I am taking my favorite phrase from my favorite hospital show because of all of the medical drama going on in our lives right now!
First, over the past year David has had abdominal issues and has had a scope, CT, ultrasound and colonoscopy. Everything has come out okay except to show he had a little diverticulitis. Over Spring Break he had a follow up ultrasound, very routine. Well it came up showing something on his liver. So over the next couple of weeks we spent in prayer and trying our best to give over our worries and anxities to the Lord. We had our sweet friends praying for us, and praying over us at our Bible Study. All I could tell the Lord was please don't take away the love of my life, my best friend. I already lost my mom, I can't loose my husband too. I feel as though we grew during that time as a couple, our priorities shifted and our goals to grow our children in the light of God's love was emphasized. Well they did another CT scan and found out that it is a hematoma, a collection of blood vessels on his liver that is nothing. PRAISE THE LORD!! Well that was Thursday the first...
I had been having pain going up and down my adomon for a couple of weeks that was keeping me up at night. I thought I was just adjusting after having the baby and didn't think anything of it. At 1:30 Easter morning I had an attack and it never stopped. David went to church and came back and it was still there, and I was throwing up. So my dad went to Collinsville with the kids and David and I went to the ER. AFter waiting forever in pain, she thought for sure it was my gallbladder and ordered an ultrasound for the next day. I don't know why we couldn't do it there, but we couldn't. So she gave me pain pills and anti nausea pills and sent me home. Monday I went and got the ultrasound (thank you Liz and Michelle for taking care of my kids :) ) and then the run around with the medical field began. We went to the ER at St Francis south, so the ultrasound had to be done at St. Francis, but my dr is with St. John, so I called St. Francis ER to see if I had to go back there, and they said no go to my PCP and in fact they just sent over my ultrasound. So I called my PCP and said I was in pain, had an ultrasound and really needed to see him today, well the lady told me to stop "bugging her, she understood what I was saying"...uh okay! She said she could get me in thirty minutes, so on our way we went. At this point I don't think I would have gone in to see the dr that day if I hadn't called, so people always be your own advocate...anyways I got to the Dr and he read the ER doctor's report and based on my symtoms he knew it was my gallbladder and did a STAT on a refferal to a surgeon. But guess what, still didn't have the ultrasound!!! So I went to the surgeon at 4:00 on Tuesday, and when we got there and filled out more paper work, we saw the surgeon and he was nice and I really liked him, but HE DIDN'T HAVE THE ULTRASOUND, so they had to do their own!!! UGH! Well he took one look at it and wanted it out right away, sent us home and told me I couldn't eat, which was fine because I didn't have an appitite anyway and was told I would have surgery at 3:00 the next day. Well we go to the hospital and I guess it was scheduled so late I wasn't on the schedule, so we had to wait. Then once the ball got rolling, it really got rolling because he upped my surgery to 12:30. So I was wheeled away into the room and don't remember going to sleep, but remember waking up and wanting pain meds...then we went home..don't really remember that either.
So now I am recovering at home, the incision had to be bigger than usual because of the state of it, and that it was nasty and glad he got it out. I am in pain, but it is getting better. I am praying I heal quickly, it has been a lot, first being pregnant, then recovering, now recovering more. Matthew is smiling all over the place and I want to enjoy it, I want to hold my kids and play with them. I am frustrated with where I am right now, I wanted to be done with this, start living my life again, but there is a reason why this is happening, so I am going to use this time to spend with my Lord and relax because I won't be able to for a long time!
I hope that this made sense, i am pretty out of it...
Thanks for your prayers!
