The Zereps

well, apologies for not including a picture with this post, i have assigned picture duty to eric for now. 🙂

in my last short post i briefly mentioned arthur’s surprise arrival, but didn’t go into details. to make a long story kinda short, it was indeed a surprise! after watching “LOST” last thursday and going to bed at my usual 9 o’clock, i woke up at 2.30 to what can best be described as a warm gush. hehe 🙂 after convincing eric that we had to go to the hospital right away, we jumped in the car, leaving the pups wondering what the heck was going on! once we were at the hospital i got my first ever wheel chair ride, it was pretty fun! by the time i got to the triage room at the birth center, my contractions were pretty close together. at this point eric still thought they’d send us home (hah), but that changed when they made him put on scrubs, called the doctor, put an IV in me (first one ever!), and got me prepped for surgery. 🙂 the heavy contractions also helped to convince him. 😉

so by the time i rolled into the OR at 4.30, i was very, VERY ready to see the anesthesiologist’s smiling face, holding up a needle. let me stress “VERY” several more times. his forceful kicks upon my pelvis and ‘nether regions’ during the contractions certainly didn’t help. and let me just say ‘frack you’ to controlled breathing and meditation. 😉 anyhoo…..after lots of weird pulling and pushing feelings, the dr. getting arthur out, i heard the phrase ‘oh! it’s a boy!’ 😀 eric got to go over to the warming lamp that was 3 feet from my head and take pictures and cut the cord, too. i stayed in the OR to get sewed up (and get some pleasant happy drugs) while eric followed arthur into the recovery room.

that’s about it for the exciting “story” parts! 😀 from there i got to go to what would be my room for 4 days (3 nights). they decided to keep arthur in the nursery for the duration of our stay to monitor him and various other things, so eric was able to come home to the pups for the night, while i stayed at the hospital.

and let me just say that i couldn’t have asked for a better hospital to have arthur at. everything was so nice! my mom and al, when they arrived from CA on sunday) kept joking that i was at a 4-star hotel. my room had cable, a dvd player, wifi, a big room service menu, and lots of other stuff. and the nurses were really nice and helpful. as were the nurses i met in the nursery when i would go visit arthur. 🙂

and so both my dr. and arthur’s dr. said we were ready to come home on monday! wednesday was his first dr.’s visit, too.

anyhoo….as you can imagine, both eric and i are pretty tired, we’re still adjusting to arthur’s schedule. 🙂 and i have 1 more week before i’m allowed to do light housework, like cooking and laundry, and driving, so we’re both very grateful that my mom and al are here to help out, er, do the majority of everything i should say. 😉

and the pups are behaving themselves very well, too! they have their cousin mickey here to play all day with and at night jabba and leia like to sit and watch us with arthur. well, leia watches like a little nurse, jabba just says ‘i’m too old for this’ and buries his head in his nuzzle-nest. 😀

and more apologies if this story is disjointed or missing parts! i managed to take a nap and am still groggy. 🙂 so there ya go! a short version of last week’s events!

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