1. First Page:
From what I am told by my family and parents. This redheaded freak was born in the middle of winter in Idaho of all places. The potato state! My Great Grandma Balthrop drove my mother to the hospital. The song on the radio that was playing just so happened to be an oldies song about a baby coming. Old Great Grandma speeding down the highways. Hoping to get pulled over to get a police escort! Pretty smart if you ask me.
That was the moments leading up to my first day and my first page! My Mother went through hell and nearly died giving birth. They do say giving birth is as close to a near death experience as it gets. It's no joke, and my stubborn ass put my Mom in a coma.
She had an emergency C-section after losing a pulse. She broke her pubic and tailbone which sent her into a temporary coma afterwards. Not only did she recover really well, she got to hold her first baby.
My Dad at the time worked long hours and graveyards for a huge national grocery store chain. He was able to make it to the hospital to see me along with my Great Grandparents. Only two kids in the whole state of Idaho born that same few days we were there.
The Boise, Idaho hospital was undergoing construction so the only hospital accepting patients was located outside of Boise in Caldwell. Back in 1992, there weren't cell phones or computers as frequent or advanced. Also not many hospitals! So it was either go to the only other hospital in Idaho or drive to the next state.
That's pretty hardcore for new parents if you ask me! They did it though, and they did all kinds of great things while we lived there. I was truly blessed to be born into a village that cared so much about mine and everyone elses' health and well-being. Being born in the middle of nowhere Idaho, out by the trains in the farmlands. Was truly a gift I will never forget or ever take for granted.
A lot of it taught me a different type of patience and understanding. Out there it isn't about how much noise is being made or who is saying what. Out there it's all about the life around you. It's quiet, there's little to nothing to do to entertain yourself other than work. You run out of conversation really quick and guess what? It's perfectly fine! It's perfectly normal to run out of things to say, it's okay to be silent, it's okay to look with your eyes and ears and not with your mouth.
That was the moments leading up to my first day and my first page! My Mother went through hell and nearly died giving birth. They do say giving birth is as close to a near death experience as it gets. It's no joke, and my stubborn ass put my Mom in a coma.
She had an emergency C-section after losing a pulse. She broke her pubic and tailbone which sent her into a temporary coma afterwards. Not only did she recover really well, she got to hold her first baby.
My Dad at the time worked long hours and graveyards for a huge national grocery store chain. He was able to make it to the hospital to see me along with my Great Grandparents. Only two kids in the whole state of Idaho born that same few days we were there.
The Boise, Idaho hospital was undergoing construction so the only hospital accepting patients was located outside of Boise in Caldwell. Back in 1992, there weren't cell phones or computers as frequent or advanced. Also not many hospitals! So it was either go to the only other hospital in Idaho or drive to the next state.
That's pretty hardcore for new parents if you ask me! They did it though, and they did all kinds of great things while we lived there. I was truly blessed to be born into a village that cared so much about mine and everyone elses' health and well-being. Being born in the middle of nowhere Idaho, out by the trains in the farmlands. Was truly a gift I will never forget or ever take for granted.
A lot of it taught me a different type of patience and understanding. Out there it isn't about how much noise is being made or who is saying what. Out there it's all about the life around you. It's quiet, there's little to nothing to do to entertain yourself other than work. You run out of conversation really quick and guess what? It's perfectly fine! It's perfectly normal to run out of things to say, it's okay to be silent, it's okay to look with your eyes and ears and not with your mouth.