My aunt posted this picture on Facebook a few days ago:
This picture was taken 17 years ago today at my baby shower. I had Sean four days later. Well, it was a Sunday and I went to school on Monday and work on Tuesday which was Halloween. I worked at a credit union back then and at each teller window, there was a basket of candy for the members to have while we worked on their transaction.
Not many people came to the Credit union that day so us tellers were trading candy in our baskets at our window for the candy we liked in other tellers’ baskets. I ate so much candy!
I stood in the hall at the doorway to the living room at my son’s dad’s house that evening as trick-or-treaters were coming to the house and announced that I couldn’t carry the baby anymore! He told me that I had to and I agreed and said that I would but I didn’t want to. I was miserable! Sean wasn’t due for another two months!
That night, I couldn’t sleep and I didn’t feel well. I thought it was from all the candy I had eaten earlier that day. My Mom told me to call the hospital. I called the hospital that I was scheduled to have Sean at and they told me that I was too early (I was almost thirty-two weeks pregnant) and that I need to call Henry Ford downtown because they have an NICU. I didn’t think what was going on with me was serious but I called them anyway.
They told me that I needed to go to the emergency room and possibly I would be admitted. My Mom drove me there my back began to hurt as we drove there. I was admitted to the hospital and spent all of November 1st incoherent. The nurse kept waking me up and asking me questions like where I was and what day it was.
They hooked me up to a baby monitor. Morning came and I was by myself on the 2nd. The high-risk doctor came into my room and looked at the monitor paper. He looked to the doctor at the doorway and told him, “Labor and Delivery STAT!” and I was whisked away to have my baby. There was tons of commotion and phone calls but I ended up having an emergency C-section with just a nursing student with me in the delivery room. Her name was Lisa and she had never witnessed a birth before.
I had Sean at 9:38 AM on November 2nd. Eight weeks premature. He stayed in the NICU for 31 days. The longest month of my life! That one picture brought back so many memories! I’m so excited that he will be 17 on Friday! I’m feeling really old!