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 Monday, before the windstorm & wildfires raged through Oregon, we visited the beach and had a nice walk alongside the ocean. We haven't been outside much since the pandemic broke out in the states. Since March of this year, we visited a natural forest in May, a lavender farm in August, and a local park in September. Last Monday's visit to the beach is our 4th "outing" since social distancing/pandemic began. We haven't seen any friend or colleague in person since March. Thank goodness for today's technology so we could still have online game nights with friends. We even had a couple of online drinking parties where friends from different states joined private game room for online board game nights while on Zoom, with everyone drinking their drink of choice. 😆 Surprisingly time has flown by fast and it's already mid-September. I was organizing photos on my phone and couldn't help but smile at the memories we made even during this strange time...