[kj] OT: Stork Attack

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

alex,
 
i am sorry to read this. but you will be ok mate and peg too! plus  your 
daughter.:)  you are in my prays mate and it will work it's self  out. please keep 
us informed. god bless you and your family.
 
regards,
 
~ Lonely Boy
 
In a message dated 2/26/2006 9:53:35 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
vassifer at earthlink.net writes:

Since I fleetingly addressed it on my stupid weblog and on ILX, I might  as 
well share it here as well, for those who like to keep up to date of such  
things.




We had to check Peg (the wife) into the hospital on  Friday afternoon. She'd 
started having some early contractions and some  bleeding and had already 
started to dilate. They ended up putting her on a combination of steroids and  
magneseum. The steroids are to buffer the baby's development (if we delivered  
this week, we'd be uncomfortably early) and the magneseum is designed to  
curtail the contractions she's been prematurely having. The good news is that  the 
baby is fine (heart beat, weight, etc.). The not so great news is that the  
magneseum treatment takes a while -- they have her on it for 24 hours and then  
take her off of it to observe her for another 24 to make sure it did the trick  
and that the contractions have stopped. They're now saying that it's highly  
unlikely that they're going to let her out of the hospital before Monday (and  
even went so far as to suggest that they might want to keep her there until  
it's time to properly deliver).  This, of course, makes life hugely  difficult 
to plan (what with Charlotte -- our 2 yr old --  needing to be  looked 
after). 


Even if they let Peg out on  Monday, they're saying she should be confined to 
mandatory partial bedrest. In  light of this, we're sort've scrambling to 
find an available nanny who might  be able to help us through this chaotic patch. 
While it's completely great  that I finally got a new job that I'm completely 
enjoying, I no longer have  huge swathes off in the middle of the week to 
look after Charlotte. I'm trying  to find out of the Day Care center where we 
take Charlotte on Tues and Thurs  could accommodate her on the other days of the 
week, but of course, it being  the fuckin' weekend, it's impossible to reach 
them.


As of Sunday noon, the  magneseum treatments seem to be working. The 
contractions have been largely  curtailed, and Peg's spirits are much better. I've 
been frantically bouncing  between home and hospital, and my Mom has been 
gracious enough to help look  after Charlotte, who herself has been 
uncharacteristically angelic throughout  these proceedings. Not sure what'll happen for the 
rest of the week (if the  contractions continue beyond Monday, they say they 
won't try to stop them at  that point). Mercifully, the folks at MTVNews Online 
have been very  supportive, understanding and accommodating about all of  this.


More news maybe later....and  hopefully it'll be happy news.





Alex in NYC




 
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