Guest guest Posted February 15, 2002 Report Share Posted February 15, 2002 Hi AnnMarie, You know, I've always wanted to check out the Kennedy Space Center, and never have after all this time living so close!! Do you think it would be interesting for a 2year old (he'll be 2 by the time we can break away!). Always wanted to swing by there after Disney World. I can totally relate to the stitches, I had inner and outer, if that tells you anything!! I was not myself for a good 6-8 weeks too. My hubster starts getting the "I'm drowning you out now" look when I start telling him about this and that happening on the board!! He's over it! I stick around because its fun to get tips about all kinds of things, share and learn that my oh so unique little one is doing the same things everyone else's kids are, and most importantly to try to help someone the way I was helped in the beginning! Good luck with 's tort, as you are aware he is in THE BEST hands- and please keep me posted on his progress!! Have a great weekend! ' Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2002 Report Share Posted February 15, 2002 AnnMarie, Too cool! Your brother must be a very smart cookie to work in the control room! Sounds like you had an awesome time, stepping into the space shuttle must have been a very cool experience- you are among a limited number I'm sure! Shhhh, don't tell the Mayor, I'm on City goverment time- oh if the taxpayers only knew ' Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2002 Report Share Posted February 15, 2002 Hi !! Sorry!!!! It was Kellie that I was thinking of that lives in Tacoma, WA!! She posted a message saying she thought I was referring to her!! As for Florida, I have a brother and his family living in Cocoa Beach, FL. He works at Kennedy Space Center. He visit them quite frequently. I think we will be flying down this year some time. s first airplane ride -- Yippee!! I, too, am sooooo happy with all of the info. and support I have received here. I'm forever telling my husband about all of the info. I get from this group and the tort group!! I know our PT and our orthotist are totally impressed with the knowledge that I have about tort and plagio -- most of which comes from these support groups!! Anyway, thanks so much for sharing your story with me. I also feel that it is great that we can share our stories with each other -- esp. since they differ from the norm. (My girlfriend just had her first baby in Oct. 2001 and completely breezed through it!!) Six weeks after I had given birth I wondered if I was ever going to be the same!! I am a runner, and at that the time, I never thought I would be out running again!!! (I had quite a few stitches from the hard delivery!!) I hope you and your family have a great weekend!!!!!!!! Hugs to !! AnnMarie and (12 mos.) STARbanded -- 08/22/01 OT- AnnMarie & Hi AnnMarie!Happy Valentines Day Nope, never been to Tacoma, the closest to WA I've been would probably be my honeymoon to Vancouver and Alaska!! I'm here in drizzling south Florida, 30 minutes south of Miami and about 2.5 hours north of Key West. I had concerns at 8 months with no fetal movement for a day, and talked with the Doctor. She also checked the heart rate and all was well. I had concerns about his size because even at 6 mnths, they were saying he was measuring large, and my string bean husband was a whopping 11lbs. at birth- go figure-, and I was seriously worried about this potentially large baby!! They had me get an ultrasound the week he was due, and he was supposedly 8 lbs. ?? oz. and she assured me he was not "freakishly big". When I asked about induction, she said she wanted me to wait a week longer!! If I ever have another child, this will be addressed differently to say the least!At first I felt like your husband, and thought, well, she knew my concerns about his size, and still had me wait, so I felt there was some negligence there, because he was so cramped up and didn't have any more room to grow- hence the stunted muscle. Then with the delivery, also vacuum was used- after 23 hours of labor and 2 failed epidurals. (well, the first one worked for the "easy" part of my labor- then fell apart when I needed it- so I HAD to have another epidural put in during the contractions from hell!). It's funny you ask about the lump, because I had told someone about his hematoma at the tort group and she thought I was lying or something because she blasted me by saying, NO ONE knows what causes these lumps. Well, in ' case, specifically, it was a hematoma, and I was told that first by the radiologist reading his MRI- at the appt., I pressed him for info and he caved- saying he couldn't say more (legally) except it was trauma related- the Doc would have to tell me. Then the nuero confirmed that the lump was in deed a hematoma and so did my ped and it was trauma related. I was mad, but I know that childbirth is not easy, and even though I broke down and cried, I WANT A C!- they wouldn't let me as I had come THAT far!! So I was mad too when I put it all together, especially when his arm was pulled and muscle torn....but my flower girl was also delivered (by another Doc) that way and they severed her nerves too the point she almost didn't have use of her arm if it wasn't for pt (the Doc told her mom she'd never use it- but she took her to pt, and still does at age 7 and she's got almost full use)! So, I felt lucky in a sense too. As for the lump, I thought, well, can't we just drain the blood, but no, they said its like a bruise and it has to be reabsorbed into the system. Now, I think that other tort kids may get a different kind of lump, but I'm not sure and I'm not speculating on that. I just know that in our case, it was a hematoma, and when my husband recounts how he was delivered, it all adds up. He was stuck, they used the vaccuum, then they pulled his arm, the muscle was too tight from not being able to grow and being stuck in the same position, so it tore when he was pulled. It was a HUGE lump, and it didn't show up until 2 weeks after he was born (which I am told is common for the lump). It was a big mass and it took sometime to release its stranglehold on the muscle. Thank God it finally went! So I can relate to your husband's anger, but after all that I was just too consumed with how to get my son to have a happy, healthy life, and it was a lot of work there so the rest kind of faded into the background- like you said- water under the bridge now. I don't know where we would have been if I couldn't bounce things off of experienced parents at the start of our journey- what a big relief! Hope I didn't give you a headache with all this reading Hope this helps! Good luck to you also and I hope you have found as much info and support as I have through this group and the tort group! Please email me anytime- its great to talk with someone that can relate to me (how unusual ' MomFor more plagio info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2002 Report Share Posted February 15, 2002 , I'm not so sure if a 2 year old would enjoy the KSC tour! For that matter, I'm not so sure that you would enjoy it! (Ha Ha Ha!!) I'm only saying this because my brother told me that regular their tours are pretty "lame"!!! When me and my husband were there 2 years ago, my brother got us a "special" tour (family-of-employee type tour)!! It was great!!! He took us out to the launch pads, we even got to step into the shuttle Discovery -- right where the astronauts enter!!!!!!!!!! We have pictures!! My brother works right in the Control Room -- we were not allowed in there. It was so cool, he met us out in the "touristy" area, and took us on our tour in a KSC van. On the dashboard in the van was a sign that read "Astronauts Office"!! We really thought we were somebody then!!!!!!!! All in all, it is very interesting and oh soooo amazing what goes on to get those huge shuttles into space!!!!!!!! If you've never been there, I say "go" it is not all that far from Disney -- about 45 min. drive. When gets a bit older I can't wait to take for his tour!! He'll really have something to tell all his friends back here in Pennsylvania!!!!!!!! Well I gotta go!! I'm at work so I'm reading and responding to all of these posts on company time!!!! (He He He!!!!) Hope it gets sunny in south FL for your weekend!!!!!!! AnnMarie For more plagio info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2002 Report Share Posted February 15, 2002 , I won't tell if you won't tell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) AnnMarie PS -- Yes, I am very proud of my brother!!!! Re: OT- AnnMarie & AnnMarie,Too cool! Your brother must be a very smart cookie to work in the control room! Sounds like you had an awesome time, stepping into the space shuttle must have been a very cool experience- you are among a limited number I'm sure! Shhhh, don't tell the Mayor, I'm on City goverment time- oh if the taxpayers only knew ' MomFor more plagio info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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