Happy 3rd Birthday!

I love you little man!

I know you are scared!

Stone Soup: Update

So Fridays must not be good days for me.  Yesterday, Jason took me back to the ER with severe pain and bleeding.  While the ER doctors were trying to figure out what to do with me, the stent that was placed between my kidney and bladder fell out.  So they admitted me for the night.  About 2am, I passed another stone.  I woke up feeling shaky and sore, but a lot better.  I am home again now, hopefully to stay.  Just thought I'd give an update.

Stone Soup

Last week, Friday the 13th, I woke up feeling like I was catching a bug.  I dropped the 5 middle kids at soccer camp and then took Jesse to run some errands.  As we walked through Target, I started getting sick to my stomach, so we headed home.  By the time we got home, I was having severe pain in my lower left abdomen and all across the bottom part of my back.  I was in so much pain all I could do was cry.  My mom took me to the emergency room here in Greeley and my dad picked up the kids from soccer camp.  It was a crazy day in the ER, they were implementing a new flow system and were having some trouble with it.  Then 2 doors down from me a prisoner that was being seen in the ER, knocked out his guard and took his gun, so the hospital was on lock down.  I was given fluids, had tests ran and had a CT scan of my abdomen.  They saw a large kidney stone on the scan in my left kidney and a cyst in my right kidney.  They gave me pain killer, anti-nausea meds and an antibiotic, along with instructions to see a urologist right away.  Guess what?  It was Friday and the soonest the urologist would be able to see me, was Wednesday.  So a very painful weekend ensued.  When I finally saw the urologist on Wednesday, he said "do you want to go into surgery tonight or tomorrow".  I have been in so much pain that I said let's do it today, I wanted this over with and fast.  So Wednesday about 4:30pm, I went into surgery.  I woke up 2 seconds later, ok so it was really an hour and a half but it felt like 2 seconds, feeling a ton better.  I am home now, still have some pain, but not nearly as sick as I was.  Turns out I am allergic to percocet, I am on a better pain killer now.  I still spent most of the day in bed today, but was able to get up to eat dinner with my family and walk around the house a bit so, I don't get blood clots.  I am pray hard that I will continue to improve each day.  I see the urologist on Monday again to remove the stent that was put in at surgery and he thinks I will feel a ton better then.  I so much appreciate the prayers and support, from my family, my church family, my neighbors and old and new friends.  You all mean so much to me and I am a truly blessed woman to have you all in my life.

Eli's 14th Birthday!

Celebrating with a chocolate chip cookie cake.

Happy 4th of July all y'all!

Abi is 11!

Where has the time gone and how did Abi get to be 11?  Abi had a sleepover/craft party at home with 4 of her Shawsheen friends.  Rebecca, our awesome neighbor, made Abi a sleep over cake and we played games, painted pillowcases, decorated flip-flops and made door hangers.  My girl will be starting middle school in the Fall and I can't believe she is really that old.