Not what I had planned....

So every break from school this year we have been sick. Fall break we had a stomach bug. Christmas break I had bronchitis. Now spring break Jarod, Nat, and Sean have an upper-respiratory cold. Nat has been sick for a little over a week. He is finally starting to sleep better and not so much snot when he sneezes. Jarod has been really sick this week. He missed two days of work with no voice and no energy. Seaners started losing his voice and sneezing yesterday. I had this whole idea of a week full of relaxing and playing, but instead it was taking care of my sick family.

Then yesterday happened. I woke up feeling fine, and I fed Nat and ate breakfast. Jarod left for work, and then I started to feel a pain in my right side. At first I wondered if I had hurt my back or pulled a muscle. I thought I would take a hot shower to see if that would help. While I was in the shower it started to get worse. So I got out, and by the time I got dressed, I was really hurting. It hurt so bad I was having a hard time picking up Nat. I called Jarod to tell him I wasn't feeling good and to give him a heads up. He asked if he needed to come home, but I thought at this point I could tough it out. But then it just spiraled downhill. I got to where I couldn't stand, sit, or lay down, and I was sobbing in pain. I started to get scared b/c I couldn't pick up Nat and hold him. So I called Jarod crying and asked him to come home. In the 15 minutes it took him to get home, I was shaking, having chills, nauseous, and eventually vomiting from the pain. He was going to take me to the urgent care but decided to take me to the ER since I was in so much pain.

He called his cousin who lives here in BA and asked if we could drop off the kids. (Thankfully they were home this week too.) So he loaded up a bottle for Nat cause there was no way I could nurse him as I was doubled over in pain. We loaded up and drove to the hospital. I figured it was a kidney stone with the pain being on my side and cramping in the front too. But it was so painful. I was shaking and couldn't sit still and sobbing the whole way. Ethan and Sean started crying b/c they were scared. :-( We got there and they had me hooked up to an IV within a few minutes. They had to check what they could give me since I was nursing, and they then could give me some morphine. That stuff works! I felt instantly better and could breathe again. They did a CT scan and checked my blood and urine. I passed a stone while we were there, and I felt so much better. From the CT they found I have another stone in my left kidney, but hopefully it won't become dislodged. I also have a gallbladder full of gallstones, apparently with some large ones. The doctor checked my gallbladder and still figured the pain was from the kidney stone. So I was referred to a urologist for the kidney stone and a surgeon for my gallbladder. I will go see the surgeon on Monday and see what they want to do. The ER doctor said she recommended taking it out electively before I ended up needing emergency surgery. So we will see.

Anyway, I feel better- still a little sore and tired but better. I will let you know what we find out next week. So that was our spring break. I hope yours went better!