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.............