Surgery

As summer was coming to an end I was so excited for my last week off.  It did not go the way I planned.  On Monday, August 20th Avery and I went over to my friends house for dinner.  We played and enjoyed a delicious dinner of chili and cornbread.  No big deal.  Went home and put Avery to bed.  At 1:30 A.M. I was woken up by a pretty bad side ache.  Something I have gotten from time to time for years.  Took some aspirin and was trying to get comfy.  It was not getting any better and then out of no where the pain shot into my back.  I seriously felt like my back was set of fire.  The pain was so bad I then started vomiting.  Clearly, something was not right.  I decided to drive myself to the ER around 3:30 A.M  As soon as I got there the triage nurse was certain that I was experiencing kidney stones.  Great!!! Got all checked in and was immediately given an IV with some great pain medication.  As soon as I was feeling a little better, I was given an ultrasound.  To every ones surprise I was diagnosed with gallstones and was soon admitted and began waiting to have surgery to have my gallbladder removed.  I was so happy it was not kidney stones. After about 10 hours of waiting I finally had surgery and everything went great.  Spend one night in the hospital and recovered pretty fast.  Surgeon said my gallbladder was FULL of stones and I probably had them for years.  She also said my side ache was related to the problem.  Who knew??

This was my first experience with trying to take care of a toddler and not being 100 percent myself.  It was very hard and Avery did not know what was going on.  For about three days she was walking around saying "mama boo boo all better".  She is so precious.  Josh was a great help and took on baby duty.  Great way to spend the last week of summer huh????

I guess it could have been worse and happened the first week of school.