My beautiful grandson was born 16 days ago, on September 9th. He is such an amazing gift, such a blessing
to us all. His birth was induced, by
cervidil and pitocin, at 38 weeks, taking him somewhat early (but at
"term") as a precaution against another stillbirth, and to reduce
parental (and grandparental) anxiety. My
beautiful daughter-in-law had him without any anesthesia, which is pretty
darned amazing for a pitocin-induced delivery!
She was wonderful – they were all wonderful – in seeing us all through
this most wondrous of experiences. My
son and DIL are caring, doting, and loving parents to their gorgeous little
son.
I've been staying with the kids for almost 6 weeks now,
anxious before his birth, and now busy helping out as needed after his
birth. I'm very homesick, and miss my
husband and my home, but these days with my infant grandson are precious and irreplaceable.
Yes, I'm still on prednisone; I've stayed at 7mg throughout
my visit, except to bump it up to 7.5 for the two days of my DIL's induction
(for the stress). Once I'm home and see
my doctor I'll start to slowly taper again; my guess is that I'll be off in a
year if all goes well. That will make it
~3 years total, instead of the one year I initially expected for temporal
arteritis. And, yes, my heart still acts
up with afib when I'm stressed, although in fairly short episodes. Afib has happened fairly frequently this past
few months, which is no surprise. I went
for a stretch of over two months without afib early in the summer, but then the
anxiety I had concerning my DIL's pregnancy, and my tapering, started it up
again. Now that my darling grandson has
been born, and there are just the "normal" worries associated with a
new baby, I think my heart (full of love) will calm down and not bother me as
much. Full of love, what a wonderful
feeling…..
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