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...
Warning, this is a vent post. Yesterday, I got a phone call from my school's Thesis Office. A gentleman told me my dissertation has been read, unfortunately, I still have corrections that need to be made. On my correction sheet, a list of items were marked as "missing." In a split second, I got so frustrated. The items marked missing were what the school called "multiple author release" forms and copyright/agreement for using published works. These forms were signed by coauthors of papers I've published before. Basically, each coauthor signed a form and stated they were ok to let me use our published work as part of my dissertation. I got everyone's signatures (a total of 9 forms) the week of my defense in January (many were signed right after I passed the defense). I personally submitted these forms with my printout dissertation to Thesis Office on the very day after the defense in January (the office requires everything in hard copy and submitted by t...