I just got off the phone with David.
The epidural worked, and JZ is pushing now. They expect to achieve Zmaybaby within the next hour!
You're nice, and you're funny and you don't smoke, and okay, werewolf, but that's not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month, I'm not much fun to be around, either.
Willow ,'Get It Done'
If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me
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Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2006 3:33:05 am PDT #2737 of 5671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Lee - Sep 26, 2006 5:30:30 am PDT #2738 of 5671
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Just got off the phone with Hec. Halloweenie just wouldn't come out, so they are headed in for a c-section now. All is still good with the baby.
Lee - Sep 26, 2006 9:00:57 am PDT #2739 of 5671
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY!
Zmayhem baby is here, and has been since 9:35. She was 6 pounds 5 ounces, and 19 inches long. She looks like JZ. Mom, Dad and Baby are fine. Well, Mom is tired, Baby's head got a little squashed because she got a little stuck, and Dad sounds smitten, but otherwise all is good.
JZ will be in the hospital until Saturday because of the C-section.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2006 8:03:29 pm PDT #2740 of 5671
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Birth details here
DavidS "Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up." Sep 26, 2006 9:44:26 pm PDT
NoiseDesign - Sep 26, 2006 8:15:46 pm PDT #2741 of 5671
Our wings are not tired
I've been nominated for two Ovation Awards again this year. One in small theatre, one in large theatre. These are sorta the closest thing we have to the Tonys on the West Coast.
DavidS - Sep 27, 2006 6:28:53 am PDT #2742 of 5671
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
xpost with Bitches but I know some people are keeping track over here.
Matilda had to be taken to the NICU last night. She had bile in her stomach and had to have it pumped out. Apparently she swallowed some of her own mess in utero while doing her practice breathing before she was born.
Matilda was getting fussy and distressed last night so JZ called the nurse to bring her over to the bed. The nurse patted Matilda on the back and some dark mucus came up. They took her to the nursery and she vomited some more dark stuff. So they took her to the NICU to get her stomach suctioned out. JZ went down there at 2:30am and held Matilda while they did the procedures and stayed with her until 5:30. That's not how you want to spend the night after you've had abdominal surgery!
Poor little Matilda, that's a fine welcome to the world. And poor JZ being up all night and moving around after a C-section.
So I'll make it back over there in time for rounds and hear what the doctors say. Night nurse said there's a good chance she'll be released back to us today since the stomach was suctioned twice and sonogram shows no intestinal blockage. So it looks like everything's out that needs to be out and I hope that is all the problem that's going on.
deborah grabien - Sep 27, 2006 8:42:03 am PDT #2743 of 5671
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
There may not be much spare "hope for the best" lying about at the moment, but if you have any, please aim it briefly at San Rafael, California. My friend Beth, whose picture ought to be used in the dictionary to illustrate the word "sweetiepie", has just been told that she has fast-moving fatal scleroderma. They're giving her five years if she's lucky. She's in her early forties.
Thanks.
Jen - Sep 27, 2006 12:28:40 pm PDT #2744 of 5671
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
xpost w/Bitches:
Just got off the phone with Hec, and little Matilda is doing fine. She had an upper GI series done this morning, which came back completely normal, so the docs suspect she just swallowed some gunk in utero. She should be released from the NICU at 3 this afternoon.
As for JZ, she's showered and caffeinated and feeling like, and I quote, "the happiest girl in the world."
Jessica - Sep 28, 2006 6:16:43 am PDT #2745 of 5671
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Slooooooooooooooowly catching up after ten days of darkness. In the meantime:
Pictures from Paris and London (titles/descriptions TK)
Videos from Paris and London (taken with digital still cameras, very very short!)
ChiKat - Sep 28, 2006 8:09:02 am PDT #2746 of 5671
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Could y'all please send some of the patented ~ma towards the Memphis area today? My mom is taking my dad to meet with a doctor and to tell my dad that they need to move him to a nursing home. It really is the best move for everyone, but my mom is feeling guilty and I know my dad isn't going to take it well. Thanks.