1. Kalyssa and I put together her class valentines. 2. Kaden is Mama’s little helper. He loves to do laundry! 3. The aged 8+ game that Kalyssa learned this week was “Bazaar.” She beat me fair and square the first 2 games! 4 & 5. Mema stopped by on Valentine’s Day morning to drop off gifts! 6. I was honored to be able to photograph this 8 day old little bundle of JOY for a good friend of mine. He is SO precious! 7. I was blessed to be able to help in Kalyssa’s Kindergarten class during their class party.
Here's the little extra update:
Saturday night I started experiencing mild chest pains shortly after dinner. By the time the kids were in bed it was getting progressively worse. Not one to want to make a big deal I figured I'd just try to wait it out and hope it would go away. Well, by 1am I finally gave up and let KC take me to the ER (in the middle of a pretty good sized snow storm. I was praising God that we only live 2 minutes from a hospital and that my mom was awake in the house next door so she was able to come watch the kids for us.) One thing about going to an ER with chest pains ... you get to bypass the whole triage process and go straight in. So ... long story short ... they gave me oxygen, hooked me up to a heart monitor, took X-Rays, lots and lots of blood, took an EKG, gave me IV fluids and pain meds (again, praising God here!), all with no results to indicate what was wrong. Then they took me for a CT Scan (cha-ching!) which resulted in a healthy heart and lungs but also something in my gallbladder. A bedside ultrasound (more cha-ching - my ears were ringing loud and clear by this point!) determined that I have a gallstone. It was also discovered that my blood sugar (which should be below 100) was at 140. This could be a fluke thing to go along with my pain issues or it could be indicative of diabetes.
So where do we stand at this point? I've gone in for another ultrasound of my entire abdomen (that was this morning) and I will meet with my primary care physician on Thursday morning. I imagine we'll discuss my gallbladder issues and be referred to a specialist for probably removal of the pesky organ. We'll also most likely test my blood and discuss the whole diabetes issue. I promise to keep you updated as I know more. For now, your prayers are greatly appreciated.
You may be wondering how I am actually feeling at this point. The pain is pretty much gone, although occassionally I feel some tenderness under my right rib-cage. I've been given some pain killers in case of another attack and I now know what to look for in case of infection (which would require emergency surgery.) Otherwise I have a major lack of energy and eating/drinking anything (doesn't matter what, I mean anything!) makes me nauseous, although I have been able to keep it all down since coming home from the hospital. This all kind of puts a kink in my half marathon training. I'm sure I'll be okay and that I will still be able to run and finish within the time limit. I probably just won't be getting in as much training and be quite as ready as I would have liked. But I'm okay with that. I will work with what I have and not let this little bump in the road stop me from achieving my goals.
Thank you for your prayers! I'll keep you updated. And be sure to keep an eye out for week 8 in our little project joy ... we've brought in a nice, big, brown, bundle of joy into our lives. But you'll have to wait to see that until I get week 8 posted. ;-)
Take care! And don't forget to look for the JOY in your lives. It's everywhere you look - even in the tough times!
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