My Update

Ok so here's a quick update with me...a down and dirty and the low down…its not pretty…not ugly either but here it is. I am going for surgery on Wednesday. I am going to meet with the anesthesiologist tomorrow for presurgery workup. I am expected to be in the hospital for 8-9 days and in ICU for the first 2 days. Feeding tube for a month. Expected to eat after day 5 or 6 but small small meals. I am going to maintain the feeding tube to make sure that I can maintain nutrition during chemotherapy. Um they are going to take just above the tumor and just below…so that equates to some esophagus and some stomach and everything in between. They are going in my stomach and in by my clavicle…not sure how that all works out but he’s done it quite a few times and wasn’t going to question it. He’s done well over a hundred of these surgeries and I am the youngest he’s ever done it on. 5 out of every 100 die due to complication s of one type or another. I intend to be one of the 95. So that pretty much covers it, quick and clean. I'll be at Yale Hospital and the surgeon has been doing his job longer than I've been alive. He is the Chief of Surgery for Yale New Haven and as far as I'm concerned there is nobody in the world I want to do it more than him. Well I would do it but sees as I'm going under the knife I'm not much of a candidate. Well again thats the long and the short of it.

Its a Girl!!!!!

Ok so here it is. I am sitting here in front of the computer 5 beers down, at least one to go. I haven't blogged in at least an eon and I have so much to potentially say I just may be here till the sun comes up. Thats another 5 hours for those wondering. It's A Girl. Sedona Rae Fredrick. We're excited, I know I'm excited. I can't wait to be a daddy. I went to the library the other day and went to the kids section. Got the book Oh The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss. I read it to the baby before Preggers went to sleep. Heck I figure I have to get my reading skills perfected before the baby is born. That and flipping pancakes. I have to get a griddle for that though....I realized that its still a few years down the road but I'm gonna start learning to flip them now. Ok I'm gonna eat a string cheese to go with my beer while I type up this atrociously long blog. Ok about Sedona.


Preggers and I went to her 2nd Ultrasound, and the lady was lookin around and checkin things out. I told her if you don't know 100 percent what you're lookin at don't guess. She says oh I know what it is. Its a girl! If I could've been more excited you'd never have known it. I was jumpin around pumpin my fist in the air and doin a dance. I was so excited. EVERYONE else knew it was a boy. The baby is sittin high or it's her complexion or blah blah blah. Eat it! Its a girl. HA! I guess thats what I have to say to that. I actually didn't think I'd get the girl. I figured that I should be thankful for the fact that we got pregnant so quickly, and I should prepare for the fact that because I wanted a girl I was gonna get a boy. But so far I'm battin a thousand. What next I wonder? The world may never know. Tomorrow is an Appointment with the OB and I'll meet him for the first time and another ultrasound to check Sedona's heart. We couldn't see it last time because Sedona's back was facing Pregger's front. So yet another free ultrasound to check on the baby. Woohoo.

Ok so we've registered for Sedona. We registered at Babies R Us. I can't belive how much fun that was. It really was fun. It took a long time and Preggers hates shopping but it was fun. Its under Sarah Fredrick and um I hope that we thought of most everything. If not then please feel free to let me know what we missed so that I can put it on the list. We're kinda new to the whole thing anyway. Well thats about it for the ITS A GIRL blog. Sorry for taking so long to update.