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Written by Ian on 2008-03-18 22:13:18 |
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More Maintenance
Yup, the only thing that makes this page is more and more maintenance. This time around geek has finally moved to new hardware, after running on the same dual P3-1Ghz box to something just slightly more modern (not by too much mind you).
Just getting services back up, I assume that I will have everything up and running before the night is through. |
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Written by Ian on 2007-03-01 10:12:50 |
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| Amazingly enough, it seems my maintenance went really well. Flipped DNS and stuff shortly before 1am, my network stopped working at 1 pretty much on the nose, migrated to the new ips and was back on the internet before 1:30am.
So if you notice anything not working, let me know via IM or email....
If anyone is having issues reaching this page via the name rezgeek.com, but can hit it via the ip address, then basically you will have to wait a day or two as the DNS cache expires with the old records :)
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Written by Ian on 2007-03-01 00:17:40 |
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Maintenance Tonight
Will keep this updated, but i'm starting to flip some dns stuff... so expect some stuff to stop working :) |
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Written by Ian on 2006-05-16 10:22:58 |
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The Birth Story: Maya Mae arrives May 12th, 9:45pm
False Start #1 May 5:
We made it to the hospital around 1:45... When you are expecting and head to the hospital you are basically to just go to the labour and delivery ward, no stopping at the Admission desk, or waiting in the emergency ward. So we headed up to labour and delivery and were put into the triage room. The triage is two rooms, with 3 beds a piece, so there are a total of 6 or 7 beds. We ended up having some rather interesting bed fellows around.
There were some sort of crackheads next to us that was enrolled in a methadone program, said that she smoked a pack of cigs a day (down from 2 or 3), was totally slurring. She was 8 months pregnant I heard, and I think she was involved in a minor fender bender the day before, and finally decided to come in and get checked. She had an entourage of 2 or 3 chatty friends, when the triage is supposed to have only the patient and one support person. Upon being told that they could only have one person there with her, they said that they were just waiting for her boyfriend to show up, to which methadone girl said, 'My EXboyfriend!'.... sigh...
At either rate we've been sitting in the triage for 45 mins, and had a nurse come by twice who has said she'd be by in a minute or two. Her contractions seemed to be coming every 3-4 mins and were lasting about a minute in length. The nurse came by and hooked Shelley up to the monitor (baby heart rate and some sort of contraction monitor)... Spends prolly 15-20 mins watching the charts from the machine and basically explains that we likely aren't in labor cause Shelley isn't in seething pain. Says that she'll have the attending doctor come by, take a peek then likely we'll be discharged.
At some point methadone girl managed to talk herself into a shot of morphine for her pain, and by the time that her ex showed up she had already passed out.
Also looking for staff capable of speaking cantonese :)
May 12 5:15am
Shelley woke at about 3:45am to find that her waters had broken. Some waiting and double checking to make sure that it had indeed broke, a shower for me and some primping for her, and off to the hospital we went.
We arrived in the hospital at 5:15am, and were put back into the triage room. It was fairly empty at the the time. We were at the hospital for about an hour and a half, got put back on the monitors, had a physical exam and told that we were only 3cm dialated and that basically we would be best off heading home for a bit as long as the pain was manageable. At either rate they wanted to see us back by the latest of 4pm if we were able to stay out of the hospital for that long. If the contractions started getting closer together or intensified in pain, we were to get back to the hospital, otherwise back in 12 hours due to possible infection issues with the water breaking.
We were both hungry so we left. Started our way home planning on getting us some breakfest. We were going to goto Ricky's for breakie but by the time we got up there Shelley was ready to head back to the hospital. We ended up snagging some McD's and headed back. Traffic on the way back was sort of bad as it was around 7-7:30....
We made it back to the hospital and checked in at 7:45am... Got put back in the same triage room as before, and now it almost seems even emptier than before. We had been told that they were going to get us a labour room as soon as possible even though the doctor kept saying that we were at 3cms. Its 10:20am now, we have been officially admitted as I had to take the paper work down to the front desk. Shelley is doing awesome, is breathing well and hopefully got a little rest in between contractions and nurse visits. Shelley is experiencing pretty bad back labour, that I am trying to counteract with either pressure on the back, or massaging the lower back. Trying to cope with labour pain seems to be half distraction and half focus. Hoping to get into a delivery room soon so that she can get in the shower.
At 12:12pm she is still doing ok, no birthing room yet. She seems to be at 1.5 min - 2 min contractions and about 3.5-4 mins apart. Shelley is doing quite well with the pain but is starting to consider some sort of pain relief. Hopefully have someone back through to assess how far along she is. At some point we end up using the shower in the triage room, which seems to help quite a bit with Shelley's pain.
By 3pm, after talking to the doctors about our options for pain, they talked nitrous oxide, but mentioned it wouldn't likely be much help to her given the baby is face up, and we weren't keen on any narcotic avenue. The doctor seriously recommends an epidural, given the heavy back labour she is experiencing. I personally was a bit fearful of an epidural given our birthing classes. Our instructor is very heavily biased towards natural child birth and basically says that when you end up with an epidural you can't walk around anymore so it often stops the progression of your labour. With no way to help progress your own labour by walking, you are often left having to take something to make it progress which usually causes the contractions to hurt more. At either rate, the instructor had basically made me get to the point where I believed epidural = C Section, or if not really straight to C section, you might as well just do C rather than sturggle through all these other methods of progressing the delivery just to hit a road block and have to C section anyways.
Beyond the pain, we weren't really progressing, at now a generous 4cm, they say that they want to use Oxytosen to help move things around. Oxytosen will bring on more contractions and help Shelley dialate. Given her pain levels already, the lack of sleep and nutrition that we found ourselves in, the docstors were advocating an epidural. All the docs ended up tied up in two emergency c sections. Shelley is tired, and wants to sleep. Seems like the staff is totally striped down cause of these two emergency c's.... Shelley is definitely looking for pain relief, and I can't blame her at all.
We were supposed to be put in our own delivery room an hour ago (2pm), til the emergencies popped up. It would be nice to have music and be able to relax and settle in a bit. Triage has been good up til like an hour ago... What was 7 beds, with only us here, has turned into 7 full beds, and so many people making phones and getting calls at their beds.
Moved into our own room sometime around 4pm, or maybe a bit later. The epidural definitely is a pretty big ordeal. I had to basically hold Shelley while she was bent over while he was prepping her. He contaminated some part of it, so he had to start over... Seemed like I was holding her up forever. Epi was prolly done by 5pm, with Shelley getting lots of relaxation and even a nap.
*** Let me just interject at this point, so far the day has been sort of miserable, the only thing really keeping it bright is knowing that we will have a baby at some point in the next day. The night before, Shelley had quite a hormonal twist and was quite upset over not having Maya already. We had eaten supper probably around 6pm on the 11th, and gotten to sleep around 1am, only to have the waters break at 3:45am and the only sustinance she got into her was some McD's hashbrowns. So we were drained to say the least, running on fumes both sleep wise and nutrition wise. Beyond even that though, Shelley was is the most dreadful pain ever for 2 out of every 4-5 minutes. I was doing my best distraction wise, massaging wise, whatever wise... To say the least, neither of us were having any fun at all. And I had the easier job, just having to massage and stuff, and even I was hitting the end by 4pm. After the epidural was done, and it kicked in Shelley was able to get some sleep, I was able to go get something to eat and take a bit of a rest. The epidural was THE turning point in our delivery. It made it the mood lighter, gave both of us the relief we needed and made it fun to have a baby.
Back to delivery, we took the epidural with the thought that now bedridden that Shelley would also be put on an Oxytosen drip. To help keep the epidural effective on both sides of Shelley's body they made her rollover... At the same time they started up the oxytosen drive. Baby's heart rate dropped from 140 to 80.. Now I will say that these heart monitors are pretty flakey and will end up picking up the mother's heart over the baby's at times... The nurse said it was the baby's though. So she told Shelley to roll back over and as quickly as she had turned the oxytosen on, it was turned back off, so maybe a drip or two might have made it through. Docs swarmed the room, and by then the heart rate had already bounced back. She's at 6cm now, or a more liberal 7cm.
(5:30ish)
So anyways, Shelley got relaxation and I got a break... Also I got to feed myself. While eating in the Caf I saw a whole bunch of security guards running around. I went back up to check on Shelley after eating, and she said I should go make some more calls and get baby's bag from the car. So now there were a half a dozen cop cars in front of the hospital. Also a body under a blanket. I was figuring drive by or body dump, stabbing... They were keeping people moving in front of the hospital, no one could stand around and gawk for too long. I asked the nurses in labour and delivery and most of them weren't too aware of what was going.
Apparently one of the guys that was bring his wife into the triage saw a guy jump from the hospital and land on the pavement.
Pretty crazy day here :) (6:24pm)
To be honest here, between 6 and 8 pm I can't really remember anything super noteworthy going on. We were relaxed, listening to music on the laptop (thought we'd be able to use the tape adapter thing and have the music play through a boombox, but for some reason it refused to work), I wrote up some of the above, Shelley was writing in her journal, and there were docs coming by every so often to check the cervix dialation...
I believe it was sometime around 8pm that the nurse informed us that we were ready to start pushing. We worked through a number of different positions to push in, doctors came by again to assess the progress and mentioned that perhaps the birthing stool (think like a toilet bowl type sitting position, with legs further apart) would be a good thing for Shelley to give a try to. I think at that point there was a little concern that it wasn't going as well as it should.
So Shelley sat on the birthing stool and was pushing hard every 3-5 minutes, I think she was on the stool for over 30 minutes, which is impressive in and of itself, not only did it look uncomfortable, but with an epidural one really should not be able to hold oneself up for that amount of time. When the doctors came back, they were really impressed with how she had progressed, moving baby from 0 station to +2. They got their scrubs on, Shelley changed to another position, and we got the final show on the road so to speak.
I was quite surprised that I wanted to take in all the visuals that I did. Going into it I was sure I did not want to be looking down at the nether regions, watching the crowning, looking at the placenta etc etc... I took it all in. I was quite impressed with how much I felt involved in the delivery and helping Shelley push. I was putting all my force into helping Shelley push by basically helping force a situp. By the end I had both arms behind her back and shoulders helping her push that baby out.
Baby's head finally popped out sometime around 9:40pm, then the doctor turned her head and delivered one shoulder, and then the other, and out and onto Shelley's chest baby went. 9:45pm Maya Mae was born, awake, and alert and with a hell of a scream. We both sat there staring into baby's eyes for quite a while afterwards... They gave Shelley a shot of Oxytosen as it is supposed to help with the delivery of the placenta, and that actually delivered very shortly after Maya's birth, probably within 5 or 10 minutes.
About 30 minutes after, I got to hold Maya, and I placed her skin to skin on my chest for about 20 minutes :)
So Maya was weighed (7 pounds, 6 ounces), measured (20.5 inches), poked (vitamin K shot) and eye gooped... My mom ending up popping by and getting a visit in with the newborn while Shelley got into the shower and I helped clean her up. We were transferred over to postpartum at about midnight.
I made a food run down to the cafetaria again, and brought back some cheeseburgers, fries and salad for us to gorge ourselves on.
Maya got carted off for her first bath at about 1:40am. Made plenty of funny faces and got a good cleaning from the nurse.
So all ends well, I ended up leaving the hospital at about 2:30, 2:45am and made my way home. Made a few phone calls, had a bath and a beer and promptly went to bed and passed out :)
My end recommendations for child birth:
- Make sure to get lots of sleep leading up to your due date.
- Also try and eat before you go to the hospital.
- Wear your most comfortable shoes, I should have been wearing my Nike's, but went in wearing my Docs, while comfortable are not something you want to be in for 24 hours.
- Keep an open mind about epidurals, I'm all for natural childbirth, and yes childbirth is not supposed to be easy, but being absolutely miserable is no way to bring a child into the world.
- Enjoy it, keep a pad of paper around to keep track of the time and events as they pass.
Lots of pics of course in the gallery.
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Written by Ian on 2006-05-04 17:09:25 |
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Ok new drive is in, I will be putting a newer OS on the box later on tonight (9-10pm) that may sort of mix stuff up for a bit, but I should have it all straightened out before I go to bed.
I will be pulling my unregular account maintenance, purging accounts that I don't believe are active any more. Let me know if your loginid doesn't work tomorrow and I'll reestablish your account. |
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Written by Ian on 2006-05-04 15:14:54 |
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Of course more system information, since that's all that seems to get posted here. Geek is still having some issues with it's harddrives so I purchased a new one today and am in the middle of copying alot of stuff around. So you expect that I will be taking the machine down again today.
So yeah, also have baby on the way any day now, today, or sometime in the next week. Hopefully I can finish upgrading geek before baby pops :) |
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Written by Ian on 2006-03-29 09:24:26 |
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Hey everyone :)
So some great news (queue eye rolling smiley), I've got the forums back up and running. The once inactivity forum is back to serve us all again. You won't be able to post without signing up, but come on by and say hi in a more interactive manner than leaving your name in the guestbook.
Link is on the side or click here. |
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Written by Ian on 2006-03-06 10:51:20 |
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| So everything seems to be ok for now, I will probably need to start looking into getting a new home drive for us, as atleast we can take this as a good warning to back stuff up :) Toss me an email if you continue to have any issues. |
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Written by Ian on 2006-03-06 09:40:01 |
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So yeah, Geek is currently experiencing a harddrive crash, but it's too early to know whether or not I'm going to lose it or not. Email is currently offline, and hopefully after I'm done backing up a small chunk of data, a reboot will set this machine straight....
That being said, if a reboot does save this, it's likely just a small reprieve before the big final crash... so we are all likely going to have to do some home directory cleaning so I can migrate us to a new harddrive...
Be back with more info later... oh and I never meant to leave this be for so long, we are having a girl :) |
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Written by Ian on 2005-12-16 17:51:48 |
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It's a boy, no wait it's a girl, no wait...
We had our ultrasound today, everything looking great. Here is the video of the ultra sound, windows media player version 9 format.
How do you keep a turkey in suspense??? I'll tell you tomorrow... |
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Written by Ian on 2005-11-11 14:24:58 |
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Just as a quick note, the contact us link was not working properly for this page, so no email would have been received if you sent through it. The one on the wedding site works just fine though, so if you used the contact us on wedding.rezgeek.com, we should have received that.
*** So yeah, no more contact us, email us, cause of webbots exploiting it and emailling me all the time... so yeah, as the page says, ian at rezgeek.com will get you to me... we'll see if they can exploit that written in text too.
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Written by Ian on 2005-10-20 10:35:28 |
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Ah yes how the seasons pass :)
So things have finally settled down, we will hopefully be getting our thank you cards out in the mail in the next month or so... Things have definitely been a bit crazy. All of our pictures from the honeymoon and wedding, including the professional photographs are now up in the gallery, you can find them here.
In related what's going on with Shelley and Ian news, we have a big announcement to make.... We're PREGNANT! :) So we have a little bundle of joy on the way, and if everything goes right, we should be looking at adding another to our household sometime in mid-May of next year.
Beyond that happy news, I'm also announcing shutting down the forums here for geek... They had fallen into unuse, and now all I ever get from them is spambots signing up for accounts to put crap into forums, which in turn means I'm getting spammed. At either rate, they are something that may return later, but for the time being if you want to say something to me, hit the contact us button on the side, or leave me a note in the guest book.
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Written by Ian on 2005-08-10 09:54:14 |
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| Just a quick blurb... Our wedding has now come and gone, just wanted to say thanks to all that could attend. There is a bit of a write up on Wedding.rezgeek.com, and of course many pictures in the photo gallery.
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Written by Ian on 2005-04-07 22:45:26 |
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Sorry about tonight's unplanned outage. This should be the end of it. The final moving of hardware and net connections was done tonight so short of bringing up the Telus connection again (which isn't likely) we should be all done with the switchover.
There are a couple sites that I host that are currently offline, but you guys really have to get your domains updated to point at the new nameserver, ns1.rezgeek.com - 68.147.192.195. Sorry I couldn't keep both connections up at the same time, but most of it has been migrated and the other connection is just complicating things.
That being said, if there is anything else left that you find is broken, email me, either on the contact us link on the right or at my email address.
thanks for you patience :p
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Written by Ian on 2005-04-06 11:52:39 |
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Just a word to those that maybe ended up at this page instead of where they expected to be. I'm currently in the middle of changing over my internet connection. At some point you have to take a hit on this thing called DNS caching. Basically servers on the internet will keep track of where a site is for a duration of time, and if it changes... well it may still send you to the old site.
So if you were expecting the Calgary Outdoor Club forums, or any number of other sites, just give it a little bit of time, it will all fix itself up shortly.
Thanks,
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Written by Ian on 2005-04-05 15:05:09 |
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Ok before I get too distracted. Yes we have a new webpage in it's beginning here. I'm ripping it off of my wedding site that I coded (wedding.rezgeek.com).
Anyways, I'm in the middle of transferring geek off of aDSL to cable. I'm done with Telus. I'm moving over to vonage so my phone bill can go back to the 20$ it used to be 10 years ago.
Anyways, if you rely on me for any type of email, domain hosting, dns shiznit, and I have not gotten ahold of you already, well, get in touch with me. The contact form on the left works, or you should know my email address. This page will get cleaned up over the next week hopefully, and I imagine I'll be totally transferred to cable by next monday (with any luck)...
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