[kj] OT: Stork Attack

[Alexander Smith]

Since I fleetingly addressed it on my stupid weblog and on ILX, I  
might as well share it here as well, for those who like to keep up to  
date of such things.


We had to check Peg (the wife) into the hospital on Friday afternoon.  
She'd started having some early contractions and some bleeding and  
had already started to dilate. They ended up putting her on a  
combination of steroids and magneseum. The steroids are to buffer the  
baby's development (if we delivered this week, we'd be uncomfortably  
early) and the magneseum is designed to curtail the contractions  
she's been prematurely having. The good news is that the baby is fine  
(heart beat, weight, etc.). The not so great news is that the  
magneseum treatment takes a while -- they have her on it for 24 hours  
and then take her off of it to observe her for another 24 to make  
sure it did the trick and that the contractions have stopped. They're  
now saying that it's highly unlikely that they're going to let her  
out of the hospital before Monday (and even went so far as to suggest  
that they might want to keep her there until it's time to properly  
deliver).  This, of course, makes life hugely difficult to plan (what  
with Charlotte -- our 2 yr old --  needing to be looked after).

Even if they let Peg out on Monday, they're saying she should be  
confined to mandatory partial bedrest. In light of this, we're  
sort've scrambling to find an available nanny who might be able to  
help us through this chaotic patch. While it's completely great that  
I finally got a new job that I'm completely enjoying, I no longer  
have huge swathes off in the middle of the week to look after  
Charlotte. I'm trying to find out of the Day Care center where we  
take Charlotte on Tues and Thurs could accommodate her on the other  
days of the week, but of course, it being the fuckin' weekend, it's  
impossible to reach them.

As of Sunday noon, the magneseum treatments seem to be working. The  
contractions have been largely curtailed, and Peg's spirits are much  
better. I've been frantically bouncing between home and hospital, and  
my Mom has been gracious enough to help look after Charlotte, who  
herself has been uncharacteristically angelic throughout these  
proceedings. Not sure what'll happen for the rest of the week (if the  
contractions continue beyond Monday, they say they won't try to stop  
them at that point). Mercifully, the folks at MTVNews Online have  
been very supportive, understanding and accommodating about all of this.

More news maybe later....and hopefully it'll be happy news.



Alex in NYC
e-mail: vassifer at earthlink.net
weblog: http://vassifer.blogs.com
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