Category: NaBloPoMo
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 7)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6 It was 2:30 AM and I was exhausted. My body shook uncontrollably. My mother had warned me about it earlier. I was ready for it to happen, but I wasn’t ready for it to happen before I gave birth. No matter…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 6)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 “You’re about 2 and a half centimeters dilated.” She told me. I thought I heard her incorrectly. “What?” I asked. TobyJoe walked over to me. He looked concerned. “You’re 2 and half centimeters.” She repeated. I started to cry. “But..” My voice trailed…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 5)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 Tuesday, August 7th was one of the longest days of my life. I was given the epidural at around 11 AM. Prior to that, I was allowed one last shower. I remember thinking, “This is the last shower I’m going to take while pregnant.” It’s…
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NowBlowPoMe: I Am A Slacker With a Black Eye.
We’ve been away for the past several days and without Internet access. My parents recently moved from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and so we drove to Jersey to check out the new digs. My brother and his wife Melissa flew up from Alabama with their kids as well. It was great seeing them. I rarely…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 4)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 We woke up the next morning early. If you’d call it waking up at all. Our sleep was interrupted dozens of times but I hadn’t really slept in weeks. If it wasn’t the heartburn, it was the pain on the upper right side of my abdomen. If…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 3)
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2 My mother stood to get a closer look at the monitor. She, too, noticed I was having a contraction, a really long contraction. We both wondered silently if it was a normal response to Cervidil. Time passed. My eyes began to water. I wasn’t crying from the pain necessarily,…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 2)
(Read Chapter 1 here.) The room we were given had a most spectacular view. Unfortunately, I would spend most of my time there paralyzed from the waist down and therefore bedridden. But my mother and TobyJoe were able to look out over the East River. We had a view of the 59th Street Bridge, Roosevelt…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 1)
Emory was born at 4:05 AM on August 8, 2007. It was a Wednesday. He entered this world at the very same moment Brooklyn was being hit by a tornado and a storm was flooding the subway. I could see the lightning from my hospital bed. We could hear the thunder overtop the sounds of…
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NowBlowPoMe: The Forgotten City?
I understand why people move to New York. I moved here at age 27 because I always loved it. I decided to move to New York when I was a kid and my father took us to our first ever Yankee game. He drove us right through Harlem so he could teach us a lesson…
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NowBlowPoMe: 2 Weeks and 3 Pounds
14 days ago I weighed 155 pounds. Today I (still) weigh 152 pounds. I haven’t moved much this week. I think it’s because I was seduced by chocolate. Anyway, I’m not going to write about what I ate this week because it pretty much looks like what I ate last week, but I do feel…
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