Expedition 5280: Sick Steve

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sick Steve

April was a really fun month! Steve came down with a horrible "bug" or stomach/intestinal virus that sent him to the after hours care at Kaiser.

While there, he experienced his first ever IV as they pumped him with 2 liters of fluid. Arriving home somewhere around 3 AM, we both took the next day off. The nurses were concerned that I would come down with it- being el preggo, people seem to care a whole lot more for your well being.

I sterilized the house, so I thought, but the next week, I came down with the exact same bug. Unfortunately, it happened much later and he needed to take me to the ER. On the bright side, it's the same hospital we'll deliver at, so it was like a practice trial. Also, they wanted to check out the baby and make sure it was handling my sickness well. Thus, we received an unexpected ultrasound (16 weeks- you usually only get them at 8 and 20). They discharged me after giving me 4 liters of fluids.

Steve was an AMAZING husband through my sickness! He held me up so I wouldn't pass out while puking and carried my IV bag to use the lavatory. The whole time he went above and beyond!

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A Recent Rare Phenomenon

Last night we were at a local coffee shop with some friends. While sitting by the widow, we noticed that it had unexpectedly begun snowing. A few minutes later we all looked up to notice bright flashes, similar to that from a camera flash reflecting in the window. Since you never see lightning (or hear thunder) during a snow storm we all looked around for the abnoxiously bright flash from someones camera. It was nowhere to be found. Next thing we hear the boom of thunder and immediately car alarms start sounding. At this point we all look outside to see what looks like hail....but its not. It is simply pea sized snowballs that are falling like rocks from the sky. Needless to say, this was the first time any of us had experienced anything like this. The snowballs were not hard but soft...just like snow. The lightning and thunder continued for a while longer, as most everyone who was in the coffee shop either was glued to the windows or went outside for closer inspection. Bethany, who was sitting with our group, said that she had heard something like this happening before and said it was called a "thundersnow storm". Well, it is a true and rare event that is even more rare in a "land locked" state like Colorado. Here is the local newspaper headline from the Rocky Mountain News: "We were enjoying the lights, sights and sounds of a thundersnow that rolled through downtown around 9:30 p.m. And, we didn't make up that word thundersnow, either. It's a real, but rare phenomenon (and very rare in landlocked Colorado), according to a quickie Google search. In the simplest of terms, cold air meets warm air. As those two air masses interact, it causes friction, or a convection (up- and-down movement of air), which if violent enough, can cause lightning and thunder".

If you are still interested, check out the Wikipedia article for it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow