Listen up.  I am a proud aunt.  You cannot fault me for showing you photos of my adorable nephews.  I was just looking at their "just born" photos and now they are so big!  And such characters :)


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On Friday, Kerouac had surgery for his recurred tumor in his hind leg.  He did well initially and bounced back with a lot of energy.  Unfortunately, his wound is not healing well.  Some of the tissue initially stitched together died rather than knitted, and the location of the cross-shaped wound made it easy to tear open with almost any movement.  ( Read more... )

Kerouac is king of self-pitying looks.  He got a bath tonight. This is his typical misery.

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Well.

I've spent the last 5 weeks with my hands in people's bellies.  (You don't look at someone the same after you sweep your hand over their liver.)  I slept an average of 5 hours a night.  I got to see someone's brain, smushed as it was.  I learned a lot about human nature in sickness and death.  I saw a lot of blood, forgot to eat a few times, ( Read more... )

Zane.    He's surprisingly strong for only being 2 days old: can mostly support his own head and is already practicing a solid right hook to the boob.

I call this expression "THUG LIFE."


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My newest nephew, Zane Anthony was born today!  He's a cute little tike.  He looks like a fat rudabaga that frowns.  Photo to follow. 

Saturday morning:  Paraphimosis.  Look it up and how to fix it.  That is what I did.

Saturday night, making sushi for the first time... our first sushi roll was more like a burrito and didn't make it.  We got better as we went on...

Sunday at the corn maze.  Kerouac was surprisingly cooperative for this photo.  Not so much for the second one... 

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I'm about to start my OB/Gyn rotation at OHSU in two weeks; although we are given the option of following a midwife for a day, midwives and homebirths are not really included in our curriculum.  Frankly, being entrenched in Western Medicine for so long has had me convinced that homebirths are scary, unpredictable affairs.  Most of the MD's I've ( Read more... )

I am a proud aunt.  My nephew just turned one month old!


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