Well 2009 has been one crazy year so far and its only 5 months in! Every month so far someone in my family has been in the hospital. Mandy has spent nearly more time in the hospital than out of it. Mandy has these spider veins behind her heart that looked like blood clots. If they had kept her in Pocatello and on the meds for blood clots she would have died. Luckily they shipped her to SLC and caught the mistake. Then they found out she had to have open heart surgery to replace two valves in her heart. That took up January and March hospitalizations. In February my brother went into complete renal failure. If he had waited even a half hour longer to go into the hospital he would have died. Now he is on dialysis and doing pretty good. His kidneys are so shrunk up that they cant even get a reading off of them. Now it is the sit and wait game, waiting for him to get a new kidney. Eventually and probably soon i will be tested to see if I am a match and I hope I am.
April was a crazy crazy month in and of itself. All three of us kids were in the hospital on the same day. Mandy developed an allergic reaction to some meds she was on and had to go to SLC to have her surgeon and cardiologist check it out. My brother was in the hospital that same day to get a port put in for his dialysis. At the same time my gall bladder decided it needed to come out. I got sick on a Sunday morning and I got really sick. I threw up everything that I ate or drank and on Monday went into the doctor. They said that I had a huge gall stone that couldn't pass and my gall bladder needed to come out. Well the surgeon couldn't get me in til the next week but I was still so sick. By Thursday after still not being able to keep things down and having more attacks my parents came home from SLC where mandy was in the hospital and took me to the ER. They admitted me and kept me on IV fluids overnight til they could take the darn thing out the next day. Everything went well and I feel SO much better.
Well my school work really suffered through all this and sadly my teachers weren't very understanding. One just kept telling me to drop the course so needless to say this isn't my proudest semester at ISU. I am probably just going to take online courses for next semester. I also have to get the breaks replaced on my car and all that jazz. Thank goodness for work. I really love my job. The two year olds completely make my day :).
I really hope the rest of 2009 turns out to be better for me and my family. I have struggled with everything that has been happening. I keep thinking that we have been through enough when something else hits us again. Although I sometimes ask Why these things happen I have a deep understanding that the Lord is still on our side and loves me and my family. His hand has been in every situation, guiding us and the doctors into doing what is best.
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