So this explains why I have not blogged in a while. Staying up all day and night with our new daughter Zori has taken away my writing time. Zori means "sunrise" in Romanian, and we have seen every sunrise since she was born.
I was on the river on Thursday July 30 and had a great day on the lower Boulder, but I did find a replacement guide for Wednesday since the trip was out of cell phone range, and Friday, since I was sure the baby was near. Raluca was a trooper, and I did as much as I could do, which was not much. Raluca gave an all-natural birth.
I'll be back on the river on Sunday and have a light schedule for the next few weeks. I do have one funny story to share.
I noticed the day after Zori was born that my teeth were hurting. I thought I had started to grind my teeth with the stress of a new dependant. The pain grew more acute as time went on and on the second night we had Zori home the pain started to hit me. Zori was colicky and and Raluca was frustrated with breastfeeding. At one point the baby was screaming, Raluca was crying and I was in such pain that I was moaning loudly and pulling my hair so that my tooth might not hurt so bad. At that point, Raluca looked up at me and started laughing and said,"What a shit show. "
I called the emergency room and they told me to put an aspirin on my tooth to dissolve. THIS WAS THE WORST ADVICE I'VE EVER HAD. The aspirin burned all the skin off on my cheek and on my gum line. I was waiting on the doorstep when Dr. J, my dentist, pulled up the next morning. Dr. J pumped me full of Novocaine and called the Hospital irate with the aspirin thing. By the afternoon I was in Bozeman getting an emergency Root Canal. 
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