At 9:39 am EST on 5/15/2006, Marian Elizabeth was born. She weighed in at 6lbs, 3.9oz or 2.43 kg and 21 inches in length.
Mom is recovering from C-Section, Marian is in the NICU for observation. Apart from a small problem with low normal blood sugar, a possible small problem with two cervical vertabrae (nothing major, just not complete bone closure yet - the column is intact just the closure/fissure has cartilage right now) and the doctors saying they have to monitor her liver bile ducts a b
Well, Marian (note spelling change) is due to be delivered by c-section on May 15th. We'll finally be able to meet (Father/Daughter) and I hope to post a picture here by the end of the month.
So the pre-baby scurrying is going at a good pace....we may actually have everything in place and ready! I've got three weeks of paid "Daddy" leave, so I can be around until Karen is well enough to walk around with a minimum of pain...plus help to keep all the helpful people from driving her more insa
What a week so far, and it ain't half over.
We're moving this weekend to a new place, so we're busy with packing and light moving (we have an overlap of four weeks to move, but we want to get primarily re-located this weekend). I have been working on finishing the new basement as far as we can to make it into a functional room in the evenings ( I hate sanding dry wall mud, especially over my head for the new ceiling) The evenings are for moving light loads too. My shoulders are playing "I s
We have been through a wringer the last few weeks, but things are looking up.
Mariann's deletions are in a place that will probably avoid most of the major health problems, somewhat confirmed by a more powerful ultra-sound test done Friday last week. That showed no major heart problems (which would be detectable by now) and her kidneys (enlarged two weeks ago) show normal.
With luck, there will be no major medical problems.
Even better, while the deletions do cause retardation proble
A joyous new year to you all.
I am putting this here so that only those who wish to make the effort will be reading.
I am writing this under a strain that I never thought I could bear, but I am. It is about our daughter, Mariann Elizabeth. She is in trouble and we will probably be losing her.
Tests came back last Thursday that she has deletions on one arm of her chromosome make-up, specifically the P4 arm. These deletions lead to a widespread number of problems including major heart
In The Conspiracy of Catiline Sallust enjoins us about two ways to fame with these words:
" Surely, therefore, it is our intellectual rather than our physical powers that we should use in pursuit of fame. Since only a short span of life has been vouchsafed us, we must make ourselves remembered as long as may be by those who come after us. Wealth and beauty can give only a fleeting and perishable fame, but intellectual excellence is a glorious and everlasting possession"
And then he goes
Chief Logan was a war chief of the Mingo Indians. Despite holding this position, Logan urged his fellow natives not to attack whites settling in the Ohio Country. However, on May 3, 1774, a group of Virginia settlers murdered approximately one dozen Mingos; among them were Logan's mother and sister. Logan demanded that the Mingos and their allies, principally the Shawnee Indians, avenge the deaths of his loved ones. Chief Cornstalk, one of the main leaders of the Shawnees, still called for peace
I had an allusion to Sallust an a small dicussion of the merits of fame from physical vs mental excellence. But bright boy moi seems to have lost it or this #@!* computer is having connection problems again.
Either way, it's late and lost and I'm going to bed to get up at the crack of dawn.
Goodnight, and God's love and help to all in need.
