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@Bliss_Smart your hair looks great and you look very pretty. Good job to both of you!!

Chopped off 5 inches of hair AND orange-pilled a new hairdresser. She can't wait to get started! That's a winning day. 🏆💪😊

@MrsHodl I know this is not related to your post but I wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to you and keep up the good work and messages.

Honest question — and I'm asking because I've been thinking about this all week: When did you last sit down with your spouse and actually walk through your financial picture together? Not a summary. Not "we're fine." A real conversation. If you can't remember, that's worth fixing. This weekend is a good time to start.

@carlabitcoin Beautiful words!!!! Gratitude is powerful. We can't weight to meet your florecita. Big hug full of healing energy!!!!!

This Mother’s Day I’m grateful I’m alive. I’m grateful my unborn child is still alive. I’m grateful for my beautiful son and incredible husband for making me breakfast in bed. I’m grateful for all the support and prayers I’ve received throughout my recovery. I’m not going to lie, the last few weeks have been extremely difficult for me mentally, as I’ve encountered some additional pregnancy complications unrelated to the spleen. But all the problems have solutions, and I’m grateful for the doctors and surgeons who are all ready to take care of me and my baby, whenever the time comes. I’m grateful that I got a second chance to be a wife, mother, daughter, and friend. Most people in my position aren’t so lucky. Pregnancy is easy for some, and incredibly difficult for others, through no fault of their own. I see so many women tearing each other down on this site. I want to see less shaming and more celebrating. I mean, we literally create life! And life is so, so precious. No one knows when it’s their last day. Live like it. P.S. it’s a girl 💕 and she’s a fighter 🥹

@StephenDeLorme @Marumover An all of us who know you are very happy for you!!!!!

I'm going to make a departure from my usual commentaries on bitcoin, AI, and design for a personal update. I met the woman of my dreams last year and I married her in April. @Marumover and I are so happy to begin our life together!

@OsorioNapoleon Happy birthdayyyy. Feliz cumple!!!

Cuando sabes que cumpliste 41 🎂 Alguien que pare este Tren por favor 🙂

@OsorioNapoleon Age is like Lyn says about btc. Nothing stop this trainnnnnn 🤪 and there is no return!

@noahkaufmanmd Congratsssss. We need more of this!!!

I left the hospital. I left the ER. I created my own Clinic and my own thing in Denver. I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to practice medicine now. I’m in love with practicing medicine again. It’s changed everything for me. Spread the word. Other docs should know.

@carlabitcoin @WalkerAmerica He will help you heal 🥰🥰 I am not a mom, but I work with kids and I melt every time I get short arms hugs.

my 2yo hasn’t stopped hugging me since I got home and it’s the best feeling in the world 🥹

@PrestonPysh The best and most rewarding decision!!!!! Enjoy!!

A personal note.  After years of public discussion/work: the podcast, social media, venture capital, everything — I'm stepping back to focus on my family. My kids are growing fast.  My wife deserves the best of me.  To everyone who listened, read, grew, and built alongside me — thank you. What a blessing you all have been!

@jyn_urso Congratulationsssss!!!!!! Now to new adventuresssss.

Hello. Dr. Paez is in the house.

@jyn_urso Good luckkkkkk!!!!

Tomorrow at 1pm ET is my PhD defense talk on my bitcoin mining research. All are welcome. You can watch here: shorturl.at/slOVK

@efenigson @AbundantMines The things we get excited about 🤓. I remembered my visit to mining facilities. I think I was more excited than when I visited theme parks 😅😅😅. Well, finding the servers is always extra important!!!

I’m learning so much about power, energy, and bitcoin mining at @AbundantMines. 👉🏼 Videos & article in the pipeline! P.s. “Prof” Jiang - I found the servers!

@BitcoinLarry21 @efenigson @AbundantMines LOLOLOLLLLLL

@efenigson @AbundantMines So cool! Enjoy! 🙌 And Thank God you found the servers! 😂

@jyn_urso You will do great. I can't wait to hear the good news!!!!!

My defense is on Monday. A little nervous. A little excited. I gave a practice talk today. It went alright. I have some minor changes to make to my talk but nothing major. I really hope it goes well and after Monday I can call myself Dr.

@carlabitcoin @WalkerAmerica One day are a time. Big hug full of healinggggg energy!!!!

It’s the first morning that I haven’t cried, so that’s progress. I can also now move slowly without a walker, just a bit hunched over still. Getting me up is the hard part. My baby bump looks metal as hell. Literally. There are over 40 staples from my sternum to my pelvis. Shoutout to my incredible husband, @WalkerAmerica, who has been by my side throughout this nightmare. I truly could not handle this without him. In sickness and in health, boy did he prove it, and I am so grateful for that man. I’m really hoping the worst part is over. I need to believe that. And I’m praying for a healthy and smooth delivery in August. Gonna be a long road, fam. But I hope in a couple years I’ll be dancing in an orange wig again 🧡

@carlabitcoin Big hugggggg and wishing you the very very best.

I’m going home today 🥹

@criptobastardo Congratulationssssss!!!!

Al final nos casamos 🫡

@carlabitcoin Wishing you the faster recovery. You are a mom and that gives you a superpower!!!! Big hug full of healing energyyyyyyy!!!!

Hi fam. Thank you for all the love and prayers 🧡 it’s truly a miracle the baby and I are alive right now and I’m so grateful to my husband and medical team for making that happen. I’m in an enormous amount of pain and honestly having a hard time staying positive. I have an intense few months ahead of me with a healing and growing belly, and then delivery and whatever comes with that, and I just gotta say it, I’m scared. Scared, grateful, scarred, blessed. Everyone keeps telling me how tough I am but I don’t feel that way right now. Anyway, the only way forward is through and I just wanted to let you guys know how much your messages and well wishes have meant to me during this insane time in my life. So much love to all of you, this too shall pass 🧡

@WalkerAmerica Omg that was hard to read. The best wishes and prayers for your family. Mothers do incredible things for their children so she will go through this like a champ. God bless you all!

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

@carlabitcoin Happy birthdayyyyyy!!!! Nice bellyyyyy

Another year older, another year wider 🧡🙏