It's been TOO long...

Well... I can officially say

IT'S BEEN TOO LONG!

I can't believe my last post was Dec. 5 2008!

Yeesh!

You would think I've been busy or something.. and that I have!

Time to update you... Then I will add pictures... slowly probably!

After my last post...

I was feeling pretty good!

Had some wonderful showers - got lots of wonderful baby stuff!!!

I started working up at Solitude Ski Resort with Brian.

I worked at the ticket office and the Inn.

I loved it... it was so nice to be up in the Mtns during the winter.

It started getting harder and harder the larger I got.

I was 8 months along and one day I was working at the Inn.

I all of a sudden got a really sharp pain and it didn't go away.

So I was pretty sure it wasn't labor - but I didn't know what was going on.

I didn't know what to do... thank goodness Brian was working that day.

I called him in a panic and told him he needed to come down and get me.

He was there pretty quickly.

He strapped me to a back board [semi-embarrassing] and took me over to the clinic.

They asked me a lot of questions - while I was throwing up.

They ruled out labor and decided it may be kidney stones,

but that I should probably go to the hospital.

Brian asked me if I wanted a ambulance... I told him NO, JUST GET ME THERE!

It was the worst car ride ever... I was in so much pain.

I just whimpered, cried, and screamed the whole way down the canyon.

[Driving Brian crazy!]

Got to the emergency room and they sent me straight to the Womens Center.

They gave me shots of morphine in my butt and started doing tests.

They decided they were pretty sure it was kidney stones.

They took me over for x-rays on my kidney. [My left side]

They couldn't see my kidney - my colon was pretty dang full.

I stayed for 24 hours.

Needless to say I didn't go back to work after that.

I went back to the hospital about a week later for another stone.

Was there for 12 hours.

Then I passed another one at home... decided it was time to do something about my colon.

Ended up taking a colonoscopy prep to help it along.

NASTY STUFF!!!!

It was midnight when I started. My sweet husband and parents stayed up with me.

They watched a movie while I was in the corner in agony.

Felt some what better after that night.

By this point I was dilated to a one... my doctor told me if I got ONE more

kidney stone... he would start me now that I was at a one.

Well... I got ANOTHER ONE.

So Tuesday morning, March 24, I had finally had enough.

I called the hospital and they said they would call me back when

they had a room available for me to come in and use.

It wasn't an hour later that they called.

Brian had gone to take his last final at school and mom was working.

Thank goodness Dad was home!!! :)

So we got to the hospital about 1:00 in the afternoon.

They checked my blood pressure 4 times, which told us something was up.

Well it was SCARY high.

They tried to get me to relax and not worry about it.

Like that helps! :)

I was still only at a one... but they gave me an epidural right then

to help with the pain and hope it would relax me!!!

They started the IV and pitocin to get my labor started.

Alison [Brian's mom!] got there and sat with me...

and tried helping me to relax... so that my doctor could break my water.

HE COULDN'T!

Talk about some pain... AND I had my epidural.

Isaac was still high and didn't want to drop.

Also... Isaac didn't take to the pitocin well.

His heart rate kept dropping, so they had to stop it for a bit,

then try it again.

Well... that evening I was only at a THREE.

My doc said that if I didn't really progress by 11 the next morning we had to consider

an emergency C-section. :(

Talk about the longest night. I was so hungry and thirsty.

Ice doesn't do the trick - or a Popsicle every two hours.

The doc came in and checked me before he started his day...

Yep... I WAS STILL A THREE.

So he said if I wasn't really ready by 11 they were going to do

an emergency C-section.

Guess what... at 11 I was only a THREE.

I was so scared. I didn't want to have a C-section, but I wanted to be done already.

They prepped me and we were on our way.

I was so grateful Brian was going to be right beside me through it all.

They even let my mom in with a camera. :)

My anesthesiologist was fantastic!

Got me all ready on the bed and before I knew it

Brian said they had his head out!

[The umbilical cord was around his neck TWICE - TIGHT,

which of course they didn't tell me until later that day.

No wonder he wouldn't drop and he didn't react well to the pitocin.]

I remember them showing me my sweet little boy - covered in goop.

But then the pain got worse, so they put me all the way under.

The next thing I remember was waking up and being all done.

I was wheeled into my new room and then Brian came in.

Next the nurse brought me my new little bundle of joy!

MAN... HE'S CUTE!!!

Brian got to give him his very first bath.

It was fun to watch.

I was in a bit of pain.

I had a lot of wonderful visitors.

I was so nervous to go home... but thank goodness I wasn't going home by myself!

Brian was so great and so were my parents. SO helpful!

I had to get used to the NO sleep thing, but we made it work!

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TO BE CONTINUED...