Premature Babies

I'm not a baby person. I never wanted any, I've never been interested in them and while I'm happy to knit a tiny cap or bunting, I'm also happy to knit a hot pad for the oven - knitting is knitting.

But, for the past month - particularly for the past few days - I've been consumed with babies - premature babies - two of them. A blogger I follow - Eric Snowdeal and his wife had a baby on July 4. The baby was due in October. His blog was immediately turned over to a daily log of the life of a micropreemie and it's fascinating.

At the same time, one of the books I requested at the library came available and I started reading it. The actor/commedian Dennis Leary has never done anything that particularly appealed to me. He's ok - just not one of my favorites. Somehow I knew his wife was a writer - maybe he mentioned it on a talk show. Anyway her book came out and I started reading it a couple of days ago. It's about having her baby at 26 weeks in London when she and Dennis were poor as church mice and only there for a weekend so he could pick up a gig.

I'm somehow strangely fascinated by both these accounts. I know how the Learys' adventure turned out - the kid is now a teenager. But this morning I read that Eric IV had a really difficult Day 35. And I'm wondering how I got all caught up in either one, much less both. And it's particularly interesting juxtaposed against the Second Season of 6 Feet Under that I've been watching and contemplating Mom's future.

See, if I were a painter or a song writer or musician or poet, I'd be filled with fodder right now. As it is, I'm just head scratchin'...

Premature Babies

I'm not a baby person. I never wanted any, I've never been interested in them and while I'm happy to knit a tiny cap or bunting, I'm also happy to knit a hot pad for the oven - knitting is knitting.

But, for the past month - particularly for the past few days - I've been consumed with babies - premature babies - two of them. A blogger I follow - Eric Snowdeal and his wife had a baby on July 4. The baby was due in October. His blog was immediately turned over to a daily log of the life of a micropreemie and it's fascinating.

At the same time, one of the books I requested at the library came available and I started reading it. The actor/commedian Dennis Leary has never done anything that particularly appealed to me. He's ok - just not one of my favorites. Somehow I knew his wife was a writer - maybe he mentioned it on a talk show. Anyway her book came out and I started reading it a couple of days ago. It's about having her baby at 26 weeks in London when she and Dennis were poor as church mice and only there for a weekend so he could pick up a gig.

I'm somehow strangely fascinated by both these accounts. I know how the Learys' adventure turned out - the kid is now a teenager. But this morning I read that Eric IV had a really difficult Day 35. And I'm wondering how I got all caught up in either one, much less both. And it's particularly interesting juxtaposed against the Second Season of 6 Feet Under that I've been watching and contemplating Mom's future.

See, if I were a painter or a song writer or musician or poet, I'd be filled with fodder right now. As it is, I'm just head scratchin'...

Mom is home

I'm not sure exactly what's going on but she is home and I've gotten an email from her.

My brother has been dealing with the particulars and apparently there are a lot of them. She has to have an injection daily or something and they sent her home with oxygen and she has to have physical therapy but not from 'the home' who was going to do it because Medicare won't pay two places (the service for shots and the 'home' for pt - so she has to get both from the same place...) "My eyes glazed over about then, so there may have been more but I missed it," he reported.

His wife is on the way.

Mom's first email was that she was home. Her second email said that 'they have left me alone and it is quiet'. So I don't know much. It will be interesting to see if she can handle being at home.

Mom is home

I'm not sure exactly what's going on but she is home and I've gotten an email from her.

My brother has been dealing with the particulars and apparently there are a lot of them. She has to have an injection daily or something and they sent her home with oxygen and she has to have physical therapy but not from 'the home' who was going to do it because Medicare won't pay two places (the service for shots and the 'home' for pt - so she has to get both from the same place...) "My eyes glazed over about then, so there may have been more but I missed it," he reported.

His wife is on the way.

Mom's first email was that she was home. Her second email said that 'they have left me alone and it is quiet'. So I don't know much. It will be interesting to see if she can handle being at home.