CAPTAIN BABY
Mad Max & Baby
The 2015 remake of Mad Max is not the most relaxing Friday night movie choice. I had to keep…
February 11, 2016-
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HEART SURGERY1 Year Anniversary!!!
I had planned to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my surgery with a before and after of my scar.…
January 15, 2016 -
RANDOM MUSINGS
Top 4 things I learned from 2015
1. Getting Out Of Bed. Being able to get out of bed unassisted and healthy is a gift more…
January 9, 2016 -
RANDOM MUSINGSperfect leaves.
Fall is arguably the most beautiful time of year; a kaleidoscope of crispness in each dropping leaf. Except…
November 26, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYWe are having a…..
Claudine and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary yesterday. Our 19-week anatomy ultrasound was done around 11am and instead…
November 12, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABY, HEART SURGERYperfect tiny heart chambers
We had our Fetal Cardiac Echocardiogram done today. Several revelations became clear in varying order of importance. They are…
November 10, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABY(not so) Baby Face
Early on in the first few weeks of pregnancy, Claudine woke up to tell me about a ‘horrible nightmare’…
November 5, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABY, HEART SURGERYFetal Heart Echo (echo…echo…echo…echo…)
Claudine got to pee into this jazzy little cup to test blood sugar levels and her risk of gestational…
October 29, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYMurder Salt
Claudine ran across the kitchen vigorously shaking her hands when I was about to add salt to our food.…
October 22, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYBaby cage
Today I assembled our very own baby cage, otherwise known as a crib. It is odd to make a…
October 18, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYTHE 1st TRIMESTER – (vomit central)
Monday July 20th DAY 1….? We both took the day off to relax and enjoy some summery weather in…
September 30, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYEGG LAYING & THE TRANSFER
Tuesday July 14th DAY 24 / EGG LAYING DAY!!! “Hi, I am here to Lay My Eggs” I announce…
September 28, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYTHE PROCESS (IVF)
This is the diary account I kept of all the events during the whole uncertain, volatile and giddying process of doing our…
September 21, 2015 -
CAPTAIN BABYTHE BEGINNING (sort of)
THE BEGINNING (but not even close to the start) 2013 – 2015 This all began at that simple place; the…
September 18, 2015 -
RANDOM MUSINGSBigs & Littles
I have written about, Bintu, my ‘little sister’ in the past and how much joy I have gotten out…
September 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYHorse Pills & Dentists
One major downside to having a new heart valve is the need for this pre-dental antibiotic overload. These horse tranquillizer…
September 10, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYRace Results: We didn’t die!
Despite our assertions that we were not going to drink the night before the race, Trudy had red wine…
August 23, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYWetsuits & Hilarity
The mini triathlon race is tomorrow on Saturday 22nd I did my first open water test swim in the lake…
August 21, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYHow not to train for a Triathlon
The Give-it-A-Tri Triathlon is about 2 weeks away and I have trained with the ferocity of someone who is…
August 7, 2015 -
BOOKS, HEART SURGERYBlue Baby, Orange Tank (my new book!)
It has been exactly 6 months and 1 week since a very skilled team of humans reached inside of…
July 22, 2015 -
RANDOM MUSINGSRoad test failures
I got my drivers permit in 1995. When I moved to Canada 9 years later the blissful inertia of…
July 7, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYThe results are in!
The results are in! The program coordinator for my cardio rehab sent me over my actual stress test results…
June 23, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYNo-stress test
I had my final cardiac rehab exercise stress test at the hospital today. Or as I like to now call…
June 16, 2015 -
RANDOM MUSINGSEarthquakes
This resolutely heavy wooden dresser just did a little dance while the walls moved and groaned with the shaking…
May 21, 2015 -
BOOKSMmmm Publish-ey! (publishing company)
My friend, and preposterously fun business partner, Aefa and I launched a small publishing company last November. Because we…
May 2, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
free chocolate pudding!
12 weeks post op seems to be the magical number for heart surgery recovery. At this point the bones…
April 29, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Internet, I need your help!
I am celebrating 13 weeks post op! And I would like your help on this wonderful landmark of remembering…
April 17, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYGoals Gear
I turned 37 yesterday and it was all shades of excellent. Besides getting
April 14, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYBirthday Pig
“Should I wear these sweatpants?” I asked. “You could. But make your hair high. Like how I like it.”…
April 12, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYChlorine, chlorine, chlorinnneeeeee.
It has been almost 12 weeks since my mum and sister last arrived in Toronto to support me during…
April 7, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYObservations and Blue Ice Cream
My family is in town for the Easter weekend. We really like each other a lot. Apparently. With their…
April 2, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYtriathlon sign up!
My heart is healing like a champ, so I figured the most logical thing for me to do is…
March 24, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Cardiac Rehab – WEEK 4 (Celine)
Celine Dionne signing ‘Power of Love’ came on the speakers at cardiac rehab and I was shocked when the…
March 17, 2015 -
BOOKSBook Reading (Dance-A-Thon and lice)
I did the very first reading of my book at a school today. We had three separate sessions in…
March 12, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYGOALS! (ggggggoals!!!)
Having open-heart surgery is like applying the most luxurious, perfect coat of varnish to the floor, then realising that…
March 11, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYSneezing & Other War Crimes
The first, post surgery sneeze is a horror best to be completely avoided; much like brushing your teeth only…
March 5, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYTurkish Delightful News
Early March can be remarkably good at concealing joy and things to celebrate under the snowy, folds of winter. We…
March 3, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYCARDIO REHAB – WEEK 1
The best part of working out in a hospital is the barrier free access to multitudes of strangers open…
February 25, 2015 -
RANDOM MUSINGS
golden handcuffs
It’s snowing. It’s grey. February dreariness drags down my Sunday mood with tired thoughts; then I remembered a video…
February 22, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYCardiac Rehab & Spirituality
Cardiac rehab clinic exercise stress test was today. I had hoped the program would start with logrolling, sprints, power…
February 20, 2015
