This last week and half has been insanely busy for us. I haven't had any time to check facebook, blogger, email - it's been insane. Sunday, October 25, I woke up in the very EARLY morning to some abdominal pain. I shrugged it off as gas and tried to lay on my stomach for some relief. I rocked on my tummy hoping that would relieve some of the pain but it only got worse. I got up to see if I needed to use the restroom and to take some tums - that wasn't helping. I walked around the house for about 15 minutes to see if I could work something out and the pain only intensified. Finally, I climbed into bed and woke Shawn up telling him I was in the worst pain of my life. I told him I thought that he should take me to the emergency room and he said he would. He got up, got dressed, called Clint and Heather (they live 2 blocks away from us), I put on my shoes, Shawn then helped me climb into the backseat and then waited for Clint and Heather to arrive. I found out later that Heather and Clint came in through the garage and they could hear me moaning in pain. Shawn drove way above the speed limit to the hospital which was less than 1 mile away from our home. When we walked in, no one was there to greet us and that made Shawn very nervous. He was looking all around for someone and loudly pronouncing that we were there. Then someone came out of the back and took me to triage. While the nurse was getting my vitals he asked me where the pain was, I told him and he said it sounded like it was my gallbladder. They gave me an IV and some morphine and the pain was gone :) We waited for about 2 1/2 hours for Radiology to come get me for my sonogram. It turns out it was my gallbladder causing all the pain and I have a polyp on my gallbladder. I saw a surgeon this past Thursday and he wants to run a certain type of test to see how my gallbladder is functioning. If it is contracting sporadically then he will most likely want to remove it, if it's functioning okay, we will just continue to monitor the polyp. If the polyp grows any bigger over the next 6 months, he will remove my gallbladder. So... it's not looking so good for the ole gallbladder. That part of me maybe gone over the next couple of months.
We've also been busy making Audrey's costume and putting my little getup together, Shawn was busy getting our Karaoke song list together and putting his books together, we were busy planning our adult Halloween party that we co-host with our friends Clint & Heather, and Tim & Jennylind. Work has been extremely busy. Friday night Shawn and I took turns helping the C&H and T&J setting everything up for the big shebang. Saturday morning (Shawn's morning to sleep in), I woke up feeling great and was really excited about what the night had in store. But, around 8:30AM, something fierce came over me and knocked me out. I was so relieved that Audrey was happy to go down for a short morning nap. When she woke up, Shawn got up with her and let me nap a little bit longer. He woke me up at about 10 am and that's when it got worse for me. We did our chores around the house - me not doing much because I was nauseated and had a couple bouts of dry heaving. I thought it was my gallbladder but something happened that made me think otherwise. Around 9:30, something fierce caught Shawn while at the party. We began the Karaoke part of the party, which was Shawn's contribution but he was not feeling up to working the laptop and organizing everyone's requests so he asked Tim if he would mind working the Karaoke. I took Shawn home and Tim did an excellent job running things on the laptop and the microphone. I had to get back to the party because Shawn wanted me to bring the laptop home that night - so it was a long night for me. I enjoyed my time with friends and got home around 2am.
Sunday, Shawn still wasn't feeling 100% and to tell you the truth, I was not feeling 100% either. I had to go to a client event that night. I wore a beautiful black polished cotton dress, and borrowed a aqua wrap from Heather - it matched my earrings. I met several of our clients which was very nice placing faces with the voices that I speak to almost daily. Then I volunteered my time at the client's golf tournament.
I have been so out of touch with everyone and I do apologize to my family and friends. Everything's all good especially because it only took Audrey one week to go from army crawling to Hands and Knees Crawling. I have video of this and will post tomorrow night along with photos of her Trick-or-Treating with her cousin Madi. But for now, I must say goodnight and try to catch up on some sleep.