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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Hope she is okay RO.

I am currently running on 2 hours sleep in the past 38 or so hours after i had to get an ambulance to take my girlfriend to hospital at 2am this morning.  She is still in having various tests so no idea what the issue is at present.  She was sat in a corridor in the emergency department for 13 hours though thanks to our wonderfully overworked and under-funded health care system.  

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2 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Hope she is okay RO.

I am currently running on 2 hours sleep in the past 38 or so hours after i had to get an ambulance to take my girlfriend to hospital at 2am this morning.  She is still in having various tests so no idea what the issue is at present.  She was sat in a corridor in the emergency department for 13 hours though thanks to our wonderfully overworked and under-funded health care system.  

Oh no! Best wishes to her, I hope everything is OK.

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11 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Holy fuck. Just heard from mum her car was nearly crushed by a falling tree as she left for work this morning. I am now so glad there are no trees anywhere near my house...and that she's ok obviously.

Well, at least she's alright. That car will be totalled now though.

 

34 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Hope she is okay RO.

I am currently running on 2 hours sleep in the past 38 or so hours after i had to get an ambulance to take my girlfriend to hospital at 2am this morning.  She is still in having various tests so no idea what the issue is at present.  She was sat in a corridor in the emergency department for 13 hours though thanks to our wonderfully overworked and under-funded health care system.  

Yikes, I hope everything is alright. I wish you guys all the best.

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43 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Hope she is okay RO.

I am currently running on 2 hours sleep in the past 38 or so hours after i had to get an ambulance to take my girlfriend to hospital at 2am this morning.  She is still in having various tests so no idea what the issue is at present.  She was sat in a corridor in the emergency department for 13 hours though thanks to our wonderfully overworked and under-funded health care system.  

Wow...some bad shit happening on this page guys...Macabre.. hope she is well...yeh send her my best wishes too...

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Cheers RO.

 

Girlfriend requires keyhole surgery to have her gallbladder removed which will obviously cure the problem of her having gallstones.  Glad it only that and that the procedure will be minor, a few months away from surgery so hopefully they can manage her pain in the meantime.  She has to stay in hospital though because of inflammation and slight infection.

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That's how our health service works, 2 month waiting list (which actually isn't bad going by our usual standards).  More concerning was the fact that yesterday at the hospital they had a bed score of minus 68.  That's right they had 68 poorly people requiring medical treatment as an inpatient that they had no beds for.

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Well, hello. It has been some time. How is everyone?

A small update from me. The past two months have been quite busy and stressful for me. First of all, with a couple of friends (and the help of FatherAlabaster for the logo, thanks a lot!), I launched a new website. We were bit in a hurry, as we had as goal to go online at the 1st of juni, but there were some problems. Anyways, we made it, but 1,5 month after launch, there is still a lot of additional work needed. On top of that, I had to end my former website in a good way, which gave quite some stress, as I had a lot of things to arrange properly with labels, promoters and other contacts. And if that wasn't enough, I suffered from an injury (broken collar bone) the past two monts as well, which is not very useful when you have a lot of work to do behind your computer and have to arrange a visit to an amusent park for circa 20 children. The good thing is, is that I have officialy been declared as 'cured' by the hospital. I still feel a bit weak in my right arm though, but that will be fine.

Ps. I have decided to change my name, for those who hadn't noticed yet. I used to be Yobo, now I am Frostauðn, which is Icelandic for something like Frost Desolation. It is taken from a Misþyrming song, which shares the same name.

 

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