My first grandchild, Karl Thomas Wallbruch, was born yesterday at 5:27 pm, Central time, at Central DuPage Hospital.  He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 21&1/4 inches long.  Fortunately he takes after me and is thus a very handsome fellow…

Mother and son are now both doing fine.  Karl was fine upon delivery, but my daughter began to lose blood about a half-hour after giving birth.  She spent several hours in surgery and then recovery and is now finally back ‘among the living’.  She lost over 4 units of blood.  All I can say is “Modern medicine rocks!” – these are the kinds of childbirth that in earlier times usually resulted in unhappy outcomes…

We are all happy and breathing easier now and I’m thrilled and proud to have a grandson.  I turned 60 a couple of months ago and now I have a grand-child.  I guess this makes it official – I’m getting old…

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming…

(Click on the thumbnail of Me, Karl & Chris to see a full-size version of the picture)