When you're forced to have down time, do you think it's torture or heaven? Yesterday morning Paul drove me to the specialty hospital for a ventral hernia repair. He did a great job at keeping me relaxed. We read "The Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz while I waited to go in. The lady that checked me in had a scrunchy pony tail and the most poofy bangs I've seen in about 10 years. They were really nice, though. The nurse that placed my IV wasn't the greatest, and she was digging around for about 2 minutes. When she finally said, "I got it!" I threw up and then had this really cool dream that I can't really remember the details about. I remember being real calm and then waking up to an oxygen thing in my nose and my feet being propped up. That was probably the worst part. The surgeon came in, and the anesthesiologist to talk to me, and then the anesthesiologist walked me back to the OR. I was trying not to think when they laid me down, and then I was out before I knew anything. Oh yah, my hospital gown flew open on the way. A nice lady came to close it up for me. Afterward the doctor told Paul he only had to make 3 stitches; it wasn't as big of a hernia as he thought. I didn't lose a lot of blood. Now I have a cool scar above my belly button that I haven't seen yet because it's still all bandaged up. It hurts when I take deep breaths and I'm really dizzy probably from the anesthetics. It's wearing off today. I've been taking it easy, and my mom is taking care of everything. I can't lift, and walking or moving is difficult. The doctor said after four days I can start doing stuff. With all this down time, I can do stuff I haven't done in a very long time like blogging!
Ashlin is growing like crazy! She's already 8 weeks old. She smiles every now and then, but I don't think on purpose. After she takes a bath her hair goes really poofy like this:
She also goes through acne spurts, and this picture caught a little outbreak. Poor girl, but that's life.
Hmmm...this is an interesting story. After cutting Shayden's hair into the cutest little A line, she went on a scissor frenzy and cut a bunch of pictures, a pillow case, Gavon's sheets, and her beautiful hair!!!! The picture above shows the lesser damaged side. The one below is the day we cut it. There are two videos at the end of this post that show before and after too. I was so sad. Now she has mega bangs.
Poof again. Paul calls her his little troll.
This was at four weeks!! She hasn't done a head lift this good since actually.
Daddy and Shay
She also goes through acne spurts, and this picture caught a little outbreak. Poor girl, but that's life.
Hmmm...this is an interesting story. After cutting Shayden's hair into the cutest little A line, she went on a scissor frenzy and cut a bunch of pictures, a pillow case, Gavon's sheets, and her beautiful hair!!!! The picture above shows the lesser damaged side. The one below is the day we cut it. There are two videos at the end of this post that show before and after too. I was so sad. Now she has mega bangs. 
Poof again. Paul calls her his little troll. 
This was at four weeks!! She hasn't done a head lift this good since actually. 
Daddy and Shay
3 comments:
From what I can see her hair doesn't look bad at all. I think it's great your couch cushions are off, mine usually are too. Funny kids.
Hope you get feeling better quick.
Oh...the surgery! Ashlin so big! And Shayden learning the art of scissors. Oh Raychel, oh Raychel oH! :)) (Sing that last sentence like Dad.)
Shayden Your Hair is so Cute. I do miss all those cute little curls!! Trisa
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