Believe it or not I really am alive. There has been so much going on that I have not been able to update this in ummmm... FOREVER. I am not really sure where to even start. Ok I gues that I will start with the thing that has threw the biggest kinck into everything.
I had to have surgury 2 weeks ago tomorrow to have my appendix removed. It was weird because I thought that I had a cyst that was causing the pain that I was feeling. So I had my friend drive me to the hospital that my OB/GYN is through. They did an ultrasound and it turns out that it was my appendix that was causing the problems. I am so very thankful that they caught on to it. Because I did not have a lot of the normal symthoms. I ended up having surgery at 7:30 that night. I spent two days in the hospital after that and was in sever pain for a while.
Well I went back to the doctor last Monday, think that it was going to be the normal post op appoinment. Well it wasn't. It turns out that there was a tumor in my appendix. The doctor told me that it was small and they think that they got it all but he was talking with the oncologist just to be safe. He told me that worse case happing I would have to have surgery to remove more of my appendix and maybe chemo. Needless to say neither of the things are high on my to do list.
I think the scarest thing is just know that I had cancer in my body and not know what is to come. I am really trying not to give it a lot of thought but it is hard not to.
As for Eli he is doing great!!!! He is growing up really fast and talking so much. He is starting to say simple sentences. He is really starting to potty train. I am so excited that we can be done with diapers soon rather than later.
As for my friend Fouzi. She is doing great. Khalid was born on the 22nd of September of 4:27pm. He weighted in at 7 lbs 6 oz and 21 1/2 inches. I got to be there for her whole labor and delievery. It was amazing!!!!
We went into the hospital at like 1 in the morning the night before because she was having a lot of different pains, mainly in her back and pelvic region. When we went in they hooked her up to the monitors and chacked her. It turned out that she was having contrations and she was 3 cm dialted already. Well 3 cm is really the cut off for wither they send you home or not. So we decied to walk and walk and go up and down the stairs. They checked her again at about 4 in the morning and she was still at 3 but she was effacing and the bag of waters was bulging. So the nurse said that they were going to keep her and that the doctor would be in around 9 so we should get some rest.
Well the doctor came in around 9 and by that time she was at 4 cm and the doctor tried to break her water but it did not work. So they started her on Pitocin and we started making phone calls. Her mom got there at about 11 and by that time she was about a 5. Fouzi was doing really really well with the contractions. I don't think that she really spent much time in the bed after her mom got there. We used the birth ball a lot. I would sit on a stool behind her and when she would have a contration I would push on her lower back or push on her hips and that really seemed to help her. Sometime around noon the doctor came in and checked her and broke her water. At about 2 she started asking for her epidural.
They checked her then and she was at a 6 so they said that it was ok. They came in and did the epidural and then we were able to rest for about 2 hours. Then Fouzi really started to hurt again so the nurse came in a checked her and she was at an 8 so they called the doctor and he came up and gave her a bolus. After the bolus you could tell that her contrations changed and that she was getting close because everything about her changed from the way that she was acting to the way that she was holding herself. But mainly the way that she was breathing. After they did the bolus the nurse didn't even leave the room because she could tell. Then the nurse checked her again and she was completly dialted.
During most of her labor we had been trying to get the baby's father up to the hospital and he still had not gotten up there. Since she was fully dialited her mother went to go get him. Not that he was staying less than a mile away from the hospital. I decided that I really needed to use the restroom . While I was in there I could her the doctor come in and the doctor and the nurse were laughing because Fouzi was actually sending text messages!!! Her last text message was sent at 4:16. That is when they started having her push. Khalid entered the world at 4:27 pm just 11 minutes later!!! Then his father and grandmother entered to room 2 minutes later!!!
When Khalid was born he had his cord wrapped very tightly around his neck and actually did not breat for a good 2-3 minutes after he was born. Then once they finally got him going he was not pinking up the way that they wanted him to so they had to take him to the nursery and it was a good hour and a half before Fouzi got to see him.
Now he is doing great!! Fouzi has been able to breast feed him exclusivlly and they are both doing great.
Sorry that this entry is so long but there was a lot that I needed to get in. So I will leave you with some pictures that I took of little man.