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Getting The Ears Fixed
Yesterday we took our daughter Olivia to Children's Hospital so she could have tubes placed. She has had quite a few ear infections and back in August she had the one that convinced the doctor to send her for tubes.
We were up at 5 AM and hopped in the car around 5:30, it was about to pour outside when we got there and I pulled up to the Valet at CHOB....despite a sign at the entrance clearly stating that Valet opened at 5:30 AM Monday through Friday no one was outside. So, my wife took my daughter in and I waited for her to find someone to come out and park the car. Valet was $4, for what they charge for services it should be free and is at other Kalieda facilities but I won't hold that against them, anything related to parking costs money in Buffalo or any city for that matter.
So, we got to out patient surgery at 6:00 and after registering it was a waiting game. at around 9:00 Olivia was called for surgery and we had two coupons for free coffee from the hospital which I presumed were good anywhere, they had a Tim Horton's in the lobby so I took them there and was informed that they were only good in the cafeteria. Well, I wasn't about to go to the cafeteria after waiting in line for 15+ minutes and so I just paid for the coffees which were as hot as the blazing sun. I nearly burnt the finger prints off my hands.
So, after grabbing a few napkins to hold the cups with, (afterwards my wife pointed out that I should have gotten double cups)....and when I say hot I mean hot, literally 40 minutes later, after we were getting into the car to leave, this stuff was still burning my tongue/lips. ...I got back up to surgery and after that little bit...all done. We just had to wait for her to wake up from the anesthesia. That took 30 additional seconds and then we had to wait to be discharged which took longer than the actual surgery.
Olivia was a little cranky after but nothing outrageous came home hungry after not eating at all since the afternoon before and other than that she was right back to being a happy baby only now, no more ear infections...hopefully.
Overall, the surgery went great, the medical professionals were great and informed us exactly what was happening and it was a very quick/minor surgery...exactly what they described. Of course when it is your own daughter no surgery is minor, you are alert to everything around you and can't wait to see her back in your arms.
The perk type stuff though could be better, have a valet out there at 5:30, chill the coffee a little, I still have a nice blister/sore on my upper lip from that blazing coffee which btw was not Tim Hortons, maybe the outside of the cup but not the coffee, probably because the burnt the hell out of it by making it so damn hot and don't give coupons unless they are honored at all food locations in the hospital, I mean whats the difference? Tim Hortons or the hospital cafeteria, the stuff they passed off as Tim's could have been from the cafeteria for all we knew.
Olivia is doing well though now and we are ready for the next big day....Birthday #1, the party is this Saturday. Chili, beer, wine and munchies and Olivia will be the life of the party and wearing her favorite Toronto Blue Jays T-shirt.
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl
Go Jays Go! Olivia is a Fan!
Olivia got her first official Blue Jays Tee Shirt yesterday and I must say she looks really good in it. Her favorite Blue Jay is Aaron Hill or so she said by her reaction when Hill hit his 8th home run of the season in the 6th inning this afternoon and help the Jays to another win, 5-2 over the lowly Orioles.
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl
Damn My Kid is Cool
Olivia is a natural in sunglasses....bring on summer our kids goin poolside asap!
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl
Time Flies
Holy crap, shes exactly two and a half months old today. Yikes. The worlds cutest baby Olivia Mary McCoulf will not be a baby much longer, time flies when you have kids I guess.
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl
Olivia Is a Jays Fan
Olivia just happens to think the Jays would do a much better job than the Yankees did tonight against the Phillies. They did back in 1993. For now we are rooting for Pat Gillick and the Phillies!!!!!
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl | Sports | Toronto Blue Jays
The Smart One
Olivia was at the grandparents house today for the game and she was the smart one:
She slept from 1:00 until the game was over. How many of us wished we would have slept that one away?
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl | Buffalo Bills
September 28th 7:23 AM
Yesterday at 7:23 AM our lives became richer. Olivia Mary was born.
It all happened so fast, I wrote this post on Sunday not expecting anything to happen that day and yet at 9:00 Sunday night a few hours after getting home from my parents my wife informed me that we needed to pack up the car and head over to Sister's Hospital.
We waited all night, my wife had contractions all night but actually managed to sleep a few hours after getting first Nubane and then later for an hour after getting the epidural. And she deserved every minute of it...she has done more than I ever give her credit for and probably more than she was supposed to do getting ready for this day.
Me? I couldn't sleep a wink. It sunk in as the night went on, this is it we were going to be parents finally, it was just a matter of when that kid was going to make its final push.
At 6:45 the real work and the hardest part of the process began and my wife was wonderful, because 38 minutes later we had a beautiful baby girl that I can't use enough adjectives to describe her. September 28th, 2009 at 7:23 AM a 7 lb, 3 oz incredibly beautiful girl was born. Hopefully Ill have some video up by the weekend. BBMCategory: Baby Buffalo Girl
Baby Buffalo Girl Very Soon
I haven't written much because we are trying to get everything in place for our new addition to our family. We have a baby buffalo girl on the way, Olivia and my wife is due pretty much any day now.
From putting cribs together to making sure car seats are installed we have been doing all of that over the last couple weeks.
My guess is mid week. Wednesday or Thursday we will have a baby girl in the household. I haven't started to get excited yet becuase quite frankly I've been too damn tired.
This week though I can feel myself starting to get a little more anxious and realizing that this could be the week.
Leave your guesses on THE DAY in the comments section (she is due on October 3rd).
Category: Baby Buffalo Girl
