Did such a small, anonymous little girl ever have so loyal a following?
Thank you all for your notes, your prayers, your good wishes. It does mean a lot.
Eden’s weight is climbing slowly. Her liver enzyme numbers are not radically changed. So the plan is to give it time. Let […]
Yesterday morning Dr. Button showed me Eden’s digital chart.
I hadn’t wanted to know before. But this was her two-month appointment, she was wide-eyed and adorable, up six ounces, and we were jovial.
Stripes of yellow run horizontally across the chart. The key on the footer shows a yellow bar and an equals […]
Dr. Button has had to give me bad news twice — first, when he called to tell me I had tested positive for Lyme. Second, when he called to tell me there was a problem with Eden’s blood work.
I’ll let you off the hook — she’s okay. We’re pretty sure it’s over. […]
Much of what the children say to me these days gets all garbled like snow on an old television screen and I have to kind of prick my ears up like antennae to get the signal through.
And sometimes, even then, it’s not getting through.
“Wah,” Eden says. I am struggling to get her skinny chicken […]
Dr. Button and I have a routine.
After years of seeing each other once or twice a year for checkups and chest colds, we have seen each other approximately 19 times in four weeks.
So here’s the routine: the nurse weighs Eden and logs the information into the computer, and then leaves me in […]
It’s so different the first time.
It makes me crazy when people condescend to new parents, using the tired clichés about how they’ll sterilize the pacifier with the first baby and let the dog lick it with the third.
We know. We’ve heard it. New parents are crazy. Haha let’s make […]
Eden’s lack of weight gain and her bililrubin levels have us seeing a pediatrician every day. It’s the holiday weekend and our doc is not on call. I’m sleep deprived, swimming in mother’s-milk tea (blech!) and generally irritated at the world. So it’s not a good time to be meeting new […]
Just stare. She stares back. It’s lovely.
I feel pretty good. I’m a pro at C-sections at this point, so I know what to do. I was walking within four hours, off the catheter and i.v. just as soon as they would do it for me.
The staples are out, I walk well, I stay ahead of pain with […]
