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 the world is suffering from numerous outbreaks of COVID-19. Countries have placed travel bans, experiencing shortages of medical resources, closed schools, urged social distancing, ordered temporary closure of businesses, and some local authorities have issued an order for residents to stay at home. Mr. L has started working from home and we're practicing social distancing. We cancelled game nights, house parties, and our trips to Japan and Germany. Since we'll continue to stay couped up at home, I thought this may be a good time to get back to my blog 😅 Last Friday, I went out to do my usual grocery shopping. It happened to be the same day that the country declared a national emergency due to the virus. One of the first things I noticed was that there were a lot of cars on the streets on a Friday afternoon (around 2pm) - this was unusual because before last Friday, post-4:30 was usually when people got off work/started their weekend, not 2pm! A car almost hit me beca...