Gory Details

Well, I had a baby! As a planned c-sections November 21st 5:30am. It turns out even if a Dr would have taken a chance on another attempted v-back, it wouldn't have worked out anyway since Owen decided he wanted to be right side up like the rest of the world, breech. Can't say I blame him and it explains a lot about my bruised ribs on my left side only. I got all "preped" and asked the 101 questions including "do you have any loose fillings or crowns?" and my favorite "do you want your catheter in before or after anesthesia?" (duh!!!) At this point I told the nurse that seemed like a no brainer, and she replied "some people don't come in with brains" Ha!

Then I walked to the surgery room after my Dr made his debut with apparently much need starbucks (should I have been worried?). Got a spinal tap, fun stuff, the local to numb my back always makes me jump (ouch!). Then I get to lie down in what I call airplane position, on back- arms out to side, and they strap me down, at least at this point I get those warm blankets from heaven! The veil go up and then the fun begins.

Now some of you might think I am crazy, but a few weeks ago I asked my Dr if there could be a mirror arranged for me to see what was going on. Unfortunately no, was the answer but as I lay there looking up I noticed I could see a pretty good reflection of what was happening in the light fixture above the operation site. Cool, not perfectly clear but good enough. Weird to see what one might see on the discovery channel happening to myself, but I did get to see my baby coming out. Other then that I'll spare you the gory details except to say when I saw my uterus on my abdomen, and Dave and baby were not there to keep my mind off it I did start to get a little sick and had to turn away. But to be fair I usually get sick sooner then this point so maybe seeing it helped keep my mind off of being sick. The last ten minutes were torture, followed by another 20-30 minutes of torture in the form of uncontrollable shakes while I got poked and prodded and moved from one bed to the next, not very gently might I add. Oh well, it just confirmed the fact that I indeed did get to resemble a beached whale! Thanks to Dave's parents who tolerated Dave and the boys at their house while I was in the hospital since Mesa is closer then Queen Creek.

All in all great nurses! funny aids, all were slightly more strange then the one before, and I got to come home 4 days later. Home has been great. My parents came tues. night and took awesome care of me and the boys. They treated us to a fabulous Thanksgiving feast and I got to keep all the left over turkey!!! :) Thanks a ton Mom and Dad!!! Dave has been a champ too doing all my bending over ect. . .

Now I am looking forward to Christmas and the lights on the house and a good jog! All in good time right!