Trentadue Winery Wedding, Allison + Dustin

Trentadue Winery Wedding, Allison + Dustin

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This is my daughter Lori's Photography!

While hanging upside down.....

Last year I injured my back and ended up having 2 Epidural Steroid Injections and Physical Therapy for 4 months. (couldn't work either.) So yesterday when I felt the twinges and nerve symptoms start, I was concerned. My remedy: Do what I was taught in Physical Therapy. I was extremely lucky my therapist Amber was such a good instructor. (Ok I learned to understand my body,too.) I did my pelvic rock, extended my legs and realized my R leg was shorter, and my R hip was rotated forward. This has happened before so I didn't panic. After stretching, I decided to "HANG" on my inverter in the garage.


With my feet and ankles secure I floated backwards. It was then that I thought I heard a knock at the front door. Immediately I stilled my breathing and LISTENED....All I heard was the wind blowing against the garage door and some creaking noises. Silly me! But my next thought was....


Is someone in my house? As my heart started racing, I thought about what I would do. OK, I could hit the garage door button and run out yelling FIRE FIRE !! Then I chided myself about reading too many murder mysteries lately (thanks to author Lisa Gardner) and thought better about my reading choices. As I was laughing "quitely" to myself, I heard the knob on the inside house/garage door jiggle while simultaneously hearing a man's voice.....Catapulting forward with my feet still locked in, I turned my head and screamed!


I don't know who screamed louder my husband or me!


My husband and I agree on the following:


1. Don't "HANG" naked...you never known if someone will come to visit.


2. He must announce his arrival even if he thinks I'm sleeping.


Finally....Thank God! He didn't use the automatic garage door!

How I stopped being a Sympathetic Vomitter.

As a mother, I cleaned up my fair share of vomit,etc. But when I became a nurse, I found some body functions troublesome. I never minded if women urinated while pushing. Or even if they had a bowel movement. It never bothered me to change their pads after delivery..blood never got to me either. But vomit.....I was always fighting with myself not to grab an emesis basin and join the patient. This story is about how I was cured of this malady.


I was working night shift(6:30pm-7:am) at a community hospital that averaged 80 deliveries/month. (1999)This particular night we were "blitzing"....meaning we had a full house...babies, babies everywhere! I had just finished recovering my last labor patient @ 1:30am when one of the nurses asked me to break her.


As luck would have it,her patient was ready to push. (She had an epidural, no pain, but could feel the pressure of the baby's head) After she pushed for 1 contraction she yelled: "I'm going to vomit!" Frantically I looked around for an emesis basin or a cylinder....None in sight! In a flash her partner handed her THE BEDPAN! She started gagging, and proceeded to spew fluid and moan something that reminded me of The Exorcist. Quickly,I ran to the stocked closet in the room, grabbed a cylinder,and handed it to her boyfriend. Instead of giving it to her, he took it and started to vomit into it. For a moment I was stunned! Two people vomitting at the same time! And I never felt the urge to join them! I cleaned everything up and NEVER gagged. It was then and there I got over my urge to join a patient, their family, or friends in this activity.

MY PASSION

Working as a Labor and Delivery nurse for 24 years, I felt blessed and honored to assist women, and their families in the birth of their child(children). Hearing a newborn cry, witnessing a family's joy always touched me deeply. As well, when I was asked to assist women, and their family in delivering a "baby born asleep", their pain and anguish cut like a knife. Throughout all these experiences, I knew this was my passion, my calling in life.


Then I joined Antepartum Testing, and my PASSION grew. I love performing ultrasounds on the fetus'. I love showing the "moms" what their baby is doing.(kicking, sucking, practice breathing)


But most of all I love the following: witnessing the "circle of life"; recognizing we are created equal (can't tell race,religion etc. on ultrasound); and LIFE is a MIRACLE.