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...
Last Thursday night, William was petting Duke per usual on his bum and suddenly it led to Duke's cry. The petting stopped immediately of course, but Duke was crying and his butt & back legs were shaking. We laid him down on the carpet floor and he continued shaking for a few minutes before he sat down and eventually laid down and took a nap. He was able to walk down the stairs and went outside for potty that night. He didn't want to walk back upstairs, so I carried him straight to our bed and we slept through the night just like any other night. At one point while still on bed, I gently moved his legs and checked for signs of leg injury. No visible signs were found. He kicked us, tossed, and slept just how he has been for the last 4 years. Then came the dreadful morning. He woke up, seemingly fine and walked around on the bed just like he normally does every morning. I walked from bedside to the hallway, just about to head downstairs and then I heard him jump down the b...