Hospital

It all started this past weekend, well it started before that, 2 weeks before, but who is counting.
The weekend;
I was trying to be pro-active for our trip to Idaho Falls for Christmas I had gotten all the laundry done and decided that it may be a good idea to just go ahead and pack the kids bags... It just seemed easier even though we were not suppose to be leaving until the 23rd. Saturday night we got together with some friends and had a "Hawaiian haystacks" buffet Christmas party. I ate very little knowing that eating, no matter what it is hurts. I had a very bad night that night and by 11:00 am Sunday was in a great deal of pain with nothing helping, no amount of pain meds were going to break this up.
Sunday;
I called the Doctor on call and was so happy that is was my doctor. She told me to go to the ER and that she would call ahead so that I could get right in and get some iv pain meds on board. Since it was Church time it was nuts to get someone to come be with the children while Trent took me in. Our friend Genesha luckily had forgotten to turn off her phone while she was teaching primary and so we got lucky. She found someone to take over her class and had her spouse Dave drive her over to our home so we could go.
I got right in to the ER and although it took 4 tries to get an IV started on me, due to dehydration (I had been throwing up a good part of the night as well) Needless to say getting the pain meds on board was so nice!! Because it was a Sunday and there was not signs of infection at this point, and the weather outside had taken a turn for the worse (12 to 16 inches of new snow fell that night) The surgeon decided to admit me to get re hydrated and and get wonderful pain and nausea meds, and do the surgery the next day, Monday Morning. Threw all of this I had not yet seen my surgeon.
Monday;
He came in to meet with me Monday morning and after talking about the test that had been run the last few weeks and where the pain was he decided to put off the surgery until Tuesday to make sure I did not have an ulcer. So I had an scope put down my throat to check things out instead. There was a lot of wear on my throat along with a rash and they did take a sample to see what it was but there was not ulcers. ( Results were that it looks like I am allergic to the Ibuprofen family)
Tuesday;
I had laproscoptic Surgery at 730am. It took more time than it should of because my gall-bladder was not in its typical place. It was hiding. But I new where it was because that was were all the pain was. the surgeon almost did not do the surgery because he kept telling me that was not were the gall-bladder "lived". He was wrong. I stayed one more day and night in the hospital and thankfully I am home now. I am very very sore and love pain medications.
We were suppose to be heading out to Idaho falls for Christmas but instead decided I need some more recovery time and pushed our departure off til this Friday. It was a very hard decision because all of the children's Christmas is down there, all I had for them here are pjs and slippers. We talked with the two older children that we new would be wondering what happened when Christmas came and nothing they had asked for was here. I gave my my friends some money and asked them to buy one gift for each of the children so they had something to open Christmas morning. I only had 80 dollars so it had to stretch. The children were fine when we explained what was going to happen and assured them that Santa would be taking care of their Christmas when we got to Grandma and Grandpa Winders home, Christmas was going to come on Saturday.
Wednesday (Christmas Eve)
I am excited in some ways that we get to have a humble Christmas on the morning of Christ's birth. It has open the opportunity to really remember the reason for the season. We have been blessed so much with help and comfort through these times of illness.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!