I will likely be grey through the 26th, as I am with the aforementioned Andi (Windsparrow) in Arizona.

No further details available at this time.

Hey, everybody, I'm finally out of the hospital and trying to get back in the groove. I appreciate all the well-wishes and health-ma, it really made me feel better. I'll head on into Natter to bore anybody with details.

Daniel should be at the airport by now.

sniff

Update and more schmoop

I'm home.

I'm tired.

I miss Andi desperately.

I work in the morning.

More later.

Those of you who don't read UnAmericans might not know that I am another one of those currently involved in the Buffista plot to repopulate the globe. Number Two is due towards the end of August.

Well, things got a little complicated last week. After a routine ultrasound on Wednesday, I had a bleeding episode, though luckily I was in the Gynacological department of one of the top university hospitals in the country at the time. I was admitted, and the cause was soon discovered.

I have Placenta Praevia Totalis, which means that the placenta is lying above the cervix, covering it completely. While this can change in some pregnancies, it's unlikely to in my case. This has two main implications: (1) a c-section is the only way this baby is coming out; and (2) I am at increased risk of bleeding and the placenta detaching prematurely.

They let me out of hospital this morning, thank goodness (total boredom, and no internet access!), so now I'm on moderate bedrest at home for the next four months or so. The baby isn't yet viable at this stage - we're at 23 weeks - so it's just a case of waiting and hoping. If we get to 32, 35 or best of all 37 weeks, things start looking a lot more rosy.

So I guess I'm asking for some placenta-behave-ma, some no-more-bleeding-ma, and some grow-baby-grow-ma, if you could all send some towards Germany. Thanks.

Oh and by the way - it's a girl.

Congrats, love! Sending you gallons of -ma!

I wonder, could I trouble any of you for some Job-ma? Because I so, so, SO want to get a new job in this town. I can stay with this job next year, but it's a soul-destroying prospect because my boss makes The Mayor look honest, fair minded and humane. And yet I really would like to stay here for another year or so. I'm open minded, though - if the right job comes along and it's in China or Japan or Hungary or wherever, so be it. So I'm requesting some generalised Job-ma, and some Everything-Turning-Out-For-The-Best-Ma, if there's any spare.

...there is always the possibility that my boss will ascend at the end of term, and thus save us all the bother. But I'm hoping not.

thank you!

Burrell gave birth today at about 3:05 PM. Welcome to Isaac, who was 7 lbs 9 ounces and 21 inches long.

Hi everybody! We're home! Mommy, Daddy, Franny, and Isaac.

Isaac now has a middle name. He's Isaac James. And we are in love.

I wasn't here, lest anyone fret that Egypt no longer has a Buffista.

wrong thread-sorry