if she woke up, she would getting scared in the dark and not understanding where she was, but luckily I was still there because she rolled off her bed three more times during the night and passed my leg, so I woke up...or rather I was awake. How on earth do you manage to sleep on a train, you're thrown here and there so it's no wonder she got off the bed. My dear partner, of course, slept like a clubbed seal..absolutely sick.

We arrived Saturday morning in Umeå at 6:20 in the morning, taxi was waiting for us, Freja and I completely exhausted. When we got home, I got up and went straight to bed and slept for hours. Today, Sunday, I'm still dizzy, but I got it right after the flight... I'm so dizzy, like having sea legs but instead having flight legs and then the train's effect of everything swaying with it... hope it goes away soon, hard and feel drunk all the time, but I look at it on the bright side, I'm definitely not a person at risk of falling into addiction and never have been, I hate losing control and being giddy and dizzy hahah.

Yes, now we are waiting to go and order new glasses for Freja and now we are keeping our fingers crossed that the sight goes in the right direction, because if it continues as it is, it will be an operation, as I said.

All love and respect

Petra

I'm putting in an album with all the pictures we snapped during the trip so you can share.