I recently reconnected with a friend from my mission that is in the same industry now!!! its so cool too! i went WAY back on his blog and love it! they are event planners and GOOD at their jobs! here is a link to their site!!!
http://www.mood-events.com/
they have a lot of diy projects too! way to go Matt!
so the story is as follows:
i had a great few days relaxing in the hospital…
tuesday afternoon my stomach INSTANTLY started to hurt. it felt like i had eaten something bad…then it grew a bit in intensity but i was DETERMINED to go help my friend. so i went to Kims and cleaned her kitchen and bathed her girl and put her girl to bed and talked with her long into the night. at around 11 my tummy was starting to bother me big time so i went home and before i was home i was sure something was wrong. i keeled over on the kitchen table moaning and complaining (jokingly) to jon that my appendix was exploding. I changed and climbed into bed but with in ten minutes the pain had doubled. i was crying but it made it hurt worse so i tried to hold really still but that seemed to make it hurt worse so i walked around which seemed to make it worse.
no joking…lol
then i was positive i was dying. the pain had quadrupled since i had been home. jon pulled out some EMT books and then self diagnosed me as an appendicitis. we called a neighbor who came in to watch cooper sleep and went to the ER. i was in process immediately and had been diagnosed in one hour that it needed out. the man giving me the IV struggled in my arm for about ten minutes. the first vein was unsuccessful and the second worked after jiggling it back and forth for 5 minutes! i was in a rage about it. it freaking hurt! BUT it took my mind off of the tummy! the meds hit me INSTANTLY…which the nurse said was in the heroin family..so now i can say that i have done drugs…and that i hated that feeling of full body take over. I dont get how anyone would pay for that! (well, i guess i did! lol) Then jon said i proceeded to boss around people in the hallway that i could overhear walking by. someone was saying something like “How do they expect me to get there?” and i yelled…”walk!use your feet!” i think jon lies.
then i went into surgery. in and out in 20 minutes. 4AM
at 6 i woke up and was told a bunch of things all of which i promptly forgot.
at 8 i woke up starving and was told i would surely throw up if i ate so i went back to sleep.
at 11 i was up again and then i ate crackers and ordered a sandwich via hubby. mom showed up and we made fun of how poorly the nurses were doing. One nurse came in with my 2 pills and i said i wanted to start with one and take the other if needed…2 hours later i asked for the other which she decided she could no longer give me so i lived in pain for 2 more hours and begged for the pills numerous times. I took both the next time! lol.
i finally decided to take some morphine around 4…they said i would be leaving soon and it would help the car ride home…and i am sure it would have had i not stayed till 730! the paperwork for me to leave was “almost finished” since 4. then i took another hit of morphine to re-prepare for the ride home and here we are. i slept mostly till now. and i quit taking the hydrocodone today though because i cannot handle the itchiness it gives me! its like i have fleas! i woke up like 10 times just thoroughly scratching my body!
i am so thankful for western medicine where i can get that service! GLAD that the things that i complain about there this week are pitifully insignificant compared to the things my canadian family members have to complain about! so thankful this happened while we are not in socialized medicine yet! so thankful for our system and hope that we fight its continuance!!!
so here i am …my appendix was like 3 times the size it was supposed to be and ready to try and kill me…it failed.
one point…lindy
i love nectarines! slide show is on my site for these two! they were married in June and we took these day after shots!!! it was super fun! thanks for letting just go at it and put to life some ideas that have been tucked away! lindy
Yesterday at the open house cooper was apprehensive and shy…today dropping him off for his first day of school he is courageous and excited! We woke up eager and jazzed to go to school and ate breakfast chatting. I cannot believe that its almost 6 years since he came to me! What a proud mother i am. He is so well rounded! when we got to the class kids were crying all over… (mostly the boys) and cooper turned to me, made two i love you signs with his hands and turned to join them! he was so eager to be a part of his own great thing!
At first i was set on a private school that was really free thinking type…but ended up not being able to afford it…then we applied at a new charter school that really seemed similar to the private one we had found…my heart sank when they emailed me saying he was 15th on the list. well, i signed him up for public school against my better judgement and went with it. I never felt right about it though. I dont think that the public schools are doing a good job with our kids! i think they teach them how to pass tests and not build them up for LIFE. Anyhow i got a call SAT NIGHT saying he had made it in!!!!!!! so we went to the open house and here we are!
wowsa…kindergarten! this school has NO school on fridays! woot woot!!!! here are a few pics i shot this morning getting ready! he wore his wings that i made him on his Percy Jackson shoes for confidence which his teacher LOVED and gave me a “finn face” as we call it. (it came from his friend finn)
thats it! i am a free momma today! feels so peaceful!!! but lonely too…12 will come fast!
Ok, here is a TINY tease of the wedding i shot yesterday. 
if you click on the picture you can see a few of them!
Here are a few of the shots i took of the kids in the camp! i took 13 kids photos and loved each one! I gotta say that i thought i was doing emotionally fine there until i saw the group of kids that were around Coopers age and then i immediately started to choke up. I pulled it together and hid it well but then jon texted me to tell me how proud he was of me ~ again tears welled. Then in the car heading out of there i tried my best to contain it…so emotional!
Just before we went off to shoot Hannah, (my trainer and friend with Flashes of hope) told us of a thank you she had gotten from one of the parents. They said that the love the photos of their child and that sending them to camp was easier when they knew what fun they had too and that the photos had helped her know their child enjoyed the time she sacrificed letting them go. This really weighed on my mind during the shoot. If cooper had cancer i dont think that i would let him go to camp. I mean i would but, wow, the strength that these families must have to allow their children and siblings to remain human and not a frail child. And they were just that! They were perky and fun! they loved being at camp and enjoyed getting their photos taken. I really am eager to see what the other photographers did in the their sessions.
I am so glad that i got the chance to be a photographer…but am glad that i will be a ‘ring leader’ at the next.
Processing the joy/sorrow that i felt there has been difficult. But what i gained is an even deeper appreciation of all our health, and of our families.
