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Pepijn

🩸 We're in the hospital and just went through the process of taking blood from our baby. As the blood is sipped from the tiny fingers of a crying baby it's natural to wonder how this process can be improved.

It drives home how nefarious the fake optimism (one drop!) portrayed by Theranos / Elizabeth Holmes was. Don't we all want to believe things can get better?

Anyway. Book recommendation: Bad Blood by Carreyrou. A story about bad people & Kissingers grandson.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Bloo

en.wikipedia.orgBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - Wikipedia

The hospital has good little cakes though!

Thanks for all the nice comments and DMs yesterday!

Today we're all at home and fine again. Baby is now asleep and us adults have some time to do relaxing stuff like exploring the negatives and benefits of various chicken coop nesting boxes. :)

@Pepijn oh man, we had to do that when our firstborn was just a couple of weeks old. Very hard to fight the instinct to stop it when she started crying!

@Pepijn at least there’s a bit of an upside…

@Pepijn I missed this, somehow. God bedring til den lille 🙂 was it a scheduled trip or something more stressful?

@EvilCartyen Bit more stressful than a scheduled trip. Baby has been having a nasty cold and kept on puking up all liquids and medicine. While being off the medicine is acceptable for a day or so, any longer and the treatment fails.

With some special food and a different way of feeding it's all working well now.

@Pepijn sounds like a stressful day, yes. We also once spent a day with a mask on due to an infection of the airways and coughs turned to puking, not a good time - and that's without needing medicine.

Hope you have a stress free new year's!

@Pepijn sorry to hear your little one is in the hospital. ☹️