On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
Today I finished my 12 weeks "preventative treatment." I can't say how happy I am to be this close to have my seafood back in life...in two more weeks! Some of you might wonder "why? didn't you just finish the treatment? why not have seafood, cheese, tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, nuts, berries, etc all the goodness back in life now, why wait 2 weeks?" Well, first of all, I just took that last 10 pills this morning. I still need to give another week for it to go away - second of all, I think it's best to give it an extra week just in case something is still left within my system. Before I continue on my babble, I should say this - thanks to Ryan, my nurse at the Health Dep, who's been nothing but a friendly person. Ryan and I have had many interesting conversations about life, stories we've heard from others, work, social, and our experiences in other aspects of life. He's been friendly since Day 1 and never made me feel nervous taking the me...