I’m a bad invalid. I’m feeling better all the time, but I still have to be careful not to walk too much or I’m dizzy enough to fall down. So I’m feeling great and energetic while I’m sitting… but I’m writing checks my body can’t cash. SUCK! So the assumption that I will have to be in bed for at least two weeks was apparently founded. Damnit. Ok, I have actually left the house twice. And the whole next day if I tried to walk for more than about two minutes I slammed into walls as the vertigo hit me. So if I push it I need several days of recovery. I’ll eventually slow down enough to let myself fully recover.

Calli is a sleeper. I feel like I don’t know much of anything about her personality yet. I figure there’s time. 🙂

And then on to the gross body TMI (don’t read if my bowels are over the top for you):

After Shanna’s birth I developed a little problem. When my body was ready to poop I was informed this by having horrible, painful cramps and somewhere between 30 seconds and 2 minutes of notice before poop was coming out no matter where I was or what I was doing. It was really awful. It gradually improved to the point where I had horrible, painful cramps and 2-5 minutes of notice so that I didn’t have to worry (as much) about accidents. This was still just disgusting and awful and I wasn’t happy about it.

I am happy to report that my bowels seem to be reset after Calli’s birth! Whoo! Now I have mild sensations of, “Hmmm going to need to visit the bathroom soon” and then I have to sit there and wait for many minutes until things are good and ready to come out. I feel like an old man needing to settle in with a book in the bathroom and wait for gravity. All in all, I’ll take it. (No, it’s not constipation… it’s just slow moving pipes.)