hi

had to run home to let dogs out. cady is so calm. I am freaking out. She is not doing much. Contractions every 5 min. , oh my gosh, we are having a baby!! took this pic on Monday.we love her midwife, Shirley.

Pray

Cadys water just broke.baby is 36 wks today and will be fine but pray anyhow please. I am freakin out. love you

Am I Dreaming?

The day began so sweetly. Gage spent the night. Maddie comes at 8AM. I keep her 4 days a week while mommy is at school. They were thrilled to see one another. The only thing they like better is to see Auntie Cady. They both tippytoed into my room and climbed into bed with Cady. The being quiet ended at that point. Cady had to get up anyhow. At her Dr appointment on Monday there was protein in her urine and so she had to do a 24 hr urine collection test. That means peeing into a little potty hat and then pouring it into a big jug and then putting that into the fridge. Yuck-o. Every drop for 24 hrs. I have never heard of this one before. Anyway, she got up and within a few minutes she had a throbbing headache and was dizzy. Started seeing spots and the whole thing. Called Jessie for help and she was here in 5 minutes and took both kids. She got worse and we spent the entire day at the hospt. Like 12 hours. Lots of blood tests and IV's. Lots of very sweet nurses. I came home to let the dogs out to pee and when I returned Cady was in total darkness with a heat pack on her head and an oxygen mask on crying. They gave her 3 kinds of meds and nothing took away the pain. They waited for the meds to wear off and as time passed she got a wee bit better. Daddy came up after work and that cheered her up. When I heard her trying to con her dad into taking her out to their favorite Chinese restaurant I knew she was feeling better finally. It's so awful to see my little girl in pain and afraid. I hope we can have a day at home tomorrow and that I can clean my house. There's nothing like a new baby to make me want to clean and scrub. If I knew how to pay attention there would not be 2 of the same pic. Nope, I do not know how to delete the extra. It seems like I should know how to do these things by now.

Where Was I?

This is a long story and I hope the pics can tell some of it for me. First, we are home and safe. Baby Isabella is now officially old enough to be born in our hospital.(35 wks) Last week Cady kept spotting and cramping. The hospital wanted us in each time she felt crampy. The 3rd time was lasr Wed I think. That is when we were told that our hospital has a clause in their insurance that all babies less than 35 wks shall be transported to Albuquerque. They have the states best NICU. After many hrs and having to endure several fun exams Cady seemed to have settled down for the night. I let babydaddy(Sergio) spend the night with babymama and I went home to try to get a bit of sleep. Just in case the unimaginable happened and Cady got shipped out, I needed to get a few things together for both of us. Sergio may be the baby daddy but I am the Cady mama and there was no way my baby was going to be flown away in the dark without me. Sergio understood. At 3 AM my head had just hit the pillow when the phone rang. He told me what I didn't want to hear and I woke Joe and grabbed a very odd bunch of stuff and we were off. Instead of packing what we may have needed I had washed a few things for us both but mostly I was on the computer reading up on what was going on in Cadys girl parts. I knew we would not be going anyplace.WRONG, I was so afraid that I would miss the plane. I called Heather to let her know. (oldest daughter and bestest friend) She was at Cadys bedside when Joe and I arrived. The ambulance driver told me they may or may not let me go along. Alamogordo has a small airport. Private planes and emergency aircraft. I have not been there in 29 years. I rode in the ambulance with Cady and the nurses while 3 cars followed. Joe, Heather and Sergio all sleepy and in the same weird scarey dream. The sky was just getting light. I ran over and asked the pilot about letting me come along and he couldn't have been nicer. I had to leave behind some of the things I packed. The plane was small. I sat in a jumpseat in the very back. My bags under my feet.Cady was looking a bit shocky. Joe hugged me and said a short prayer for us. I climbed aboard and we were off. Since it's almost 2AM I will leave off here and write the rest tomorrow. As you can tell, I loaded the pics in reverse. it was just getting light when we left. The flight is about 45 minutes. They sent us to University of New Mexico Hospital. Lots of hot looking young doctors. I kept thinking of Greys Anatomy and wondering if they(hot drs) were meeting the hot nurses in the supply room. Cady and I quickly made friends with our nurse and tech. Our tech spent her free time hanging out with us. This was a very strange adventure the 2 of us went on. Am adding a pic of our tech that we loved and I cried when we left her. Crystal was a sweet gal. as you can see, I may not have brought myself any pants except what I was wearing but I brought my camera and charger. nobody cared when I asked if they minded being in my pics as I am blogging her entire pregnancy.

update

Finally, a computer. We are fine. We were flown at 5AM to Albq on a small prop plane. Nice guys watched over Cady like she was their own. Spent the night in the hospt and then they sent us to a Ronald Mc donald house type place. It's very nice and we have a pretty room. We had to buy our own food and we can cook in a huge kitchen. It is mostly cancer patients and famlies. Nice people but we are bored and lonely and I am oh so homesick. We are staying the week-end at my adopted sons house with his sweet family. Roman grew up with my boys and lived at our house. He and his wife came and picked up Cady and I and Sergio(came up for the week-end) and took us to their home for the 4th. It is so nice. Cady will turn 35 wks next Thursday and then we can go home. Our hospital will not deliver babies less then 35 wks along. Up here they do not understand as they say the baby is fine. Any way. Hoping to go home soon. Hope you all have a nice 4th. My love to all, deb

Oh god, we are going to albq, it is 3:30 am. pray please. love, deb

Hangin On

Where do I begin? I think jumping into the middle would be best. Tonight my sweety pie Cady is in the hospital. We spent all day there yesterday and then things improved and we got to come home. This morning the spotting and cramping began again. After a few errands we came home and got back on the phone with her midwife. Come back to the hospital and let them put her back on the monitor. Today her cervix had changed a bit. Started to thin and a tiny dimple in the center. Gave her a shot of something and waited for 1 hr. If her cervix had continued to dimple then Cady was to be airlifted to Albuquerque where there is an excellent NICU. I left the room and went to pieces. Called daddy and my pastor and Heather.Sergio(babydaddy) was already on his way. My brother just moved from Albq. I know nobody there. It is a bit over 3 hrs away. The midwife told me I may be able to fly with her. I will not allow her to be alone. She was so frightened. Things have been going so good. We don't know why Isabella has decided to break out. They gave her one more chance and things got better. They tried another med. Dad and Sergio stayed with Cady and Heather and I left to get food for the girl. We are not ready for this baby. But that isn't the point. She's not ready. She is 34 weeks along. Things may be just fine,,or not. Another week and a half and it will be okay to have her here. Although the longer she stays in Cadys tummy the better.I have never had a preemie and none of my kids have either. I am in unknown territory folks. I am scared. Molly R., if I had your # I would have called you tonight. I know you have been through this. When Rick (pastor) got to the room we all joined hands in a big circle and prayed. It made me feel so much better. Just in case we end up being transported out of here I have left Cady with Sergio and come home to do some laundry and pack a bag. There is much to do to prepare for this little girl.Cady and I have been sleeping in my bed for about 3 weeks. Joe is on the couch near the air conditioner and Cady is escaping the bugs that are sneaking in her window due to the huge light her dad put up outside her window. For now we are all happy with that. I love to hear my baby breathe. So what if my baby is almost 19. I have tons of photos to post. I wanted to share all of it with you. But I have been stressed and have posted nothing. This is the 4th time we have been at the hospital in the last month. I am way behind on news. My granddaughter Natalie loves Britney Spears. She is almost 4. My family is very into music. My mom started it and it has been an important part of life in my house. Classical and rock music. Anyway. Brit is coming to El Paso in Sept. 2 weeks ago Heather called me so excited she was crying. She always promised Natalie that if Britney ever came to our area that she would take her to the concert. She would not go without me and I was sure Joe was not willing to put out that kind of money. I asked and he surprised me and said yes. Heather was told by Ticketmaster that tickets would sell out within 1 hr. Heather was on the phone with Ticketmaster when the tickets went onsale and got us 3 tickets in exactly the spot she wanted. I can't wait. But that is a way off. Right now we have a baby girl that is trying to be born too soon. PLease keep her in your prayers. I thank you. I am posting 2 months worth of pics of what has been going on in my part of tha planet.

Please Join In and Pray For Stellan.

I took this pic back in April for Stellans collection. He is back in the hospital. His heart rate was up to 270 beats a minute. I had lots of pictures of the kids and Cadys growing baby belly. But for tonight it doesn't seem right. Please take a minute or even more and pray for this baby boy.

Update

Thank you for your concern. It is comforting to know you are out there caring. Cady is just laying around today and drinking lots of water. Jody left Lubbock at 1:30 and will be here in about 2-3 hrs. Yesterday wore me down. I had so much I wanted to get done before he arrived. Now I just don't have the energy. For some reason though I stayed up till 2 painting a kitchen chair and then spent what little time I had this morning putting on a second coat and then recovering the cushion. Why? It looks real nice but there was no need to do it now. I should have been making a shopping list and I should be shopping right now.I did color my hair. I messed up the time since I was working on the chair. My hair is a reddish color now.It's usually blondish. If I don't color it then it is grayish. Tomorrow night is the concert. I am so excited. But tonight I need to find food to feed everyone. I am sleepy and wish they would all eat peanut butter and jelly. The kids are so excited to see uncle Jody. It is an odd old friendship we have he and me. In 1969 I was madly in love with him. So were many other young hippie type girls. He tried to spred himself around to as many as he could. After the birth and death of our baby the strain was too great and we broke up. I ended up married to his best friend.( my ex-hubby Billy) I think that it is grand that we are old friends/brother and sister now. My husband is good friends with both Jody and Billy. So we will all gather together and break bread( if I finally buy some) this week-end and enjoy being old friends and family and whatever else it is that we are. This is the first time that Jody will meet his little namesake. Here is a picture grandpa Billy took last night of baby Jody.

Worried Grandma

Cady and I spent 8 hrs at the hospital today. She was spotting and cramping this morning. I told her to throw on some clothes and away we went. We are home now but I am worried sick. They gave her (really have no clue how to spell this) breathane and here we are. Will catch you up tomorrow. Please pray that Isabella will stay put for a while longer.

Super Cute

The last time I got talked into watching a movie that my kids loved it was Borat. I didn't just hate it, I HATED IT. Time has passed, Cady brought home a flick she wanted me watch with her. Okay, I'll take a chance. The movie was Superbad. I really loved it. Okay, I could have passed on some of the ucky language but still. I love Michael Cera from Juno. But my favorite character is Mclovin. I love the kid. Didn't we all go to school with that guy? Christian is now working twice a week with Cady so he is here over night so they can hop to it early. He's 14 now and I am sure if he is allowed to watch South Park and Jackass then he can see Superbad. Let me just say for the record that I will not allow those 2 shows to be viewed by anyone in my house. I could go on but why? Tomorrow is my 2nd appt with Dr Feelgood. I have to drive 100 miles just to get my pain meds. I complained about him today to the nurse at my Dr's office. Maybe he will be a bit less underwhelming tomorrow. I need the pain meds for now. I want to get the shot that may make my back numb enough to go off the meds. I am all for that. I just have to trust the person plunging a large sharp pointy object into my spine. I want to trust this guy. But for now I do not. I am taking my camera with me. The waiting room is full of strange folk. Heather is taking me. She is not too good at putting up with nasty dirty crackhead types. This will be an interesting day for sure. Hey, I'm just trying to look on the bright side ya know? I'll take us to lunch. Okay, nite nite.

Greetings

20 minutes ago I began a post that I was pretty happy with. I looked up and it was gone. That has happened twice now. I can feel the frustration building like bloodpressure. I shall try once more. This week-end we began work on Cadys room. The baby will be here before we know it. Last week at her monthly Dr appt she was changed to every 2 weeks. I love that. It signals that the time is soon and get a move on. Joe tore out the book cases that took up much room in her tiny space. The next thing is to move out the dogs. I expect there will be some sad eyes looking my way when the gang is not sleeping in a room with their beloved Cady. She decided she wants Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit as her nursery theme. I love that. We have been Pooh Beared to death. Mostly due to my love of the old boy. I still have my big ol bear from the age of 10. A friend from church gave Cady her Peter Rabbit crib sheets and comforter. I found a diaper stacker on ebay for a few $ and it looks very sweet. I found a lovely old white dresser with glass knobs and a mirror that I want to buy. If there is any room for it maybe. I am thinking of painting the ugly old wood floors too. I found a sweet blog called Posy and she did her floors that way and it is wonderful. I am very fond of all things old and cozy looking. I could do my entire house in pinks and lace and flowers. I have found so many new ideas at Posy. I cannot wait to get to work.
In other news ,my wonderful husband promised me we could go to the Joe Cocker concert in Ruidoso. I was sure this would be like all the other concerts I wanted to go to. With his new job we can finally afford a few things. Then we realized that he would not be able to be home in time. He surprised me and got online and ordered 2 tickets anyway. My ex, Jody ( we lived together in 69,70,and 71 in Calif) lives in Lubbock Texas. Joe told me to take Jody if he can get here. We have been working on this for weeks now. Jody just called to let me know he won't have to hitch hike. He got his car up and about. I am so excited. Jody and I have not been to a concert together since we saw Fleetwood Mac and Mountain in San Bernardino in 1970. Joe got us good tickets up front and in the middle. This time there will be no L.S.D. involved but I am sure we will have much fun. I think my husband is one great guy to send me on a date with my old sweetheart. As I mentioned in an old post, Jody and I are like brother and sister. He calls me each year on the birthday of the little boy we had that passed away. Our kids only just realized that they are not blood kin. Jody has a daughter that is exactly that same aage as Cady. Jody just found out that she is pregnant also. She is 10 wks behind Cady. It's funny how life turns out. Jody was pretty awful to me back then. He had girlfriends coming to the house looking for him. I was always crying and upset. Through the years we have grown close and like I said, we are family. I will stop now as I am afraid that this post will disappear too. leaving some recent pics of Cady and grandkids.