Navrus of Borg

Navrus of Borg
Originally uploaded by navratil

So, on Flickr I added the fairly generic (overly obvious) followup "You will be assimilated." It just occurred to me that it might be more interesting to give the backstory for this photo.

This was Pete's first ECG. He's obviously a happy camper, no? Turns out an ECG for a newborn is pretty much the same as an ECG for an adult: A bunch of sticky leads, a bunch of wires, sit there for a couple seconds, and you've got your results. Of course, everything is new and weird and discomfiting at nine days old, so he wasn't nearly as calm as you or I would likely be.

So there we are, Debbie and I and a nurse, trying to keep Pete calm enough to get a valid reading (that doesn't have page-wide slashes where he was screaming), and Debbie and I naturally are joking about having to get a picture of Pete and his amazing technicolor leadcoat. Eventually (after three attempts, I think), the nurse gets a good reading, and starts to take the leads off.

"Oh.. darn," Debbie comments.

"You didn't..." I start.

"Did you want a picture of him wired up?" the nurse asks.

"Wah!" Pete continues.

"Er. Yes, please" Debbie responds.

So the nurse, indulging the silly parents, hooks Pete all the way back up, Pete continues to be unhappy -- effectively at our request, now -- we take a few pictures, and that's that.

Yeah, we're great parents, why do you ask?