GALLSTONES

Okay, so we had the consultation with the surgeon this morning and D will have to have his gall bladder removed - surgery is next Wed at 11:00 a.m. I'm glad the kids are in school still :) Their last day is next Thursday. He has one very large gall stone 1.18" in diameter - I told him heck, we could play golf with that thing!! Not sure if there are any smaller ones or not, but they are very concerned about that large one he has. The dr. said the sooner we can get it out the better. He's not in as much pain as he was on Monday, but he is very very uncomfortable. He just can't get comfortable, and the meds are causing some other discomfort problems as well, nothing serious - just bloating, cramping, constipation, regular pain pill side effects... So be praying for him that he'll be okay til Wed and that God would keep him safe thru the surgery and be with the dr. One bit of good news - we had some money saved up, but that was pretty much depleted this week, we've already spent $300 just since Monday with a trip to the ER, and 2 dr's visits + all the meds - and I was getting really nervous about what we would have to pay upfront, but God answered prayers, cause they aren't charging us anything upfront - they seem to think insurance will cover 100% - they said if there was anything to be charged, we would be billed for it at the end... what a blessing and an answer to prayer...

EXCITING WEEKEND

Remember that I posted on Friday - nothing exciting this weekend?? well, my husband decided to change all that... Yesterday morning he got up and went to work like normal, and me and the kids got up around 7 and went outside to work in the yard. He got home around 9:30 I guess, he grabbed a coke and a chair and came outside to watch me work in the garden. About 10:30 he went inside to get Sarah a snack, he wasn't in there even 5 min. and came to the door and asked me to come inside - something in his voice told me I just needed to get in there, so when I got inside, he was doubled over in pain, his eyes were watering he was in so much pain, he was grabbing the right side of his chest - his face was turning red, and he was sweating bullets. Then his right arm started to go numb, and he was really lightheaded, he couldn't stand by himself. I've had about 7 yrs of first aid and CPR training, and I keep up my cards, so I have to every so often to renew my CPR and first aid cards - and I was standing there thinking, this was the wrong side to be a heart attack, but he had every other indication of a heart attack, I had no idea what was wrong, but I knew he needed help NOW... so I yelled at the kids to get Sarah and get to the truck, and headed to the ER - they took him right to a room without filling out any paperwork or waiting, and by the time I got back there, they had already done the EKG and were already giving him morphine. They ruled out his heart, and then after the urinalysis, they ruled out kidney stones, which they suspected early on. So they sent him for a CAT scan. About an hr after coming back to the room from the CAT, a nurse came in with meds - more morphine and a med for abdominal cramping, so I'm thinking that they found something, or they wouldn't be giving more meds, I asked him about it and he just said the dr would be in shortly. They came back and took him to have an ultrasound on his gallbladder, and he knew then that they had found something - dr came back shortly after that and said they found a large gallstone that would have to be removed - but he wanted to check his white blood cell count to see if it would need to come out that day. He hadn't ran a fever the entire time we were there and the white cell count came back normal, so we knew there wasn't an infection - and therefore it wasn't necessary to do the emergency surgery. We have an appointment today with his regular dr to schedule an appt with a surgeon, and get a referral. Will keep you updated.

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

I have been so unproductive today - I almost feel guilty, but business is sooo slow. I don't really have anything exciting planned for the weekend. Dewayne is taking Hayden and Dillon racing tonight, Shelby is spending the night with a little friend from school, and it's just me and Sarah. I'm going by the plant shed when I get off to see if I can't find something interesting to plant tonight :)
it's supposed to rain pretty much all weekend, so I guess I'll be doing housework. Sounds like a very interesting weekend, huh?? I do have a test Saturday night over the Epistles, so pray that I do good...

That's all folks...

TRUCK RACES

I didn't update since the berry incident last week, but Dewayne got free tickets on Friday to go the truck races on Saturday. So I skipped class and we took the kids to the races. These are off-road trucks - not monster trucks, but they look like Traxxas trucks - it was so cool. We had gotten several inches of rain the day before and the mud was several inches thick, with standing water on top of it - so I made sure all the kids had on jeans and tennis shoes. It was only in the 50's - which is pretty cool here, and it was drizzling and overcast, so we all had on our hoodies and we went mudding... our shoes and pants were just covered in mud from walking out there. Anyone on the first 5 rows got muddy, but we sat up higher, the kids really enjoyed it. We stayed for 4 races, til about 11, the kids were tired - we got out there around 4, and walked around the pits, watched the Traxxes truck traces (RC trucks) visited with some of Dewayne's friends, and got the kids some things from the concession, so we made a pretty good day of it. It was a little loud for Sarah, but she still had a good time, she didn't ever cry, so that was good. We're trying to train them for Nascar :) but they aren't quite ready yet.... lol

POISONOUS BERRIES

I don't think I've ever posted twice in one day, but this deserves posting... lol. Shortly after writing my last post I got a call from the school nurse that Hayden along with about 10 other friends, had ingested china berries - so the school nurse did exactly what she was supposed to do and immediately called poison control. Some symptoms include diarrea and vomiting and a loss of fine motor skills, meaning that he would be dizzy, not be able to talk coherently and would have trouble walking. She told me that he would need to be observed for 24 hrs. So, I rush up there to get him. By the time I got to the school, the school had learned from one of the students that they had eaten several berries, and poison control said if they ingested any berries at all that they must go immediately to the ER. I asked Hayden, did you eat any berries? he said yes - I asked how many, and he told me 3 - so off to the ER I go - Hayden told me that his belly hurt and he was spitting - like how you get alot of extra saliva right before you start throwing up, and he's belching alot, so I'm thinking he's getting very sick. I was asking him questions all the way to the ER, and trying to call into work, and call his dad, my parents, and the little boy's mother who he was supposed to ride the bus home with - what a fiasco... right before we get into the parking lot of the ER, I was asking Hayden when he ate the berries, and he says yesterday.... I said WHAT??? he says yeah, I didn't get to go outside today, I was in study hall.... I couldn't believe it... SO I decide against the $150 co-pay and opt to go back to work. Now I'm asking him how this mix up happened... so the convo goes like this:
I ask "what did the nurse ask you when you came to the office?"
"if I ate any berries and I was honest and told her yes"
"did you tell her you ate them yesterday?"
"no, she didn't ask me when I ate them..."
Oh geez!!! I tried to call the nurse back to let her know that he didn't eat any berries today, that it was yesterday, but I couldnt' get thru. She called me shortly thereafter and says, Where are you at right now?? so I let her know that Hayden didn't eat any berries today.. and she says, yeah, I just found that out myself - that he was in study hall. and she has more news that they weren't even china berries, they were mustang grapes which aren't poisonous at all...
Whew!!! What a day. I swear that boy will be the death of me.... As for Hayden's "sickness" on the way to the ER - he thought he was dying, and it was most likely making him feel sick - just goes to show how many times our "sicknesses" are pyschological...

CHOIR CONCERT

Hayden had his last choir concert last night, and he did SOOO good. I was so proud of him. He had a "solo speaking part" is what he called it, and then sang w/ a group of 5 boys. It was a really cute program - all the songs were from movies, and the theme was movies/entertainment. It was cute. Not much else is going on. No big plans for the weekend really. Hayden has a birthday party to go to, so he's riding the bus home with a friend and heading out to the ranger game tonight. Dewayne has to go over to wild bill's to have some guy fix his race car, and the boys are coming over this weekend. Me and the girls will most likely have the evening to ourselves, and I have some weeding to do in the shade garden. I had the prettiest day lily bloom today - it's orange - the red ones were pretty, but the orange one is just gorgeous... I can't wait til next year when all my bulbs are settled and start multiplying. I am so excited. Once the gardens are established, they should be a 4 season garden, with the exception of the shade garden - I'll have to find something to put there for the fall/winter. My veggie garden isn't doing very well where it's planted, so I might have to move it again next year. I'm having a hard time finding a place where it does good, as I don't have any trees in the backyard, so there's no shady areas for the plants to have some escape from the harsh summers we have here... I love working with the girls in the garden, we have found baby lady bug nests - they are sooo cute!! and caterpillars, hummingbirds, which Sarah calls "hiney-birds" lol. Sarah was so funny today - she was giving Papaw a kiss good-bye and he asked her if she could take care of Nanny for him today, and she goes "Um, no, I don't tink so - she's too big" She's so funny... she calls her stroller a "roller-stroller"

A NICE WALK

Last night was very uneventful, which is my favorite kind of evening. Dewayne was waiting for me to get home so he could take the lawn mower to the shop. I worked in the garden for about 30 minutes, pulling weeds. My 5 gardens are taking more time than I would like for them too, but it's very rewarding - to me at least!! and my hubby suggested this afternoon that we put shrubs along the ditch and driveway, which I would love to do!! that means more gardens, cause they would sure look pretty with little flowers out in front of them... but that's going to be a fall project. It's too late to plant shrubs now, they'll die from the heat of the summer since they haven't had time to get a good root system established... so I'll wait til summer, and I think I want some crepe myrtles too. I did tell him that I don't want shrubs if they don't flower... there are plenty of flowering shrubs and they look so much better than just regular green blah shrubs. When D got home, I had a load of dishes in the washer, had washed another load by hand and had a load of clothes in the dryer. He vaccuumed for me before I got home since Sarah is so scared of the vaccuum and it was so funny, as soon as we walked in the house, she says "where's the vaccuum keener?" I shouldn't have sucked her clothes up in it that one time or she wouldn't be afraid of it... I was just playing with her, but it scarred for her life I guess. She'll have to hire a maid to clean her house no doubt. We ate a sandwich (no cooking - whoo hoo!!) and then went for a nice long walk. It was so relaxing... it was nice and cool - just after 8:00 and it was so quiet outside. We haven't done that in a long time and I just enjoyed spending the time with my husband. The kids were there too, but they were doing their own thing, so that just left us walking and talking and watching them. Then it was back home to a nice bubble bath and to bed.

MOTHER'S DAY

My mother's day was especially nice this year. I got a handful of beautiful weeds from Sarah, a poem that Shelby wrote for me herself, and a book of coupons from Hayden for me to use. The only one that confused me was the coupon for him to clean out dad's truck... lol. They also got me a bird bath, which I've been wanting forever, some more edging to finish up my garden, and a nice set of shears. I also got breakfast in bed, which was a real surprised when I wasn't really dressed for the kids - ahem. So I got on to my hubby pretty good for that one. But breakfast was wonderful - Hayden did such a good job, we had sausage, egg and cheese breakfast burritos, and he made it all himself, and Shelby brought me a glass of hot dr. pepper with no ice - but it was the best dr. pepper I've ever had... My grandmother was in town, so I cooked for lunch - it was a joint effort. I brought the rice, beans and enchiladas, mom made the salad and mexican casserole, and Eddie did dessert - which is really his forte... it was yummy. Sopapilla cheesecake or something like that - YUMMY!!
then last night at church we had the men's mothers day cakebake - in which Hayden got an honorable mention for his Noah's ark cake. I'll have to post pics later... he's turning into a regular little chef ;)
Overall - just a wonderful mothers day - I had the best mother that anyone could have had. I love her so much, and I was honored to spend the day with her. Which reminds me, I've gotta go eat lunch with her again right now!! bye for now.

I finally got some more pics up!! make sure you go back to look at them all...

RECAPPING THE WEEKEND

For the purpose of my blog, and not posting anything I might regret later (lol) I had a decent weekend overall. We went to watch Hayden race for the first time on Friday, and he did so good. I was so proud. Of course, I had to feel sorry for Mike, it seemed like Hayden just had it out for him. Mike wouldn't pass him except on the straight away, and I guess Hayden just had a magnet on him cause he would hit him every single time. But Mike was so good-natured about it, and I appreciate all those guys supporting Hayden and teaching him how to race. After I left, it was all down hill from there, but I won't go into details. Saturday was a bit quiet at home - we worked out in the yard, set a brick walkway - which was the first time I had done anything like that, and it was so easy, I was really surprised... So I felt as if I had accomplished something. I went to class Sat. night, and then I missed church Sunday morning cause Sarah has the croup again. Good thing we still have some of the medicine from last time, so that will save a dr. bill. Dewayne stayed with her Sunday night so I could go. There was a missionary couple at church that I went to college with, so that was encouraging. And I guess today is just a typical Monday... just waiting to go home :)