What a weekend this has been........

What started out as an expected quiet weekend turned into quite a whirlwind. We expected to take Mom in for a routine hernia repair surgery on Friday morning and ended up spending the weekend in the hospital. She started having pain in her left leg on Tuesday and it gradually built up so by Friday she was in a great deal of pain. I took her to have a massage on Thursday, thinking this would help her relax. We all thought the pain was a pulled muscle. Apparently, it wasn't. She was in so much pain that the Doctor wouldn't do the hernia surgery and sent her to the hospital for pain management. They loaded her up with morphine and by 9 PM on Friday she was doing okay with a few aches in her leg. They did all kinds of tests (CAT scan, MRI(s), x-rays, blood test) and tomorrow I will schedule an appointment with the Doctor to see what the results are. My guess is they won't be able to tell us what caused the pain.

It seems like Doctors just shoot in the dark like the rest of us in trying to determine what is going on with the patient. It is also very frustrating when the Doctor's don't have any sense of urgency when the patient is experiencing a great deal of pain. We had to wait for 3 hours for the Doctor to show up at the Surgical Center with Mom screaming her head off and the nurses couldn't give her anything.

I have heard a lot about this Doctor that Mom has for her surgery over the last few days and I think it is time to find someone else. His reputation is that he is also slow and late and never is on time. When Mom had her gall bladder done we waited for 2 hours for him to show up and this time it was 3 hours.

Well, in any case, we are going to have to go through the whole thing again in a few weeks because she definitely needs to get the hernias fixed. They did find 2 more hernias doing all this testing.

On Friday, we are going to pick up Emilee and Ashlyn and have them for the weekend. We are so excited! I plan to get them some new dresses and take them to Primary on Sunday. This should be something really new for them.

Well, we have a busy week coming up and the weather is suppose to be getting warmer so we can finish planting in our backyard. Yeah!!

More later.............

It's been a while......

It has been a while since I posted here and I can only say that we have been a little busy. Not a very good excuse but that's all I have.

Sid finished a project in our backyard of putting in a new shutoff valve for our water line. This has been a pet peeve of his since we moved in that he couldn't shut the water off to fix the leaky faucet in the backyard. He has started putting in the new brick along side of the house now. We have also started planting a few flowers for the spring. The weather has started to get a little warmer now so we are anticipating a spring flower garden.

We are planning on picking up Jason's girls in a couple of weeks and have them for a few days. Jason is planning to fly into Las Vegas and pick them up so he can have them during Emilee's school break. We are looking forward to seeing them again.

Craig and Stef had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in Scotland and got home in time to save Stef's Mom who was babysitting. They only took 800 pictures ;-) and we are looking forward to seeing them. Stef was able to visit St. Andrews Golf Course but it was covered with 4" of snow at the time. Sid was still jealous...............someday he will get to see it.

Dad had a test done to see what can be done about his throat and we still have an x-ray that needs to be done next week. After that we will see the Doctor and see what his options are. Mom and Dad have decided to go ahead with her hernia surgery and we will schedule it soon. So more medical issues but hopefully they will help improve both of their lives.

That's about it for now. Happy Daylight Savings Time!!!