From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Laser Photocoagulation Video

August 30, 2007

Here’s the video of Ella and Emma, better known as Dr. Martin Walker performs Laser Photocoagulation of Communicating Vessels upon Ellen’s womb. It is embedded as YouTube video below, if you can’t see the video follow the other links at the bottom. It has been shortened from the original 15 minute version. Note that it [...]

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Another hurdle successfully leaped

August 30, 2007

Ellen and I stayed at the hospital last night. We are exhausted, both physically and mentally. We both had pretty erratic sleep since we were both worried about our Ella and Emma. We went in for the ultrasound at 8am, and the doctor immediately went looking for Emma’s bladder. If you remember, the lack of [...]

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TTTS Stage 2

August 28, 2007

Ellen and her mom visited the doctor today for an ultrasound checkup. Dr. Peter Wall along with Dr. Martin Walker (the well regarded expert on TTTS) reviewed the ultrasounds and determined that Ellen has slipped into TTTS stage 2. I heard that and I felt a pain struck me hard. I was told to be [...]

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Girls Night Out (well, in for me)

August 27, 2007

A few of my friends arranged a “girls night out” here at the Vortex for me tonight. It turned out to be an awesome idea: we chatted, snacked, painted a few nails. I completely forgot I was on bedrest (and only got up once the whole time). Was a great chance to get to know [...]

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Ellen’s other must have book

August 26, 2007

Apparently, this book describes exactly what Ellen is going thru.   If you haven’t figured it out already, Ellen is a big fan of Dr. Seuss.

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Cross posting status from Facebook and Dodgeball to Twitter

August 26, 2007

With all that’s been happening, I sometimes need a good hour or two of geeking out to help calm the nerves. Recently, I’ve been ranting about how I have to cross post my status to all the different web services I subscribe to namely, Facebook, Dodgeball and Twitter. Well, half the equation has been solved. [...]

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17 Weeks

August 25, 2007

The babies reached a milestone today, theyíve made it once week since we found out we were at risk.  Happy 17 weeks Emma and Ella, keep it up, our first milestone is 24 weeks (7 more weeks to go)

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Happy Hour is really happy!

August 25, 2007
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