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July 31

Mommy's back home! /o/ (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

Woohoo! Marlijne is back home from the hospital again.

Luckily there were no dangers to mommy or the baby. The bleeding had stopped yesterday and all the tests looked okay as well. The doctors suspect that it was the uterus' mucous membrane (slijmvlies in dutch) which had gotten slightly damaged. Mom tells me that this isn't that uncommon with pregnant women and that bleeding may happen with heavy lifting or intercourse.

We're just damn glad that there's no danger and that Marli's back at home again. She felt quite alone at the hospital, even though she had a friendly roommate yesterday (hi Ilona and Juul! take care!).

I learnt one thing about hospitals: time management for the attending staff is completely different from time management in IT.

In IT priority gets assigned as follows: crises, incidents, projects and problems. We deal with the big shit first, then quickly deal with the short and small requests and only then do we get to spend time on our projects and such.

What I noticed in the hospital is that (obviously!) crises get priority, followed by projects only then ending up with incidents. Case in point: the preparation of a whole bunch of beds (taking up at least an hour) gets priority over paperwork that takes five minutes. This is quite annoying to us civies, who're used to different methods... But hey, when in Rome, do as the Romans. :/

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Small update on the mommy-baby situation (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

So far things look alright. The bleeding has gone down to a trickle and this morning's test with the heart monitor also proved that the baby was alright. The doc had a rather intrusive test planned for this afternoon, which got rescheduled to this evening and then till tomorrow.

Since Marli really hates the test and since she's feeling awfully alone in the hospital I've taken tomorrow off from work. Instead I'll be with her in the hospital, helping her through the day. With any luck she can come home tomorrow. *crosses fingers*

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