Unexpected Weekend

well, it was an unexpected weekend for us. Friday I went to work not feeling well and wind up with a fever around 10am. I went home to lay down thinking that I could just sleep it off. Except I couldn't get comfortable, I kept having a sharp constant pain in my stomach. I tried calling Steve with no answer, I didn't want to call Steve's mom because she had my boys and I didn't want them to worry and I didn't call mom because she had Jeremy's girls and I didn't want her to drag those two little sweeties to a hospital. I drove myself to Urgent Care in Florence and from there they sent me to the hospital, so I wound up at St. Elizabeth in Florence, KY. Not ever being there I was kind of scared and definitely out of my comfort zone. But everyone there was so nice and it was a great hospital. After four hours from my initial visit I was being wheeled into the surgery room - I was having my appendix taken out. WOW, I had nothing with me, we had no plans for the boys, it was just an unexpected surgery and I don't like that.

I was suppose to be discharged on Saturday morning but my blood count was really low. I was anemic before surgery and after surgery it was a lot lower. I had to sit through six hours of blood transfusions on Saturday - oh what fun. Come Sunday morning my counts were good enough to come home and be discharged. Now I have a week off work to relax and to get better. That isn't easy for me, to have others do for me, to have to rely on others, to have limited movement - although it may be nice to have a week off, this isn't how I wanted it to be!

That is my update for now of our unexpected weekend. I want to say THANK YOU to both sides of the family for taking care of the boys. And a special thank you to Steve, who has taken care of me from day one. I know we aren't suppose to be doing things like this for another 30 years, but I appreciate you being there for me and for taking care of me. I love you!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love to all,