Last Friday Lee and I had planned an at home date night. He was going to cook a nice meal. Both the older kids were spending the night else where and the little boys go to bed around 7:30-8. Around 10:30 Lee calls and says he just isn't feeling well and is heading home. I was out with Luke while Andrew was at preschool. I get home around noon. Lee comes downstairs and says he is going to go to Urgent Care. He clearly was in bad shape so I dropped the kids off at our neighbor and head to Urgent Care. Lee's pain was getting worse and worse so I said that we had to go straight to the ER.
The doctor comes in and says that he guesses that it will be a kidney stone but wanted to run some more tests. After they give Lee some pain meds and Zofran I leave to go get the older kids from school and the plan was to take them to their appropriate locations. I was hoping to be back before they discharged him. While I am at home quickly grabbing stuff Lee texts and says it is the Appendix and they want to take him to surgery shortly.
I rush to get the kids. Drop Jake off at the church. I text my sister and tell her to just meet at the hospital. Victoria was able to see her dad before surgery.
The surgery went well and was a fast out patient but recovery had been slow. Maybe not that slow but it feels slow. Lee went back to work on Tuesday and since then he just comes home from work and lays on the couch. So low on energy. But we are surviving. He can't lift the little boys and on Friday he twisted wrong carrying the groceries in and it seems to have been a set back.
As much as the surgery has been a pain it couldn't have come at a better time. One week later we would have needed lots of help for when I was at work. And my mom wouldn't have been able to help at all. SEE BELOW.
So Monday I went to my mom's to help her clean (like I usually do). She was in bad shape. I guessed she had pneumonia. She was exhausted. Tuesday she took Andrew to gymnastics and then she needed up in the ER. She had some internal bleeding. Long story short they did a surgery on Wednesday and then she was home Thursday. She is still super shaky and weak. She was hoping to make it Salt Lake on Saturday for a funeral but not sure that will happen.
I have spent more time this past week in the hospital (except for working) then I have in years. I am over it. I really dislike hospitals which I know seems weird. I love my job. I think it is just being on the other side of things makes me really struggle with some things that go on.
I am mentally struggling. But the sun has been out for the past three days and that has helped. I am overwhelmed with everything going on right now. Some of it is little and some of it is major. But we will get through it. Really looking forward to Phoenix on Friday although not sure what I was thinking going solo with all four kids. But the weather will be nice.
The doctor comes in and says that he guesses that it will be a kidney stone but wanted to run some more tests. After they give Lee some pain meds and Zofran I leave to go get the older kids from school and the plan was to take them to their appropriate locations. I was hoping to be back before they discharged him. While I am at home quickly grabbing stuff Lee texts and says it is the Appendix and they want to take him to surgery shortly.
I rush to get the kids. Drop Jake off at the church. I text my sister and tell her to just meet at the hospital. Victoria was able to see her dad before surgery.
The surgery went well and was a fast out patient but recovery had been slow. Maybe not that slow but it feels slow. Lee went back to work on Tuesday and since then he just comes home from work and lays on the couch. So low on energy. But we are surviving. He can't lift the little boys and on Friday he twisted wrong carrying the groceries in and it seems to have been a set back.
As much as the surgery has been a pain it couldn't have come at a better time. One week later we would have needed lots of help for when I was at work. And my mom wouldn't have been able to help at all. SEE BELOW.
So Monday I went to my mom's to help her clean (like I usually do). She was in bad shape. I guessed she had pneumonia. She was exhausted. Tuesday she took Andrew to gymnastics and then she needed up in the ER. She had some internal bleeding. Long story short they did a surgery on Wednesday and then she was home Thursday. She is still super shaky and weak. She was hoping to make it Salt Lake on Saturday for a funeral but not sure that will happen.
I have spent more time this past week in the hospital (except for working) then I have in years. I am over it. I really dislike hospitals which I know seems weird. I love my job. I think it is just being on the other side of things makes me really struggle with some things that go on.
I am mentally struggling. But the sun has been out for the past three days and that has helped. I am overwhelmed with everything going on right now. Some of it is little and some of it is major. But we will get through it. Really looking forward to Phoenix on Friday although not sure what I was thinking going solo with all four kids. But the weather will be nice.
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