Baby Pics

Profile of head.  Not much to say here.  

Face.  This looks more alien to me.  Not sure what's going on with the nose there.

Hand and Arm.  Uncle Sam wants YOU!

Foot.  Five toes...a good sign.

Boy?  Sorry the photo is censored, but we don't need our kid streaking across the internet until he's much older.  In the original photo, it's pretty clear.

It's an epidemic!

Marc writes: So last night Bowser was acting a little weird--whining, shaking, leaking urine on himself and acting afraid to pee outside.  Some of the leakage looked reddish and some of his activities were similar to my episodes that morning (I'll let you decide which activities).  I decided that if he was in the kind of pain I had been in, he needed immediate care.  Our vet had closed for the evening, so we had to take him to the pet emergency.  His bladder was empty, so they couldn't really diagnose him, but the x-ray showed something similar to kidney stones.  The dot in the x-ray was in a strange location according to the Dr. and she recommended follow-up x-rays the next day.  She sent us home with meds.  

Our vet, today, said it was kidney stones and sent us home with more meds because the meds we got last night were damaging to kidneys (nice!).  

We are taking our meds together and hoping for the best. 

Today Marc Escapes Death

I woke up at the regular time and headed off to the bathroom to start getting ready for work.  I immediately noticed a hard pain in my lower right back.  I figured it was my kidney failing.  So no big deal, right?  The pain quickly moved to the front and I found myself on the floor in agony, turning cold, tunnel vision setting in and wanting to get sick.  

After a few minutes, I was able to get myself up and back to bed.  As I lay there moaning and writhing around in pain, I remembered that I have a pretty high pain threshold and figured I could just out-wit the pain.  Nope.  I then had thoughts of my appendix bursting to my demise and my kid-to-be growing up without me.  I also had thoughts of Joey from Friends being told by his Dr. that he had kid-eny stohnes.  I was hurting too bad to laugh at that moment, but promised myself I would later...if I made it to later.  

As Brianna rushed me off to the hospital, I laid the seat back and placed my arm over my eyes wishing, by now, that I would have died or at least passed out.  The trip was fairly quiet with a few road bumps, some stop and go at the lights, and an occasional roll to the left or right around corners.  As we got closer to the hospital, I noticed the pain dissipating and by the time I checked in, it was practically gone.  

The Drs. ran some tests and said it was kidney stones.  It turns out, once the stone gets into the bladder, the pain usually stops, so that's what must have happened.  It also turns out they can't do anything for it but manage the pain.  I don't like drugs of any kind as a rule, even OTC, but I picked up these prescriptions because I don't want that kind of pain again.  Kid-eny stohnes...heh-heh.  That crazy Joey.