Digital Cigars for everyone!

[Panama Red]

Have one on me!:D I became a grandfather today for the first time. My son didn't do things in the order I recommended but I'm sure the end result will be fine. He is engaged to married and they have set a date for Halloween '09, a year from now. Earlier this year they informed us that she was pregnant.:eek: The baby was due in mid-December but the mom has been suffering with kidney stones for the last couple months. They can't do anything until after the baby is born so she's been in a lot of pain. A week ago this past Monday she went to the Emergency room at the hospital because the pain was so intense. The pain meds they gave her caused severe vomiting and she was unable to keep any food down for several days now. The baby's vitals remained fine throughout this ordeal but mom was becoming progressively weaker. Yesterday she had a blood test and it showed preeclampsia had developed. That can be very harmful to the baby so they opted to induce labor and introduce the little guy to the world a bit early. When the preeclampsia showed higher numbers this morning and she wasn't progressing with any contractions, the doctors chose to do a C-section and bring him out. The little (and I do mean little) guy is only 32 weeks developed but he's doing great. He weighed a whopping 4lbs 3 ozs. He'll remain in the neo-natal icu for the next couple weeks or until he develops natural feeding skills. Mom is doing well and eating again and the new dad is beaming. Oh yeah, grandpa and grandma are smilin' a bit too.:)

[shadowpr]

Congrats PR. And congrats to your family as well.

[RevCLB]

Congrats Grandpa! Grandkids are great. I have 5.

[tigstah]

congrats, glad everyone is doing well.

[HAL9000]

Congrats PR... now those digital cigars are free from digital cancer right?

[Panama Red]

Congrats PR... now those digital cigars are free from digital cancer right?

Only if you don't inhale! :D

[HAL9000]

ok.. no digital inhaling here :p

[hudson80]

Congatulations Granddaddy
And sincerly hope you're around to see him grow up. I have 14 Grandchildren and 8 greatgrands. Not as thrilling as the first one

[sgtspector]

Good for you PR. Glad to hear everything(one) came out alright! Lousy pun intended.

[rjfvillarosa]

Way to go Mr Red.
Lots of love and congrats from PR to PR.

Dios los Bendiga a todos......:D

[Cricket]

Congrats Panama Red!

Glad to hear your Grandson and family are doing well.

On another note...I just noticed that my user name and RevCLB have green lettering. What does that signify?

:) Cricket

[HAL9000]

You're getting moldy???

[usnavyretired]

Congrats on the new arrival PR, my son was 4lbs. 2ozs also born at 32 weeks but you wouldn't know it now by looking at him. Again, congrats and enjoy.

[Force Flow]

Congrats PR!

You gunna spoil this little guy rotten or what? :p

[liambl]

On another note...I just noticed that my user name and RevCLB have green lettering. What does that signify?Looks like Premiere members who aren't staff...

[juppy]

Congrats on the grandkid, PR!

You're getting moldy???
LOL! Nice one, Dave. I needed a laugh tonight. :)

[TimPoet]

Awww, congrats!

I dunno when any of my 4 grown kids will be first to make me a granddad. My best prospect is my youngest, my only daughter, 19, who just bought a house with her boyfriend. Im tellg her to get married 1st!

[EzyStvy]

Congratshttp://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/e118.gif

WE WANT PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TwoRails]

Congrats PR!!! :D -- I had to look up "preeclampsia" and it sure doesn't sound pleasant at all. Hopefully she's recovering OK. Glad the "little guy" is doing good. I bet your chest is sticking out by a mile, eh?!! Oh, and thanks for the cigar - surprisingly smooth :)

[Panama Red]

Congratshttp://www.fancysplace.com/smileys/e118.gif

WE WANT PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They'll be coming. Right now, the only pics I have are of the baby hooked up to all the tubes and paraphenalia in the nicu. My daughter has a few and once they get him home we'll have plenty I'm sure. :D

[Strider]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2992516578_6fff14d0cb.jpg

[pam123]

Congrats grandpa :) !!!!!

And I'm glad to hear that both mother and son are going to be fine.

[Freakitchen]

That's great news PR. It's amazing what they can do for babies these days. Big congrats to you and your family, I'll have a sneaky whisky on your behalf later tonight :D

[BigRed CC Dually]

Congratulations Panama, it's quite a joy to have them...I have 8. 5 are boys from 17 to almost 1 year old and 2 are girls 10 and 6 years old.

[Panama Red]

Just a news update. Phoenix came home yesterday and is doing well. His mom is at the hospital this afternoon having a procedure done to break up the kidney stones and grandma and I are baby sitting the little fella. He's still under 5 pounds. Amazing how little he his. Pics are coming soon.

[David M]

Thats great Panama....glad to hear it!

[RevCLB]

Glad he's healthy. Have fun.

[TwoRails]

Thanks for the update, PR: nice to hear things are going pretty good overall! :) - Hope things go well for "mom." -- Can't wait for the pics!

[shadowpr]

Good to hear he's doing fine.

[Panama Red]

As promised, here's some pics of the little guy (and I do mean little!). He's still under 5 pounds.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v396/Panamared66/Phoenix/

[juppy]

Okay, I gotta be first....

AAAWWWWWWWW!!!! Ain't he cute??!! :D

Nice pics, PR. Thanks for sharing. :)

[rjfvillarosa]

He's not gonna get spoiled rotten is he......................:rolleyes:


Give you a call over the weekend, give our regards to all.......:)

[EzyStvy]

Beautiful.

[shadowpr]

Cute kid.

[TwoRails]

How precious. How fragile. Thanks for sharing, PR! :)

[usnavyretired]

Beautiful child PR!!!