Lana's 2nd Meltdown... of a different kind...

So today we experienced Lana's second meltdown, again while I was out running errands (mental note: minimize running errands)... but this one was slightly different than before.

First of all, we couldn't buy a pump from the lactation department at the hospital this weekend since they were putting down new flooring where they store them. But we wanted to buy it from the hospital since they are a lot cheaper (hospital sells them at cost with no markup). Last night I ended up buying one at Target just in case Lana needed one, before we could get one from the hospital.

Monday morning, Lana hit the point where Addelynn wasn't able to keep up and she needed to pump. So I made arrangements to pick one up from the hospital at 1pm. Since it turned out to be the exact same package as the one from Target, I called Lana on the way home to tell her to use the one I bought last night and I'd return the new one to Target.

Since Lana was in a lot of pain, she rapidly tried to prep/sanitize the new pump. She inserted the hoses in a provided steam cleaning bag and proceed to microwave it for 3 minutes. I happened to call and check in to see if I should pickup lunch on the way home. About this time, there was ~17 seconds left, but the microwave was flickering, crackling, and smoking a little. It really smelt too. Granted Lana didn't care at this point, she was just concerned if the tubes for her pump were okay.

Our microwave is only 2 years old, but it now appears to be totally fried. It may be random coincidence, but the only thing I can think of is all the excess steam went back through the vents and was enough to aid some arcing between components. At least that's what it sounded like when I tried it again before even the clock failed.

So needless to say, our adventure of the day was Lana melting down the microwave (note: the picture above is just off the net, ours still looks completely normal)