For part 1, click here. For part 2, click here. For part 3, click here. Surgery recovery is ugly: me and anesthesia don’t get along. But the news is: definitely PCO; definitely mild to moderate endometriosis (now burned out and out of the equation); no blockage of the fallopian tubes or scarring. Dr. Stegman prescribes…
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Repost: Crisis at the Circulation Desk
It’s just one of those days, folks, so here’s a repost from early of 2009, a few short weeks before Nicholas was born: *** Scene: the circulation desk at the public library. Behind the counter, a young man and a middle-aged woman. In front of it: two very pregnant women, with small children in tow.…
Read MoreIn The Darkness (repost)
If there was ever a morning when a person was justified in recycling old content, this would be it: up with kids four times between 10p.m. and 4 a.m., and never really getting back to sleep, yet too tired to get out of bed. It seems fitting, then, that this morning I look back to a…
Read MoreAll Systems go
All systems go for tomorrow, despite a nasty, unproductive cough. Here’s a good story: At 3:00 this morning I woke up and began coughing again. I could feel the gunk coating my lungs, and I was thinking, oh man, am I even going to have a baby tomorrow? I’m taking my kids to Mom and…
Read MoreDo They Know?
Alex is big enough to understand. In a couple of days, the baby’s coming out of Mommy’s tummy. He’s spent the last several months putting his hands on my belly and giggling every time Baby kicks him; he talks about it to everyone. But he was 21 months old when Julianna was born. He can’t…
Read MoreThe Final Countdown Begins
I spent yesterday driving crazily around St. Louis, from doctor’s office to Penzey’s to instrument repair shop to drop off my flute. Apparently when you’re pregnant, you forget how to get from point A to point B. Or at least, you lose all common sense, which would tell you that you should take the route…
Read MoreThe End of Pregnancy
The upper part of the Spring Valley Trail at Rock Bridge State Park winds through a grove of old cedar trees teeming with tree frogs whose constant chirrup, along with the rush of wind over evergreen, almost drowns out the distant noise of the city’s frenetic energy. I wandered off-trail this afternoon, dodging dead undergrowth…
Read MoreRandom Tidbits
I’m up early this morning and don’t have my writing materials, so I’ll just take this opportunity to record a few little random tidbits of life, which are more for the benefit of family records/history than what I usually post. Random tidbit #1: Julianna We receive our services through Missouri First Steps, which is a…
Read MoreOf oopsies and unmade decisions
Yesterday, between thunderstorms, the kids and I went outside. I knew it was not a good idea to put Julianna on the wet ground, but neither could I carry her for an hour, and I wanted to show Alex the buds starting to pop out. So I walked her over to the basketball hoop and…
Read MoreWhy, oh, why, is it so hard…
….to come up with a name for the third child? And why, oh why, are the websites so darned useless? Bigger is better, apparently, but who can process 5,000 names, let alone 27,000???? You open a web site, intending to start at the beginning, and after three pages of “Aa” your eyes begin to glaze over,…
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Kathleen M. Basi 