New Years Eve

This year we received the Best Christmas Gift ever! Madeline Rose Deglow was born on December 21 weighing in at 5 pounds 9 ounces. Janna and Travis are the new proud parents of our first grand child. Mor Mor/Merete/The Danish Princess and Travis were in the birthing room along with 9 other nurses and doctors. As of today Mother and Baby are doing well but will remain in hospital for another 5 to 7 days. Madeline much like Janna was determined that she wanted to come out when she wanted to come out, to hell with all the planning.

This gave me a chance to promote my theory of always including the possibility of kaos in the planning process. I became the man behind the curtain during the final moments of the birthing process. When my feet came too close to entering Janna would yell, 'Don't come in now Dad!' I would back away from the curtain. I ended up having the privilege of seeing our granddaughter within the first 5 minutes of her birth, a thrill I didn't have with our own daughters.

Janna and Travis are now finding out about Hospital NonSense, Mis-Communication, Stupid Rules that even the staff don't like but have to enforce. Down the line when they actually get some rest I might try to get them to write a guest blog on this experience. All in all the staff have been wonderful but until you get caught in this bureaucracy you really have no idea how frustrating it can be.

It is New Years Eve 2010 and here is my personal health update. I am doing well and will have an EKG sometime in the New Year. Dr. Novak is pleased with my progress but wants to see what my Ejection Fraction is like. Other than that NO procedures appear to be in the near future.

Happy New Year Everyone!
(Janna informed me that I had to do an update, so there it is Little Mommy.)