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  • NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 3)

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    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,…

  • NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 2)

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    (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…

  • NowBlowPoMe: The Birth of Emory. (Chapter 1)

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    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…

  • NowBlowPoMe: My Sack of Cells.

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    Emory was conceived a year ago today. I know the exact day almost down the minute for several reasons and I’ll mention a few of them below. Four months earlier, I had gone to visit my doctor. I had blood work run. She checked for any genetic predispositions. Everything looked fine except that my measles…

  • Basal Cell Carcinoma and Mohs

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    The call came in. The spot I wrote about last week is indeed cancerous. This is what I know. I know that basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer. I know that 97% of the time it’s totally treatable. I know that it has a tendency to spread, which means I…

  • My Recent Google Searches. (Unedited)

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    Every now and again I find it amusing to go back and look through what I searched for in Google. I find it especially amusing because of the searches that lead people to this site. For example, in the last 10 minutes, people found mihow.com by searching for the following terms: “man with vagina”, “is…

  • Pictures of Emory

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    I finally got around to downloading some pictures from the camera. I always declared (and proudly) that I wasn’t going to become one of those mothers guilty of letting everyone know how smart her kid is or how good looking he is. But, man! I think this kid is pretty darned cute. Biased as it…

  • The IdeaList.

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    Remember when I said that we’d be getting rid of the TV set in our bedroom because I wanted to set an early example for my son? That didn’t happen. In fact, sometimes the TV stays on even when I’m not in the room. And I have watched shows I never thought I’d watch just…

  • Overlap

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    Last night was a rough one. At 9 PM I started crying and couldn’t stop no matter how hard I tried. I cried all over Tucker and then Murray and I would have cried all over Pookum but she’s too grumpy right now. And then I thought about Schmitty and that was pretty much the…

  • Breastfeeding Questions

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    I’ve been trying to breastfeed for about 5 days. (Emory turned one week old at 4:05 AM.) I’m trying to get things going. It’s been a slow process. The hardest part is that I have no idea how much milk should eventually come out. I’ve been pumping. The pump helps because I am able to…