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[ricevermicelli]

This guy I've never heard of wrote this incredible article on the experience of having a child 7 weeks prematurely, something that evidently happened to him quite recently. He is amazingly put together for a guy with such a new baby, never mind the rest. By my calculations, his kid was four days old when he wrote this. My best recollection is that, at that point, we hadn't gotten around to naming the baby. I could do sentences maybe about 50% of the time. Entire paragraphs were out of the question. So this essay is a superhuman feat, performed by a person with uncanny powers of coherence. I wish him and his family the very best, and the two months salary and the fetching Norwegian wet nurse that he believes we all deserve.

And the article is amazing and funny and true, but it's a lot true, so if you are a fainting risk when exposed to detailed descriptions of surgery, probably best not to go there.

Comments

[ceo]

I saw that. I can't write that well when I haven't just been through an experience like that.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

I've been looking the guy up. His pieces on picking children's books and Chik-Fil-A banana pudding milkshakes are also fantastic.

[drwex]

That was awesome and amazing.

[jealoussister3.livejournal.com]

You just made me cry.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

That was, indeed, incredible.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I almost clicked to read the article, and then, at 29 weeks and counting, realized that I probably should not. Thank you for sharing, though.