This blog was still a draft (from 2015) as I did my Christmas blog yesterday and I began a clean-up. So today I will finished it because in a month time it is my daughter's birthday; and after 9 years in computer never-never land it is time to be published. Also next month we will gather as a small family gathering in Ste Jerome (20 minutes North of Montreal). These small reunions may even bring together the kids with their grand kids, so we appreciate the opportunity as long as health allows. Also it is nice to tell this story of her birth and show the bond which exist with her mother. And ofcourse myself. (as I told my granddaughter, no one know who the author is or the people' life)
So the draft of this blog written in February 2015 (below) even now company in 2024 are repairing customer dis-satification of Facebook and charging for it..
2015 BLOG wasL
If I was to explain to you that my lifetime career and employments were with computers; ( computer room supervisor and later analyst) you may be surprised with this blog. As I indicates clearly that I know nothing about the new computer technology. Of course for the last 6 or 7 years I have been using my retirement as President of a non-profit organization helping the poor and homeless.
As this blogs states, today is my daughter's birthday and I attempted to send her a gif, (a graphics image), with a small birthday message on her Facebook. First mistake was ofcourse with social media webpages like FaceBook which offers a service but is more involved with advertising and collection of data of it user.
The next problem was if I found a gif and wanted to share it; it would be send to my Facebook page but if I attempted to change anything I no longer was able to connect to the gift gif website.
When I was living in Quebec and learning French my daughters spend a lot of hours of effort helping me to speak a good French. Their efforts were necessary because I was raised in the Maritines where there is a lot of Salt Air and of course a lot of swimming in the sea. I was to later discover that my inner ears were damaged by the Salt Air or salt water swimming.
When I was tested by the federal government, many years later about my difficulty in learning French it was discovered that I was "Tone Deaf". Due to this tone deaf, I discovered that I could not distinguish the sound between certain the French word. For examper the french word for "farm" and the French word for "woman" sound a bit similar and I could not hear the sound so could not reproduce it. So in the comment on her birthday wish, which I sent to her on Facebook; I said maybe I should sit down with her and learn about Facebook and how to use it.
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At 73 I believe that I am using a computer, my tablet and the rather older style "iPhone" as well as anyone. I understand that using a computer to view Facebook does have more advantages then trying a Facebook app on a tablet or an iPhone. I understand that because of the size of the tablet or iPhone certain options will have been omitted. And certainly I did not think that the ads would be any left. I knew that using a tablet or iPhone instead of a computer meant a difficulty reading on a smaller device.
Since it is my daughter's birthday I'm doing this blog to maybe document her birth, as several family members follow this. Her mother waited with patience as she was a bit later than the announced arrival date. When it started, we drove to the hospital and into proper care without any Emergency interruptions. however once she was into a bed and induced labor induced by means of an IV the whole story of my daughter's birth started.
With doctor and nurse helping her and using a heart monitoring machine, we were listening to the baby heart. The doctor said that something was wrong as we became aware thateach effort to induce labor seem to stop the baby's heart. When I realized what was happening as the doctor explained why the heartbeat was stopping; I became extremely sick to my stomach and had to be walked by the nurse to the bathroom of the room. Left there,as the nurse returned to help the delivery, I was attempted to settle my stomach but the sound of my vomiting brought the nurse back. The nurse and Doctor should have been concerned and helping my wife with the delivery,but instead the nurse was spending a lot of the time with me.
Well it happened the doctor decided that they would rush my wife off to the operating room and do a cesarean. As I waited and worried, in the hall outside the operating theatre; I began to feel a bit better and within what seemed a few minutes the nurse came back with my daughter. There had been no cleanup; as our baby was taken from her mother and brought directly to me. As I look down at the blood covered my daughter; I was lost in my gaze and reactions, standing speachless
, However, as the nurse wiping some blood from the face and forehead so I could give her a kiss to the forehead; reality appeared. Every father should certainly experience this joy. I know it isn't the bonding that a mother mother has with her child but it was an incident which I will always remember and which laid the foundation of father and daughter love.
Both my daughters are wonderful ladies, girls and I am very proud of them. As I always work nights and often that shift ending to arrive home prior to the midnight feeding. ( both girls), I may have bonded as a father more than most.
The raison this blog is about Facebook is that as I attempted to send a birthday greeting to my daughter I commented on how when she was five or six she and her sister, both help me with my French. And, now I returning to my previous teacher with a suggestion that I should make a visit to learn about Facebook. Always appreciating how my daughters, even before their school started where helping me. For that raison I expected that they would follow in their grandmother's step. My wife's mother and sister were both teachers.
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