Mar in Portland

September 27 – October 28

As mentioned before, I flew out of Portland on Sunday, September 27. Mar didn’t. She stayed at Erin and John’s. It was a hard stay for her, because really she had little to do. She cared for Erin and went shopping and helped cook. Erin was slowing down with pregnancy. This was the way things went until Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning they went in to the hospital so that Erin could be induced. The started and things were going okay, except the little lady had her hand over her head. They just let it go to see if she would pull her hand down. After a while they broke her water. Things started in earnest then. Mar was watching the baby heart monitor and during a contraction the heart rate dropped – significantly. Mar just smiled and said, I’ll be right back and then she went to get a nurse. She met her coming down the hall – after she saw the same thing. It seemed that with the little lady’s arm above her head, it opened the birth canal just enough for the umbilical cord to loop through and then during a contraction, the blood supply to the baby was cut off. That was instant fetal distress. The doctor was called. They decided they couldn’t wait and they prepped for an emergency C-section.

Here is where Mar was honored and pleased. The doctor invited her into the operating room because she is a licensed surgical nurse. He told her to scrub up and come on in. So Mar was there when wee little Afton was born. She was perfectly healthy and all went well – as well as an emergency C-section could go.

They stayed in the hospital for 3 days. During that time, Mar worked a lot on her quilting project. She finished her book and bought another one and read it. Once they got home, she had more to do, and she got to hold the baby a lot, even when both grandmas were there. Erin really need her help for a while.

Well, another reason for her to stay was to get a new car from john. He found her a 2003 Toyota Camry – powder metallic blue. He prepped it real well. Rich said it was a good car. So after helping until she felt she wasn’t much any more, she left on Thursday.

No she is not coming home. She drove south and stopped to see Marry Elizabeth in Roseburg, and then drove on down to Yreka in California to visit her sister Anne. She will get home someday, but she is doing well.
Stay tuned for further updates.