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Our Willow

Rodrigo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:53:47 +0000

One week ago Willow Nerys was birthed at home by my amazing wife Joy. We embarked together on a journey of family almost 3 years ago, it has taken determination, courage, hope, and love, as well as a huge number of our friends, family and strangers holding us, supporting us, loving us, and rooting for us. To each of you, thank you!

Willow was born at home in a 4.5 hour labor sprint, that flew by in a wink of an eye. She entered our home via warm birth tub, where Joy had labored most of those 4.5 hours. Willow weighed in at 7lbs and measured 21”, and is healthy and beautiful. Loved ones and our midwives have been taking excellent care of us through out this entire journey, and it simply rocks! We have been staying home, and basking in what i call the “Baby bubble”

Joy is the most amazing woman! Seeing her as she birthed life, has been the most deeply moving part of my life. I am so proud of her, so in love with her, and so ready to continue to deepen our love/life together for ever.

Words just can’t capture the vastness of the experience for us, best I can do right now is put together a short video from the last week.

Motion is magic

Rodrigo — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:03:18 +0000

I got the digital data from UCSF from our ultrasound this past Monday. They sure get lots of data from ultrasounds, after finding some good software to look at DICOM files i was able to pull out the images and some AVI files. Here is sample of what we got. I intend to put together a fun video of them at some point.

Ultrasound video

Rodrigo — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:56:50 +0000

For the first ultrasound I was in El Salvador visiting my parents, and I was not able to be in the exam room. Becky, who’s generosity is beyond words went with Joy and took my brothers camcorder and took some video which i was able to watch a couple of hours later with my parents some 3000 miles away. When the next ultra sound came along I was here and I wanted to get some video of it to send to our parents. Every ultrasound and exam has yielded excellent results. Now nearing the end of the first trimester, and looking forward to all that awaits us.

So here is the movie I put together.

GMA video finally up

Rodrigo — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:49:17 +0000

Took me a little while, and here it is.
Some comments on the piece. They filmed at our home and at Golden Gate park. They have Maeapple’s name as Mae , but she goes by Maeapple.
Joy was 27 when she was diagnosed with Lymphoma, also the pictures used to show her at the hospital are from a month ago when we were in St. Louis for the ovary transplant, we just didn’t get GMA any pictures of Joy in the other hospital.

How the surgery day started

Rodrigo — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:55:49 +0000

I put together a video to show you how the surgery day got started. This is a few minutes of what the prep looks like. They both are so nonchalant about the whole thing.
There are so many other nurses and doctors we met and talked to, but i only shot part of it. And they just would not allow me in the OR going to have to wait for the official surgery video on that one.

Fox piece

Rodrigo — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:06:12 +0000

I got a hold of the FOX piece tonight. Take a look here.

On our way out

Rodrigo — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:18:20 +0000

Just got confirmation that of Joy being able to lave the hospital.
She is feeling tired, but the pain is a lot better. She can feel the incision quite a bit today, and is glad to be eating!
We got all cleaned up and the room ready to for dispatch.
Dr. Silber came by today and checked in with Joy. He said some very good news about the healing process. He said that now with 3 days post of and
Joy doing as well as she is, that “dangerous part” is done. I got the feeling that its all good from here for the healing process.
He is such a great doc, and i am very happy to have met him, not only for the amazing gift he has brought our family, but also because he is great human being, a pleasure to interact with, and a very funny guy.

I got the teaser video from the FOX channel up now too, enjoy.

Report video with some added coments

Rodrigo — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:13:32 +0000

We are very thankful to have Joy and Maeapple’s story in the media, the more people hear about this procedure, the more women that can benefit from the work. I have uploaded the video from KMOV and added some comments.