Hanging In There
We did go back for the 'parents only' hospital tour on Sunday, but beforehand I had a chance to tell the nurses leading the tour a smidgen about our history and what had happened the day before. I...
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Things are looking better and better. After reading the comments left here and talking to a friend who happens to be a psychologist as well as talking to a social worker at the hospital, I think...
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Baby Born ...
...two weeks ago today (36w 6.75d). Emergency c-section, apgars were a very scary 1 and 5, so baby was in NICU for a day, then transitional nursery for two days, but got to come home with us! I am...
View ArticleWe Are Alive
But we've moved. My husband got laid off in August and since the lease on the house we were renting in Baton Rouge was up in November, we moved away. It only made sense for us to go near the...
View ArticleHe's Got the Blues
I'm not planning to take the time to try to compose a piece of writing here, just going to get all the thoughts out and you can imagine that its wonderful prose. This morning I was giving my husband a...
View ArticleI Told Him
I told my husband ... That it seems we barely talk.That it feels like we are just job-sharing the kids.That its hard for me to tease apart his dis-satisfaction with life from what feels like his...
View ArticleEars and Hands and Sleep
Around noon each day I climb in bed with my almost four-year old son, Colin, and we take a nap. There is ritual about it: washing hands, brushing teeth, pulling the curtain shut...the room-darkening...
View ArticleWhisper Back
Hi There.Moved from Texas to Kansas last March. That's six states in five years (Indy, KY, Baton Rouge, St Louis, Dallas, Kansas). I think we're staying here for a while.All that moving has taught me...
View ArticleNot Depression?
In the last few years I was diagnosed with migraines. I knew I had headaches, but it didn't occur to me they were migraines. According to the neurologist I've had them all my life, but I don't think...
View ArticleHe's Down Again
Living with a depressed spouse sucks.Now I know how he felt when I couldn't ________. Fill in that blank with most anything.He's miserable with his work situation. All he sees there are battles. Not...
View ArticleHanging In There
We did go back for the 'parents only' hospital tour on Sunday, but beforehand I had a chance to tell the nurses leading the tour a smidgen about our history and what had happened the day before. I...
View ArticleDoing Well
Things are looking better and better. After reading the comments left here and talking to a friend who happens to be a psychologist as well as talking to a social worker at the hospital, I think...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Baby Born ...
...two weeks ago today (36w 6.75d). Emergency c-section, apgars were a very scary 1 and 5, so baby was in NICU for a day, then transitional nursery for two days, but got to come home with us! I am...
View ArticleWe Are Alive
But we've moved. My husband got laid off in August and since the lease on the house we were renting in Baton Rouge was up in November, we moved away. It only made sense for us to go near the...
View ArticleHe's Got the Blues
I'm not planning to take the time to try to compose a piece of writing here, just going to get all the thoughts out and you can imagine that its wonderful prose. This morning I was giving my husband a...
View ArticleI Told Him
I told my husband ... That it seems we barely talk.That it feels like we are just job-sharing the kids.That its hard for me to tease apart his dis-satisfaction with life from what feels like his...
View ArticleEars and Hands and Sleep
Around noon each day I climb in bed with my almost four-year old son, Colin, and we take a nap. There is ritual about it: washing hands, brushing teeth, pulling the curtain shut...the room-darkening...
View ArticleWhisper Back
Hi There.Moved from Texas to Kansas last March. That's six states in five years (Indy, KY, Baton Rouge, St Louis, Dallas, Kansas). I think we're staying here for a while.All that moving has taught me...
View ArticleNot Depression?
In the last few years I was diagnosed with migraines. I knew I had headaches, but it didn't occur to me they were migraines. According to the neurologist I've had them all my life, but I don't think...
View ArticleHe's Down Again
Living with a depressed spouse sucks.Now I know how he felt when I couldn't ________. Fill in that blank with most anything.He's miserable with his work situation. All he sees there are battles. Not...
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