tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504259906351329000.post8758625524100332259..comments2024-03-27T22:48:04.548-04:00Comments on JACK at RANDOM: Waiting: An [Unnatural] Birth StoryJosh Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558455153152363458noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504259906351329000.post-24597771382624615672012-06-07T08:54:13.157-04:002012-06-07T08:54:13.157-04:00This is gorgeous Josh. Such imagery, moments captu...This is gorgeous Josh. Such imagery, moments captured and snapped up like photographs, but in words. What a gift you have.<br /><br />"We decided early on in this pregnancy to follow every doctor order without researching the hell out of it afterward or contemplating rebellion. So if our Doctors suggested we endure fifty non-stress tests and twenty-five biophysical profiles and six thousand doctor appointments over the course of nine months, we happily obliged." Yep, that's exactly how we're approaching this pregnancy too. I'll do anything my doctor tells me.<br /><br />Sending you guys so much love. xxTashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07078703799477411588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504259906351329000.post-2620077175143139462012-06-01T17:28:44.902-04:002012-06-01T17:28:44.902-04:00Truer grit would be hard to find.
I'm dresse...Truer grit would be hard to find. <br /><br />I'm dressed and ready in under sixty seconds, which is why I'm here tapping away in between bites of a Payday that I purchased from a vending machine.<br /><br />The hallway is double the size I imagined from last year, like they added lanes to the freeway and brought in new pavement.<br /><br />We decided early on in this pregnancy to follow every doctor order without researching the hell out of it afterward or contemplating rebellion. <br /><br />When we asked Dr. Wu if he thought it would be okay for us to deliver early, he replied, "let's take our money and run," and then circled May 7. <br /><br />*****<br /><br />Word painter, photographer, story-teller, you.<br /><br />And I, through the looking glass<br /><br />peering.<br /><br />Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters<br /><br />{Where the ragged people go}<br /><br />Cathy in MissouriGroveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14867095709948739457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504259906351329000.post-75627118193462487062012-06-01T07:21:33.580-04:002012-06-01T07:21:33.580-04:00You know, having read you secretly while I was pre...You know, having read you secretly while I was pregnant again, without quite daring to comment, you did an awful lot for me. You helped me see my quiet stoical husband, who never imposes on me or pushes me one way or another, as someone who was also getting through this. He's a putter awayer, who doesn't show his pain and it is hard to remember it is there.<br /><br />So when he said quietly on day, 'I'm just dreading the day of going through it all and waiting for it all to be fine' I thought of you and knew that what I might want or need mattered less this time than seeing him afraid and knowing I could save him some of that'. So thank you.Merryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338478486624362745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504259906351329000.post-24221339342371646792012-05-31T23:30:26.901-04:002012-05-31T23:30:26.901-04:00The biggest thing I get from this is how much, how...The biggest thing I get from this is how much, how truly completely you love and respect Kari and that is so beautiful. It is so hard to see things from any other perspective than your own... It is so hard to be the mama experiencing all this and it must be very difficult to be once removed as a husband, powerless except to lend a hand, a hug, love and mutual missing. I'm so glad you have her, she has you, and you all have eachother.Renelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08490888250385942221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504259906351329000.post-22992757638526814932012-05-31T19:01:27.861-04:002012-05-31T19:01:27.861-04:00Josh this is gorgeous. I know how it ends, but som...Josh this is gorgeous. I know how it ends, but somehow I'm still on the edge of my seat. I love how you speak about your wife. That's true love right there.<br />And this:<br />"We decided early on in this pregnancy to follow every doctor order without researching the hell out of it afterward or contemplating rebellion. So if our Doctors suggested we endure fifty non-stress tests and twenty-five biophysical profiles and six thousand doctor appointments over the course of nine months, we happily obliged."<br />That was how we chose to get through two subsequent pregnancies as well. For us, this seemed the only way.<br />So glad little Leo made it safely. Just so sorry you had to walk this path to get there and Margot was lost along the way.<br />xoHope's Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04984543289642681339noreply@blogger.com