Monday, August 28, 2006
Wow
I was watching the anniversary coverage of Hurricane Katrina with Brian Williams and I realized that I barely knew about this huge hurricane that struck a year ago! I didn't watch the news coverage last year. You're probably thinking,"How inhumane not to take notice of something so severe that affected so many lives & left people starving, homeless, and even dead." right? I mean, I knew about it, but I didn't watch the news.I just couldn't go through yet another catastrophy after giving birth to new life because four years earlier, after my son was born on 09/01/2001, the only thing on television was 911.I thought that the world was coming to an end! Imagine holding this little life in your arms and thinking that he won't get to live because of what is going on in the world. I had no where to go and not much to do. We lived in a small apartment and the news of 911 was on every channel. Mix that with post partem depression and see what you get. It was awful. So, I wasn't going to let a catastrophe take away from the second one! I wanted to feel the joy that mothers are supposed to feel. I didn't watch T.V. while I was on maternity leave. My whole being was about my baby or either nesting like a mama bird. Memories are flooding back to me now. I am just amazed at how little I knew about this catastrophic hurricane that only happened a year ago! I mentioned to my mother that I must have been in my own little world after I had Liza, and her response was that I am always in my own little world...typical response from my mother to me.
Also, after I had Liza,I had a spinal headache and had to go back to the hospital to have them stick me with the big long needle in my spine again! This only happens to 1 out of 100 women after they give birth. Only me. So, maybe I was just not tuned into what was going on in the world. I was living in my own little world with my little baby & I had a killer headache every time I sat up or walked around doing things for days. Finally, it just wouldn't go away after a couple of days, so I went to the Doctor.I had never had a headache that long and it only went away when I was lying on my back. Strange. I sat in the waiting room by myself w/ a newborn and waited and waited until the tears came and then the next thing I knew I was in a wheel chair and being wheeled to a hospital room! The anestheseologists prepped me for the needle to make the spinal headache stop! It was amazing. After ten minutes, the headache was gone. Poof! Gone.
Both of my children were born around the time of great catastrophies. My mother told me that should tell me something. O.K. Mom...another typical comment from my mother....If I ever remarry and decide to have another child...It would have to be born in like March, April, May, June...a less catastrophic month. No August or September!!!!! Plus it's just way too hot to be eight months prego in August!
To get back to my point though...I have given a little history of what was going on with me during the time the hurricane hit New Orleans. If I had been in New Orleans at that time and hadn't gotten out...I would have still had a spinal headache in the super dome. I wonder what went on in the minds of the mothers with small infants. How do you care for babies in the midst of the chaos? I listened as the journalist recounted stories of people looting, crazed looking people, starving people, and dead people lying on the streets! People sacrifice their own safety and lives to act humanely. I am truly touched by this.
I was just mesmerized by this tonight and it just jerked me.
Also, after I had Liza,I had a spinal headache and had to go back to the hospital to have them stick me with the big long needle in my spine again! This only happens to 1 out of 100 women after they give birth. Only me. So, maybe I was just not tuned into what was going on in the world. I was living in my own little world with my little baby & I had a killer headache every time I sat up or walked around doing things for days. Finally, it just wouldn't go away after a couple of days, so I went to the Doctor.I had never had a headache that long and it only went away when I was lying on my back. Strange. I sat in the waiting room by myself w/ a newborn and waited and waited until the tears came and then the next thing I knew I was in a wheel chair and being wheeled to a hospital room! The anestheseologists prepped me for the needle to make the spinal headache stop! It was amazing. After ten minutes, the headache was gone. Poof! Gone.
Both of my children were born around the time of great catastrophies. My mother told me that should tell me something. O.K. Mom...another typical comment from my mother....If I ever remarry and decide to have another child...It would have to be born in like March, April, May, June...a less catastrophic month. No August or September!!!!! Plus it's just way too hot to be eight months prego in August!
To get back to my point though...I have given a little history of what was going on with me during the time the hurricane hit New Orleans. If I had been in New Orleans at that time and hadn't gotten out...I would have still had a spinal headache in the super dome. I wonder what went on in the minds of the mothers with small infants. How do you care for babies in the midst of the chaos? I listened as the journalist recounted stories of people looting, crazed looking people, starving people, and dead people lying on the streets! People sacrifice their own safety and lives to act humanely. I am truly touched by this.
I was just mesmerized by this tonight and it just jerked me.
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