My leukemia's back.

[perchie.girl]

I never blamed my son for my caesarian but my mother was furious about my doctor. She said if he was any good he would have turned the baby. I told her I had a high risk pregnancy being 38 and this being a first child. Plus I had bleeding through the first trimester and was scared too death I would miscarry.

they tried to turn mine but he would NOT cooperate... soon as they got him part way he would wiggle back... so and I too was an older first time mom... They did a C section with a small incision down low called a bikini cut... I think it was no bigger than six inches. Sent me home the next day with tape covering the incision and told me when I had to get up hold a pillow over to help with the pain.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

what pillow? The dummies at my hospital expected me to walk out(discharged) holding the baby. Doctor made them bring a wheelchair for me. It's all for their good, they don't want you to fall In the hospital, you can fall somewhere else.

I also had a big thick scar and my mother said I should have the doctor do it over. NO Way- it eventually shrunk down flat. At least thanks to my mom I learned how to stand up and say NO!!

 

[oldrooster]

what pillow? The dummies at my hospital expected me to walk out(discharged) holding the baby. Doctor made them bring a wheelchair for me. It's all for their good, they don't want you to fall In the hospital, you can fall somewhere else.

I also had a big thick scar and my mother said I should have the doctor do it over. NO Way- it eventually shrunk down flat. At least thanks to my mom I learned how to stand up and say NO!!

Most have a policy you must get wheeled out to at least the door. I was in the hospital once and drove myself, they asked if I needed help out and I said yes because I had a lot of stuff to take with me and had to drive myself home and was afraid I would not feel like driving the hour plus home if I did not get it. I said if I had a ride that would not have been an issue....

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Team Rachel. I hope that all have a good one.

 

[N F C]

Good morning, Team Rachel. I hope that all have a good one.

You too Sour

 

[Blooie]

Can we go back to the lightning? It is the one thing that absolutely terrifies me. Ken and I were back in South Dakota on leave and I took our '64 Pontiac Catalina down to rent one of those aluminum car top carriers and have it put on, then I stopped and filled up the tank. A huge, nasty, typical Eastern South Dakota thunderstorm was going on, so I wanted to hurry up and get home. On the way there was a stop sign at 8th and Burnside. I stopped, and at that moment lightning either hit the cartop carrier or the stop sign, nobody is sure which but I believe it was the stop sign. Anyway, whatever it was stopped the wipers, the radio and the defrosters. Smoke started coming out of the vents in the car, and it had that plastic burning smell. I tried to get out, but the door handles were hot and the door wouldn't open. I was in panic mode...I wanted OUT right now. The man who lives on the corner at the stop sign had already called the fire department when he saw the flash and heard the explosion right there. They were there in just a few minutes and got me out by prying the door open. Then the good Samaritan called Ken and he used Dad's car to come and get me.

I wasn't hurt, just terrified, and the car was done. The wiring had all burned out and there was some other damage too, but memory fails me. Ken took me to the hospital to get checked out, just to be sure. It was about a week after that I had my first seizure. And they kept coming. I'd never had a seizure in my life...what was going on. As it turns out, the neurologists believe they were caused by the electrical field of the lightning (regardless of what it hit around me) affecting the electrical impulses in the brain. I dunno what actually caused them, but they are still with me today. Lightning is the one thing now that scares the peewadding out of me more than anything else!

 

[bruceha2000]

Can we go back to the lightning?

No! You might tell us a scary story!!

As it turns out, the neurologists believe they were caused by the electrical field of the lightning (regardless of what it hit around me) affecting the electrical impulses in the brain.

Maybe you need another near miss to reset your brain

Not sure how you fit this into your book, can't find a lot of humor in that remembrance. I guess you'll need a serious story chapter.

 

[N F C]

Can we go back to the lightning? It is the one thing that absolutely terrifies me. Ken and I were back in South Dakota on leave and I took our '64 Pontiac Catalina down to rent one of those aluminum car top carriers and have it put on, then I stopped and filled up the tank. A huge, nasty, typical Eastern South Dakota thunderstorm was going on, so I wanted to hurry up and get home. On the way there was a stop sign at 8th and Burnside. I stopped, and at that moment lightning either hit the cartop carrier or the stop sign, nobody is sure which but I believe it was the stop sign. Anyway, whatever it was stopped the wipers, the radio and the defrosters. Smoke started coming out of the vents in the car, and it had that plastic burning smell. I tried to get out, but the door handles were hot and the door wouldn't open. I was in panic mode...I wanted OUT right now. The man who lives on the corner at the stop sign had already called the fire department when he saw the flash and heard the explosion right there. They were there in just a few minutes and got me out by prying the door open. Then the good Samaritan called Ken and he used Dad's car to come and get me.

I wasn't hurt, just terrified, and the car was done. The wiring had all burned out and there was some other damage too, but memory fails me. Ken took me to the hospital to get checked out, just to be sure. It was about a week after that I had my first seizure. And they kept coming. I'd never had a seizure in my life...what was going on. As it turns out, the neurologists believe they were caused by the electrical field of the lightning (regardless of what it hit around me) affecting the electrical impulses in the brain. I dunno what actually caused them, but they are still with me today. Lightning is the one thing now that scares the peewadding out of me more than anything else!

I'm not "liking" that one B!

 

[getaclue]

Florida is the lightning capital of the United States. I was born, and for the most part, raised here all my life. Yes, what you are describing, Blooie, is known to cause general, and epileptic seizures in some people.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh Blooie! You don't have seizures real often do you? Handled? Eek..