Surgery

It sure has been a long time since I have been on. For once there is a reason for that. I have a emergency surgery and was out of commission for awhile. I was doing so good with my exercise and eating healthy too. On a Friday in February I began to have a sharp pain that was on my right side at the bottom of my ribs. My ribs on that side were hurting so bad that I believed my ribs were completely out of place. I could hardly sleep that night so Scott messages the area on my back that was also hurting and the pain dulled a bit to were I could sleep. The next morning the pain was just as bad. It is hard to find a chiropractor on a Saturday morning. Eventually my Bro in law asked his cousin if I could go to his house to get adjusted. I went and got adjusted and the pain once again dulled a bit. He said that it can take awhile for the muscles to relax, so I went on my marry little way thinking that in a few hours I would feel better. throughout the whole day I was in slight pain and it never got to bad.

 The pain continued on until I realized maybe it was not going to go away.I went to urgent care Monday morning and they took an x-ray and blood and also set an appointment for me to get an ultrasound the next day. But that night the pain was so extremely bad that I asked Scott to take me to the E.R. His mother came over the watch the girls and we headed out. After a long time in the waiting room we were taken back and they did a long ultrasound where she pushed hard on the area causing me the most pain. By the end of the ultrasound I was in so much pain but Scott and I knew something was wrong because she spent so much time on one spot that we knew she found something and we were pretty sure we knew what it was.

we were back in our room and the Doctor came in and explained they would put me on morphine for the pain and do an emergency surgery to remove my gal bladder sometime the next day. So laying in the hospital in my room which actually was in the overflow postpartum because the hospital was so full I waited. I was in so much pain the entire day the medicine helped some of the time I either slept  or I was crying most of the day because I was in pain. I could hear sweet babies crying and saw mothers and their babies walking down the hall. I sure wish that I would have been there to have a baby instead of them cutting me up.

So eventually they took me in for a 2 hour surgery and 5 hours later I came out with four small cuts on my stomach and not gallbladder. The surgery was very difficult and they had a hard time waking me up after the surgery was over.

Healing from this surgery took longer and was harder than I ever expected. I am so thankful for all the help that I had. Scott was able to take of work for almost two weeks to take care of me. My parents helped me by taking the small girls. JVA and SLA also helping with the two littles. The wonderful women in my ward that brought me meals. I was truly blessed and loved. I am very glad that this is over and I hope I never need another surgery.