I'll try to not break the forum with a 10 mile long post, but I've just had the worst day in my life, and feel the need to get this off my chest.
I get a call from my baby sister's phone at 4 am. Didn't quite wake up in time to answer it the first time, but she called right back. Then I hear a man's voice ask me "Can you get to the hospital?"
Incredibly long story short, my nephew was due in 2 months, but there were complications that required an emergency C section. Partial placental abruption (pulled away from her uterus) caused some bleeding, but since it was in the middle and not the edge, it clotted up, which in turn restricted oxygen flow to the baby. Since there was no visible bleeding on her part, she didn't know anything was wrong right away. When they delivered the baby, they found the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, making matters worse. They worked on him for an hour, but he couldn't maintain a healthy heart rate on his own, so they pronounced him.
I then had to make the calls to our parents out west, and let them know. That crushed me, couldn't even get a few words in before breaking down. The father, and his parents were there, so we had support from each other to tell my sister what happened when she came out of anesthesia.
You all can imagine how well that went. I felt so helpless. I'm her big brother, I'm supposed to look out for her, take care of her and not let bad things happen to her, so I felt like I was failing. When the sedatives started to wear off more, the nurses came in to talk to her, and answer questions as best they could, as well as try to convince her this isn't something she caused, and there's no way to know exactly when it happened. One startling fact they shared, is if she had a full abruption, she would have hemorrhaged, bled out internally in a matter of minutes, and died. But luckily she's fine physically, and just has to recover from the C section.
She's not allowed to drive for 2 weeks, no lifting things for 6. After she gets discharged from the hospital, gonna have her stay with me for a while. Her condo is a 3rd floor walk up, not to mention there's baby stuff all over the place. The father (who has 2 kids of his own) and I decided she doesn't need those reminders so soon. So we'll see how that goes.
Those of you who are religious, please pray for my sister and family, there's a lot of hurt and heartache going on right now, we can use all the support we can get.
I get a call from my baby sister's phone at 4 am. Didn't quite wake up in time to answer it the first time, but she called right back. Then I hear a man's voice ask me "Can you get to the hospital?"
Incredibly long story short, my nephew was due in 2 months, but there were complications that required an emergency C section. Partial placental abruption (pulled away from her uterus) caused some bleeding, but since it was in the middle and not the edge, it clotted up, which in turn restricted oxygen flow to the baby. Since there was no visible bleeding on her part, she didn't know anything was wrong right away. When they delivered the baby, they found the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, making matters worse. They worked on him for an hour, but he couldn't maintain a healthy heart rate on his own, so they pronounced him.
I then had to make the calls to our parents out west, and let them know. That crushed me, couldn't even get a few words in before breaking down. The father, and his parents were there, so we had support from each other to tell my sister what happened when she came out of anesthesia.
You all can imagine how well that went. I felt so helpless. I'm her big brother, I'm supposed to look out for her, take care of her and not let bad things happen to her, so I felt like I was failing. When the sedatives started to wear off more, the nurses came in to talk to her, and answer questions as best they could, as well as try to convince her this isn't something she caused, and there's no way to know exactly when it happened. One startling fact they shared, is if she had a full abruption, she would have hemorrhaged, bled out internally in a matter of minutes, and died. But luckily she's fine physically, and just has to recover from the C section.
She's not allowed to drive for 2 weeks, no lifting things for 6. After she gets discharged from the hospital, gonna have her stay with me for a while. Her condo is a 3rd floor walk up, not to mention there's baby stuff all over the place. The father (who has 2 kids of his own) and I decided she doesn't need those reminders so soon. So we'll see how that goes.
Those of you who are religious, please pray for my sister and family, there's a lot of hurt and heartache going on right now, we can use all the support we can get.
The 2 of them lasted 5 hours together, before my mom insisted on staying at my house for the rest of her stay. Always good to spend time with mom, but after a couple of weeks, I'm glad to have my house back, and can try to get back to the routine.
So we'll see what comes from that. Hopefully a good opportunity, and one that gives me a mod fund again, been missing that! 
Flung a few eggs into the pond, dislodged others, and ruptured a few too. I had no idea they did that.
right? 
The rest of the house seemed to be as expected, nothing major to deal with there that I didn't already know about. So then we check the outside. Storage shed was sitting wide open, and had been raided. It was full of junk before. Seemed strange, until we turned around to see the back double gate on the fence was crashed in, knocked off it's hinges on one side, and both fence posts split down the center. 
. I get that every day.
