Kate is pregnant, fiscal cliff, these kind of big issues need to be addressed by a serious roundtable. Or someone at a roundtable. An oblong table. Someone sitting.
Last Sunday I was so disappointed by the rubes the political shows had on. I figured my 7 year old would be a better pundit. So, I saw my chance on a recent outing to a play space.
sorry not funny this one…
A few years ago if I was in Ireland I would have died.
I would have never went on to have Rex. My daughter would be raised without a mother.
My husband would be a widower.
When I was about 16 weeks pregnant when I miscarried. The woman in Ireland who died had miscarried at 17 weeks. The first couple of days I didn’t feel that different physically. Emotionally I was a wreck. The baby to be was a little girl. They had said she was healthy. I had made a long list of names. We had told my stepchildren about her.
Guided by denial and bad advice I didn’t immediately get a D and C. Instead I hemorrhaged in the Ferry Building in San Francisco, in a hotel, in Napa. I wore 3 adult diapers on the flight back home, after my doctor screamed at me to come home, that were soaked with blood. I went into a very painful labor.
I was rushed to the ER. I have NEVER felt that kind of pain. I was screaming, “please help me, please help me.” as I was put under. I woke up hours later still screaming for help, but soon realized the absence of pain in my body. The absence of the fetus that was going to be my second daughter. I didn’t mourn her at that moment, I was so happy to be free of pain and alive. I was hooked up to a packet of blood. I had lost so much blood I was getting transfusions ( thank you nameless people who donated your blood).
I was very weak. People needed to help me with Vivien. I was also starting to get very emotional about having lost the baby.
the video I did about the aftermath back in ’08
However, I was alive. I lived and because of that Rex lived.
IF I was in Ireland I could have died, or any of the backward countries who put religion, politics, and all the rest disguised misogyny BEFORE the health of a women.
IF you have not yet read the story of this woman who died in Ireland, please do so now. This is a human rights issue. The media is making me CRAZY. They say she was denied an “abortion”. That is a political term for dilation and curattage. She had had a miscarriage. The doctors refused to do a D and C. This lovely woman could have been like me. She could have lived. She could have gone on to have a healthy pregnancy.
I’m so glad I live in America. I’m so glad that we have an awareness of not letting religion dominate our laws. Have the Anti Choice brigade made inroads to limit reproductive freedom here like in Kansas? Yes, sadly they have. It’s up to us to make sure that it doesn’t go further.
A doctor should do what he needs to do in order to save his patient. Not to please a deity.
Just another mom at home and who wants to talk about the news or pretend she still works in broadcasting.
Yeah, well, it’s not the radio, but since that is where I was born ( media wise) I’m calling it that. Just a quick little news of the world..or of me.
Okay, I made it harder this year, sorry, but let’s streamline the process. I have cut out two of the nominees because they have gotten no votes and or lower views. So, Here watch the remaining choices for BEST TOPICAL COOL MOM VIDEO OF 2011. The in the COMMENT section say which one you like. On Thursday I will do the same for the Overal Funny Category. Okay. So now, click play.
Thank you
Did you think awards season was over? Oh, no. Enough with the Oscars and those other amateurs. Now it’s time to judge the best of a tiny web series made in a women’s house!!
It’s time for the 2nd annual Cool Mom Awards. Now, this is will require you do a little work, but it will be fun! I need you to look at three playlist. They will go quickly and since this is the best of the best of Cool Mom I think you will enjoy it. Perhaps you missed some over the last year. Now, is your chance to catch up on the best of Cool Mom. The nominees were based on very scientific subjective criteria.
1) video views
2) comments
3) what still made me and my producer Michelle laugh.
Okay, watch this vid and then click on the playlists and VOTE. Please leave your votes here.
We are all stars!!
BEST TOPICAL
( about 14 min)
Best Videos with Mark ( about 3 min)
BEST OVERALL FUNNY
(running time about 9 min)
I’m hoping for a star studded award show when the winner’s are announced!!!
Please vote for your faves in the three categories. Enjoy watching the best of Coolmom’11. I know I did!
Thanks.
Sure, lots of left leaning folks watched in horror as Mayor Bloomberg cleared the campers of Occupy Wall Street. I’m 100% with the 99% and its message against economic inequality and politics spooning big banks while hustle for a hand holding. But when you have someone who is demanding, sleeps, eats and poops all in the same place, well, one can get frustrated.
Maybe this “‘movement” will mature or at least try the potty?
Our Reporter Daphne Brogdon is standing by, Daphne?
Oh, yes, when the big guy drops by your house you have to keep him there for more. In my continued attempt to bring my salute (parody) to TV chat shows I am fortunate to have President Obama come and sit on my couch.
You know what? He is as human as any of us.
Note: this Obama was all improvised and I think really gets the flavor of how the President tries to frame things.
So many ways to take this. You can get all Nancy Grace and dole out your contempt to those who transgress, or weep at a story of a dead solider or lost child.
Some stories are too far away to be relatable and some make little logical sense. This morning, a picture of an Afghan solider caused me to think, “Wow, he sure looks like Josh Brolin with a receding hairline.
How do you personalize the news?
Yes, it’s true, he is still dead. No video has been released. Take that, conspiracy theorists. It was kind of a big story a while back. It even eclipsed the royal wedding. Was there a honeymoon? No one cared. The question was, “was there a picture of dead Bin Laden?”
Visions of his bullet-blasted brain filled the imagination, but President Obama decided no one would see it. Yes, they did take a picture, but no, they would not release it to the public. Not even in that fuzzy sort of way like when they blurred out the picture of Schwarzenegger’s love child, but five seconds on the internet and you could find it unfuzzed (yes, I did, I’m not proud).
I would like to talk the President about this. If only he would stop by my house…