This is going to be a very quick post.  I promise I’ll come back and add in all the details later, (funny and otherwise) but for now, I’ll keep it short and sweet. As Nick mentioned, I have had a couple of bad days.  I had several very nauseous spells that were really awful.  I don’t think anyone likes to [...]

Last night went as well as we could hope. Melody slept through from about 1:30am until 6:00am, with only one wake-up. There’s been no more nausea, and the pain level on the smiley-face/frowny-face scale is now hovering around a 4 or 5. The most important thing though, is that the bowel surgeon came in this morning and said two very [...]

Last night was pretty difficult. Melody had a lot of pain, a lot of nausea, and not a lot of sleep. This morning she was still struggling, but trying to snooze as much as possible. I left around 9:30am, handing over the reigns to Melody’s parents for the day. Upon arriving back, i found Melody in 500% better spirits, and [...]

[EDIT: this post used to be 10:25pm Saturday..but i meant Friday....guess the sleep deprivation got to me] Melody’s been up and walking around a few more times, which is good. But just recently she started getting a pretty bad headache, and is now back to being nauseous. Obviously she’s getting some medication for it, but it’s a crappy thing to [...]

Most of this is as described by Melody’s parents, and also Melody. I’ve been at home since around 10:30am when we switched shifts. Melody is feeling much better than this morning, but still not anywhere near 100%. She has been up and walking a little on her own (while holding the rollable IV-drip of course), and has been able to [...]

Long night last night. Melody probably got about 2 hours total sleep by her account. I got about 3 I think, interspersed with waking up to help out, and try to pay attention when the nurses came in. The nurses last night were great. Kristen and Beth were the opposite of what you might assume about graveyard shift staff. They [...]

So…Melody finally made her way back up to her recovery room around 6:20pm. She was pretty drugged up, but in some fairly bad pain (an 8 out of 10 on the smiley to frowny face scale) according to her. She’s a trooper though, and is dealing with it well. She’s allowed to have clear liquids, no food, which includes jello [...]

Details coming thick and fast, but here’s what i know so far. Its 4:53pm right now. She went into surgery at around 1:45pm. She was out of surgery at approximately 3:15pm. I got back from my meeting at 4, and her Mom (Jessie) filled in me in on the details as follows. The surgery went well, although it was more [...]

So…Melody is going into surgery tomorrow, so I’ll be attempting to keep everyone up to date on how everything goes, as quickly as possible. I will be posting here, to the SpawnWatch category, as well as tweeting from the SpawnWatch account, if you follow that. So….good thoughts, good prayers, good whatevers that you do….Melody will appreciate the good [fill-in-the-blank] coming [...]

As promised, here is the end of my previous post.  (I left you with a bit of a teaser, so I guess I must follow-up.) I went back to Dr. B on Monday, June 7th.  The plan was as such: If the cysts were gone, I may be able to go back on the meds and proceed with IUI and [...]