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...
So Lulu, our extra-toed tabby, just turned 6 this month. She's my dear furry Lulu. She decided to do a little adventure last night by - magically - escaping the fenced catio and gone AWOL for a brief moment. Hubby and I called her name out loud in the yard - which drew the attention of our dear neighbor - and searched everywhere from her favorite hide-out spots in the house to some weird places like under the sink cabinets. She eventually came out from a bush in our backyard. Granted, she was still in our yard (or maybe she had just returned from her adventure from the big world). She meowed and came out when our neighbor and hubby called her after spotting her in a corner bush in our yard. While we were still looking for her, we did quick surveys around the house/fenced gazebo and the fenced patio. The patio is semi-fenced to the point we're pretty sure she can't jump out because the fence is over 6 feet tall. We did, unfortunately, find a few small holes - between the...