extreme unicycling

i rep the fact that i can ride a unicycle.  yep, the UNI can ride a unicycle.  BUT, by no means, can i do any of this.

make sure you check the picnic table sickness at 0:46 seconds.

someone's gettin a pay cut

i leave these guys for a few days so i can take care of my wife and new baby and this is what goes down. this used to be a pallet full of beautifully stacked chairs. now? It's Larry Larrington getting a PAY CUT! hahaha

home at last

Well, we finally made it home yesterday.  Jamie can barely walk.  Besides the big incision in her belly, she's got a hole in her spine.  Kind of.  Before the C-section they did a spinal tap to see if they can find what is going on with her.  Because of all the different things they are searching for, they needed to take a lot of spinal fluid, which in tern means using a BIGGER needle.  This big needle naturally caused a big hole, which makes some of her spinal fluid leak out of where it should be.  Spinal fluid acts as a cushion for the brain, and without as much as you need, the brain sags.

what it means? 

killer headache.

the fix?

deal with it.

it could take weeks to fully heal and replenish itself.  yes WEEKS.

Anyway, all of the blood work that Dr. Gaito did came back negative.  We are still leaning towards Lyme Disease (neurological lyme to be exact), But Dr. Gaito does not want to start any treatment until she can be more sure, therefore we must wait for all of the results of the spinal tap, which of course. . .

may take weeks.

*if you're not aware, lyme can very often show a false-negative because of the shoddy testing available at this time. it's often clinically diagnosed/treated, but we need to make sure all other diagnoses are tested to prevent misdiagnosing and mistreating.  

there is currently a major controversy concerning lyme.

for more information: 

see here for the truth.

see here for the lies.

oh no! my nose! it's HUGE!!!!!!!

Caleb's newfound talent. . . photography

I'd say he's got an eye for this.  A natural talent if you will.  Mind you, he maxed out my memory card in about 11 minutes, but he got a few 'keepers'.

Taylor and Jonah

Jonah already gets to hang out with his new cousin from Michigan. luckyyyyyy.

wake me up before you go go

This kid is awesome. He loves to sleep. He's starting to love to eat, though he's miles away from eating like my Noah, and he loves to poop. I think we'll keep him around.

took a shower, uploaded some pics.

I ran home quick to shower, and to use the long lost internet.  I uploaded some pics here.

If you don't know that the blue 'here' means to click on it, then here. . .

http://gallery.me.com/jivetheuniversal/100031

the safe zone

Jonah has had enough consecutive blood sugar tests in the safe zone that he no longer needs to be monitored for it. God is good. He just kept down the most amount of food yet as well. Hopefully he continues to eat and continues to grow and mature in a timely manner. Also, if you'd like to stop by to say hi, give one of us a call or a text.

my your eyes look concerned

well, Jonah seems to be doin pretty well so far. He already sleeps way more than Noah did. The main concern right now is his blood sugar. It's not critically low, but It's low enough to be concerned. The best way to get it up and stabilized is to get him to eat. however, because he's young (early) he's having trouble figuring out how to suck. Until he gets it down they have to constantly stick him with this diabetes blood tester thing. His heal is all soar and bruised now. We're still happy and positive as things could be way worse, but as anyone would, we look forward to the normal health of our new addition.

welcome to the world lil man.

Jonah Thomas Hemberger! arrived at 10:31 this morning. 6lbs 10.5oz and 18.5 inches. All is well so far. Of course there is no wireless internet here so i can't post any real pics till mr. macbook can find some wifi.

it's a life decision, and its not my life.

Here's the deal.  Jamie has been having a rough time during this pregnancy, almost definitely NOT pregnancy related either.  No one knows what's going on with her, therefore no one knows how it's affecting the baby.  It was recommended to take the baby (via C-section) early, so further testing can be done on Jamie, and the baby can be (potentially) out of harms way.

Okay, great. 

No.

First, an amnio needed to be done to make sure the baby's lungs are ready.  Now we get tricky.  2 typical tests are run to determine the maturity of the lungs. . . the L/S ratio and the presence of PG.  

Best case -  (baby is positively ready) - L/S ratio is above 1.9 AND they find this PG stuff.  

Worst case (which means wait longer) - low L/S ratio and negative PG.  

Rare case - (sometimes fine, sometimes lung issues) - low L/S ratio but positive PG

Jamie's case - 2.2 L/S ratio (more than fine) but NEGATIVE PG!!!!!!

of course.  this is super rare, and super typical of Jamie.

Anyway, this puts us in a position to have to make a decision.  Which gray area is worse?

Take the baby early as planned and risk immature lungs?

Wait another week and potentially harm the baby more with Jamie's mystery disease?

i'm not asking for your opinion, actually, keep it to yourself.

We prayed, we talked, we decided.

We're going to have this baby tomorrow.  And by tomorrow, i mean 9 am.

your prayers are welcomed and encouraged.

I'll try to update here as soon and as often as i can, probably via cell phone.

if you were wondering what L/S ratio and PG stand for, here you go.

awwwwwwwwwww

and so do i.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

i'd say she's ready. i'd hesitate to say "we're" ready.

that is one. big. belly. babe.

cupcakes.

I'm not quite sure the reasoning behind the plateless cupcake eating, but it sure made for some pics worth posting.  

i'm hangin my food from a tree from now on

So there i am, sittin on my porch with Wifington, eating some steak, minding my own business, when 2 cars slam on their brakes on Rt.46  right in front of my house.  They immediately reverse and start coming up my driveway. . . very slowly.   I stand up to analyze the shadiness, and what comes walking up ahead of them!?!?!?!?  a bear.   I mean, A BEAR!!!!  This thing was a monster.  I'm talking - up to my chest - big.  Up to my chest while he (she?) was on all fours big.  I almost pooped myself.  

He looked up at us, i was certain he was gonna smell the delicious meal i grilled up, but he kept on walking right up the driveway toward Russling Rd.

I ran back in and through the house and opened the other door that faces Russling.  This friggin monster was 10 feet away from me in the yard.  Luckily i had no shirt on, because i think he feared for his life and decided to turn away and disappear into the neighbor's woods.

It was definitely the biggest bear i've seen in person, especially in the wild.  I'm definitely glad to have had the experience, but it does make me a little nervous having young kids and all - ie: I'm not sure Caleb and Noah could intimidate him as easily as i did ;) 

chickens and mobile blogging test.

My friend the Mountain Man has some new members in his family. fo'ten

the new one

in addition to Caleb and Noah (the Universals), this friday a very fresh Berg will join the fam!  i'll save the name for a later date, but i promise it's not Ralph.  if all goes as planned, i'll be posting the pics here.  if not, i'll resort back to something Apple.

they found me, i don't know how but they found me

i'm always jumpin around the black hole of the internet trying to find the best/easiest way to keep everyone updated on me (and my family).  in anticipation of buying an iphone, and posting on the go, i'm ditching iWeb and self-hosted blogs.  i'm sick of myspace, facebook is annoying, so i'm going here for a while.  

hopefully y'all won't get too annoyed as i plan on posting about my family, my music, and all of my other interests, like it's one big happy family of blogs.  man, i already hate that word.  blog. argh, we'll see how it goes.