Someone in the pre-natal waiting room is obsessing about their grandchild being in a house that reeks of cat and dog…
and also obsessing about how much she wants a cigarette.
Maybe I’m just ignorant but isn’t the cigarette smoke worse for your grandchild than the cat or the dog?
Daniel’s CaringBridge site is at http://caringbridge.org/visit/danieljameskm — we’ll have updates up as often as possible.
I was sicker than Hades on Sunday and I begged my doctor to admit me on Monday. This was a good thing because my body went into pre-eclampsia around 8:00 pm MDT and they took me down to Great Falls by ambulance. Around 2:30 a.m., they made the decision to do a c-section and take Daniel out as the only treatment for pre-eclampsia is taking the baby out.
Daniel James was born on Tuesday April 7th at 3:46 a.m. by c-section. He was 14 1/2 inches long and weighed 1 lb 15 ounces. He’s in the NICU right now and despite being premature, he’s fighting and doing quite well. I’m spending time in there with him when I can and the staff there is the best around.
My c-section incision is healing and my blood pressure is going down. They haven’t quite told me how sick I was — either that or I’m not comprehending it too well.
Thank you for every prayer, phone call, e-mail, wall posting, and everything else. I appreciate it more than I can express.
I’m apparently the poster child for pre-eclampsia at the moment so I’ve been put on bedrest until Monday afternoon.Â? That’s four days of being in bed (OK… and cheating by spending some time online) and I swear I am going to go stir crazy.Â? It’s also three days of almost no human contact because Jon will be gone.
Pray for my sanity, OK?
It’s finally a beautiful day here.Â? It’s above freezing (it was near 0 F on Thursday), I got to sleep in, and Finian is bringing his catnip mouse collection up to me.Â? He is such a good prey-catching cat.
Daniel (the creature inside of me) has starting kicking HARD.Â? I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like parts of my stomach are numb.Â? I’m not entirely used to it so it makes me jump when he goes into soccer-mode.Â? The funniest part was one of my guys at work talking to my tummy in Spanish and telling Daniel to stop kicking.
As I was watching the snow fall like powdered sugar this morning, I had just one thought in mind:
WHEN IS THIS FREAKING WINTER GOING TO END?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I’m becoming like Edda the Puss when it comes to snow.Â? I don’t like it!!!!Â? Make it go away!!!!
So today is Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent.Â? (Easter is around Tax Day again.Â? Yes, I’m positively happy that Jesus paid my Death Tax for me.)Â? It’s a meatless day for me which is a royal pain because I’m hellishly depressed and not feeling like eating… and the only things I have the house that fit this have meat in them.Â? Crap!Â? I’m also giving up swearing which means 4-lettered words mostly.Â? (I’m keeping the precursors though.)
I should theoretically go to church tonight.Â? Then again, I should do a lot of things.Â? For example, I should have gone to work today; but called in sick after crying for a good two hours at the thought of having to go deal with people.Â? The thought of going to church tonight is making me similarly upset.Â? Not that I hate everyone — I’m just having “one of those days weeks”.Â? I’m grateful to have a boss who understands but I still feel guilty.
I had someone express shock that I was pregnant yesterday.Â? Considering that I *LOOK* pregnant now, this was a little surprising.Â? It was nice, however, to know that people aren’t just staring at THE BELLEH.