So I fell again...

 Wow, I'm just grateful I didn't break anything important but I think I have a fracture in situ, not displaced, in my wrist, either the bone or a tendon, because the hematoma is just too big! I'm covered in bruises, ugly purple ones. and I'm not going to the ER, what for...

Anyway, so now I'm really limping and tomorrow I have to babysit with my grandson because theres no one else, Lord help me.

Yadiel playing with Kamila and Ezequiel

She's here...but...

Keilanys was born at 3 AM this morning. 

Her mother wanted a home birth with a midwife because her best friend had one and recommended it. We, knowing how things are often done here, advised her against it, but she insisted and paid a lot of money for this service. She was having all the tests and CT's done of course in conjunction with her gynecologist and everything was okay. But for those of us that have studied and worked at these things, we have seen everything that can possibly go wrong in a birth... a lot. For all the talk and written about the too many cesarean births, know what, they are very necessary.

The baby was almost 9 pounds, tore her apart, and the midwives did not have the necessary instruments. They did not perform an episiotomy, which is a simple procedure where as soon as the baby's head is crowning a small amount of  lidocaine is injected to the tissue surrounding the vaginal opening and a straight cut is made in order to prevent jagged tearing which can go in zig zag and all directions including tearing into the buttock and anal area. What were they thinking, that all births are simple? Obviously not prepared at all. 

So now shes in the hospital, it seems there was another complication, not just the lack of the episiotomy They aren't telling Yadiel because they know he'll be angry. She had to be taken into surgery at 1pm today until almost 4!!!  Puhleeze! An episiotomy tear can be sutured in, tops half hour! I'm sure she tore her uterus. The doctor only told Yadiel that they had to take a lot of sutures, I'm sure she told him not to tell Yadiel the truth, But eventually she will of course, he was desperate while she was in surgery. She's being admitted, so a uterus tear is pretty much a given or something else as well, and the uterus is highly vascularized so very prone to hemorrhage. 

She got to breast feed the baby one time before going to the hospital, and Yadiel's mother stayed with the baby in the parking lot of the hospital in the hopes of Katiria being able to breast feed her again, but no way, and they cannot allow the baby into the hospital because she wasn't born there and is not sick. So thank God Eileen has Calebs frozen breast milk, don't know how much she has or if shes still breast feeding but so far that's what she's feeding on.  

Shes lucky that a doctor was willing to take her, usually they won't touch something that someone else did and the patient ends up in Rio Piedras Centro Medico. Her gyn could not make it, but he did call her and talk to her.

Anyway, praying for her well being and speedy recovery so she can be home with her daughters. Some pics of Keilanys...

 

Feeling better...

 Well my great granddaughter Keilanys hasn't been born yet, any day now. Heres some pics they took for memories, and some MOM earrings I made to gift.

Well I'm in hospital again, darn asthma

 Yup, Sahara Dust did it again! Admitted and I hate it, I do not like to be in here. Whosoever reads this, your prayers would be greatly appreciated.

Fires, fires etc., and my new hobbies...

Brush fires everywhere. Hope it rains soon. People with large properties set fire to them to clear out the brush, but this year the fires have spread quickly and dangerously far from their point of origin. Too much smoke specially for children and people with respiratory or other conditions. There outta be a law, but there isn't! 

Now the pharmacies are running out of medicines! Albuterol and Pulmicort therapies for asthmatics and insulin, among others, Lord have mercy! 

This morning I turned on the computer and all of my favorites that I had at the top of the initial page were gone! I would just click on them and they opened, and now they are all gone! I've been trying to put them back but can't, gotta wait till my son can do it for me. 

Not a good day, I'm just stressed over a bunch of things, not the least of which is my health, or lack thereof I should say. Recently also had a mole from my scalp removed which turned out to be basal cell C but the surgeon thinks he excised it all. I just have to keep my eye on it for changes. So far so good. 

My grandson and wife are having another baby, another great grandchild for me. It's another girl, so Kamila will have a sister soon and she will be named Keilanys. The baby shower is next Sunday. I will not be able to attend. I have several compression fractures on my spine and 2 fractured ribs from a fall I suffered 2 years ago. I  They have healed over somewhat but some days just walking is a torture. Advil is my best friend these days. 

Keilanys Shower Invitation

I recently got a paper/vinyl  cutting machine to keep myself occupied and have made several things including putting vinyl names on cups for my daughters nurse coworkers. I made personalized kitchen towels with potholders for my grandsons teachers at the daycare, as well as my surgeons secretaries and assistants and other friends. Everyone just loves these and it's so very gratifying for me to make and gift them. 

and since my spirit is willing although the flesh is weak : D I just got into polymer clay too! So far I made Valentines Day earrings for my surgeons secretaries and assistants. I also just made shamrock earrings for my grandsons teachers, and a shamrock pin for the owner, as they were going to celebrate it. They loved them and wore them to the activity.  Gotta keep busy!

Shamrock earrings and pin as well as hibiscus earring in process...

Other style I'm making

Valentine heart earrings

Roses and Heart earrings

For the clay I really have to get a pasta machine so it can be an even thickness. 

Eileen and Caleb

So au revoir, (didn't know I spoke French didya?) : )   and si vou plai or rather talk to u latah!

The Christmas decorations are down and the...

...solars that we got a while ago to put up now are up. Love them, they cast rays of light to the sides also so they really illuminate the area well.

Whales off the coast of Rincon

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