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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR RRRIIIGGGSSS AAANNNDDD TTTRRRMMMAAATTTTTTHHHEEE!!!
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Happy Birthday rigs and trmatthe!!!
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Up ahnd off to work.
Special1, Pleasure 404 is filled up, but I think swampy has room in Appreciating 202. 
Roo, if you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk. 
I looked for 404 in the Online Directory, but I was told it’s “Not Found”* ? 
[* for the confused] “404” is the error code returned by a webserver when asked for a web-page that doesn’t exist there]
Hi all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIGS!!!
Been busy with Bub the last while - she is now three months old (obligatory new pics) and thriving, despite our rough start. I don’t know if I told you all this, because it all happened when we were in Australia and I try not to focus on it too much …
Okay - so when Noor was born, she wouldn’t breastfeed. No biggie, but I was determined to breastfeed, despite the fact that she wouldn’t latch on and we had difficulty just waking her up to feed. When she was 7 days old, I was trying (as usual, in vain) to get her to feed, when she suddenly turned blue all over. I freaked and screamed for my mother, who rushed in, turned Noor over on to her tummy and saved the day. I called the paediatrician straight away and he told me to take Noor to the Emergency Department. We piled into the car and drove in. I filled in all the paperwork and sorted out the insurance info and the ER nurse walked out to ask me what the problem was. I was in the middle of explaining what happened when Noor suddenly turned blue again! SH*T!
So they rushed her into the treatment room, where they found her O[sub]2[/sub] saturation was only 78%, and revived her with a little oxygen. The ER doctor came over and tried to tell us that the pulse oxymetry sensor was probably faulty and she looked fine, when Noor turned blue again - determined not to have anyone call her a liar!!! She did it once more for the paediatrician when he turned up as well! They actually had to bag her the last two times to revive her.
So then they did a battery of tests, including a head ultrasound, which showed a “shadow” on the left side of her brain. CRAP! Soooooo, the paediatrician decided to transfer Noor to Paediatric ICU at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane. It took several hours for the retrieval team (Paediatric ICU specialist and an ICU nurse) to turn up, when they finally transferred Noor into a humidicrib and we raced up to Brisbane in the ambulance (about 1 hour on the freeway).
Noor then spent the next 2 days in ICU, and had a head MRI done, which confirmed she had an intra-cerebral haemorrhage (bleeding into her brain) in her left temporal lobe. Apparently, judging from the MRI and a subsequent CT angiogram, Noor had some kind of vascular malformation (bodgy blood vessel) that ruptured before she was born and bled into her brain, causing irritation, leading to seizures and subsequently “apnoeas” (stopping breathing).
10 days later, we were finally discharged from hospital, although Noor will have to continue taking anti-convulsant/epileptic medication until she is at least 6 months old, or maybe for life, depending on further tests.
So I try to not think about it as much as possible, but every now and then, I go back through all the photos and just cry, with happiness that she’s okay, with frustration that she’s got a blood clot in her brain that might affect her speech or motor function, with anger that this happened to us. AAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!
Whew, I needed to tell that story again and get it out of my system!
Carry on …
Woo hoo!!! it’s rigsy’s birthday!!! Let’s party!!! And trmatthe’s too!!! Yay! I’m raising my glass (OK, it’s my glass coffee mug) to their sisters, too.
Happy Birthday!!!
Today would be a good day for cake at breakfast. So why don’t I have any?
Two buildings more-or-less across the street from where I work don’t have power today and the people who work there don’t have to go to work. I think we should have the day off in solidarity. Apparently the bosses don’t think so.
Sorry to hear about the injuries, Nava. And…such language…I’m shocked. Yeah, it figures that it wouldn’t be newsworthy until someone was hurt. The Don Tancredo move sounds interesting.
Oh, Dotty, what a difficult experience! I’ll keep Noor in my thoughts and prayers. Glad she’s doing well now. (And glad she didn’t let those ER people ignore her.) She’s such a cutie!
Guess I’d best go get ready for work… Do I hafta?
GT
Happy Birthday, trmatthe!!
OK, off to the beach with the **Terrible Twins[sup]TM[/sup]**in tow :eek:
Will report later, if I survive the experience.
**Dotty **-- what an experience 
My thoughts are with you, **Noor **and all your other near and dears.
DottyGD - :eek: that you had to go thru that with baby Noor, and a bigger :eek: that if she hadn’t had an episode in fron of the doc, she’d, well . . . That, to me, is what’s wrong with most medical porfessionals - they’d rather believe their instruements than the human who is experiencing whatever is being experienced.
I actually got 5 and a half straight hours of sleep last night - the longest stretch in over a week - so why am I so tired this morning?
It rained in Mayberry last night. A lot. No problems to report regarding flooding, just it was refreshing to see standing water in my yard after a month+ of 0 precipitation. My grass shot up an inch overnight, so I’ll be mowing this weekend.
The [del]jungle[/del] Mayberry Desert will probably be turf seeded this weekend, too. Yay!
I should be closing tomorrow on the VunderLair refinance, which means I’ll be up to my ass in kitchen makeover crap for the next 2 months. :rolleyes:
Other than that, I got nuttin’. Carry on.
We have that annoying truck here in Houston, too.
I found an mp3 of the song! Click on Ghetto Ice Cream Song. HE-LLO-O!
I’ll be back when I get caught up.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RIGS!!!
Here, have some more cake. Baked last night.
Ohh, Dotty, I’m so glad Noor is all right. How terrifying. Hugs to you both.
Reached a compromise with Mr. LIssar- he’s going to try really really really hard to get the time off, and we’ll probably go.
Today is more chores. The problem with having more energy and not puking all the time is that I feel obligated to start all the cleaning and packing.
Oh, Dotty, what a time! I will certainly keep sweet little Noor in my prayers, and you too! I love the picture of the two of you in the pool. That precious face looking into her Mommy’s eyes! I know very well what it’s like to have a baby with an illness. hugs to you, dear!
Ok on to the mundanity …
What is WITH the alternate MMP? You all are MMPing animals! (snerk. say that out loud.)
I’ve had four cups of coffee and I’m rather ENERGETIC right now. Whee! And lucky me, off to the gyno for a check-up! :eek:
Happy Birthday, Rigs!
Hey, anyone seen Spats around lately? I notice I haven’t seen him on LJ either. I may have missed an announcment or something.
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ETA: Aaaand because I hit the wrong button I’ll have to continue this in a subsequent message…
:eek: whoa! you win again! How do you make those blocks?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RIGS and TRMATTHE!!!
We have cake now! Woo-hoo! (Nice job, Mork.)
I’m glad poor little Noor is doing better, GummiBear. I can’t even imagine! I love the first pic with the drool!
Z57, if you’re reading this MMP now, you better post to say hello! Or else!
Ok, <sigh>. Back to work. Later, Cool Kids.
Hey, it’s been about ten years since I’ve been to Haifa. I’m sure they’ve learned how to properly brew the satuff by now. Have fun.
We have a party of sorts today too. We’re going to lunch at Hooter’s - the place we normally go to say goodbye to an employee. One of the marine lab techs is leaving. He’s 21, and thinks that he can get a job doing something else. Oh well.
We have beer-batter fish last night (Cod). We used Carolina Blond as the beer base. Yummies.
Happy Birthday, Rigs.
Thank you all for a great start to a birthday! My cake is in the oven now.
Yummy cake, Lisslar !
There is an alternate MMP? <no, I’m not hurt, not one little bit. Really, it’s ok. heavy sigh >
Noor is adorable! I love the swimming pic, You must be a proud mama. I love that age-so cute and so manageable. Just wait til she gets mobile…
Ok, here is my take on HP5. I loved it.
I know I have retarded development and am stuck at age 12 (except for bathroom humor-never did think that funny, even at age 12). I just loved it. I loved the bicycle bell
[spoiler]Would someone who did not know the books understand what was going on? Probably not-but who goes to see HP5 if they haven’t read the book? (usually I think a movie should be able to stand on its own, but not in this case).
I am going to see it again (without 3 nine year olds) on Sunday-birthday present to myself. I really liked the dynamic between the major 3 this time-I thought that HP4 was strained (and not just because of plot demands-I wanted to slap Emma Watson for overacting all through 4). This time they seemed easy and comfortable. The big surprise was Radcliffe. He did an amazing job in this movie–his acting has improved beyond recognition. Ron was underused, but made the most of his lines.
Why no mention of them being prefects? Harry is supposed to feel alienated–that would be easy movie shorthand to show that. No mention of Quidditch-they could have mentioned it.
And not enough of the cream of British acting-Rickman was fantastic, as always, but Thewlis, Smith, even Thompson–not enough. Umbridge was superb.[/spoiler]
We got the same rain as you, probably at the same time. Lots and lots of lightning up our way. I’m still waiting for a lightning strike to one of the power towers in the back yard. I’ve heard it’s quite the show.
scout are you still lurking? I might be going to Dana Point in September, and I wonder what the best airport to fly into would be: John Wayne/Orange. LAX or San Diego. Any suggestions?