This Year

Well, as I said before, this has been quite a year. We've had a wedding, babies being born, crazy time with trying to find a job for Dan, and so forth.
Then in March we had the opportunity to go back to TN to visit Dan's family and friends, and for them to finally see their grandbaby. We went for spring break, and got to celebrate her first birthday there. It was a pretty crazy trip, doing a lot more traveling than planned, but it was very nice to see and visit with Dan's family.
At the end of March I started getting sick. I wasn't sure what it was, but I was in quite a bit of pain and finally went to the Dr. they did some tests, during all of this found out I was pregnant again, which was good news, but just not the best timing, hehe. So he gave me some anti-biotics to take and see if that would help, but said if the pain persists, go ahead and go into the ER. So later that afternoon I was feeling worse, so I went in. That was on a Thursday. I was there for a few hours and after some wonderful drugs, (which I had to be kinda careful with) and 2 ultrasounds found out that I had cholystitis, basicially a gall bladder attack. If I hadn't been pregnant, they probably would have taken it out right there, but because I was, they said I probably would lose the baby if I did have surgery. We didn't want that, so they gave me some antibiotics to try and get the inflamation down.
After getting home late Thursday night, Taylor stayed the night at my parent's house. I was still in pain on Friday, but luckily they gave me some pain meds. I had another dr's appt on Friday where this dr gave me some even strong anti-biotics to try and said they should work better along with some more pain meds. Let me just tell ya, the pharmacist was a lil confused with me getting 3 different prescriptions in 2 days. hehe.
Saturday, mom ended up having to go to Tucson because her dad had been rammed by a cow, fell back and hit his head, so he was in a coma and not doing too well. So she needed to go. So my lil sis Cathy came and stayed the night with us, and she had started getting sick too. Puking a lil fever and such. We thought it was just the flu. My poor husband, having to deal with 2 sick girls, and the baby so it was quite the weekend.
By Monday, I was feeling better, no more pain anyway, but Cathy still wasn't doing good. So I ended up having to take her into the dr. By the time we got in there she was still in lots of pain, and her belly was all swollen and pulsating. Not good. So the Dr sent her over to the ER to have her checked out. They thought it might be an appendicitis. I had a friend come pick up Taylor so I could stay with my sis until my dad could get there from work. It was kinda crazy. My mom was still in Tucson with my grandpa, still not doing too well. One of the ER dr's thought she was pregnant and didn't believe her when she said no. Even did a pelvic exam...lets just say by that time my dad was there and as he left the room, the dr couldn't look at my dad...hehe crazy drs. hehe
They decided to do a CT-Scan on her. I needed to leave and pick up Taylor, so left Cat with my dad. I got home, and soon after got a call from my dad saying they were going to fly her to Tucson. She had some kind of growth in her abdomon, and couldn't get ahold of the surgeon. (which was a blessing in disguise) During all this, my mom is stressing out trying to figure out what to do. They were going to fly my sis to a different hospital than where my grandpa was at. Luckily one of the head specialists heard my mom's problem, and spent 1/2 an hour making some calls, but found a room for my sis there at UMC.
A little bit later my grandfather decided he'd done his job, and passed on. But because of everything that had happened with my grandpa, Cathy had some of the best care. 40 surgeons, specialists and dr's looking at her ct scans, and working on her case and deciding the best way to treat her. They were going to do surgery on Thurs, but had an opening come available on Wed thank goodness. They handled it perfectly too. They treated it as cancer and froze it. When they got in there found she had a pancreatic tumor that had ruptured, and luckily had formed a sac where it was leaking blood and such. Apparently that had started to leak as well. Part of it had wrapped around her intestines too which was why she was vomiting. Because they had frozen it they were able to remove everything they needed to. If they hadn't she would have bled out and died. The sac had I think 2 pints or so of blood. They had to take a small part of her intestines out as well.
So everything worked out the way it should have. If it had been much different I would have had to attend 2 funerals instead of one. There were definately several miracles that happened to keep her here. We believe too that our grandpa saved her life. He had had a few incidents that month that should have taken his life, but didn't. He stayed long enough to save hers. That is just the way my grandpa would have wanted it to be. He is an amazing man!!!