Xpinionated

Today, Mrs. Xpinionated has definitely shown improvement today.  At a cost, however, as she was weakened most of the day and having trouble holding down food. 

Good news is that they have stopped her magnesium drip which was causing her weakness.  The baby still looks good.  She has slowly gotten her strength and appetite back. 

I’ll let you know more……when I know more……

Mrs. Xpinionated is currently on bed rest.  Momma Xpinionated has driven from Indiana to join her which I’m sure is a comfort to both.  Updates on what the doctors are saying will have to come tomorrow as I am dead tired and type this only waiting for a load of clothes to finish. 

I do want to express my sincere and complete gratitude to all of our family, friends, and co-workers (almost redundant since the aforementioned have become extended family and friends if they weren’t considered as such previously) for their prayers, thoughts, and support.  We are extremely lucky to have people like you in our lives.

As I arrived home Tuesday night, I decided to give Mrs. Xpinionated a call because she said I may need to pick her up from work.  To my surprise, a co-worker answers.  My first thought is that Mrs. X had to catch a ride because my cellphone was dead. 

Instead, B (the coworkers Xpinionated alias as of now) tells me that Mrs. X is in the hospital.  She has been bleeding and they need me to get to the hospital as soon as possible. 

Fear, sadness, worry crowded my thinking.  I turn around and start to head out of the neighborhood.  Then I realize I have no idea where the hospital is and my phone is dead.  So I turn back around and go to the house to get instructions.  My mind is racing, my decision making is hindered and I’m about to get on the interstate. 

Amazingly, I was less aggressive than usual.  I kept thinking, I’m no good if I get into an accident, no good in an accident.  I arrive at the hospital and after travelling the Labryinth that is Northside Hospital, I found my wife.. . . . smiling

She was listening to Devin’s heartbeat and that was all she needed to calm down.  I, on the other hand, took a few hours before I could calm down. 

Although we’re not out of the woods, mother and baby are doing well.  Though there is still bleeding, neither appear to be in harm’s way right now.  I’m sleepy but don’t want to go to sleep quite yet.  Her contractions seem to have stopped and I think she is actually sleeping now.  Gonna go . . . .

A glorious Saturday morning to ya!  Devin was quite the active fella the past 14 hours.  We went to see ‘The Departed’ last night (more on that in another post).  Loud theater, lots of gunshots.  We are officially at that point where he will respond to loud noises.  I was literally sitting at the theater with my hand on Momma Xpinionated’s stomach and he was kicking me like he was playing Francis Costello (reference to ‘The Departed’, Costello was Jack Nicholson’s part) in the movie. 

Again this morning, entirely too early but I guess I’ll have to get used to that, Devin was awake and active.  The kicks or punches or elbows or whatever my lil man is doing have definitely gotten stronger.  Kinda amazing really. 

Since I went out on Thursday night to watch the joke that is currently Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s football program, I decided to take a Friday night off.  I told the wife we could go see a movie if she wanted figuring I’d either sit through something I truly had no desire to see, or take a nap — something I have become exceptionally fond of doing in movie theaters (it could be worse, ain’t that right Pee Wee).  To my surprise, the wife picked a movie that she kinda wanted to see but that she thought I would like.  Like, indeed I did.  In fact, loved.

A bad guy-good guy flick with enough headshots to make you think it was a video game instead of a cinema feature.  No cranium was safe, and the best part (in a sick, slightly twisted way) was none of the headshots were expected….and the resulting splatter was grotesquely good. 

Indeed, the only disappointment was a result of incorrect expectations set by Yahoo Movies.  They mentioned the flick was rated ‘R’ for strong sexual content among other things….a woman in her bra and thongs engaged in foreplay is hardly strong sexual content.  Hell, that’s a saturday night at the mall!

I’m not a movie reviewer so don’t expect some intricate analysis of the acting, plot, directing, lighting et cetera and so on.  Actually, don’t expect anything…you’ll never be disappointed that way